Million Dollar Check-Counterfeiting Ring and Olympians

It’s like a sequel to the ongoing saga of criminal mishaps that involves money laundering and Olympians.

Completely charismatic and bankable to boot, one time diva of American track and field, Marion Jones, who’s also making a comeback is linked to a $5 million check-counterfeiting ring that basically laundered money. This is connected to the money laundering scheme that indicted Tim Montgomery, who is also her former boyfriend, and her track coach Steve Riddick. Jones wasn’t charged even when she received a check worth $25,000. All three sprinters won Olympic gold medals.

It had to happen just when she’s off to a good start in her quest to regain her former elite status as a sprinter. Rotten timing. Jones is the only woman to win 5 medals in the same Olympics, the 2000 Sydney Olympics, to be precise.

Now I’m wondering if these three people just happen to stumble upon an opportunity to make a quick big buck or the group of people they were working with came up to them so that they can use their names Montogomery, Riddick and Jones as a front or as anything that may suit their criminal minds. It’s like people will trust them since they are, after all, Olympians, an honourable title that they chose to drag in the mud.

It’s sad, really.

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