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Ex-Viking Stu Voigt charged with fraud, accused of swindling millions
http://www.startribune.com/local/299990731.html

If memory serves, Tarkenton had some problems with this too a while back ... and there it is "Fran Tarkenton, Others Fined in Fraud Sweep
September 29, 1999": http://articles.latimes.com/1999/sep/29 ... s/fi-15207

Kind of bad that one of the people Voigt swindled was Ron Yary. Maybe they are still upset about LC Greenwood and Super Bowl IX?

My Vikings...

Evan wrote:If memory serves, Tarkenton had some problems with this too a while back ... and there it is "Fran Tarkenton, Others Fined in Fraud Sweep
September 29, 1999": http://articles.latimes.com/1999/sep/29 ... s/fi-15207

The funny part is that Tarkenton (who lives in Atlanta now, I believe, as he was a Georgia alum) is still in the investment field these days, and one of the local radio stations here does ads for his business with Fran doing the ads. I guess he skated on the fraud charges or else he would have no longer been able to work in the investments field. One of the guys who works for Tarkenton's investment firm is a guy who used to be a local TV weather caster here and he also did the weather reports for the radio station that I used to DJ at and we were kinda sorta friends at the time, and now he hosts some sort of local weekend call-in radio investment show which is really just a radio infomercial for the Tarkenton firm since all the ads on the show are about his firm.

Tarkenton paid a $100,000 fine but without any admission of guilt.