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Former Baylor basketball player guilty of trying to extort RGIII

Found September 29, 2012 on NFL Draft Zone: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Robert Griffin III
TEAMS: Washington Redskins
A former Baylor basketball player pleaded guilty Thursday to trying to extort $1 million from Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III by threatening to expose damaging information, prosecutors said. Richard Khamir Hurd, 26, pleaded guilty to one count of interstate communication of a threat related to extortion. He faces two to three years in prison when he’s sentenced Nov. 21. The U.S. attorney’s office said Hurd, a former walk-on basketball player at the school where Griffin won the Heisman Trophy, contacted one of Griffin’s agents in June with a demand of $1 million in order not to release information that would damage the quarterback’s reputation. According to an FBI affidavit, Hurd first gave the agent a deadline of June 18 but extended it to give the agent time to discuss the offer with others. Hurd is not the smartest man on the planet, he went as far to sit down with the agent and an FBI agent to sign a document to receive the money.  By the way, he put his real n...
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