Cobb County…

 

Kaitlin Armstrong Ordered to Pay $15 Million to Moriah Wilson’s Family

 

Last November, Kaitlin Armstrong, was sentenced to a 90-year prison sentence for the murder of pro gravel racer Moriah “Mo” Wilson. Now, a judge has ordered Armstrong to pay the Wilson family $15 million in damages.

The order follows a wrongful death civil lawsuit filed by Karen and Eric Wilson, Moriah’s parents. Austin, Texas based news station KXAN reports that Judge Daniella DeSata Lyttle granted $5 million to each parent  for “mental anguish, including emotional pain, torment and suffering from the death of [their] daughter.”

Another $2.5 million each was granted to Wilson’s parents for exemplary damages, “in an amount which the court determines sufficient to deter the same or similar actions which gave rise to this suit by [Armstrong] in the future.”

Attorney Randy Howry, the Wilsons’ representative in the lawsuit, made a point to KXAN that this lawsuit was to ensure that Armstrong never benefits financially from this case and the attention that comes from it, be it from a future book, a movie deal, or otherwise.

“If there’s ever an opportunity for her to financially benefit from this crime, this judgment will prevent her from getting any of that money until my clients are properly compensated,” Howry said.

“As a family, we are broken, incomplete, and will forever suffer the void of her presence on this earth,” Karen Wilson wrote in an affidavit as part of the lawsuit. “The empty chair at the family dining table, where she once sat, haunts every holiday and family get-together.”

“Rather than looking forward to sharing in her life and successes, we are faced with an emptiness hard to describe,” wrote Eric Wilson in his own affidavit. “There will be no cycling career, no future wedding or grandkids, only thoughts of wishing things could be different, wondering why this happened, and how we are going to live through the remaining years of our lives with this emotional pain.”

1. GR grand fondo weekend…

2. This should be the state road race championship… just saying..

3. It’s rumored that Tanned guy is a liar

4. Tour of the Dairy lands isn’t a popular destination for most sceners..

5. Except Ritter and his kids..

6. Mthrfckr Corey got a new helmet 

7. I’d bet my next three paychecks that fucker still trains in that old smelly one though 

8. Congrats Dan Yankus…you now carry the cup of stink

9. Oh…and on hats off to ya…nice Lumber Jack top 5🤘

10. That runner guy put in a solid ride too…Fckn nice

11. The Fonz is returning for the month of July…hope you got your style dialed

12. Cross is coming..

13. So is my root canal…neither of which I’m excited for

14. Why are you such a Hater TMS?

15. Because…I’m TMS..

 

 Like someone’s something because it’s a cool thing to do 

 

Sir Bradley Wiggins has "lost absolutely everything and doesn't have a penny" after bankruptcy, reveals lawyer

 in a shocking turn of events that has left Britain's third-most decorated Olympian "embarrassed", Sir Bradley Wiggins, who was declared bankrupt last week, has been forced to sleep on the couches of friends and families and is basically homeless, after his lawyer revealed that he "has lost lost absolutely everything" and "doesn't have a penny".

News broke last weekend that Wiggins, who retired in 2016 after a glittering professional cycling career, becoming the first British rider to win the Tour de France and winning eight Olympic medals, five of them gold, was declared bankrupt. He could also be forced to sell all his trophies and medals — including his bespoke Tour trophy that he won in 2012.

The 44-year-old had been facing financial difficulties for the last few years. In 2020, his company Wiggins Rights Limited entered voluntary liquidation, with creditors including HM ­Revenue & Customs, who were owed over £300,000. 

In November last year, there were already reports that Wiggins was facing bankruptcy over unpaid debts totalling nearly £1 million, after documents filed at Companies House(link is external) by liquidators revealed that he was yet to repay any of the money he was said to have agreed to satisfy about to a loan made to him.

However, the news still came as a shock to many, with fans extending their sympathies and hoping for a bounce-back for Wiggins. Now, his lawyer's comments, reported by Daily Mail(link is external), have shone light on his compounded miseries that have come with his financial ordeals.

"In reality, Brad is sofa-surfing. He stays with friends and family. I don’t know where he stayed last night, I don’t know where he will stay tonight or tomorrow night. He doesn’t have an address... It is a total mess," said barrister Alan Sellers, head of sports law at Liverpool solicitors Bond Turner. 

"He has lost absolutely everything. His family home, his home in Majorca, his savings and investments. He doesn’t have a penny. It’s a very sad state of affairs."

Sellers added that the former Team Sky rider, who was an integral part of a squad that would begin the domination of world cycling for years to come, was left "embarrassed". He said: "I've said to Bradley that 'what you’ve achieved can never be taken away from you. Life will be better when you’re debt free. And you’ve still got the support of the public'."

Wiggins, who was reportedly worth £13million as recently as 2017, has a long list of varied creditors, ranging from HM Revenue and Customs to a 25-year-old former rider with Team Wiggins, the cycling outfit he set up to nurture young talent, who is claiming an unpaid sum of £583.

After the bankruptcy hearing at Lancaster County Court, Paul Rouse, head of client services at the accountancy firm Forvis Mazars had said that "a bankruptcy trustee will be appointed to seize and sell his assets, potentially including medals and trophies of his successful sporting past, as was the case with Boris Becker recently".

The Mail(link is external) also reports that it will be for the trustee Kevin Murphy to decide whether they must be sold off, with one sports memorabilia valuer claiming that his five gold medals alone could together fetch up to £250,000.

It seems that Sellers has confirmed that Wiggins doesn't hold a lot of adoration for his medals, seeing them as "meaningless junk". He had ‘smashed’ his BBC sports personality trophy – a silver-plated replica TV camera – and keeps his gold medals in a Co-op carrier bag.

Wiggins joins a long list of sports personalities, including the aforementioned tennis star Boris Becker and boxer Joe Louis, who have been let down on the financial side by their advisers and consultants, with Sellers saying that he has been hard done by their errors.

He said: "There seems to be this army of so-called advisers who quite frankly rip these people off. And they are so busy being sportsmen that when it comes to their financial affairs, they just get shafted. That’s what happened to Brad."

Rouse had similar thoughts after the hearing last week, saying: "Those involved in elite sport are often focussed solely on their primary goals of winning titles and striving for sporting excellence.

"Professionals will surround them to advise on the financial benefits that follow that success, and they would be wise to ensure that their chosen advisors are trustworthy, and that they are safeguarding their client’s long-term position."

By the time he won his final gold medal in Rio in 2016, he ranke only behind Sir Andy Murray and golfer Justin Rose as the highest-earning Briton in sport, with his off-bike affairs were being handled by Simon Fuller’s XIX agency, who also managed David Beckham and Lewis Hamilton.

They helped him start Team Wiggins, making him one of the few riders to head his own bike-racing stable, and fulfilling his ambition to help grassroots cyclists maximise their potential.

Since his retirement in 2016, however, he has spoken candidly of the pressures of coming to terms with fame, his struggles with depression and about the break-up of his marriage to his wife Cath, with whom he has two children, Ben and Bella.

A year ago, he also spoke out about the abuse he suffered as a child, calling it "borderline rape" and even let out the fact that he turned to cycling as a distraction. A few months later, he named Stan Knight, who died in 2003, as the coach who sexually abused him and other young riders.

He said that the coach would take him on training camps to a youth hostel in Dorset aged 12, sleep in the same bed and abuse him in the shower, accusations repeated in the account of another victim. He explained how the abuse would begin with "minor acts" presented under the pretence that Knight's actions were just to help with sporting performance.

In December 2020, not long after his company entered liquidation, a spokesperson said that Wiggins’s involvement in the business side of things was "not day to day," and that "this in no way affects Bradley's personal solvency."

As we reported in  the past, now Wiggins also risks losing the trademark rights to his own surname as well as his nickname ‘Wiggo’ which had been put up for sale by liquidators, while the supervisor of his Individual Voluntary Agreement (IVA), which the rider entered in 2020, had also issued him with a notice of breach of the terms of that agreement.

Wiggins had previously told Cycling Weekly(link is external) that his financial difficulties are "a very historical matter that involves professional negligence from [others] that has left a s*** pile with my name at the front of it to deal with". 

Sellers added: "We tried to keep all this hidden under wraps and resolve these issues, but it had gone too far."

 

 

 

Dam bro….you come to ride or watch Tic Toc…

 WTF is going on with Facebook marketplace….

 Sprinting from the hoods 

Sprinting from the flats......

 

 

 

 

 Never stop doing Rad Shit...

 Sunday nights after you lurked all your social media accounts and feel refreshed yours look much more interesting 

 I don’t care about my bad reputation 

 

 Ed and Dean are good dudes...

But man the creative minds are lazy in the Bicycle Industry

 when it comes to bike design..

strip those rigs of there decals and you couldn't tell them apart

 Those brake levers look a little too high 

 Don’t piss into the wind….

 

 

 What the end of the world looks like 

 

Something to think about..

You ever think about your life…?

Of course you do..

I do…You ever go god dam dude..you keep doing the same stuff..

eating the same meals..wearing the same  the same old brand of shoes..you get your hair cut the same way..

I only say these things and stumble through these ridiculous posts cuz it a reminder to T himself..change fool..do something different..stop dreaming about..stop talking about your friend, coworker..spouse that slag at the liquor was tired of you dance years ago..

I dunno man..

Sumthin to think about…or not