Craig Carton Arrested By FBI / Ticket Scam

I came from an addict home.. In my case, it was booze for both. I guess that was the choice in the 70/80s. I know my parents loved me. I now know, didn't know when I was a kid, they had a problem. Both gone from it. I truly believe its a disease and not a choice. I have no hard evidence of this aside from the fact I know they loved me. I can't begin to explain why they did it or why I accepted it my adult life before they passed. Therapy I guess? Carton with I believe 4 healthy kids and a good job raised over 1 or 2 mil in debt. I don't equate what he did to Madoff. If you put up that much debt, you obviously have a problem. I am naïve when it comes to this. How could any casino rack up this debt without cutting him off? That much money you won't recover without this happening. While I didn't like Carton as a sports guy, many people don't get the addiction part. It doesn't forgive what he did but I hope he gets serious help.
 
I came from an addict home.. In my case, it was booze for both. I guess that was the choice in the 70/80s. I know my parents loved me. I now know, didn't know when I was a kid, they had a problem. Both gone from it. I truly believe its a disease and not a choice. I have no hard evidence of this aside from the fact I know they loved me. I can't begin to explain why they did it or why I accepted it my adult life before they passed. Therapy I guess? Carton with I believe 4 healthy kids and a good job raised over 1 or 2 mil in debt. I don't equate what he did to Madoff. If you put up that much debt, you obviously have a problem. I am naïve when it comes to this. How could any casino rack up this debt without cutting him off? That much money you won't recover without this happening. While I didn't like Carton as a sports guy, many people don't get the addiction part. It doesn't forgive what he did but I hope he gets serious help.
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Appreciate you sharing your story
 
Aaaand it gets a little uglier
http://nypost.com/2017/09/07/cartons-do-nothing-charity-may-have-been-ponzi-scheme-tool/
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Thanks for sharing. If the allegations are true about the charity, Carton is not just an idiot, but also a class A asswipe.
Second point. This shows just how rigged the ticket sales experience is in sports and concerts. How one individual can purchase 500k in tickets at once is criminal. Or it should be criminal.
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What's worse than using the money from your charity for your own benefit? When you set up that charity to help those who are suffering from the same affliction that you do.
 
Aaaand it gets a little uglier
http://nypost.com/2017/09/07/cartons-do-nothing-charity-may-have-been-ponzi-scheme-tool/
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Thanks for sharing. If the allegations are true about the charity, Carton is not just an idiot, but also a class A asswipe.
Second point. This shows just how rigged the ticket sales experience is in sports and concerts. How one individual can purchase 500k in tickets at once is criminal. Or it should be criminal.
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What's worse than using the money from your charity for your own benefit? When you set up that charity to help those who are suffering from the same affliction that you do.
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No doubt that any sympathy Carton might have gotten continues to erode with each revelation such as this. A-Rod had a charity where he loaded up family and friends on its payroll and it barely made any charitable disbursements. I know a guy whose company runs charities for prominent people, and it avoids that type of misappropriation of funds.

Like many gambling addicts, he probably justified it by telling himself he would repay everybody once he scored big on a bet or two. Then again, he was probably so entrenched in the financial ruin to put himself in that he was just doing anything to stay one step ahead of his debtors, who don't take kindly to deadbeats.
 
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