UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, November 14, 1995
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Jury begins deliberations in boxing promoter's trial
Prosecutor tells court Don King's testimony was riddled with lies
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The jury in the insurance fraud trial of boxing promoter Don King began deliberations yesterday after lawyers finished closing arguments.
U. S. District Judge Lawrence McKenna instructed the jury on the law, then the jurors deliberated about an hour before going home.
Earlier, the judge took the unusual step of letting the defense provide a 15-minute response to the government's rebuttal. The prosecutor then was allowed five more minutes.
The additional arguments were permitted by McKenna because jurors were returning from a three-day holiday weekend, and the judge feared they were too far removed from last week's arguments to allow only a prosecutor to speak.
King, 64, who did not react to prosecutors throughout the six-week
trial, shook his head slowly several times to protest statements by Paul Gardephe, the assistant U.S. attorney. Gardephe said that King's testimony was riddled with lies.
"I submit to you his story made no sense," he said of King's three days on the witness stand. "He did not tell the truth."
The promoter had testified he had nothing to do with the filing of a fake contract that persuaded Lloyd's of London to pay King $350,000 to reimburse him for training expenses for a 1991 bout that was canceled.
The fight between Julio Cesar Chavez and Harold Brazier was scrapped after Chavez cut his face while training. Chavez testified he never saw the fake contract and never was given $350,000 for training fees.
King was charged last year with nine counts of wire fraud, a charge that carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count.
King's lawyer, Peter Fleming Jr., blamed the insurance fraud on Joseph Maffia, King's former accountant, and Richard Hummers, the former chief financial officer for
Don King Productions Inc.
Fleming told jurors yesterday that prosecutors seemed sensitive to the idea that Maffia and Hummers might have had something to do with the fraud case.
However, Gardephe said that Fleming's criticism of Maffa in particular was meant to distract jurors from the evidence.
The prosecutor said King was 'the only person here who has a motive, the only person who benefited from this crime.'
He called King a control freak when it came to money who would not let an insurance claim for a total of $750,000 proceed without his knowledge of the details.
Gardepe said that it was impossible for the jury to conclude that Mafia had tried to frame King even though the accountant was accused by King of stealing from the company shortly before the canceled bout.
The prosecutor noted the fake contract was made after Maffia left the company in the fall of 1991, and the accountant never mentioned the insurance in talks with prosecutors until an FBI agent asked about it.
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blocked shots as a senior at Pawnee Heights High School, towering over his competition.
"The biggest guy I saw was 6-foot-7, and he was a freshman and I was a senior. That wasn't near the talent that's here," Travis Williams said, adding that he was adjusting to going up against players that were taller and more talented than the ones he played against in high school. "It's not really intimidating. I look at it to be helpful and a learning experience."
After sitting out last season because he was academically ineligible, Travis Williams must now go another season without putting on the Kansas iersev.
"It'll be tough, but I'm just looking into the future at what's best for me," he said. "Both coach and I thought that I would be more physically and mentally ready next year. I could probably play this year, but for a couple personal reasons I felt I would be better off doing it."
After a high school career with little competition, Travis Williams may have had to make the biggest adjustment of all the newcomers to college basketball practices.
"The first part of this year has actually helped me out a lot from running and working on my game," he said.
"Last year gave me a little bit of time to work physically with weights. My physical game got better."
Making adjustments is nothing new to Williams. His high school coach, Russ Hake, said that Williams had to adjust to his height and people criticizing him for being so tall. Hake said that Williams was 6-10 by his sophomore year in high school and spent much of high school adjusting to being so tall.
Williams considered playing at a junior college to improve his skills but chose Kansas and an opportunity to play for a major college basketball program. Hake said. He said Williams had to decide to make a stronger commitment to basketball.
"I think Travis' biggest challenge right now is to keep after it academically as well as athletically," Hake said. "He can't afford not to succeed."
Williams is still adjusting. Sophomore forward Raef LaFrentz said that Williams had adjusted well to practice.
"Since the first day of practice until now, there has been a big margin of improvement," Lairrentz said. "He has trouble once in a while with the plays. He's getting a lot thrown on him — as are all the freshmen. He's just taking time to decipher them all out as it did me last year. He's doing fine. He just needs to relax a little bit and play his game, and he'll do all right."
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