Clinton Portis Scheduled To Go To Trial In September Over Casino Debt CaseBorgata Says Bankrupt Ex-NFL Star Still Has To Pay Back Markers |
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Former NFL running back Clinton Portis is slated for a one-day trial on Sept. 6 over a $170,000 debt owed to Atlantic City’s Borgata casino, Card Player has learned.
The case is before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Florida in Gainesville. Portis filed for bankruptcy in 2015 with total debts of about $5 million.
The Borgata, Atlantic City’s top grossing casino, extended gambling credit to Portis in early 2011, and in the applications for the markers he “made representations to the effect that he had no financial problems or debt,” according to court documents.
A handful of checks from Portis ended up bouncing.
The casino says that Portis “knew that the bad checks would not be honored by the bank as the account balance had already been depleted and/or [he] had planned to deplete the account prior to the time within which the bad checks would have been redeemed.”
Thanks to this, the casino is arguing that the former professional athlete can’t discharge the debt even though he went bankrupt.
“As a result of the fraudulent conduct and materially false representations made by defendant, Borgata asserts that its unsecured claim is non-dischargeable against defendant in an amount of one hundred seventy thousand dollars.”
Portis was extended $200,000 worth of credit to gamble with, and he has repaid only $30,000 of it thanks to six payments of $5,000. The 35-year-old also owes more than $200,000 to MGM Grand in Las Vegas. That case is still pending.
Portis made more than $43 million during his NFL career.
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