It’s Friday, so it kind of seems like the best time to post one of these bizarre stories that the sports world seems to be involved in every so often. Apparently, some real estate guy — I hesitate to call him a tycoon or anything since, apparently, he never actually sold anything — stole money in a Bernie Madoff kind of way from hockey players. The players include Sergei Gonchar, Michael Peca, Bryan Berard and Chris Simon (who knew Chris Simon was loaded?). So, the story goes, once he fake financial schemed the money from these guys he used it to throw parties for famous steroid using/gambling ex-baseball players. Cause that’s the logical thing to do! Here’s the dish from DeadSpin [sic’d]:
Las Vegas golf-course developer, Ken Jowdy, is accused of taking more than $25 million from investors to build a resort in Mexico, only instead of actually building anything, they guy just spent the money on parties for him and his friends. Oh, and his friends are Joe Morgan, Roger Clemens, Reggie Jackson and Pete Rose.
So Jowdy threw these parties to try and woo baseball stars into buying luxury homes in Mexico but he must have been a terrible salesman as none of the baseball players ever took the bait. But here’s my question — if it was so easy to get the hockey players to give you money, wouldn’t it be just as easy to get them to buy houses? Was it really necessary to try and make things that much more complicated by wooing the baseball guys too?
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