Here’s Scott Boras’ comment back in February when it was revealed that several baseball players were among the clients of suspected fraudster Robert Allen Stanford:
“The broker dealers the players have chosen have advised our
personal management auditors the players are not in jeopardy of losing
money.”
Here’s the news from yesterday:
The lawyer trying to recover the money from R. Allen Stanford’s
purported Ponzi scheme wants seven current and former Major League
Baseball stars who had invested with the accused swindler to turn over
millions of dollars, mostly of the players’ own money.
Ralph S. Janvey, whom the Securities and Exchange Commission
appointed as the “receiver” in the case, wants to take $9.5 million
from the players, an amount that mostly consists of their initial
investments, so that the athletes’ money can be split up among all of
Mr. Stanford’s purported victims.
“The fact that the [ballplayers] are innocent investors and
committed no wrongdoing does not entitle them to retain proceeds
received from the fraudulent” scheme, lawyers for Mr. Janvey wrote in a
filing last week with the U.S. District Court in Dallas.
Oops.
The players who, if the motion is granted, stand to lose millions
include Greg Maddux, Johnny Damon, J.D. Drew, Andruw Jones, Carlos
Pena, and Jay Bell.
The question I asked back in February and for which I’d still like
an answer is whether Scott Boras — who makes a big deal about how he’s
a full-service representative — steered these guys to Stanford. Maybe
someone in a position to should ask him.
