Michael Irvin calls out Nevin Shaprio

[Well-Seasoned]

Thu Aug 18 05:37pm EDT
Michael Irvin calls Nevin Shapiro a ‘snake’ and a ‘rapist’

By Chris Chase

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Michael Irvin lashed out at Nevin Shapiro on Thursday, two days after Yahoo! Sports broke the story about illicit benefits the jailed booster gave to 72 members of the University of Miami football team.
Speaking to ESPN Radio Los Angeles, the former Hurricanes star and Dallas Cowboys Hall of Famer, explained why he called Shapiro a "snake and rapist" during his own radio show earlier this week. Irvin takes the biggest issue with Shapiro's participation in a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of $930 million.
Transcript courtesy Sports Radio Interviews:
"I called him a snake and rapist because think about it this this way…he's snaking people, but you are a rapist. How do you walk into someone's home. Forget football. Forget the University of Miami. I don't care about it. How do you walk into someone's home and sit and eat dinner with them? Watch and look at their kids? Look at all the things in their home that they worked hard over the years to gather and then you take a check and then you go and blow away all of their savings? Man it doesn't get any lower than this."
Irvin says he never met Shapiro but likely would have been lured by the handouts Shapiro awarded during his time as a booster. He also said Shapiro brought down players because of an inferiority complex that made him want to latch onto other people's success.
Loaded terminology aside, all of what Irvin says is true. Nobody is doubting that Shapiro is a dishonest, unscrupulous thief and wanna-be. And, so far, few have criticized the players named in the Yahoo! Sports report. None of this changes the fact that Shapiro was given too much access and power by Miami officials all too eager to cash his checks without caring about the ethics of the man signing them.

 

[gmenknicks]

good work Irvin...unfortunately this is all that matters here...these UM guys think if they diss Shapiro hard enough it will somehow overshadow what really happened..

None of this changes the fact that Shapiro was given too much access and power by Miami officials all too eager to cash his checks without caring about the ethics of the man signing them.

 

[Well-Seasoned]

Funny part is I drove by the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary (USP) a week ago where Nevin Shapiro is at along with fellow Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff although I only saw a few inmates through the barbed-wire walking outside.

 

[GoSooners]

I hate seeing this little jock sniffer wannabee bringing down a storied program from an 8x6 cell.

 

[SoonerBS]

I hate seeing this little jock sniffer wannabee bringing down a storied program from an 8x6 cell.

Yeah, and Shapiro should be ashamed of himself, too . . . . . .

 

[GoSooners]

Yeah, and Shapiro should be ashamed of himself, too . . . . . .

What's you talkin' bout Willis.

 

[Well-Seasoned]

Funny part is I drove by the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary (USP) a week ago where Nevin Shapiro is at along with fellow Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff although I only saw a few inmates through the barbed-wire walking outside.

Another Ponzi-schemer named Lou Pearlman is at UPS too in Atlanta. He started Backstreet Boys and N'Snync LOL (along with O-Town on MTV). You would think of the profits he made from those groups he could have possibly gotten out of it maybe, but I guess greed leads to more greed.

 

[SoonerBS]

What's you talkin' bout Willis.

Michael Irvin is no angel. He is a little like the pot calling the kettle, black.

 

[Well-Seasoned]

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP)—Tim Tebow(notes) is amused and disturbed by reports there was a bounty on his head.
The former Florida quarterback on Thursday laughed off a report that he was the target of a $5,000 bounty in 2008 from a former University of Miami booster who is at the center of the school’s salacious scandal.
“I didn’t know about that” bounty, Tebow said, chuckling. “It’s funny, though.”
Tebow, who’s now a second-year backup with the Denver Broncos, said he doesn’t remember any unnecessarily rough hits from the Hurricanes.


“That was a fun game, I remember that,” Tebow said. “That was my only opportunity to play the Canes, but it was a lot of fun. Good memories from that game.”
And why not? Tebow threw for 256 yards and two TDs and ran 13 times for 55 yards in Florida’s 26-3 win over Miami on Sept. 6, 2008.
And he wasn’t knocked out by any big hits.
Jailed Ponzi scheme artist Nevin Shapiro told Yahoo Sports that he put a bounty on Tebow that day and had a standing, three-year bounty on Florida State quarterback Chris Rix.
Shapiro is serving 20 years in federal prison for his role in the $930 million Ponzi scheme. In the Yahoo Sports story this week, Shapiro said he provided Miami players with cash, prostitutes, cars and other gifts over the past decade.
The NCAA is investigating Shapiro’s claims of providing improper benefits to Miami players.
Asked about the notion of someone encouraging players to hurt opponents to collect money, Tebow said: “That’s never what you want in sports. You’re playing to win. You go hard. I mean, it’s a violent game, people get hit, people get hurt. But to go out there and purposely try to hurt someone? I don’t believe in that at all.
“That’s not why we play the game. So, that’s unfortunate if some people would go” to such extremes, Tebow said. “But I don’t think all the Miami Hurricanes went out there trying to hurt me or anything because I had quite a few friends, as well. So, I think there were a lot of good players on that team, good kids on that team.”
Tebow said high school and college athletes need to be prepared in case they’re approached by unscrupulous individuals offering illicit or illegal benefits. He said those student-athletes need to have a heart-to-heart talk with themselves.
“Hey, no matter what comes at me, I’m going to say no to it, not `What is it? How nice is it? How nice is the perk?”’ Tebow said. “If they’re thinking anything like that, then temptation can overcome you and you give into it and then regret it later on down the road.”
Three of Tebow’s teammates in Denver are former Hurricanes who were named in the Yahoo report. Linebacker D.J. Williams, running back Willis McGahee(notes) and rookie right tackle Orlando Franklin(notes) have all declined to discuss the allegations.
“I ain’t talking about Miami,” McGahee said Wednesday night. “I’m out of Miami.”
Tebow said he hadn’t read the lengthy investigative report, “but we hear about it all the time in the locker room.”
“I’m sure there were a lot of guys who weren’t involved in that, a lot of good guys, a lot of good players that didn’t want to have anything to do with that,” Tebow said. “I really believe that, because I had several friends on that team, as well. But you’re going to have guys pretty much everywhere that are going to want to go and find shortcuts and find ways to make it easier and that’s unfortunate.”
Back to the Broncos, Tebow said he was pleased with his performance in Denver’s preseason opener at Dallas last week but that he has plenty to work on Saturday night against Buffalo.
Although he completed 6 of 7 passes against the Cowboys, Denver settled for two field goals on his drives. One of them followed a wild third-down play in which Tebow scrambled around and crossed the line of scrimmage before stepping back and unloading a pass, which drew flags and even chuckles from the officials.
“Well, in the QB room I got fined for it because of three penalties on one play,” Tebow said

 

[rolltide]

yeah i always believe a crack addict

 

[Well-Seasoned]

UW’s Alvarez claims loss in Miami booster’s scheme







MADISON, Wis. (AP)—Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez is among those claiming to have lost money in a Ponzi scheme run by Nevin Shapiro, the imprisoned former Miami booster at the center of a scandal enveloping the Hurricanes’ athletic department.

Court records show Alvarez’s family has filed claims against Shapiro’s company for at least $1 million.
In a statement Thursday, Alvarez said he invested in Shapiro’s company after a friend told him about it several years ago.
“I was introduced to Mr. Shapiro on one occasion over the years, but had no contact with him outside that one introduction,” Alvarez said. “Eventually I became aware that the investment I had made was in jeopardy due to Mr. Shapiro’s legal troubles. At that point, I retained legal counsel in an effort to recoup the money I had invested. That process is still ongoing.”
Shapiro is serving 20 years in federal prison for his role in the $930 million Ponzi scheme. In a Yahoo Sports story this week, Shapiro said he provided Miami players with cash, prostitutes, cars and other gifts over the past decade.
The NCAA is investigating Shapiro’s claims of providing improper benefits to Miami players.

 

[Well-Seasoned]

2 LIVE CREW MEMBER SPEAKS

Luther Campbell, a notorious former front man for the rap group 2 Live Crew and booster for the University of Miami, told RivalsRadio on Wednesday that he was upset to hear that he was linked to the investigative story Yahoo! Sports produced on alleged wrongdoing at the University of Miami over the past decade.
Campbell, who currently serves as an assistant football coach at Miami (Fla.) Northwestern while running a youth program for kids in the city, said the source of the story - convicted felon and Miami booster Nevin Shapiro - has no credibility and is simply out to "bring down" the school.
Yahoo! InvestigationRobinson's investigation storyWetzel's column on The UWho is Nevin Shapiro?A look at the photosThe Yahoo! Sports MinuteAllegations against Devin HesterAllegations against Vince WilforkAllegations against D.J. WilliamsAllegations against Jonathan VilmaCampbell said Shapiro's claims about the school are not true and he doesn't understand why Shapiro - who he says he has only met twice - would try to associate himself with Campbell.
"My reaction has been sickness and sad[ness]," Campbell told host Chris Childers. "The fact that this guy would mention my name - this Ponzi schemer. We all know Ponzi schemers are the worst thing in the world next to child abusers."
In a lengthy investigative piece that alleges numerous potential violations involving 72 University of Miami athletes from 2002-10, Shapiro told Yahoo! Sports' Charles Robinson that he was carrying on a role Campbell once played and that he earned a nickname because of it.
"Here's the thing: Luther Campbell was the first uncle who took care of players before I got going," Shapiro told Robinson. "His role was diminished by the NCAA and the school, and someone needed to pick up that mantle. That someone was me. He was 'Uncle Luke', and I became 'Little Luke.'"
The association bothers Campbell. "You can't be me," Campbell said. "Start a youth program for underprivileged kids 30 years ago ... help inner-city kids get into college, help them with their parents to get them going in the right direction so they won't go to jail. That sickens me when a guy says, 'Oh, I'm Little Luke.

 

[George_Jones]

I hope someone fucks Shapiro up bad. Piece of shit switch.

 

[SoonerBS]

2 LIVE CREW MEMBER SPEAKS

Luther Campbell, a notorious former front man for the rap group 2 Live Crew and booster for the University of Miami, told RivalsRadio on Wednesday that he was upset to hear that he was linked to the investigative story Yahoo! Sports produced on alleged wrongdoing at the University of Miami over the past decade.
Campbell, who currently serves as an assistant football coach at Miami (Fla.) Northwestern while running a youth program for kids in the city, said the source of the story - convicted felon and Miami booster Nevin Shapiro - has no credibility and is simply out to "bring down" the school.
Yahoo! InvestigationRobinson's investigation storyWetzel's column on The UWho is Nevin Shapiro?A look at the photosThe Yahoo! Sports MinuteAllegations against Devin HesterAllegations against Vince WilforkAllegations against D.J. WilliamsAllegations against Jonathan VilmaCampbell said Shapiro's claims about the school are not true and he doesn't understand why Shapiro - who he says he has only met twice - would try to associate himself with Campbell.
"My reaction has been sickness and sad[ness]," Campbell told host Chris Childers. "The fact that this guy would mention my name - this Ponzi schemer. We all know Ponzi schemers are the worst thing in the world next to child abusers."
In a lengthy investigative piece that alleges numerous potential violations involving 72 University of Miami athletes from 2002-10, Shapiro told Yahoo! Sports' Charles Robinson that he was carrying on a role Campbell once played and that he earned a nickname because of it.
"Here's the thing: Luther Campbell was the first uncle who took care of players before I got going," Shapiro told Robinson. "His role was diminished by the NCAA and the school, and someone needed to pick up that mantle. That someone was me. He was 'Uncle Luke', and I became 'Little Luke.'"
The association bothers Campbell. "You can't be me," Campbell said. "Start a youth program for underprivileged kids 30 years ago ... help inner-city kids get into college, help them with their parents to get them going in the right direction so they won't go to jail. That sickens me when a guy says, 'Oh, I'm Little Luke.

Tell me, guys. would you want Luther Campbell schooling your children on how to live life? Isn't he the one who sang the song, "Me So Horny?" Just asking.

Also, I think Shapiro is MORE than just credible, he has pictures, receipts, letters and much more evidence to back up the claims. Miami is guilty, plain and simple. It's time for them to eat the shit sandwich.

 

[Well-Seasoned]

Tell me, guys. would you want Luther Campbell schooling your children on how to live life? Isn't he the one who sang the song, "Me So Horny?" Just asking.

Also, I think Shapiro is MORE than just credible, he has pictures, receipts, letters and much more evidence to back up the claims. Miami is guilty, plain and simple. It's time for them to eat the shit sandwich.

http://youtu.be/nEH_ms8d1ws (Banned in the USA) uses some samples from Bruce Springesteen "Born in the USA"

 

[Well-Seasoned]

I hope someone fucks Shapiro up bad. Piece of shit switch.

He is 5 foot 6 and in a federal prison. He better have some good shank-building skills. However, he is in medium-security and near a minimum-security camp so that is alot better than a max prison.

 

[Well-Seasoned]

Here is an article from last December.

Nevin Shapiro Is the Caligula of South Florida's Ponzi Empire



A A A Comments (8) By Tim Elfrink Thursday, Dec 16 2010

...continued from page 1
"Nevin was a phenomenal athlete, actually," says Todd Zusmer, a friend who later played pickup basketball with Shapiro. "He was short, but he was one of the fastest guys out there."
He was also an obsessive University of Miami fan. In 1992, a Miami Herald reporter interviewed the then-23-year-old Shapiro in the Orange Bowl stands during a Hurricanes game. As the 'Canes fell behind , the writer described Shapiro as looking like "a caged animal about to be cornered... [or] a man in dire need of sleep. He looked crazed."
Tim Elfrink
Nevin Shapiro displayed this autographed Hurricanes helmet in his $6 million mansion.

Tim Elfrink
Shapiro's Bay Road mansion offered 180-degree views of Biscayne Bay in back.



Years later, a judge asked one of Shapiro's friends whether the Beach High grad ever becomes violently angry. The reply: "Only when the Hurricanes are losing."
The year after Shapiro graduated from high school, his mom remarried to a Canadian named Richard Armand Adam. His new stepdad seemed like an ex-pat businessman on the way up — he owned a condo in South Beach and ran a loan company called RAA International that earned more than $700,000 during the next five years.
Adam quickly attracted a partner in Connecticut, opened an office in Fort Lauderdale, and formed two firms. He did so well that the family moved into a spacious house in ritzy Lighthouse Point. Nevin got his first taste of wealth there. Adam bought two yachts — a 38-foot Wellcraft and a vintage, 1963 Roamer yacht named The Mitz — and leased a Cadillac Seville.
A few days after his 26th birthday, Shapiro led his friends to the Stephen Talkhouse after dinner at a nearby pizza parlor. Honerkamp, the club's owner, remembers the gold chains weighing down his neck, the entitled look in his eyes, and the need to make his friends believe he had the power to get them in for free. "He wanted to be a player," Honerkamp says.
When Shapiro was caught, he lashed out as violently as possible. Honerkamp, who now runs a Long Island club, says his eye was gruesomely lacerated by his assailant's ring. He visited five hospitals to find a specialist. "I thought he'd totally ripped off the skin under my eye, but his ring had actually bunched it into a big ball," he says. "He basically destroyed my tear duct."
Honerkamp wore a stent in his eye for a year and never regained full function. Shapiro, meanwhile, hid in Lighthouse Point. When he was arrested two months later, he lined up friends to testify that, in fact, Honerkamp had attacked him. But he must not have felt his case was strong — he pleaded guilty to felony assault in exchange for 18 months probation and anger counseling courses.
"I glared at him the whole time in court, but he never said one word to me," Honerkamp says. "This guy was all about himself. He was just a short guy who wanted to act like a Napoleon sack of shit.
"I'm forgiving, and if he'd just simply come to me and said, 'I did an insane thing... it was in the heat of the moment,' I would have been willing to just have my expenses paid and let it drop," he adds. "But the scumbag didn't have the balls. He has no balls."
Soon after pleading guilty to the attack, Shapiro's home life fell apart. His stepfather, Richard Adam, was arrested on a federal warrant in 1997 in his native Ontario. It turned out his burgeoning businesses were based on a scam. Adam and his partners would promise firms and wealthy entrepreneurs that they could secure loans in exchange for up-front fees. The plan was so sophisticated that Adam would often fly prospects to Luxembourg, where his overseas accounts were held, to seal the deal. But the big loans never came, and Adam kept the fees. He stole almost $6 million that way.
Adam would spend almost six years in Canadian jails fighting extradition before pleading guilty to fraud.
Did Adam's white-collar crime, so similar to the one Nevin Shapiro would commit a decade later, influence his stepson? In a brief interview from Canada, where she now lives with her husband, Nevin Shapiro's mother, Ronnie, says, "Absolutely not. Absolutely not. That case is over and done with. I can't tell you anything else about it."
By 2008, this was the setting for Nevin Shapiro's life: a $6 million mansion on Bay Road with a burbling Spanish-tiled fountain in a shady front courtyard and a pool deck out back that offered 180-degree views of Biscayne Bay and Miami's skyline.
Inside, dominating the living room, was a huge television surrounded by a half-dozen smaller monitors. LED panels shone onto the wood-paneled living room and the vintage pool table. A huge mechanically controlled projection screen scrolled down in front of his bed. Two flat screens were even embedded into the kitchen wall, right next to the two ovens, presumably so Shapiro could bake and watch sports at the same time.
To round it all out, there was the $1.5 million Riviera yacht and the $4,700-per-month Mercedes. Then there were the personal touches like the pinball machine, the vintage tabletop arcade game, and the autographed Hurricanes football helmet. Finally, there were the photos: Shapiro getting bench-pressed by Shaq, shaking hands with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, watching the 'Canes on their practice field.

 

[Conan]

Maybe this will make a better woman out of him.

 

[TheCommish]

Maybe this will make a better woman out of him.

Ouch....

 

[Willye]

Wow these ponzi schemes man how can they get them to that value nuts millions