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Messi & His Father Caught Up In Tax Fraud Case; Could Serve Jail Time?!
There is no silver lining to this story, and Spain is not allowing wealth to uphold impunity. Lionel Messi, one of the top paid athletes in the world, FC Barcelona forward, will stand trial with his father, Jorge, for intentionally not paying taxes from endorsement earnings (defrauding Spain) from 2007-2009 amounting to about $5 million dollars. The judge in the case rejected requests from prosecutors to drop the charges on the star soccer/futbal player and his father, and they will have to stand trial with no date set yet. Lawyers from the tax authority are lobbying for a 22-month sentence for both Lionel and his father. Lionel and his father are denying any knowledge of wrongdoing and intentional fraud.
NFL Champion Tom Brady Draws Out DeflateGate Scandal?! ::Updated
NFL QB Tom Brady was recently served a four-game suspension for deflating footballs in a Championship game last December. Now Brady is pushing his appeal through the NFLPA, implying that he had no part in the scandal?! This kind of nonsense makes me hate Brady; for one he just won the chip and two he is directly involved!