U.S. v. WALTERS

Nos. 89-2352, 89-2353, 89-3285 and 89-3286.

913 F.2d 388 (1990)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Norby WALTERS and Lloyd Bloom, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 17, 1990.

Rehearing Denied November 29, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Durkin, Robert S. Rivkin, Asst. U.S. Attys., Barry R. Elden, Asst. U.S. Atty., Crim. Receiving, Appellate Div., Office of the U.S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Tyrone C. Fahner, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Matthew F. Kennelly, Cotsirilos, Crowley, Stephenson, Tighe & Streicker, Chicago, Ill., Robert Gold, Gold & Wachtell, New York City, Andrew Frey, Kerry E. Cormier, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington, D.C., Stuart E. Abrams, Mayer, Brown & Platt, New York City, for Norby Walters.

Steven F. Molo, George C. Lombardi, Dan K. Webb, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, Ill., for Lloyd Bloom.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, MANION, Circuit Judge, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.


BAUER, Chief Judge.

Norby Walters and Lloyd Bloom were sports agents who specialized in representing college football players. Walters and Bloom would recruit young players still in college and secretly sign them to exclusive representation contracts. The players would then lie about the existence of their contracts on the amateur athletic eligibility forms they submitted to their universities. The athletes would then continue to receive scholarships from these universities...

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