Tuesday, 6 December 2016

Ex-boxing promoter, hoops coach convicted of embezzlement

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — A previous boxing promoter, ex-school b-ball mentor and author of a Rhode Island-based game foundation was sentenced for stealing from the philanthropic association he established three decades prior.

Dan Doyle, of the Institute for International Sport, was discovered blameworthy by a jury of 18 checks, including misappropriation, falsification, recording false reports and acquiring cash under affectations.

Prosecutors said the 67-year-old Doyle, of West Hartford, Connecticut, utilized the organization as a piggybank, taking more than $1 million to pay for things including school educational cost and wedding costs for his kids and for plastic surgery.

He was additionally blamed for fashioning the marks on board reports, including that of Alan Hassenfeld, the previous CEO of Pawtucket-based Hasbro Inc.

Doyle established the foundation in 1986 to make global associations among schoolchildren. It was best known for the World Scholar Athlete Games and attracted prominent individuals to talk at its occasions, including previous President Bill Clinton, previous Secretary of State Colin Powell and Nobel Prize victors Desmond Tutu and Elie Wiesel.

Doyle was previously a boxing promoter for Sugar Ray Leonard. He likewise was the head men's ball mentor at Trinity College in Connecticut.

He kept up his honesty all through the two-month-long trial, debilitating at one indicate hold a sit-in and hunger strike in the court over protestations that he was not accepting a reasonable trial. His legal advisor said he and his family contributed a huge number of dollars of their own cash in the foundation, which was based at the University of Rhode Island.

Doyle stayed free on safeguard Monday and left court without addressing correspondents, however his legal advisor communicated his mistake and called him "an awesome man." His sentencing has not yet been booked.

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