Fraud - Crime Count: 9 - limited
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| Date | Team_Name | Sport | Category | Link | Points | Evidence |
| 2010-07-26 | IrvinSucks | ACC | Small-Time | Crime Link | 13 | Florida State University football player Nigel Carr is behind bars this morning after he was arrested Sunday on several charges.
Carr, 20, faces two counts of burglary of a structure and one count of property damage, theft of a credit card and fraud. He was arrested by Tallahassee police and is being held at the Leon County Jail on more than $15,000 bond. More details about the arrest are expected later this morning. Carr also made non-football related news when Walt Disney World in 2007 permanently banned Carr and three other black Florida State University football players from visiting any of the company's theme parks after officials accused them of loitering in the parks. Under pressure of accusations of racial profiling, Disney officials revised their decision and only banned the teens from visiting Downtown Disney for a year. |
| 2010-03-08 | The_Criminal | SEC | Small-Time | Crime Link | 26 | The SEC must be bored now that its basketball season. Georgia QB gets busted on just about all of our alcohol related crimes minus the DUI. So he has that going for him. |
| 2010-02-05 | The_Goons | Big 10 | Small-Time | Crime Link | 13 | Indiana broadcaster and former Hoosiers player Todd Leary has been arrested on felony charges in connection with what authorities say was a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.
The 39-year-old Leary was booked into jail Thursday night. He faces charges in Allen County court. |
| 2008-08-21 | Trailer_Trash | MWC | Small-Time | Crime Link | 39 | The NCAA put the New Mexico program on three years of probation Wednesday and cut five scholarships as punishment for academic violations involving two former assistant coaches.
The sanctions imposed by the NCAA’s infractions committee went beyond the university’s self-imposed penalties, which included two years of probation and fewer scholarship reductions. New Mexico’s head coach Rocky Long was not accused of any wrongdoing in the case. The NCAA concluded that the former Lobos assistants in 2004 improperly helped three recruits to obtain fraudulent academic credits through correspondence courses they never completed at Fresno Pacific University, a fully accredited, four-year college in California that also offers online degrees. In its report, the infractions committee said course registration materials at Fresno Pacific showed the home addresses for the three UNM recruits as the home address in California of a brother of one former assistant. Coaches’ office or cell phone numbers were listed as the recruits’ phone numbers. The recruits admitted to NCAA investigators that they "received no course materials and did no work" but received course credit. The recruits took courses from a Fresno Pacific instructor who was an acquaintance of one of the former UNM assistants. At a news conference, athletic director Paul Krebs said the university fully cooperated with the NCAA during the probe. "I do think there is some relief that comes with the filing of the report. It allows us to bring closure to what is a sad and embarassing situation for the university," Krebs said. Long said the penalities will force his program to be more selective in its recruiting. He said he also would keep a tighter rein on his assistants. Of the two assistants, Long said: "When they’re out on the road themselves and doing this sort of thing, they’re trying to recruit the best they can. Sometimes you lose sight of what’s important. I think they’re two great guys who made some serious mistakes." The infractions committee pointed out that New Mexico was the third school that had major rules violations involving courses from Fresno Pacific. "All institutions are cautioned that due diligence must be exercised prior to accepting courses from Fresno Pacific for academic credit and athletic eligibility purposes," the committee said in its report. Sanctions also were imposed on the former assistants in their recruiting and coaching activities at any school where they work. The NCAA did not identify the assistants in the infractions committee’s report. |
| 2008-08-19 | IrvinSucks | ACC | Small-Time | Crime Link | 13 | On the eve of his first season as defensive coordinator at the University of Virginia, Bob Pruett is being accused of involvement in academic fraud and the overpayment of players at off-campus jobs while he was head football coach at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va.
David Ridpath, a former compliance officer at Marshall, filed documents Friday with new allegations against Pruett. They're part of a lawsuit Ridpath initiated against Marshall, Pruett and Marshall administrators about six years ago. The new filings were first reported Sunday on CBSSports.com. The NCAA penalized Marshall in 2001 for several violations, including academic fraud and lack of institutional control. Pruett was not named in the original NCAA infractions report. Ridpath, now an associate athletic director at Ohio University, believes he was unfairly made a scapegoat at Marshall, the Huntington Herald-Dispatch reported. |
| 2008-07-01 | Trailer_Trash | Ducks | Small-Time | Crime Link | 3 | The NHL indefinitely suspended Anaheim Ducks owner Henry Samueli on Tuesday following the billionaire philanthropist’s guilty plea to a felony count of lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Commissioner Gary Bettman said the NHL will review Samueli’s status after he is sentenced on Aug. 18 and determine the length of his suspension. Samueli, the co-founder of the chipmaker Broadcom Corp., entered the guilty plea in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana on Monday after a federal probe into illegal stock option backdating at Broadcom. Federal prosecutors have recommended a sentence of five years’ probation and a $12.2 million fine. During his suspension, Samueli can’t be involved in Ducks matters or activities. Chief executive officer Michael Schulman will be responsible for the club’s day-to-day operations. "I respect the decision made by Commissioner Bettman and will abide by the terms of the suspension," Samueli said in a statement released by the Ducks. "I’m confident the team will be in great hands in my absence." Samueli’s wife, Susan, said she would also relinquish her role as co-owner to "avoid any improper appearance." "Although we will not be involved in decision-making, we will be cheering on our Ducks as loudly as ever," she said in the statement. Schulman said the team supported Samueli, 53, and expected to compete for another Stanley Cup championship this season. The Ducks became the first California-based club to win the Stanley Cup in 2007 and have qualified for the playoffs in three consecutive seasons. Broadcom’s other co-founder, Henry T. Nicholas III, is awaiting trial on multiple counts of conspiracy, securities fraud and other charges related to the alleged backdating scheme. The company agreed in April to pay $12 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle allegations of stock option backdating without admitting any wrongdoing. |
| 2008-06-05 | Trailer_Trash | Predators | Small-Time | Crime Link | 39 | ***Predators Co-owner being sued by 3 different lending institutions for Fraud (total of $10 million for which he has not repaid, thus the liability charge as well)***
A prominent Silicon Valley financier has been accused of defrauding a bank to secure a $10 million loan that he used to buy an ownership stake in the NHL's Nashville Predators. William "Boots" Del Biaggio III was sued this week in Santa Clara County Superior Court by Modern Bank, a New York-based private bank that counts former NFL star Joe Montana as a vice chairman. It is the latest in a series of legal setbacks for Del Biaggio, the son of a well-known local banking family and co-founder of the investment firm Sand Hill Capital. The 40-year-old businessman is accused in three separate lawsuits of providing forged documents to financial institutions to land multimillion dollar loans that he has not repaid. Del Biaggio's lawyer did not immediately return calls seeking comment Wednesday. In the latest lawsuit, filed Monday, Modern Bank says Del Biaggio supplied bogus account statements to prove the size of his personal investments as collateral for the $10 million loan he and wife Kristen Del Biaggio received in November. Those documents showed that Del Biaggio had a brokerage account in the amount of $20 million at San Francisco-based investment bank Merriman Curhan Ford, the lawsuit claims. But those documents turned out to be forged, and the account was actually not Del Biaggio's, according to the suit. Instead, the account belonged to another unidentified bank client whose name was allegedly removed from the statements by Merriman Curhan Ford broker David Scott Cacchione and replaced with Del Biaggio's name. The suit claims the accounts were then passed off to Modern Bank as Del Biaggio's. The deception was uncovered only when he stopped supplying the required monthly account statements that were part of his contract with the bank, the lawsuit said. Kristen Del Biaggio, Cacchione and the Merriman Curhan Ford firm are also named as defendants in Modern Bank's lawsuit. "We are investigating the facts and the authorities are investigating the facts," said Nanci Clarence, a San Francisco-based lawyer representing Cacchione. "Mr. Cacchione is cooperating completely with all those investigations." Lawyers for the other defendants did not immediately return calls from the Associated Press on Wednesday. Del Biaggio also is named as a defendant in two other lawsuits filed over the past week by other financial institutions claiming they were duped into forking over big loans based on misrepresentations of his wealth. Heritage Bank of Commerce, a San Jose-based bank co-founded by Del Biaggio's father, has accused him of using similar tactics to secure a $4 million loan in December. DGB Investments Inc., a San Jose-based investment firm, is also suing Del Biaggio over a $3 million loan he received in November under what the firm says were false pretenses. The catalyst for the lawsuits was a regulatory filing last week by Merriman Curhan Ford that the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission were investigating an unidentified broker and client for allegedly using the account information of other clients to obtain loans. The firm, which is named as a defendant in all three of the latest lawsuits, said it is cooperating fully with the federal investigations. |
| 2008-04-03 | IrvinSucks | ACC | Small-Time | Crime Link | 13 | UVA linebacker J'Courtney Williams was arrested on charges of felony theft and misdemeanor fraud after stealing a fellow student's wallet and used his credit card. The article also mentions that he was arrested for weed possession.
On a positive note, I'm pretty sure that I'm going to name my first-born son J'Courtney. |
| 2008-02-20 | Gold_Tooth | Big 10 | Small-Time | Crime Link | 13 | University of Michigan hockey player Kevin Quick was arraigned Tuesday morning on identity theft charges for allegedly stealing his teammate’s bank account numbers.
He is charged with single counts of identity theft, fraud under false pretenses, and using a computer to commit a crime. He has also been kicked of the team and the wrong place wrong time bust is for his teammate who had his identity stolen. |