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Omaha Sports activities Academy founder pleads no contest to embezzlement cost | Crime Information

The founder and former common supervisor of the Omaha Sports activities Academy has pleaded no contest to a lowered cost in reference to the reported embezzlement of a whole lot of 1000’s of {dollars} from the enterprise.

Robert Franzese, 49, entered the no contest plea as a part of a negotiated settlement that resulted within the discount of 1 theft cost and the dismissal of a second one. He faces as much as two years in jail and 12 months of supervised launch.

Franzese had confronted as much as 20 years in jail on every of two felony theft counts

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Omaha Sports activities Academy founder pleads no contest to embezzlement cost | Crime Information

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The founder and former common supervisor of the Omaha Sports activities Academy has pleaded no contest to a diminished cost in reference to the reported embezzlement of a whole bunch of 1000’s of {dollars} from the enterprise.

Robert Franzese, 49, entered the no contest plea as a part of a negotiated settlement that resulted within the discount of 1 theft cost and the dismissal of a second one. He faces as much as two years in jail and 12 months of supervised launch.

Franzese had confronted as much as 20 years in jail on every of two felony theft counts

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At North Omaha health club, Bud Crawford mentors younger fighter who “jogs my memory of me.”

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This story was initially printed in Flatwater Free Press.

As fighters went by way of their paces one latest evening at B&B Sports activities Academy, its co-owner, world welterweight boxing champion Terence “Bud” Crawford, obtained proper within the combine, interacting with execs and amateurs alike. He coached boxers on the North Omaha health club, teased them, cajoled them, inspired them.

He often glanced over at 11-year-old Reno Busby, a nationally ranked USA Boxing bantamweight. Busby’s coaches – and Crawford himself – imagine the Davis Center Faculty sixth grader might have the expertise to go far within the sport. 

However on

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Omaha Sports Academy founder charged in embezzlement of almost $400,000 | Crime News

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A founder of the Omaha Sports Academy siphoned almost $400,000 from the business to his

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Omaha Sports Academy founder Bob Franzese accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars | Crime News

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Bob Franzese was co-owner and general manager of Omaha Sports Academy before he was removed from the program in April.



CHRIS MACHIAN, THE WORLD-HERALD


Authorities are investigating a founder of the Omaha Sports Academy youth basketball program in connection with the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for the business.

Officials are collecting records and looking into the financial activity of Bob Franzese, said Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine. Franzese, 48, who was co-owner and general manager of OSA, was removed from the program in April.

Kleine said investigators suspect Franzese was using the money for gambling.



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