mirtle.blogspot.com - 6/5/2008
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A new lawsuit accuses San Jose investor William "Boots" Del Biaggio III of scamming a New York bank out of a $10 million loan so he could buy an interest in the Nashville Predators hockey team.
The suit by Modern Bank of New York... brings to $17 million the amount Del Biaggio is accused of obtaining by using brokerage accounts that weren't his as collateral for loans.
None of the loans has
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Gary,
During the course of the past week, three little tidbits of hockey news have risen above the hubub of the Finals. The first was this:
A new lawsuit accuses San Jose investor William “Boots” Del Biaggio III of scamming a New York bank out of a $10 million loan so he could buy an interest in the Nashville Predators hockey team.
Hmm, so it seems like the new Nashville ownership group isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Then there was this:
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... and now "Boots" Del Biaggio add their names to the long list of crooked NHL owners, why prevent a guy like Balsillie from reenergizing a club and if need be, move it to the Hamilton area. At least ...
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From Pat Hickey of the Montreal Gazette: The National Hockey League has gone to great lengths to keep Jim Balsillie from buying an NHL team, but he may be in a position to buy Williams (Boots) Del Biaggio III's 27-per-cent stake in the Nashville Predators. Del Biaggio filed for bankruptcy last Friday and his assets include the minority stake in the Predators. He joined a group of local ...
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William “Boots” DelBiaggio, who was recently approved by the NHL Board of Governors as co-owner of the Predators, has filed for bankruptcy in federal court in California. Now, I’m not saying that the Board of Governors has their collective head up their ass, but when you approve someone to own a franchise in your league, [...]
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As everyone knows by now, Nashville Predators’ minority owner William ‘’Boots’’ Del Biaggio filed for bankruptcy this past week.
No doubt a frustrating time for Predators fans who are probably at their limit when it comes to the roller-coaster ride of supporting their team. And plenty frustrating for the rest of us who just know —beyond any ...
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I won’t lie to you—I’m probably the last guy in the world that should be talking about the legal system and how much trouble Will Del Biaggio is in. After all, I was the kid that thought ‘law suit’ was the style of suit people wore to court.
Even I can tell you though, that ‘Boots’ really stepped in it this time.
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Earlier this week, we half-jokingly noted that it was just a matter of time before the financial troubles of Nashville Predators co-owner William "Boots" Del Biaggio III and the undaunted hubris of Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie's quest for NHL ownership would collide. Turns out they already have. Two weeks ago. Theresa Tedesco, chief business correspondent for the National Post ...
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Can't Gary Bettman just have one good week? Ratings are strong, the hockey is great. But now he's hit with the news that "Boots" Del Biaggio may have committed a $10 million loan fraud to raise money to co-own (and thus save from relocation) the Nashville Predators , along with the reemergence of billionaire Jim Balsillie and his CrackBerry money. Theresa Tedesco of The National ...
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From Scott Herhold and Pete Carey at the Mercury News,
Federal investigators are probing the business dealings of San Jose socialite and investor William “Boots” Del Biaggio III, the Mercury News has learned.
Del Biaggio announced his departure Monday from Sand Hill Capital, a firm he co-founded in 1997. Sand Hill, a boutique lender to startups, issued a terse press ...
