Kraft Orchids Case - Prosecuters Want a Tug Rule?

[A Defiant Goose]

Legalize prostitution and this **** doesn't happen

 

[Love The Drake]

It's only a matter of a few years before we sadly read that Bart Scott died homeless under a highway overpass somewhere.......certain outcomes are inevitable..



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Wow

 

[Brandon_Cox]

This morning Kraft Foods lost close to $20 billion in market cap and this afternoon Bob Kraft is arrested. Ben Vollin sees a direct connection.

 

[shmessy]

Ryan Hannable

?@RyanHannable

Adam Schefter via @OMFonWEEI on people arrested in Florida human trafficking sting, including Robert Kraft being charged with soliciting prostitution: "We got 25 names, there are 175 more names coming."


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[EMpats]

The scandal has been named “Fellate-Gate”

 

[VectorPrime]

We’ve had the privilege as Pats fans to be one of the few fanbases in sports who didn’t consider their owner either a villain or a liability. Maybe the only one to actually LIKE the owner. Now we’re just like everyone else.

 

[BradyFTW!]

This morning Kraft Foods lost close to $20 billion in market cap and this afternoon Bob Kraft is arrested. Ben Vollin sees a direct connection.

Colts fans must have doubled down hard on that boycott.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

Totally agree with your post. One correction, though...

The Donald Sterling example is a good precedent to point to, as it likely establishes the upper limit of what Goodell can maybe hope to accomplish here: *if* he gets the rest of the owners on board he may be able to force Kraft to sell the team. But owners don't like it when they themselves are accountable to anyone: execs, sure, players, sure, but they expect to be above any real consequences, and being forced to sell your team is a real consequence to these guys. So unless Goodell can convince Jerry Jones and Dan Snyder that being caught banging a prostitute is grounds for being stripped of your most prized personal asset, I'm not at all convinced that it'll even get that far on account of NFL owners being a special breed of narcissistic, entitled assholes.

Goodell doesn't need the "rest of the owners". He "only" needs 24. And if he can get 24 he can force Kraft to sell. But for just the reasons you say, I don't think that's close to likely.

 

[YOUGOTMOSSED]

I'm not implying anything, and I'm not talking about the specifics of this particular case. I'm saying that what police claim, what gets charged, and what gets argued by proscutors in court is not always 100% identical or 100% accurate, so PatsFan2 doesn't know what the hell he's talking about when he says that Kraft doesn't have a prayer, because he hasn't seen the evidence.

I suppose he could still get caught going the high end escort route ala Elliot Spitzer, but at least then you still maintain some class and dignity.. you're also less likely to be unwittingly involved in a human trafficking ring going that route.

Eliot Spitzer was using taxpayer money for his hookers.

 

[BradyFTW!]

We’ve had the privilege as Pats fans to be one of the few fanbases in sports who didn’t consider their owner either a villain or a liability. Now we’re just like everyone else.

Yeah, honestly I've always found it a little weird that Pats fans lionize Bob Kraft so much anyway. The guy's crowning achievement as an owner is that he eventually, belatedly realized that he doesn't know **** about football and shouldn't interfere with people who do. And sure, that's a genuinely good thing in that it's way better than the alternative, but when people elevate him to the Belichick/Brady level in terms of his importance to the dynasty it just makes no sense to me.

 

[SBLIII]

I'm more interested in the other 175 names now.

 

[PatsFan2]

Belichick upon hearing the news gotta have an expression i'd pay to see

BB after a death stare will probably say nobody died. But some of those old farts on the list will soon after their names are released. Granny is going get some explanations for those late night's and long weekends.

 

[mosslost]

tell that to the haters and the media. not to me.

who are the haters on this one? people against sex trafficking?

 

[SBLIII]

 

[QuantumMechanic]

Two things that just smell funny to me here:

a.) Only Kraft's name was released thus far.....why not the others?

b.) It's Miami.......

They've released lots of other names. Someone posted a shot of the list of names in this very thread.

 

[BradyFTW!]

Totally agree with your post. One correction, though...



Goodell doesn't need the "rest of the owners". He "only" needs 24. And if he can get 24 he can force Kraft to sell. But for just the reasons you say, I don't think that's close to likely.

Does he need 24, or just a supermajority (which would be 22)? Rereading what I wrote, I can see how I wasn't at all clear and could be easily read as suggesting that Goodell needs every other owner to sign off on his punishment, but my assumption/belief was that he just needed a supermajority, and I used Jones and Snyder as the most egregious examples of the kind of person who would never voluntary accept a precedent of being held accountable for their own sexual proclivities.

 

[jah]

Legalize prostitution and this **** doesn't happen

Human trafficking would still be illegal.

 

[VectorPrime]

So what legal magic does his lawyer do to ensure he never sees the inside of a cell?

 

[mosslost]

we go 19-0 next year now

 

[ZoisKing]

There goes a first round pick. Expect to see this **** on all the media outlets for one year.