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Fraud Claim Over Pats Pay Won t Draw Sanctions Penalty Flag
Law360 (March 10, 2021, 2:34 PM EST) Allegations that former New England Patriots assistant coach Bret Bielema took a lowball salary from the team to defraud and extract money from a University of Arkansas booster group are neither frivolous nor the basis for sanctions, an Arkansas federal judge said Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge P. K. Holmes III denied a request from Bielema and his agent, Neil Cornrich, to sanction The Razorback Foundation, which claims the pair conspired to place Bielema at a lower-paying coaching gig with the Patriots to increase the value of his separation agreement with the foundation.