NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) – A Canadian bank has sued suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick for more than $2.3 million, arguing that his guilty plea to federal dogfighting charges – and the resulting impact on his career – have prevented him from repaying a loan.
Vick borrowed $2.5 million in January with plans to use the money for real estate investments, Royal Bank of Canada said in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Newport News on Thursday.
Talking about kicking a brother when your down. The feds may have been fair to prosecute, but the state deserves to be fired for this. Specially if you want to act like your so stupid you didn’t know this was going on for YEARS with everybody screaming BadNewz Kennelz
[quote]Airtruth wrote:
Talking about kicking a brother when your down. The feds may have been fair to prosecute, but the state deserves to be fired for this. Specially if you want to act like your so stupid you didn’t know this was going on for YEARS with everybody screaming BadNewz Kennelz[/quote]
Hey Airtruth,
Here is a quote from the local prosecutor:
Surry County Commonwealth’s Attorney Gerald G. Poindexter had told The Associated Press on Monday night that he would seek indictments on different crimes than the ones Vick admitted to in federal court. He did not elaborate to reporters outside court Tuesday.
I guess they can’t get him twice for the same crimes even though one is on the state level and the other is on the federal?
Maybe that is why these additional charges are being brought by the state.
He’s a bitch-made punk who thought he had to follow in the footsteps of DMX in order to be hardcore. Now he’s out over a hundred million dollars all because he needed to maintain his bad boy image…let’s see if his street cred can buy him a new career.
[quote]MikeShank wrote:
Airtruth wrote:
Talking about kicking a brother when your down. The feds may have been fair to prosecute, but the state deserves to be fired for this. Specially if you want to act like your so stupid you didn’t know this was going on for YEARS with everybody screaming BadNewz Kennelz
Hey Airtruth,
Here is a quote from the local prosecutor:
Surry County Commonwealth’s Attorney Gerald G. Poindexter had told The Associated Press on Monday night that he would seek indictments on different crimes than the ones Vick admitted to in federal court. He did not elaborate to reporters outside court Tuesday.
I guess they can’t get him twice for the same crimes even though one is on the state level and the other is on the federal?
Maybe that is why these additional charges are being brought by the state.
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I’m guessing they can but won’t because the Feds probably requested that they don’t cross their indictments before Vick plead guilty.
My only problem is I’m sure everybody who should know in Surry County probably knew Vick was doing this and didn’t care because it was Vick. Now that its a huge case they want to jump in on the bandwagon.
I guess they can’t get him twice for the same crimes even though one is on the state level and the other is on the federal?<<
Yeah they can, it’s called ‘dual sovereignty’- they used it against malvo and the other asshole who they called snipers.
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Thanks for the clarification on that. I looked up dual sovereignty and it was exactly as you said but as airtruth stated below, there were probably other reasons why the chose not to go that route.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
He failed a pot test.[/quote]
Yeah, I just saw. While it’s really a minor and trivial thing, you gotta question Ronnie’s judgment and timing. When facing as much as he is, I would think he would want to stay as clean as possible.
[quote]malonetd wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
He failed a pot test.
Yeah, I just saw. While it’s really a minor and trivial thing, you gotta question Ronnie’s judgment and timing. When facing as much as he is, I would think he would want to stay as clean as possible.[/quote]
lolol Funniest thing ever just happened to me. I couldn’t figure out who you were talking about I thought to myself why is coleman getting caught with weed on a vicks thread.
It looks like this was almost 2 weeks ago, I think at this point the media just likes posting anything it can about Vick. People just don’t care about phil sphector, or crooked senators.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Michael Vick is now likely one misstep from jail.
The disgraced Atlanta Falcons quarterback tested positive for marijuana earlier this month, a violation of the conditions of his release as he awaits sentencing in federal court on a dogfighting charge that already jeopardizes his freedom and career.
Now, he’s incurred the ire of the judge who could sentence him to up to five years in prison in the dogfighting case. On the day of Vick’s guilty plea, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson warned that he wouldn’t be amused by any additional trouble.
Hudson, who will sentence Vick on Dec. 10, on Wednesday ordered him confined to his Virginia home between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. with electronic monitoring. He also must submit to random drug testing.
I thought he turned his life over to god and stuff?
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Michael Vick is now likely one misstep from jail.
The disgraced Atlanta Falcons quarterback tested positive for marijuana earlier this month, a violation of the conditions of his release as he awaits sentencing in federal court on a dogfighting charge that already jeopardizes his freedom and career.
Now, he’s incurred the ire of the judge who could sentence him to up to five years in prison in the dogfighting case. On the day of Vick’s guilty plea, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson warned that he wouldn’t be amused by any additional trouble.
Hudson, who will sentence Vick on Dec. 10, on Wednesday ordered him confined to his Virginia home between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. with electronic monitoring. He also must submit to random drug testing.
I thought he turned his life over to god and stuff?
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I dont’ smoke but after the last few months if I was vick I would definitely need a few tokes in between prayers.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) �?? An Indiana bank has sued embattled Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick for not repaying loans involving a car rental business.
South Bend-based 1st Source Bank claimed in a federal lawsuit that it had suffered damages of at least $2 million as Vick and Divine Seven LLC of Atlanta had refused to pay for the vehicles.
Vick signed loan agreements as the CFO of Divine Seven, which bought at least 130 vehicles, including many Kia Spectra and Ford Taurus cars, through 1st Source Bank loans, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in South Bend on Wednesday.
A phone call Friday to a number listed on loan documents for Divine Seven was answered by a clerk at a Payless Car Rental office in Atlanta. The Associated Press left a message there for Art Washington, who signed some of the loan documents as Divine Seven’s CEO.
According to the lawsuit, 1st Source Bank made a written demand for payment on Aug. 24, but Vick and Divine Seven have “failed and refused to pay.”
Shit just seems to be racking up against this guy. I wonder what the specifics are of the case (not listed in the short article I read) as to why Vick refused to pay for the loan. It doesn�??t make sense unless his legal bills are somehow high enough that he doesn�??t have the cash on hand. Makes me wonder what Vick�??s financial status really is?
If you make $130 million you are really wealthy but you spend $131 million you are no better off (if not worse off) then the rest of us.
Michael Vick’s dogs may find other homes
By HANK KURZ Jr., AP Sports Writer1 hour, 21 minutes ago
Only one of the remaining 49 pit bulls seized from a home owned by NFL quarterback Michael Vick at the outset of a dogfighting investigation should be euthanized.
That was the finding by a team of dog behavorial experts assembled by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to test the dogs.
According to a motion filed Monday in U.S. District Court, the dogs fall into five categories that include eventual adoption and specialized training for law enforcement work. Some of the dogs either exhibited fear toward people or suffered from a medical condition.
The motion doesn’t indicate how many dogs were placed in each category other than to suggest one, identified as number 2621, is an immediate candidate for euthanasia because its aggression toward humans made a complete examination unsafe.
According to the motion, the dogs were put through a protocol of 11 exercises to evaluate their behavior toward humans and other animals.
The ASPCA had no immediate comment on the filing, and the U.S Attorneys Office handling the dogfighting case said it would have no additional comment.
The motion also requests that the court appoint a guardian to oversee the disposition and possible placement of the 48 remaining dogs.
The motion new goes before U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson, who is handling the dogfighting case. He can either grant it with all its provisions or deny it.
The animals were among more than 60 dogs seized by local authorities during a raid of the Surry County property owned by Vick in April. They have been held in animal shelters in the area since.
Vick and three co-defendants pleaded guilty to federal dogfighting charges are to be sentenced before the end of the year. They each face up to five years in prison.
The four also all are due in Surry County Circuit Court on Wednesday to be arraigned on local charges, for which they could face from one to 20 years in prison.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - NFL Players Association lawyers argued Thursday that the league’s collective bargaining agreement protects Michael Vick from the Atlanta Falcons’ attempts to be refunded up to $22 million in bonus money.
A decision is expected by Oct. 12, said Stephen B. Burbank, the University of Pennsylvania law professor and special master who led the arbitration hearing.
The Falcons argued the suspended Falcons quarterback knew he was in violation of the contract when he signed the $130 million deal in December 2004, and that he used proceeds from the deal to fund his dogfighting operation.
New York-based attorney Jeffrey Kessler, who represented Vick and the NFLPA, countered that the CBA extension agreed to last year prevents forfeiture of bonus money even if the player contract says otherwise, union spokesman Carl Francis said.
It looks like the Falcon’s are sticking to their guns in an effort to get this money back despite the fact that most of the other sources out there really don’t think they will.
NORFOLK, Va. �?? Michael Vick was attentive and inquisitive during an eight-hour class in empathy and animal protection at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals headquarters, a PETA spokesman said Tuesday.
Dan Shannon was with the suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback for the duration of the class, taught by several PETA staff members. Vick is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 10 on a federal dogfighting conspiracy conviction. He also has been indicted on state dogfighting charges.
Vick was the only student for the Sept. 18 class, Shannon said.“He was asking questions, following up on points we were making, taking notes,” Shannon said. “He seemed to be putting an honest effort into trying to get something out of the course.”
Shannon said Vick told him “he wished he had gotten to take a course like this five years ago.”
Vick first visited PETA’s offices in Norfolk on Sept. 7 and met with Ingrid Newkirk, the group’s president. According to PETA’s Web site, Vick apologized for his abuse of dogs.
Newkirk offered to make the course available to Vick, Shannon said.
“Actually, we were very surprised he took us up on it,” he said. “We made it clear to him that this was something he needed to try to get something out of. We weren’t interested in some kind of PR ploy.”
He said PETA officials also told Vick they still believe he deserves prison time. Vick faces up to five years in prison in the federal case.
Shannon said Vick passed a “very rigorous” written test at the conclusion of the course.
PETA wants the NFL to require the course, or one like it, for all players, Shannon said.
This is the link to Mike Vick on Wikipedia. I took two sections out of particular interest. One was of Mike Vick’s other side, the one he did charity work with. This may seem like a low blow but I would have imagined a little more productivity from his charities. The other one was about his actions impact on his community. I found the coach’s comments very interesting about the mistake being made from correlating sports skills with real life skills.
Charity work
In June 2006, Vick, along with his brother Marcus Vick and mother Brenda Vick Boddie, established The Vick Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports at-risk youth and the after school programs that serve them in the Metro Atlanta and Hampton Roads areas. The announcement of the organization came just before the start of the foundation�??s first fundraiser, the Michael Vick Golf Classic. The inaugural event was held at the prestigious Kingsmill Golf Course in James City County near Williamsburg, Virginia in partnership with The Virginia Tech Alumni Association Tidewater Chapter, and netted more than $80,000 for charity.[2]
After the Virginia Tech massacre in April 2007, Vick teamed up with the United Way to donate $10,000 to assist families affected by the tragedy.[70] Vick explained, “When tragic things like this happen, families have enough to deal with, and if I can help in some small way, that’s the least I can do.” The Vick Foundation is collecting donations from local communities in both Atlanta and Virginia that will be placed in the United In Caring Fund for Victims of the Virginia Tech Tragedy and the special fund at the United Way of Montgomery, Radford and Floyd counties, which serves the Virginia Tech area. Vick’s foundation said the money will be used to provide help with funeral expenses, transportation for family members and other support services.
On April 24, 2007, Vick was scheduled to lobby on Capitol Hill, hoping to persuade lawmakers to increase funding for after-school programs. Vick missed a connecting flight in Atlanta on Monday to Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, and then failed to show-up for another seat booked for him later that evening. On Tuesday morning, he did not attend his scheduled appearance at the congressional breakfast where he also was to be honored for his foundation’s work with after-school projects in Georgia and Virginia.[71] Vick’s mother, Brenda Vick Boddie, accepted an award from the Afterschool Alliance on her son’s behalf. The following day, police searched Vick’s property in Surry County and there was soon widespread news media publicity about evidence of dog fighting which had been found there.
It was announced in June 2007 that the “Michael Vick Football Camp” to be held at Christopher Newport University in Newport News was canceled for the summer 2007 session because of “scheduling issues.”[72] The university on Warwick Boulevard in Newport News is partially located on the site of the former Homer L. Ferguson High School (which closed in 1996), the school where Vick began his football fame. He also canceled participation in another football camp to be held at the College of William and Mary. According to that university, his place was to be taken by Washington Redskins quarterback Jason Campbell.[73]
On June 22, 2007, a charity golf tournament featuring Vick, intended in part to raise scholarships in memory of Virginia Tech’s shooting victims, was rescheduled for September.[74] The tournament at Kingsmill Resort & Spa had been set to begin on June 29, and a reason for the change was not announced. The tournament is the latest in a series of Virginia appearances either canceled or delayed since Vick’s name surfaced in a dog fighting investigation
Public impact upon community youth, leaders
The revelations of Michael Vick’s activities with the Bad Newz Kennels drew widespread negative public reactions, but possibly hurt nowhere more than in his old neighborhood. Until August 24, there could be some comfort in disbelief. In the aftermath of Vick’s guilty plea agreement, in Newport News, mentors and others working with underprivileged youth sought to identify lessons to communicate to those who had seen him as a role model.
“It’s difficult, because Mike (Vick) is someone who we held up as doing it right,” Bernard Johnson told the Newport News Daily Press. Johnson, who has coached kids, including Vick, in the Boys and Girls Club football program for 28 years, said the lesson to kids now is all about responsibility and accountability.[75]
Vernon Lee, co-founder of the Peninsula All-Star Football Camp, said the Vick situation should be a wake-up call “for anyone coming into contact with a young person…we can try to plant the seeds necessary so that this doesn’t happen again…not assume that there is a direct correlation between athleticism and real-life skills.”
Lee said a key part of Peninsula All-Star Football Camp is a semi-private session in which parents and coaches are ordered out of the auditorium while college and professional athletes tell the high school players how to get their personal lives in order. In the session, the campers are warned about potential dangers from parties to drugs to girls to friends. [75]
Noting the reality that Vick is likely to do prison time, the Boys and Girls Club’s Johnson told a reporter:
“Now we explain that you can’t depend on somebody else to take care of your responsibility…and sometimes money will get in the way of right and wrong.”
Earlier in this thread I posted that I couldn’t get onto Mike Vicks website because of a “bandwidth overload”. This what it is now, the page has been suspended. I wonder why? Is this Vick’s doing or did even his web provider drop him too?
