Just got this private message from a guy who covers the PGA tour.....
I really like Phil. But he's an inveterate adrenaline junkie and has gone way too far. He was laundering million offshore for illegal bets placed overseas. He used insider info to make $1 million in the stock market, though the SEC could not prove it. He used that tainted money to pay off losses to the most notorious gambler in the U.S. Associating with gamblers and putting the PGA Tour in a bad light is against the tour regs. The SEC, FBI and IRS have done all the investigative work. One key guy was convicted yesterday in Los Angeles. Phil has to be benched, now. And it has to be announced, because what's the sense of punishing the guy if nobody knows about it? The tour has no credibility unless it takes a stand. Finchem hasn't even offered a public rebuke of the guy. It's freaking outrageous. In any other sport, Phil would have been sent to the bench long ago. The evidence has already been amassed. There's no need for the tour to look further or drag its feet.
I really like Phil. But he's an inveterate adrenaline junkie and has gone way too far. He was laundering million offshore for illegal bets placed overseas. He used insider info to make $1 million in the stock market, though the SEC could not prove it. He used that tainted money to pay off losses to the most notorious gambler in the U.S. Associating with gamblers and putting the PGA Tour in a bad light is against the tour regs. The SEC, FBI and IRS have done all the investigative work. One key guy was convicted yesterday in Los Angeles. Phil has to be benched, now. And it has to be announced, because what's the sense of punishing the guy if nobody knows about it? The tour has no credibility unless it takes a stand. Finchem hasn't even offered a public rebuke of the guy. It's freaking outrageous. In any other sport, Phil would have been sent to the bench long ago. The evidence has already been amassed. There's no need for the tour to look further or drag its feet.
