Marion Jones
sentenced to six months in prison
Marion Jones has been
sentenced to six months behind bars for lying about using
steroids and a check-fraud scam.
Olympian
athlete Marion Jones was sentenced today to six months in prison
for lying about using steroids and for lying about her knowledge
of a check-fraud scheme, involving Tim Montgomery (father of her
son), her agent Charles Wells and former coach Steve Riddick,
all three have already been convicted in a scheme to cash
millions of dollars worth of stolen or forged checks. "I ask
you to be as merciful as a human being can be," Marion Jones
told the judge, pleading not to be separated from her kids, but
the mercy of the court extended as far as six months behind
bars.
Marion Jones, who won three Olympic gold
medals and two bronze, admitted of lying to federal
investigators about using steroid, often referred to as "the
clear", in October of 2007 and also retired officially
from the sport. Jones remains to this day the biggest name in
sports to be brought down as part of the federal investigation
of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, also known as the BALCO
case. Baseball legend Barry Bonds is currently under
investigation in the same case, grand jury still looking into
whether Bonds also lied to the feds.
Published on
01/11/2008
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