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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,485 posts)
Sat Feb 23, 2019, 08:32 PM Feb 2019

Goodell has wide-ranging powers to fine or suspend Kraft

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has wide-ranging powers to discipline teams, coaches, players, and, yes, owners.

Pending the completion of police investigations in Florida — and likely a league inquiry as well — Goodell could punish New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft for being charged with two counts of soliciting a prostitute.

The 77-year-old Kraft was twice videotaped in a sex act at a shopping-center massage parlor in Florida, police said Friday. The charges come amid a crackdown on sex trafficking in which hundreds of arrest warrants have been issued.

Under the NFL's personal conduct policy that states "ownership and club or league management have traditionally been held to a higher standard and will be subject to more significant discipline," Goodell could fine and/or suspend Kraft from any activities involving the Super Bowl champions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/goodell-has-wide-ranging-powers-to-fine-or-suspend-kraft/ar-BBTZ4As?li=BBnb7Kz

It'll be interesting to see what goes down.

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empedocles

(15,751 posts)
2. MSNBC defense attorney guest said, to the effect, Kraft is not going to jail or any such thing.
Sat Feb 23, 2019, 09:13 PM
Feb 2019

The oher 30 or 300?

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
4. It would be surprising to see a billionaire get jail time for a first offense misdemeanor, or for
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 04:10 AM
Feb 2019

that matter, any of the other "johns".

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
7. I don't think it would be difficult for a decent lawyer
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 11:41 AM
Feb 2019

To argue that the johns had no idea how the girls got there. I imagine the people running it didn’t have any incentive to advertise that fact.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
9. a 'decent' lawyer. Did you have to use the word 'decent'.
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 01:11 PM
Feb 2019


As if the ______ lawyer and Kraft had no idea?

[Of course, your argument may well hold. Kraft may well get off].


[However, be 'nice' if he didn't. The webs of 'MeToo', trump webs of corruption, sticky environments for these corrupt guys].

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
10. Do you think the people running the place ask the clients
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 01:15 PM
Feb 2019

“Which woman brought here against her will would you like us to force to service you?”

It’s a stretch, not the default position, to believe the johns knew, and if the government thought they could prove it, they wouldn’t have charged them with misdemeanors.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Goodell is such a joke.
Sat Feb 23, 2019, 09:35 PM
Feb 2019

Why makes waves when you make 166 million a year. He is not about to mess with his meal ticket.

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
5. I think he'll get a fine in the neighborhood of 500K to $1 million and maybe a 6 game suspension.
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 04:13 AM
Feb 2019

Somewhat similar to Jim Irsay's fine when he got caught with drugs in a DUI shortly after his mistress died from an OD in a house that the Colts paid for.

bluedigger

(17,091 posts)
8. I'm setting the over/under at $250,000 and four games.
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 01:07 PM
Feb 2019

Not as bad as Irsay, and they'll want the embarrassment to go away ASAP.

bluedigger

(17,091 posts)
13. He's old and rich.
Sun Feb 24, 2019, 09:30 PM
Feb 2019

I don't think he's too worried about any black marks on his permanent record affecting his prospects. Just another thing for the haters to bring up.

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