Post by Banana Cat on May 21, 2011 16:30:12 GMT -5
One down. How many more to go??? I've lost count.
Most know this guy as H.P. Patterson.
Never expect to get revenue from the team, because most of the time that's not going to happen. If you don't have the funds to lose to begin with then you shouldn't be buying/starting a team. If you have the funds then you need to market your team and work hard and perhaps you'll make some money, but don't count on it. This sport is not something to get rich on, only a few have done that and most of them have lied and cheated to do it.
Weiner can make all the excuses he wants, but those of us who've followed his trail of lies know him to be a crook and now that he's finally been sentenced to jail we've been proven right.
www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/21/2227631/ex-owner-of-indoor-football-team.html
news.cincinnati.com/article/20110520/NEWS010704/105210345/Ex-Marshals-owner-sentenced-for-check-scheme?odyssey=tab|mostpopular|text|NEWS
Most know this guy as H.P. Patterson.
Never expect to get revenue from the team, because most of the time that's not going to happen. If you don't have the funds to lose to begin with then you shouldn't be buying/starting a team. If you have the funds then you need to market your team and work hard and perhaps you'll make some money, but don't count on it. This sport is not something to get rich on, only a few have done that and most of them have lied and cheated to do it.
Weiner can make all the excuses he wants, but those of us who've followed his trail of lies know him to be a crook and now that he's finally been sentenced to jail we've been proven right.
www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/21/2227631/ex-owner-of-indoor-football-team.html
Ex-owner of indoor football team sentenced to jail
05.21.11
The Associated Press
COVINGTON, Ky. -- The former owner of a defunct Cincinnati indoor football team was sentenced to four months in jail for defrauding a bank after he said he got in over his head trying to "chase his dream" of owning a football team.
Howard Weiner, of Coral Gables, Fla., was sentenced in federal court in Covington, Ky., on Friday and ordered to pay $116,000 in restitution.
The Kentucky Enquirer reported the 50-year-old was the owner of the Marshals indoor football team, which started playing at the U.S. Bank Arena in March 2005. His attorney, Yale Galanter, said Weiner wrote bad checks because he expected to get revenue through the team. But then the National Indoor Football League suspended the franchise.
U.S. District Judge David Bunning called it a classic check kiting scheme.
05.21.11
The Associated Press
COVINGTON, Ky. -- The former owner of a defunct Cincinnati indoor football team was sentenced to four months in jail for defrauding a bank after he said he got in over his head trying to "chase his dream" of owning a football team.
Howard Weiner, of Coral Gables, Fla., was sentenced in federal court in Covington, Ky., on Friday and ordered to pay $116,000 in restitution.
The Kentucky Enquirer reported the 50-year-old was the owner of the Marshals indoor football team, which started playing at the U.S. Bank Arena in March 2005. His attorney, Yale Galanter, said Weiner wrote bad checks because he expected to get revenue through the team. But then the National Indoor Football League suspended the franchise.
U.S. District Judge David Bunning called it a classic check kiting scheme.
news.cincinnati.com/article/20110520/NEWS010704/105210345/Ex-Marshals-owner-sentenced-for-check-scheme?odyssey=tab|mostpopular|text|NEWS
Ex-Marshals owner sentenced for check scheme
May. 20, 2011
Written by Jim Hannah
COVINGTON - The former owner of the defunct Marshals indoor football team was sentenced Friday in federal court after admitting to defrauding a bank.
Howard Weiner, who went by the alias H.P. Patterson, was sentenced to four months in jail, five years on probation, and ordered to pay $116,000 in restitution.
Weiner, 50, told a judge he regretted what happened and acknowledged he was "in over his head" trying to "chase his dream" of owning an indoor football team.
"I'm sincerely trying to go down the right path now," Weiner said.
His attorney, Yale Galanter, who has made national headlines defending celebrities from O.J. Simpson to Charlie Sheen, had argued for parole so Weiner could immediately start working to pay the restitution.
The troubles for the Marshals started before the team played its first game in March 2005 at the U.S. Bank Arena, according to the plea agreement.
In what U.S. District Judge David Bunning called a classic check kiting scheme, Weiner began writing checks in December 2004 for a value greater than the balance from an account at a U.S. Bank branch in Northern Kentucky.
Weiner would then write a check from another account at another bank, also with non-sufficient funds. The second check would serve to cover the non-existing funds from U.S Bank.
The purpose was to falsely inflate the balance of a checking account in order to allow written checks that would otherwise bounce to clear.
Galanter said Weiner was acting with honorable intentions because he wrote the checks with the expectations they would eventually be covered as additional revenue came in from the football team. That scheme collapsed when the National Indoor Football League suspended the franchise, Galanter said.
Bunning said by looking at the facts of the case he had no doubt that Weiner was just trying to keep his team afloat but he was concerned that Weiner had prior arrests on charges of writing bad checks.
Prosecutors said Weiner faces other charges in Florida but didn't elaborate on what they were.
Weiner, who now lives in Coral Gables, Fla., has until July 18 to turn himself in at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex, where another of the region's white-collar criminals, Bill Erpenbeck, is being held. Galanter said his client was now operating a "fledgling" boat-related business in Florida.
May. 20, 2011
Written by Jim Hannah
COVINGTON - The former owner of the defunct Marshals indoor football team was sentenced Friday in federal court after admitting to defrauding a bank.
Howard Weiner, who went by the alias H.P. Patterson, was sentenced to four months in jail, five years on probation, and ordered to pay $116,000 in restitution.
Weiner, 50, told a judge he regretted what happened and acknowledged he was "in over his head" trying to "chase his dream" of owning an indoor football team.
"I'm sincerely trying to go down the right path now," Weiner said.
His attorney, Yale Galanter, who has made national headlines defending celebrities from O.J. Simpson to Charlie Sheen, had argued for parole so Weiner could immediately start working to pay the restitution.
The troubles for the Marshals started before the team played its first game in March 2005 at the U.S. Bank Arena, according to the plea agreement.
In what U.S. District Judge David Bunning called a classic check kiting scheme, Weiner began writing checks in December 2004 for a value greater than the balance from an account at a U.S. Bank branch in Northern Kentucky.
Weiner would then write a check from another account at another bank, also with non-sufficient funds. The second check would serve to cover the non-existing funds from U.S Bank.
The purpose was to falsely inflate the balance of a checking account in order to allow written checks that would otherwise bounce to clear.
Galanter said Weiner was acting with honorable intentions because he wrote the checks with the expectations they would eventually be covered as additional revenue came in from the football team. That scheme collapsed when the National Indoor Football League suspended the franchise, Galanter said.
Bunning said by looking at the facts of the case he had no doubt that Weiner was just trying to keep his team afloat but he was concerned that Weiner had prior arrests on charges of writing bad checks.
Prosecutors said Weiner faces other charges in Florida but didn't elaborate on what they were.
Weiner, who now lives in Coral Gables, Fla., has until July 18 to turn himself in at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex, where another of the region's white-collar criminals, Bill Erpenbeck, is being held. Galanter said his client was now operating a "fledgling" boat-related business in Florida.