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Ouch! Those sting! I've learned my lesson about presuming that anybody is guilty before all the facts come out, but I have to believe that there is a lot more to this that the public hasn't been made aware of. When the feds get involved, it seems like really bad news. Mike is going to lose a LOT of money on this one.
Money should be the least of his worries...dude's goin to prison.
Money doesn't really scare those people who play in the NFL....But I'm with Cane, Prison isn't gonna be a fun place for Vick
Watch your cornhole bud...
I see alot of money going out of his account but I don't see prison in his future at least not any of much significance most likely probation.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TheBeast</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I see alot of money going out of his account but I don't see prison in his future at least not any of much significance most likely probation.</div></div>
Bro--federal felony charges don't get probation. That's just how it goes. Unless you sell someone else up the river ahead of you, you're goin to jail if you're found guilty.
With his fame I think he'll be put in some Club Fed, unfortunately.
He will also have local charges to answer to soon, if not already.
The local DA says they are not pressing charges.
The Roanoke Times said charges were likely to come
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/124887
Ron Mexico is gonna be sorry. I guess the Falcons have used everything they've had to keep him out of jail up until now.
in prison he'll be the pie.
With the fed's involved, there is no need for the locality to file charges...IMO Vick is toast.
If he is guilty of what he is being accused of, I hope they FRY his sorry ass.
I doubt the Feds would have came after a high name like him without knowing they had him Dead to Rights
Vick to Enter Plea on Conspiracy Charges
RICHMOND, Va. - Michael Vick was due in federal court Thursday to start a legal process that jeopardizes not only his career, but also his freedom.
The Atlanta Falcons quarterback was expected to appear at a bond hearing and enter a plea on dogfighting conspiracy charges. Vick is accused with three others of conspiracy involving competitive dogfighting, procuring and training pit bulls for fighting, and conducting the enterprise across state lines. Federal prosecutors allege the operation _ known as Bad Newz Kennels _ operated on Vick's property in rural Surry County.
The grisly allegations detailed in an 18-page indictment sparked protests by animal rights groups at the headquarters of the NFL and the Falcons, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has barred Vick from training camp while the league investigates.
Falcons owner Arthur Blank said the team wanted to suspend Vick for four games, the maximum penalty a team can assess a player, but the NFL asked him to wait. Instead, Blank has told his embattled player to focus on his legal problems, not football.
The Falcons opened their first camp under coach Bobby Petrino on Thursday.
The case began April 25 when investigators conducting a drug search at the home found 66 dogs, including 55 pit bulls, and equipment typically used in dogfighting. Items such as a "rape stand" that holds aggressive dogs in place for mating and a "breakstick" used to pry open a dog's mouth in a fight were seized.
Vick contended he knew nothing about a dogfighting operation at the home, where one of his cousins lived, and said he rarely visited. He has since declined comment, citing his attorney's advice.
Attorney Lawrence Woodward of Virginia Beach, who has also represented Allen Iverson and Vick's younger brother, Marcus, has not returned several phone messages.
Animal rights organizations have seized on the case as an opportunity to raise awareness of the largely underground and always gruesome world of dogfighting, where two dogs are trained to fight to the death _ sometimes for hours _ until the end.
Representatives of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and The Humane Society of the United States were expected to be among hundreds of protesters outside the U.S. District Court. Streets near the courthouse were closed Wednesday night, and dozens of television trucks were already in place near the building by nightfall.
According to the indictment filed July 17, dogs not killed in the fighting pit were often shot, hanged, drowned or, in one case, slammed to the ground. The document alleges that Vick was consulted before one losing dog was wet down and electrocuted.
It alleges that the dogfighting operation began in 2001, not long after Vick parlayed a dazzling two-year run as the quarterback at Virginia Tech into being the first overall selection in the NFL Draft. His first contract was for $62 million.
In 2004, he signed a 10-year, $130 million deal, then the richest in league history.
The indictment alleges the fights offered purses as high as $26,000, and that Vick once paid $23,000 to the owner of two pit bulls that had beaten Bad Newz Kennels dogs.
That owner is one of four cooperating witnesses cited in the document.
Charged along with Vick are Purnell A. Peace, 35, of Virginia Beach; Quanis L. Phillips, 28, of Atlanta; and Tony Taylor, 34, of Hampton. They all face up to six years in prison, $350,000 in fines and restitution if convicted of both charges.
i loved those cartoons.