Troy Neel could run but he could not hide, 8 years later and $725,000 dollars in back child support.

A sentencing hearing was scheduled Friday for one of the state's most wanted child support evaders.

Former pro baseball player Troy Neel was arrested in December for not paying child support.

He owes more than $725,000 for more than eight years of missed payments.

Neel used to play baseball for the Oakland A's and professionally in Japan.

He's charged with fleeing the country to avoid paying.

He could serve up to two years in prison.

Now before you make comments about how it's too much money, you should look at the whole picture. When Neel and his wife divorced, he was a pro ball player who decided to leave the US and buy a resort in a country that had no extradition agreement with the US. coincidence? I don't think so ... plus that $725k number is not only the 8 years of non-payment on his end, but also the interest and court costs accrued while he was gone on permanent vacation. I think that it is a pile dung that the court will earn $10,000 dollars or more simply because the wife filed a claim... The child should benefit not the city!

Neel fleed to Vanuatu a small chain of islands located about 1,000 miles east of Australia. Neel's tropical resort is surrounded by white sandy beaches, features a restaurant overlooking a lagoon and has the country's only full-service spa, according to its Web site. ... he and his new wife lived and operated a 21 room resort on a 16 acre island, he hosted fishing tournaments and oh ... and he owns the flip pin' island too! for the 8 years he lived there, I'd bet he never saw his children. he was originally ordered to pay $5k a month for his 2 children, if he needed it modified to a smaller amount because he wasn't making the money he used to, then he could have petitioned the courts to do so and it would have been an easy process if he could prove he didn't make the money he had in the past.

Much of what Neel owes is from interest. The principal is more than $300,000, Assistant U.S. Attorney Bud Paulissen said.

Sustaita did not elaborate during the hearing over the amount he believes Neel owes. That is expected to be brought up during the sentencing hearing.

Neel is a Texas native who attended Texas A&M University. A San Antonio federal grand jury indicted him in 2005 on a charge of foreign travel to evade child support obligations. He was arrested at a Los Angeles airport in December as he got off a flight from Australia.

I honestly have no sympathy for a guy that refuse to not take care of his kids. Pay the mother if you don't do anything else, you may have beat the system, but you deserve everything that you are going to get!

Rashida Jones

What a name like Rashida Jones it would leave no definition in my mind that this was a black woman, although the closer that I look at her. Leaves me to believe that her mother liked Rashida!

Frank Hatley was just released from prison after he was jailed for not paying child support for a child that is not his:

Frank Hatley spent the past year in jail for being a deadbeat dad. But there’s one problem — Hatley doesn’t have any children. And, the “deadbeat” label doesn’t fit the 50-year-old either, his supporters say. After a hearing, Hatley was released from the Cook County Jail in south Georgia Wednesday afternoon, with the help of the Southern Center for Human Rights.

Superior Court Judge Dane Perkins ruled that Hatley was indigent and should not be jailed for not being able to make child support payments. Perkins postponed a decision on whether Hatley should have to make any more back payments on child-support for a child who is not his. In June of last year, a judge ordered Hatley to jail for failing to reimburse the state for public assistance that was paid to support his “son,” who, as the court was aware, is not actually his son.
The story dates back to 1986, when Hatley had a relationship with Essie Lee Morrison. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Morrison told Hatley that the child was his, but……the couple ended their relationship shortly after the boy’s birth, according to court documents. The couple never married and never lived together, the documents state.

When the boy turned 2, Morrison applied for public support for her son. Under Georgia law, the state can go after the non-custodial parent to recoup the assistance. For 13 years, Hatley made payments to the state until learning, in 2000, that the boy might not be his biological son. A DNA test

that year confirmed that there was no chance he was the father, according to court documents. Hatley returned to court and was relieved of any future child support reimbursement but was ordered to pay more than $16,000 that he had owed the state before the ruling.

Latesha Bradley, an attorney who represented Hatley in that hearing, told CNN the argument for keeping Hatley liable for the back payments was that he had signed a consent agreement with the office of child support services. The court agreed that Hatley had to comply with the consent agreement for the period that he believed the boy was his son.

Court documents show that Hatley for the most part continued to make payments. He was jailed for six months in 2006 for falling behind on payments during a period of unemployment, but afterward he resumed making payments and continued to do so even after he lost another job in 2008 and became homeless, court records state. Last year, he again became unable to maintain the payments and was once again jailed.

The circumstances of Hatley’s arrest didn’t feel right to many, including Cook County Sheriff Johnny Daughtrey. “I knew the gentleman’s plight and didn’t know how to help him,” Daughtrey told CNN. About two months ago, when attorneys from the Southern Center for Human Rights visited his jail, Daughtrey alerted them to Hatley’s case.

I really feel this guy got the shaft, but the amount of time that he established a relationship with the child became his enemy. The one thing that I think that should happen is that any woman found guilty committing fraud of this crime should be forced to repay all money that the man had to pay and if she refuse to pay lock her ass up! Deceiving someone to believe that he is the father is fraud and should be a crime! As a matter of fact it should be called the deception bill.

Katt Williams has filed for bankruptcy?

I learned from Bossip that Katt Williams has filed for bankruptcy.

According to the comedy magazine Humor Mill:

In the long list of controversies surrounding Katt Williams, it looks like this following news might be a serious set back; we just discovered from several sources that comedian and actor Williams has filed for bankruptcy.
Over the past several years, Katt Williams has been involved in several tours that have grossed over $50 million dollars and several months ago Katt turned down an offer from Comedy Central for over $50 million, not to mention his official retirement from doing stand up over the Christmas holidays.

This sure isn’t pimpin’ Katt. Hopefully, the talented brother gets his mind right and gets it together.

Nothing is more wastefull than a man to jack 5 or 10 million, but 50 million is crazy! If you have no clue, man hire somone that does...I am shocked that you would fall on the bad investment cart and have to file Bankruptcy...The smart millionaire buy and market their name. I sure hope that you did not get caught up in the entourage and was spending money like you were Bill Gates. Understand one thing, even if Bill spends 20 million he has 50 million coming in. Success comes in manys ways, the key is not to make a million and spend it, but to make a million and make it multiply. Every success sport figure, singer or actress all ways figure out one thing, they ride the wagon as far as they can take it and utilize it will they are doing it. Now while they are riding that wagon they are always making smart investments and utilizing their name to the best of their ability. Just to give you and ideal what I am speaking of Look at Nelly and Jay Z both own basketball teams and have clothing line and are always looking for opportunity to build their empires. The Rap game has been good to them but they figured that it will end one day and they made smart decisions to remain successful. Now I could go on ranting and raving about the stupidity of Bankruptcy but is all that really necessary? You made your mistake, so cowboy up and regroup and make it again! Just the next time don't make the same mistake twice.

What a waste that the oldest mom is dead at 69

World's Oldest' Mom Gave Birth at 66, Dead at 69.

A Spanish woman believed to have become the world's oldest new mother when she gave birth at age 66 has died, leaving behind twin toddlers, newspapers reported Tuesday.

Maria del Carmen Bousada, who reportedly died Saturday at age 69, gave birth in December 2006 as a single mother after getting in vitro fertilization treatment.

She told an interviewer she lied to a California fertility clinic about her age, and maintained that because her mother had lived to be 101, she had a good chance of living long enough to raise a child.

Bousada's death was reported by the newspaper El Mundo and Diario de Cadiz. Cadiz is the southern province where Bousada lived her whole life.

Diario de Cadiz quoted her brother, Ricardo Bousada, as confirming her death but refusing to disclose the cause. The newspaper said she had been diagnosed with a tumor shortly after giving birth.

There was no word on who would raise the children, named Pau and Christian. Bousada had once said she would look for a younger man to help her raise them.

In January 2007, she told the British tabloid News of the World that she sold her house to raise $59,000 to pay for the in vitro fertilization.

What a waste is exactly what I think of this situation that this woman would subject her children to this kind of ludicrous behavior. Hell she knew she was old when she first decided to have these kids, to make matters worse she knew that she would not probably live to see them grow up. Now their is a woman that is 70 wanting to have kids, what?

I think that there should be a limit that a woman should even consider having more children. Unfortunately the one that will suffer the most will be the children!

Akon why are you ducking child support?

Served Child Support Papers At Michael Jackson's Memorial?

Singer/producer Akon may be stacking millions of dollars, but according to reports, he is not sharing the wealth with one of his children. TMZ reported that the mother of one of Akon's children, has been trying to serve him child support papers but with no luck. The site also stated that she even went so far as to attempt to serve him during Michael Jackson's public memorial srevice, which he attended last week.

Akon what gives man, you don't want to pay? It is a sad day in bedrock when a man has millions of dollars and will not participate in taking care of his children. I feel so much pity for you as a man that will not take the responsibity of what you help to produce. I have learned that you need to take time to know the person that you go to bed with. You see that the kids are a product of both. If you have educated parents then you have educated children. If you have dumb parents then you may have dumb kids...
As a black man all you are doing is repeating the cycle that black familys seem to encounter, and that is the lack of a male figure in homes. If you have 5 kids by five different women, that means that there are 5 kids without a father in their home. Unfortunately I made the mistake of not taking the time to find the right person to have a family with, but I took on the responsibility of raising my children all by myself. Hey, it has not been easy but like your adventure as a solo artist, you know its not. Black men have such a negative stigma about who they are and what they stand for. We need to desperately work on changing this stigma that we created.This destructive behavor that the black man has exhibited as done nothing more than create pain in the black family.
It is docummented that a family that grows together stays together. Do me one favor brother find one that is right for you and keep her, when you do that you break the cycle of pain!

Texting teen falls in manhole, will sue

Just how foolish does this sound and open man hole uncovered and a texting teen falls in. Was this young lady so engrossed in her text message that she was not paying attention to the world still functioning? Unfortunately she did not ask to get to get hurt, but maybe, just maybe she will not make the same mistake again. Bus and subway crashed have been the main reason that they have made a law against texting while driving. Now how can one be so dumb? I think that it is a shame that the city employee has made such a careless error by leaving an open manhole with out a caution sign around.
The city can contest this all they want but they will eventually settle out of Court... How can I be so sure? Simply because if you are in a restaurant and fall on a wet floor that did not have any caution signs, you would have the opportunity to sue that business and win!
I hope the young texter learns her lession, but even if she didn't she will get to limp all the way to the bank...