{"id":24172,"date":"2011-08-18T07:22:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T11:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=24172"},"modified":"2011-08-18T07:22:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T11:22:49","slug":"lawsuit-says-hicks-stole-millions-from-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2011\/lawsuit-says-hicks-stole-millions-from-rangers.html","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit says Hicks stole millions from Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph &#8211; Former Rangers owner Tom Hicks was sued Monday by the team&#8217;s post-bankruptcy administrator, who says the wealthy Dallas investor &#8220;stole&#8221; tens of millions from the major-league franchise to acquire what are now highly lucrative parking lots near Rangers Ballpark in Arlington and Cowboys Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Jacobs, the administrator charged with disbursing assets from the bankruptcy sale, also accused Hicks of forcing the Rangers to spend at least $18 million on parking lots and roads rather than fund deferred compensation for ballplayers, as required by Major League Baseball. In all, some $30.5 million was misdirected, the suit said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2011\/08\/15\/3292521\/lawsuit-says-hicks-stole-millions.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph &#8211; Former Rangers owner Tom Hicks was sued Monday by the team&#8217;s post-bankruptcy administrator, who says the wealthy Dallas investor &#8220;stole&#8221; tens of millions from the major-league franchise to acquire what are now highly lucrative parking lots near Rangers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24174,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24172\/revisions\/24174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}