I suppose I'll never get to know how all this came about. I'm guessing that in the process of Rick placing inner-city kids on college basketball teams, some rich guy asked him for a favor. And one favor led to another, and then eventually the favors were unethical than then downright illegal. I think that when most of us get into trouble, we start out thinking that we're doing good.

My niece has been divorced from Rick for many years, and I got divorced from my niece's family in 1993. So, there's been a long gap of separation. But when I knew him, Rick was a good guy doing good things.

-Joe-