New York Post:
A golf-resort developer put nearly two dozen NHL stars on ice -- taking millions they had invested with him and blowing it on parties packed with porn stars, hookers and his baseball buddies, including ex-Yankees Roger Clemens and Reggie Jackson, according to two explosive lawsuits filed yesterday.
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Your house is worth $125,000 but you paid $250,000 don"t worry with "Mark-To-Market" Neutered you can say whatever you want to about your home value and no one can refute you!
Now when you go in for a loan, simply declare the house is worth $300,000 and along with your clean "ON-THE-BOOKS Balance Sheet" with no visible other debts means you get money from the FED at 1% interest or maybe less!
Why can"t this world be true for ALL AMERICANS like it is for Wall Street?
We do not own Congress and they DO using ill-gotten FUNDS!
Are the Wall Street Banks really healthy? With "OFF-THE-BOOKS" accounting and "MARK-TO-MARKET" Neutered who knows what the truth is!
good articles: http://kl.am/tsc.am/tsc> recommended website
How many celebrity parties include sports stars for freebees on someone else's ticket ? Perhaps the Players Association could deduct the freebees for their members from the 25 million claim and stop attending these events in the future to avoid comments about hypocracy and double dipping. I'm not a celeb and never get freebees. Why should NHL players?
"Only baseball greats got to attend -- the hockey players were not invited to the revelry, a source said."
These NHL players obviously got upset early on in their dealings with this golf mogul. They ask for $15M in damages in addition to the $25M they invested, because of behind schedule projects. I don't see how a project being behind schedule damages the players, and I doubt their agreement would penalize the company for delays which happen all the time on major construction projects. They also complain about the $800k salary of Ken Jowdy, but I doubt anything in the deal limited his pay. It may be hard to prove if the money Jowdy spent on jets and parties came from this new company or from one of his many other holdings. It doesn't look like they have much of a lawsuit, so long as Jowdy can show that he's made progress on the projects that were invested in.
Most hockey players are playing 70 game schedules by age 16. I don't know, but I bet a lot only have a GED.
There are an awful lot of stupid MBAs walking around out there. Look at the world economy.
1st 100 days - There are 2.9 million more people unemployed in May than there were unemployed in January. The unemployment rate went from 7.6% to 9.4%.
Since May 2008, we have lost 5.5 million jobs. The biggest losers were:
Manufacturing 1.5 million lost
Finance & Prof Serv 1.5 million lost
Construction 1.1 million lost
Retail & Leisure 1.3 million lost
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Why are you looking at the first 100 days?? The factors that caused this economic meltdown were years in the making, some even go back to the Clinton administration under a GOP controlled Congress.
Unemployment will go up even after the economy begins to recover.
Are the hockey players upset they were not invited to the parties?
This is not a current NHL logo. FAIL :)
GO CAPS!!
I almost feel sory for these guys, but that's what you hire business managers for.
On the other hand, when you look at how much these guys lost against what they make in a year it's hard to shed a tear.
True. But at least they are not as grossly overpaid as baseball players (and hockey is far more athletic!).
Just because they make a lot of money, that doesn't make it okay to defraud them.
Oh, and is it just me or does Clemens consistently associate with slime?
Exactly!
I would even expect if, say, sports figures were caught up in a kiddy-porn scandal, Roger "The Rocket" would be testifying as to his role at some point.
Wasn't there some axiom regarding dogs and fleas?
The link on this page is fine. The front page link takes you to page 2.
The link takes you to page 2 of the article.
Why would Huff Po put Lundvist on the pic of this article? Did you see what OVIE aka THE GREAT EIGHT aka ALEXANDER THE GREAT did to him in the playoffs?!?!?! #HuffPoHockeyFail #Caps #RocktheRed
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First Posted: 06-19-09 08:36 AM | Updated: 06-19-09 08:47 AM