Orphan

Not especially important, just an absolutely perfect instance of the old joke about chutzpah.

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Fowler pled guilty to numerous counts of bank fraud, wire fraud, and operating an unlicensed money transmitter last April. A previous set of lawyers withdrew from representing him in November due to unpaid bills — Fowler’s assets were frozen by the Department of Justice.

During his time out on bail, however, the once part-owner of the Minnesota Vikings has gambled away hundreds of thousands of dollars. His bail conditions had to be recently modified to ban him from gambling further.

His new lawyers made the case that Fowler was a victim of lifelong circumstance. They argued he had a childhood riddled with no proper parenting and that racism drove him to build his own businesses.

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Nuff said.