{"id":343,"date":"2006-09-15T11:06:36","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T16:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2006\/09\/15\/reggie-bush-accused-of-accepting-substantial-gifts-while-in-college\/"},"modified":"2008-10-20T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T21:25:00","slug":"reggie-bush-accused-of-accepting-substantial-gifts-while-in-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/reggie-bush-accused-of-accepting-substantial-gifts-while-in-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Reggie Bush accused of accepting substantial gifts while in college"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo! Sports writers Charles Robinson and Jason Cole have been investigating  Heisman Trophy-winning running back Reggie Bush  and the allegations that he received improper financial  benefits from sports agents while still in college.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaaf\/news?slug=ys-bushprobe&amp;prov=yhoo&amp;type=lgns\">article entitled Cash and Carry<\/a>, the writers detail the gifts (money and otherwise) that Bush and his family received while he was playing at the University of Southern California.  The total is believed to exceed $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights of the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gifts came from two sources: 1.  Mike Ornstein and one of his employees. Ornstein is currently Bush&#8217;s marketing agent.  2.  Michael Michaels and Lloyd Lake, who were pursing Bush to be the first client of New Era Sports &amp; Entertainment.<\/li>\n<li>Gifts included airfare, limousines, and hotel accommodations for personal trips<\/li>\n<li>Cash payments of at least $1,500 a week were made to the Bush family<\/li>\n<li>$13,000 was paid by New Era for Bush to purchase and modify a car<\/li>\n<li>The Bush family lived rent-fee in Michaels&#8217;s $757,500 home in Spring Valley, California<\/li>\n<li>$28,000 was paid by Michaels to help clear up debt of the Bush family<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those implicated in this case are denying giving Bush or his family any benefits, monetary or otherwise. Bush was the second pick in the NFL draft, and got a six-year contract with the New Orleans Saints for $26.3 million.  Ornstein has also helped Bush snag marketing deals worth about $50 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo! Sports writers Charles Robinson and Jason Cole have been investigating Heisman Trophy-winning running back Reggie Bush and the allegations that he received improper financial benefits from sports agents while still in college. In the article entitled Cash and Carry, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-5x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}