Michael Vick’s arrest and financial trouble has begun to affect his mother’s quality of life:

Former Falcon’s quarterback Michael Vick’s prison cell may soon be more of a home than his mother has because of his poor decision making.

Recent bankruptcy documents show that Vick can’t afford to pay the $4700 a month mortgage payments for his mother’s Suffolk home. Vick has hired a local realtor in Virginia to try and sell off the property.

To make things worse, his mother, Brenda Boddie, won’t earn her $100K income anymore because she was employed by her sons company which is now as dead as O.J. Simpson’s chances of being home for Christmas.

The home is one of several that Vick bought when he blew through almost $20 milli over a couple of years. Vick’s mother had o comment.

Come on Vick, we’re waiting:

Former National Football League star Michael Vick pleaded guilty to a state dogfighting charge on Tuesday in a deal that will keep him from serving more prison time if he stays on good behaviour.

The 28-year-old’s plea deal resulted in a sentence of three years of jail time with all of them suspended as long as he stays out of trouble for the next four years he will spend on probation. Vick was also fined 2,500 dollars.

“I would like to apologize to the court, my family and to the kids that I let down as a role model. I’m very remorseful for my actions,” Vick said.

Vick is serving a 23-month sentence in a Leavenworth, Kansas, prison for a federal conspiracy charge related to the dogfighting ring he financed, an operation that was based at kennels upon land he owned in rural Sussex County.

State charges were filed against Vick and three other defendants after they pleaded guilty last year to federal charges. A request by Vick to plea by video link from prison was denied last month.

The new deal paves the way for Vick’s possible return to American football. Vick had to resolve all charges before he could be released from federal prison to a halfway house ahead of his scheduled release next July.

Vick would have limited freedom at a halfway house and more opportunity to contact officials of NFL teams in hopes of returning to the league for the 2009 season once training camps open next January.

Former Atlanta Falcons star Vick, who filed for bankruptcy protection in prison, must still have the approval of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell before being allowed back into the league.

Another factor would be that Vick’s time away from the game will likely have diminished the fitness, skill and speed that made him a run and pass threat and one of the highest-paid quarterbacks in the NFL before everything fell apart.

Vick, the 2001 top pick in the NFL draft, signed a record 10-year deal worth 130 million dollars in 2004 but claimed he now owes 4.4 million dollars more than he has despite 16 million dollars in assets.

Animal rights groups protested outside the courthouse and Michael Markarian, an executive vice president of The Humane Society, was unhappy with the deal.

“We had hoped the Commonwealth of Virginia would send a stronger message that dogfighting crimes are cruel and unacceptable,” he said.

“Nevertheless, Michael Vick is already paying his debt to society with a federal prison sentence and his example has demonstrated to people across the country that dogfighting is a dead-end activity that can jeopardize your freedom and your future.”

There are plenty of teams that could use Vick’s services next season. Problem is, I’m sure that those a-holes from PETA will be putting on a full court press to keep him unemployed even though he will have payed his debt to society. SMH.

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Vick takes another step to return to society:

Former NFL star Michael Vick is back in Virginia to plead guilty to state dogfighting charges, a move he hopes will expedite his return to society and, eventually, pro football.

The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback is being held in protective custody at the Riverside Regional Jail, superintendent Darnley Hodge said Friday.

Michael Vick, arriving to federal court in August 2007, is isolated at the Riverside Regional Jail in Virginia to avoid disruptions.
Vick arrived Thursday afternoon from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan., where he’s serving a 23-month sentence for a dogfighting conspiracy conviction. He was brought back by the Fugitive Unit of the Virginia State Police, which already had two other prisoners to pick up in the midwest, state police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said.

Vick is isolated from the jail’s approximately 1,200 inmates to avoid disruptions, but will be treated like any other prisoner, Hodge said.

Vick, 28, is due to appear Tuesday in Surry County Circuit Court, where he’s expected to plead guilty to two felony counts in a deal with prosecutors that calls for a suspended sentence and probation.

The plea would resolve his last pending criminal charges, and his lawyers hope would make him eligible for early release from prison into a halfway house designed to ease his return to society.

Only prisoners with no outstanding charges are eligible to participate in the program, which transfers prisoners into Residential Reentry Centers as much as six months before their scheduled release date. Vick is scheduled to be released from Leavenworth on July 20, 2009, according to the Bureau of Prisons Web site, 20 months to the day since he reported in advance of his Dec. 10, 2007, sentencing to begin serving his time.

The release date apparently assumes time off for good behavior.

What remains unknown is when, or if, Vick will be allowed to resume his NFL career. He was suspended indefinitely by league commissioner Roger Goodell, who has not said whether he will ever allow Vick to play again.

Vick’s lawyers attempted last month to get permission for him to make his plea by videoconference, but Judge Samuel Campbell denied the request.

Vick was convicted of the federal charges in August 2007 when he admitted bankrolling a dogfighting operation at a home he owned in rural Surry County. He also admitted to participating in the killing of several underperforming dogs. Three co-defendants also pleaded guilty in the case.

The state charges — beating or killing or causing dogs to fight other dogs and engaging in or promoting dogfighting — each carried a possible prison sentence of five years, but Vick’s legal team and Surry County Commonwealth’s Attorney Gerald Poindexter agreed to the plea deal.

Free Vick !!!

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Former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick will plead guilty to state dog fighting charges in hopes of securing an early release from federal prison and possibly returning to American football next year.

The Virginian-Pilot newspaper, citing papers filed in Surry County Circuit Court by Vick’s lawyers, reported Tuesday that he wants to enter a halfway house.

Attorneys want permission for Vick to plead guilty in a video-teleconference from Leavenworth, Kansas, where he is serving a two-year prison sentence on federal dogfighting charges.

The Surry court will convene on November 5.

Paperwork indicates that the former star must resolve the state charges before he would be eligible to take part in a halfway house program.

Vick is scheduled to be released on July 20. He could enter a halfway house program in January to prepare his way for a return to society. His release would come as National Football League clubs begin training camps for the 2009 season.

Whether or not a team would take a chance upon him and how skillful he would be after incarceration are major questions lingering over Vick, who filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last July with debts of 10-50 million dollars.

Vick financed and supported a dogfight ring and was convicted last December on federal charges. The state charges are for related violations stemming from the operation that was based on rural land in Surry County. His role, as outlined in court documents, included execution of poorly performing dogs through brutal methods. He would need the approval of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell before being allowed to American football.

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Damn. $10. Thats sad:

Vick pulled the ol’ “Paris Hilton” by leaving a bunch of his stuff in a storage locker that hadn’t been paid for. The contents of the locker, stocked with all sorts of Vick’s personal goodies, eventually went on the auction block. Since only five people showed up to the sale, a dude named Edward Howard says he was able to obtain the treasure trove of obscurities for a whopping ten bucks.

Now, Howard says he’s already made a few hundred bucks selling off some of Vick’s bedroom furniture and clothes on a street corner just a few days ago.

What Howard won’t sell are pictures of Vick with his first-born son Mitez, a signed football Mike gave the kid, and other baby memorabilia. Howard says he’d like to meet Vick some day to hand over the stuff personally.

Vick will be in Leavenworth, KS for at least another year, case anyone’s looking.

Man when it rains it pours. At least Vick can get back his precious baby pictures when he’s released. If those a$$holes at PETA had anything to say about it, that would be NEVER !!!

Michael Vick is losing nearly $12,000 a month according to court documents filed Tuesday in his bankruptcy case.

Vick’s Schedule of Assets and Liabilities, admittedly incomplete, were filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Wednesday. In the documents the imprisoned Falcons quarterback lists average monthly expenses of $12,225 and a monthly income of just $277.69. The difference is $11,947.31. Vick’s monthly income is solely derived from a benefit pension plan and does not include the wages of 12 cents per hour he earns working in prison.

Vick, serving a 23-month federal prison sentence on felony charges related to dogfighting, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month.

Vick lists total assets of just over $10 million. He also lists nearly $19 million is liabilities, which includes claims, some disputed, against him by creditors.

Four houses, three in Virginia and one in Georgia, are listed as real property with a value of $6.4 million. Vick lists known personal property assets of $3.5 million.

Several personal property assets are listed with an unknown value and the documents indicate that Vick will file an amendment. According to the court documents, much of the work organizing Vick’s financial affairs was done by David Talbot and are incomplete. Vick filed court papers last week seeking to remove Talbot from consideration as an financial advisor after he was charged with securities fraud in New Jersey in an unrelated case.

“Given the uncertainty surrounding the collection and ownership of certain assets and the valuation and nature of certain liabilities … to the extent that [Vick] may show more liabilities than assets, this is not an admission that [Vick] was insolvent at the Petition Date or any time prior to the Petition Date.”

Vick’s attorney, Peter R. Ginsberg, could not be reached for comment. According to his office he was traveling and unavailable.

In his personal property, Vick lists several life insurance accounts, two boats with a total value of $190,000 and a 2006 Bentley. Court documents indicate that it is unknown if that car was sold or is another Bentley co-owned by Vick’s company, MV7, LLC.

In further evidence of Vick’s uncertainty about his finances, documents list several bank accounts with a value of $0 because Vick “does not have in his possession documentation showing that there is money in the accounts.” One checking account is listed with a balance of $4,111.73.

Listed under personal property is a potential claim against AXA Life Insurance and/or Michael Smith, of of Vick’s former agents, for excessive fees in the amount of $1.4 million. Also listed is a potential claim against former financial advisors including, but not limited to, Mary Wong, Williams & Bullock, Robert F. Craig, Lawrence Woodward (his attorney) and Talbot.

Vick’s finances were in such disarray that a judge was asked to appoint a trustee to oversee his estate. A hearing will be scheduled to consider the request.

Included in the court documents requesting the trustee, Talbot and Wong are named as advisers that have not acted in Vick’s best interest. Vick is asking Wong to account for $550,000 he gave her when she was hired as a business manager.

Vick’s current monthly expenditures for one of his Virginia homes is listed below. The document will be amended to reflect Vick’s other homes, according to the court documents.

Rent or mortgage payments: $4,500

Electricity and fuel: $700

Water and sewer: $100

Telephone: $300

Pest control: $400 (3-4 months)

Home maintenance: $400

Food: $1,600

Clothing: $500

Laundry and dry cleaning: $75

Medical and dental: $300

Transportation (not car payments): $1,800

Charitable contributions: $800

Auto insurance: $550

Medical maternity bill: $200 (for complications from birth of London Vick, youngest daughter)

Source: http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/falcons/stories/2008/08/20/vick_bankruptcy_case_documents.html