McNair CONVICTED on 17 COUNTS of Cruelty; NJ Police Believe Dogfighting Involved
by Nestor on Aug 30, 2007 4:48 AM PDT
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PrintI will get todays roundup in a bit, but we have couple of items we definitely need to highlight. Menelaus has already lampooned and ripped apart the propaganda piece making apology for McNair and Pom Pom’s actions that came out of the keyboards of some paid Trojan blogger (who as Wiz notes works on his little site directly out of the Southern Cal football office). The LA Times today has lot more.
McNair try to make the case via the Trojan version of Baghdad Bob that he was involved in "dog breeding." However, despite the best efforts of the Trojan propaganda machine to take the word "dog fighting" out of this scandal, it looks like that is exactly where the police in New Jersey are pointing today. Oh and there is little detail: McNair was CONVICTED on 17 COUNTS for misdemeanors regarding animal cruelty and failure to license:
"We didn't witness a dogfight taking place, but . . . that's what the dogs were used for," said East Greenwich Township Police Det.-Sgt. Charles Barone. "There was a treadmill used for [dog] training, and we found the dogs in an unsheltered, wooded area far from the highway, where they were held down by [automobile towing] chains connected to large tire rims. It was deplorable."
Gloucester County Judge J.R. Powell said in court that insufficient evidence kept him from convicting McNair of dogfighting. However, prosecutors won misdemeanor convictions against McNair on 17 counts of animal cruelty and failure to license dogs.
McNair was fined more than $4,900 and ordered to fulfill community service obligations, according to a local newspaper report. Court authorities said Wednesday that the official municipal court decision of the case has probably been destroyed.
McNair, a former Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Oilers running back, said he did not tell USC officials about his convictions when he was hired onto the football staff in 2004 because he "had no reason to think it would ever come up. I didn't look at it as I did a crime and was convicted anyway. I was exonerated from all the stuff."
Too bad for the Trojans though. They may own the police of Los Angeles, but can’t say the same for the cops in Jersey.
Oh I have also been reading here and there about how poor poor McNair has paid the price? How has he paid them off? Not sure being prominently implicated in one of the most blockbuster college cheating scandal in recent history and getting involved in disgusting, racists pranks with young impressionable kids, is a sign of a good, decent man setting an example of how to make up for these horrible
Whatever at this point I guess.
The ball is now on the court for Trojan alums, students or anyone that associates themselves with their shady program. They are the one that should be demanding answers and asking the tough questions. May be there is some shred of decency left in Trojanland so that we can hear them raising concerns instead of going by the ole playbook of making excuses,
GO BRUINS.
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BruinsNation subject of Daily Trojan editorial
by BruinEric on Aug 30, 2007 6:53 AM PDT reply actions
brilliant!!
Wow
Typical whining condoms.
by McNown to Farmer on Aug 31, 2007 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
hahahah
by True Blue and Gold on Aug 30, 2007 4:52 PM PDT reply actions
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