Kermit Washington Arrested

[e_blazer]

Sounds bad for him:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ington-indictment-charity-donations/84905684/

 

[Natebishop3]

Boy..... arrested after all these years? You'd think there'd be a statute of limitations for punching someone in the face.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Wow, scummy if true.

I really grew to like Kermit when he was on the radio here with Mychal Thompson. Still my all time favorite radio sports talk show.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Boy..... arrested after all these years? You'd think there'd be a statute of limitations for punching someone in the face.

I blame Bill Cosby.

 

[e_blazer]

I blame Bill Cosby.

So, he slipped you a little mickey in your dog water?

 

[Chris Craig]

You mean he got out of prison for the Tomjonovich punch

 

[THE HCP]

Kermit has always come across as such a great guy when I go to know him or interacted with him. Wow! Didn't see this coming.

 

[riverman]

Roid rage

 

[Sedatedfork]

This is disappointing and surprising.

 

[THE HCP]

It's amazing to think about what makes people do what they do. My Jr. and Sr. year in HS Kermit was a counselor at our school. Was always there for kids....... man, money will make people do some crazy shit!

 

[Boob-No-More]

I understand what he allegedly did was terrible, but this seems a little harsh:

"Washington, faces more than 40 years in prison if convicted of the four charges: corrupt interference with the internal revenue laws, conspiring to commit wire fraud, obstruction and aggravated identity theft."

That would effectively be a life sentence behind bars. Murders and rapists get shorter sentences than that.

BNM

 

[Chris Craig]

Interestingly enough Washington visited my high school back in the day and talked about making smart choices in the world

 

[CommodoreG]

The Jail Blazers curse strikes again!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I understand what he allegedly did was terrible, but this seems a little harsh:

"Washington, faces more than 40 years in prison if convicted of the four charges: corrupt interference with the internal revenue laws, conspiring to commit wire fraud, obstruction and aggravated identity theft."

That would effectively be a life sentence behind bars. Murders and rapists get shorter sentences than that.

BNM

I'm sure that's the maximum sentence for each charge if served consecutively, if convicted on everything he would serve all of them concurrently and based on his lack of criminal record would do 3yrs. Out in 2 1/2.

- SlyPlayingALawyerOnTheInternetDog

 

[crandc]

I understand what he allegedly did was terrible, but this seems a little harsh:

"Washington, faces more than 40 years in prison if convicted of the four charges: corrupt interference with the internal revenue laws, conspiring to commit wire fraud, obstruction and aggravated identity theft."

That would effectively be a life sentence behind bars. Murders and rapists get shorter sentences than that.

BNM

I had the same thought.

 

[julius]

I swear there was an issue with him (and fraud) a few years ago and the restaurant that he and Duckworth had.

If I'm remembering right, this doesn't surprise me much.

 

[MARIS61]

http://koin.com/2016/05/25/former-trail-blazer-accused-of-using-charity-for-personal-gain/

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Former NBA player Kermit Washington is accused of using donations intended to help needy people in Africa for his own gain, including paying for vacations, jewelry and entertainment.


U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson on Wednesday announced a federal indictment against Washington, who is best known for punching Houston Rockets player Rudy Tomjanovich during a game in 1977.


The 64-year-old Washington is charged with interfering with internal revenue laws, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, obstruction of justice and aggravated identity theft. He was arrested Tuesday in Los Angeles.

Dickenson says Washington used his celebrity status to exploit those who donated to his charity, Project Contact Africa. She says he diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars that were supposed to benefit a clinic in Africa for needy families and children.

Hard to stoop lower than stealing from people who are starving to death.

I've always thought this whole thing seemed pretty shady.

 

[Denny Crane]

Hiliar gets away with those things regularly.

 

[MARIS61]

Hiliar gets away with those things regularly.

Political privilege?

 

[PDXFonz]

Whack

 

[Sinobas]

At least he didn't die like Kimbo Slice and Sean Rooks.

 

[Stevenson]

Hiliar gets away with those things regularly.

Denny, I have a one-trick pony I would like to sell you. You clearly have more use for it than I do.

 

[jlprk]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ington-indictment-charity-donations/84905684/

The first thing I thought of was, Kermit's not bright enough to run a financial organization. He's probably the figurehead frontman. Who is behind this?

When I saw the 40-year potential sentence, I knew this was the legal system putting its victim through mental torture to force him against his better judgment to take the plea bargain (Sly predicts it's 3 years) and save the taxpayers the cost of a trial. It's standard procedure for prosecutors to make threats (then they imprison a British father for a year for yelling at his daughter during a family fight, "I'm going to kill you").

Washington took in nearly $200,000 in donations earmarked for two charities he ran — Project Contact Africa and The 6th Man Foundation — from 2010-2015, according to the indictment.

That's 20 grand per year per charity. Not hundreds of millions of dollars. Like other salesmen, it's standard for prosecutors to overstate their threats, I mean charges.

Prosecutors claim a good portion of the funds PCA took in came from California attorney Ron Mix, a former NFL player whose practice focuses on filing workers' compensation claims against pro leagues on behalf of former athletes. Washington funneled clients in his direction and Mix, in turn, made contributions to PCA. “Upon receipt of these payments, Washington diverted the funds for his own personal benefit,” the Department of Justice said in a news release. Along with diverting funds for his own gain, Washington allegedly filed false income tax documents from 2010-2013.

In other words, it was a finders fee. Finders fees (a doctor, plumber, lawyer, etc. pays another small businessman to refer business to him) are legal. But they are taxable revenue to the receiver and a decuctible expense to the payer, like wages for services rendered. In this case, it appears that the lawyer put the finders fee on his tax return as a charitable contribution instead of as a business expense (which may have saved him a hundred dollars per year or cost him that much...I don't know anymore what the tax percentages are for the two kinds of deduction.) So the government figures that they have Kermit one way or the other. Either he claims it was a finders fee (should have paid tax on that revenue) or that his charity is like most small charities and spends almost 100% of its income on administrative expenses (like salary to him). Either way, they get him on undeclared taxable income, but not on stealing money from his "charity" (really just a finders fee bank account, almost all paid by one lawyer whose motivation was to gain clients, not donate to charity).

In short, the inferred claim that Kermit deceived poor Christian donors for hundreds of millions of dollars is bullshit. He simply didn't put some income on his tax return, a much lesser crime (almost 200 grand, divided by 5 years, split with others running the charity, so maybe 20 grand per year to Kermit...times maybe a tax rate of 25% = 5 grand per year in tax saved). He's no financial genius. I wonder who filled out his returns.

Washington and alleged co-conspirator, Reza Davachi, also used eBay and PayPal to "unjustly and fraudulently enrich themselves," according to the indictment. Washington allegedly provided Davachi with items sold on charity merchant accounts on eBay and PayPal, which meant they avoided paying listing and transaction fees that would have been accrued if they were sold by a for-profit business.

The transaction fee to the seller can't be more than a few bucks per sale. The total must be maybe a thousand or two. Besides, what else was Kermit supposed to do, if he thought he had a charity going. Prosecutors shouldn't be allowed to pile on charges which are inevitable given the original charge. But that's all part of the mental torture and threats (for which they would prosecute you or me if we did that). These auxiliary disposable charges can be dropped after they get the victim to plead guilty to the main charge and ruin him in the media, sending him into hiding for the rest of his life.

The prosecutor grows her story from the "under $200,000" of the first article.

http://koin.com/2016/05/25/former-trail-blazer-accused-of-using-charity-for-personal-gain/
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – ...Dickenson says Washington...diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars that were supposed to benefit a clinic in Africa for needy families and children.

So I Binged Reza Davachi. His website, Digitaldeliverydownloads.com, IS MALWARE SO DON'T CLICK IT. (To get out of the internet, I had to use Windows Task Manager to escape that damned beeping.) Here's an article from a year ago. In short, Kermit was one of many victims of Davachi, and should be convicted of not paying a few thousand dollars per year of tax for 5 years, but who knows what the legal system and its partner in crime the media will do to him after ruining his reputation yet again.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article24963844.html

 

[MARIS61]

Finder's fees are illegal in many cases. It depends on whom is paying whom.

In Oregon, a Realtor cannot pay a finder's fee to anyone other than another Realtor. And it differs whether the other Realtor is in state or out of state.

I cannot pay a finder's fee to a client who recommends me or a friend who recommends me.

I assume there are similar restrictions for lawyers.


Either the money was meant to improve lives of people in Africa, and, well, things went astray...or it was a pre-conceived criminal enterprise.

The former means people may have actually died due to the thefts and he deserves jail, the latter means he's a thug and deserves jail.

 

[jlprk]

Finders fees may be disallowed by some state professional organizations like doctors, realtors, accountants, etc. All I know is that when you get an accounting degree, textbooks teach you how to account for them, which means they are a general practice.

But even if disallowed among members of a professional organization, that wouldn't mean they're illegal. And even if they are illegal in some professions in some states, that would be a far smaller crime than what is being claimed in this case. And even if he did run a tiny charity with near-100% administrative expenses (salary to partners including himself and Reza Davachi), which is true with many charities much bigger than his (for example, often the phone solicitor wages eat up most of the donations), I wonder about the influence of the guy who got him into it, Davachi.

 

[Denny Crane]

Denny, I have a one-trick pony I would like to sell you. You clearly have more use for it than I do.

I'd rather have the one trick truth pony. You don't have one of those, I bet.

I am right about my comparison. Right down to the charities.

 

[Stevenson]

I may disagree with you, and vice versa, and that's the fun of it. But I would never call you a liar. I'm embarrassed for you. Wow.

 

[Denny Crane]

I didn't call you a liar. Your candidate is the no truth pony. You do believe her lies. It is what it is.

 

[Stevenson]

You can backtrack all you want Denny. I don't mind vigorous debate. But you called me a liar. Below the belt. I'm outta here.

 

[Denny Crane]

You can backtrack all you want Denny. I don't mind vigorous debate. But you called me a liar. Below the belt. I'm outta here.

I don't have to backtrack.

The one trick pony bit was a personal attack. I let those slide because it is political talk.