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Ex-NHL Player Gets Jail Term
by Paul on 08/21/08 at 08:34 AM ET
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from the Detroit News,
A former NHL player and his brother were sentenced on Wednesday to one year in jail and three years of probation in connection with the attempted extortion of an Oakland County attorney.
John DePalma, 44, of Brownstown Township, and Lawrence “Larry” DePalma, 42, of Trenton, had pleaded no contest to the charge, which carries up to 20 years in prison....
“This was heinous ... evil ... not even a dog should have been treated like this,” Nichols told the DePalmas of their treatment of W. Bruce Knight, an attorney who had befriended and trusted the brothers.
Assistant Oakland County prosecuting attorney David Hutson said the DePalmas had coached Knight’s teenaged son in a hockey league and had offered to train him in Russia a few years ago—a trip that never happened.
Faced with financial problems, the DePalmas—both admitted substance abusers—concocted a story that the “Russian Mafia” was angry at Knight and unless he came up with $1 million, he and his family would be killed by “an assassin already on his way.”
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