Don’t write bad checks to OSU
As reported by Bruce Cadwallader of The Columbus Dispatch, Robert E. Haines Jr. was sentenced to three years in prison after writing two bad checks to The Ohio State University for season football tickets in 2003 and 2004. He was also ordered to pay the grand sum of $18,205 in restitution.
What’s astounding is that Haines thought that he was just going to get probation after he pleaded guilty, last November.
“Your honor, I can’t do prison,” Haines said to Judge Michael J. Holbrook in the Franklin County Common Pleas courtroom.
According to Haines’ lawyer, Byron L. Potts of TV commercial fame, he’s broke, even though he did bring a check to cover a small part of the restitution that was order to court.
A check!? It better had been a certified or cashier’s check!
Supposedly he lives in a half-million dollar house on the Far North Side and earns more than $400,000 a year as a financial consultant and restaurant owner, and yet he’s broke. Haines also has health problems, which usually pop up when you facing jail time. Plus he’s has six more pending lawsuits, one of which has been filed by the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.
Clearly, the justice system does work sometimes. Kudos to Judge Holbrook. Any relation to Karen?
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