Judge rules Tom Benson needs assistance

[Jeremy Igo]

Who dat love L.A.?

I would love that. Annual visit to LA would be sweet.

[SIGCHI222]

I would love that. Annual visit to LA would be sweet.

 

When you go, check out one of the oldest McDonald's ever in Azusa.  I lived in more places than Valrico my friend.

 

 

 

 

P.S.  Avoid all of San Antonio if you can help it.

 

[Snake]

LOL I would feel sad if it were not the Saints. Daughter is going to rip his fortune right out of his dying hands. Bye Payton, hello someone who knows how to pick up trash.

[Carolina Cajun]

All this infighting between Benson's wife and kids, almost assures him his last remaining days, will be ones beset with constant problems.

Awesome, couldn't happen it a dirtier turd than him.

[Cyberjag]

Reminds me, how did this never happen with Al Davis?

 

Al Davis was in California, where crazy is the new normal.

[Mr. Scot]

Al Davis was in California, where crazy is the new normal.

True

Plus have you seen his son?

[PntherPryd]

I feel bad for Mr. Benson, seems like a good guy, most people on the saints forums paint that his grand daughter is the crazy one

 

 

 

old school saint fans can't stand Benson.  He is the same guy that wanted to move the team to San Antonio before, during and after Katrina.  

 

living on a diet of soda, candy and ice cream did not suddenly make him a "sweet old man".

[Snake]

old school saint fans can't stand Benson.  He is the same guy that wanted to move the team to San Antonio before, during and after Katrina.  

 

living on a diet of soda, candy and ice cream did not suddenly make him a "sweet old man".

 

You dont make millions being a sweet old man. Besides maybe he was helping the Saints. We all know NO is a shithole.

[LinvilleGorge]

Does anyone else not find it extremely fuging alarming that courts can get involved in what happens with your personal assets?  Mr. Benson decided to leave the Saints and Pelicans in the hands of his wife instead of his daughter's upon his passing.  Tough luck for the daughter, right?  Nope!  Daughter sues and now the courts are involved and who knows what will happen now with these court appointed "receivers".

 

I don't give a rat's ass about the Saints, but just speaking as a citizen of this country, that is some seriously fuged up poo.

[Anybodyhome]

Guy is a total douche.

 

Back as far as 2001, Benson had a 10-year deal with the state of Louisiana which paid him a total of $180M to keep the team in New Orleans. Imagine that, the state paying an NFL owner to stay by paying him taxpayer dollars.

In 2009, Benson renegotiates a deal that pays him $23M in subsidies, he buys a business office hi-rise building from that state and then turns around and rents the office space to the state!

 

Louisiana state agencies are paying above-market rates to rent office space from New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson, and the state is paying $625,000 for space it isn't using, according to an audit released Monday.

Legislative Auditor Daryl Purpera's office reviewed the lease, which was negotiated by Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration in 2009 as part of a package of incentives that replaced a previous state deal with the NFL team.

The deal keeps the Saints in New Orleans through 2025 and scrapped direct cash incentive payments the state had been making to Benson, in exchange for improvements to the New Orleans Superdome and the office lease arrangement.

The Jindal administration has said the deal saves the state millions it would have paid under the old deal, while also keeping an economic driver for the state.

 

 

http://blog.nola.com/saintsbeat/2009/04/deal_between_saints_state_woul.html 

 

http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/local/louisiana/2014/09/08/audit-state-pays-high-lease-rates-saints-owner/15291205/

[Inimicus]

Does anyone else not find it extremely fuging alarming that courts can get involved in what happens with your personal assets?  Mr. Benson decided to leave the Saints and Pelicans in the hands of his wife instead of his daughter's upon his passing.  Tough luck for the daughter, right?  Nope!  Daughter sues and now the courts are involved and who knows what will happen now with these court appointed "receivers".

 

I don't give a rat's ass about the Saints, but just speaking as a citizen of this country, that is some seriously fuged up poo.

 

Ill have to see if I can find it again but I read that the crux of the suit and the reason the courts are involved is not over some petty family squabble.

 

But rather that the sports franchises are held either by a corporation or trust and that Benson attempted to remove a billion plus in assets from the corp/trust without compensation.

 

Im off to find it...

[BerryLoMein]

London Saints Anyone?? LA Saints really doesn't roll of the tongue.

[LinvilleGorge]

Ill have to see if I can find it again but I read that the crux of the suit and the reason the courts are involved is not over some petty family squabble.

 

But rather that the sports franchises are held either by a corporation or trust and that Benson attempted to remove a billion plus in assets from the corp/trust without compensation.

 

Im off to find it...

 

[Jangler]

Does anyone else not find it extremely fuging alarming that courts can get involved in what happens with your personal assets?  Mr. Benson decided to leave the Saints and Pelicans in the hands of his wife instead of his daughter's upon his passing.  Tough luck for the daughter, right?  Nope!  Daughter sues and now the courts are involved and who knows what will happen now with these court appointed "receivers".

 

I don't give a rat's ass about the Saints, but just speaking as a citizen of this country, that is some seriously fuged up poo.

 

 

occupy bourbon street now!