{"id":9764,"date":"2011-09-08T15:38:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T19:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9764"},"modified":"2011-09-08T14:47:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:47:55","slug":"ex-michigan-st-star-jay-vincent-going-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9764","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Michigan St. Star Jay Vincent Going To Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.<\/strong> \u2014 Former NBA player and Michigan State star <strong>Jay Vincent<\/strong> has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison and ordered to pay more than $110,000 in restitution to the IRS for his part in a fraud scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old <strong>Vincent<\/strong> received the sentence Friday in federal court in Grand Rapids. He pleaded guilty to fraud and tax charges.<\/p>\n<p>The government says he and an associate defrauded 20,000 people out of about $1 million by charging them to become certified home inspectors. Prosecutors recommended nine years in prison. U.S. District <strong>Judge Robert Jonker<\/strong> sentenced <strong>Vincent<\/strong> to 68 months.<\/p>\n<p>Former NBA star <strong>Magic Johnson<\/strong> wrote a letter to the judge asking for \u201cmercy\u201d for <strong>Vincent<\/strong>, calling his former college roommate \u201cincredibly remorseful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Johnson<\/strong> and<strong> Vincent<\/strong> played on Michigan State\u2019s 1979 national championship team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. \u2014 Former NBA player and Michigan State star Jay Vincent has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison and ordered to pay more than $110,000 in restitution to the IRS for his part in a fraud scheme. The 52-year-old Vincent received the sentence Friday in federal court in Grand Rapids. He pleaded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}