The VLW Blog

Michael Vick’s efforts to reorganize his finances through bankruptcy continues to be bogged down by difficulty in determining just what he has – and where it has gone.
The Daily Press has an account of yesterday’s hearing, which raised the possibility that family members will have to return money and gifts from Vick in the two [...]

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That seems to be a key question for U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Frank Santoro as he seeks to make sense of Michael Vick’s financial affairs.
As reported in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Santoro has ordered a hearing on Sept. 5 to explore the quarterback’s finances.  Questions have arisen about the reliability of both Vick’s “trusted advisor” and his [...]

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Michael Vick, the former Atlanta Falcons quarterback now doing time in federal prison on dogfighting charges, can keep nearly $20 million in bonuses paid by the team, a federal judge in Minneapolis ruled this morning.
A special master found in October that Vick needed to pay back the money, but the judge said return of [...]

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Michael Vick could play professional football in 2009, but he would have to shake off two years of rust and miss much of the pre-season training for whatever team is willing to accept bad publicity and uncertain performance.
U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson sentenced Vick today to 23 months in prison on a federal dogfighting [...]

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A Valparaiso University law professor who is an expert in animal control law has been selected to decide what to do with the 48 pit bulls seized at Michael Vick’s Surry County property. The Daily Press has the story.

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Before suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick pleaded guilty in Richmond federal court to a dogfighting charge a few weeks ago, it seemed like the news in central Virginia was all Vick, all the time. Since then his name mostly has been showing up low in the stories about yet another Falcons loss.
But today’s papers [...]

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Two judicial proceedings were conducted at the same time today. In one, a defendant pleaded guilty to a felony with a maximum punishment of five years, and the government will be asking for a fifth of that.
In the other, high-powered lawyers argued about the constitutionality of Virginia’s $3 billion transportation plan, which includes projects, taxes [...]

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Please, guys, give us—and yourselves—a break.
That was the clear message, although it was said more judiciously—not judicially—because U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson was in a suit rather than in his robe, even if he did speak from the bench.
Hudson took the extraordinary step today of personally telling the news media that a defendant had [...]

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A co-defendant of Michael Vick has acknowledged spending most of his time taking care of and training the pit bulls fought by “Bad Newz Kennels” through September 2004.
Tony Taylor, a 34-year-old Hampton man, pleaded guilty today to a felony count of conspiring to engage in interstate dog fighting beginning in early 2001. Taylor faces a [...]

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