Blazer pays $1.9 million to end charges of defrauding clients, including some professional athletes. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had filed a complaint alleging that, between 2010-2012, Louis Martin “Marty” Blazer III embezzled funds from five clients, including at least two professional athletes, and then replaced the funds by using a “Ponzi-like scheme.” They…
Category: Criminal
Michael Floyd May Serve Prison Time for DUI
Michael Floyd was arrested last week for driving under the influence (DUI) in Arizona. At the time of arrest he was a starting Wide Receiver for the Arizona Cardinals, but since has been waived and picked up by the New England Patriots. Recently, his Blood-Alcohol level (BAC) at the time of arrest has been reported as…
ND: 1, ESPN: 0
In September of 2014, investigative reporter Paula Lavigne of ESPN requested incident reports involving 275 Notre Dame athletes. In these public records requests, Lavigne attempted to gain access to any incident reports from the Notre Dame Security Police Department (NDSP) in which the student-athletes were named as a victim, suspect, witness, or reporting party. In…
Troubling Times For Johnny Football
On Janurary 29th, former NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel (aka “Johnny Football”) was accused of assaulting his former girlfriend Colleen Crowley. The assault charge is just another notch in the “troubled belt” of Manziel. Since winning the Heisman trophy in 2012, Manziel has failed to live up to his college potential. Manziel would go on to…
Apple “Thinks Different”
On Tuesday, a federal magistrate-judge ruled that Apple must help the FBI break into the phone of one of the San Bernardino shooters. The FBI was unable to figure out the shooter’s passcode, which is the only way to get inside his iPhone. Since the phone is encrypted, if the FBI were to guess…
McCoy’s Mistake
The Buffalo Bills have encountered yet another off-season disruption, only this time, it is far more serious than a contract dispute. On Sunday morning, around 2:45am, Bills’ running back LeSean McCoy was allegedly involved in an altercation with three off-duty police officers in a Philadelphia nightclub. The altercation commenced after there was some dispute as…
The Super Bowl and sex trade
Super Bowl 50: Home of the largest sex-trafficking event in the country. For the past several years, cities that host the Super Bowl have launched major campaigns against human trafficking in the days before the big event. The attention is largely due to a persistent claim that the Super Bowl is the largest sex trafficking…
Backstreet’s Back Behind Bars
Wednesday night in Key West, Florida police arrested popular artist Nick Carter from the group Backstreet Boys. Police were called to the popular bar, Hog’s Breath Saloon, where Carter and his friend Michael Papayans allegedly got into an altercation at Hog’s Breath Saloon. The altercation began when Carter and Papayans appeared over intoxicated at the…
Could Penn Face Charges Due to Secret Meeting With El Chapo?
In light of El Chapo’s recent recapture and the release of Sean Penn’s interview of the fugitive in Rolling Stones, is Penn likely to face charges himself? When Penn conducted the interview in October 2015, El Chapo was very much a wanted man. However, can a journalist/actor such as Penn be held criminally accountable for…
MLB Needs to Change Policies After STL Hack
Last week, the former St. Louis Cardinal scouting director Chris Correa pleaded guilty to 5 counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer, 18 U.S. Code § 1030. At the sentencing hearing was the first time the scope of what he accessed became public. The accessed information, valued at $1.7 million, included access to Houston…
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