Former NFL star Fryar faces decision in fraud case - NBC Sports

Former NFL star Fryar faces decision in fraud case
August 9, 2014, 3:03 pm


Fryar faces a five-year sentence under a plea deal, and his mother, Allene McGhee, has been offered a three-year prison sentence, according to the state attorney general's office, which is prosecuting the case.




Authorities said Fryar and McGhee provided false wage information on her loan applications and claimed she earned thousands of dollars a month as an event coordinator for Fryar's church. Authorities said the pair made just a few payments on four of the loans, and those banks eventually wrote the loans off as losses, authorities said.

Fryar's lawyer, Michael Gilberti, didn't return a message seeking comment last week. But McGhee's lawyer, Mark Fury, was more than willing to offer his critique of the state's case.

According to Fury, McGhee got no money out of Barksdale's scam and she lost her house.

"She signed where he told him; she sent checks where he said," Fury said. "He sold her a house he owned, she moved in and she found out four years later that she was paying a mortgage on a different house he owned."


McGhee, 72, "hasn't had as much as a parking ticket," Fury said, and she likely would end up serving months in prison at most if she pleads guilty. But he hinted that even that would be unacceptable.

"This is not a `How long?' case," he said. "This is a `jail or no jail' case."


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