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Article: A HERO ACCUSED ; Court documents portray ex-NBA player Rumeal Robinson as a reckless overspender who resorted to swindling
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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MIAMI - To his attorney, former basketball star Rumeal Robinson
is a big-thinking businessman who became trapped in the maelstrom of
the real-estate collapse.
To Mike Jarvis, his former coach at Cambridge Rindge and Latin
High School in Massachusetts, Robinson is one of the finest people
he ever mentored.
But within stacks of court documents here, allegations of bank
fraud are laced with details that paint a much different picture. In
this portrait, Robinson emerges as a once-idolized sports star who
recklessly indulged oversized appetites for easy money, fast women,
expensive cars, and other South Beach pleasures that led to a
breathtaking fall.
Now, according to his brother, the ...