{"id":1308661,"date":"2021-05-19T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1308661"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:49:00","slug":"a-former-nfl-stars-letter-asked-a-judge-to-go-easy-on-a-swindler-it-was-a-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1308661","title":{"rendered":"A former NFL star\u2019s letter asked a judge to go easy on a swindler. It was a fake."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two-page letter to Maurice Deberry&#8217;s judge made an emotional plea for leniency, and it cited an NFL background to elaborate on the importance of trust. \u201cI trust Maurice with \u2026 <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/local\/article251501508.html#storylink=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to Continue \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/local\/article251501508.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/local\/article251501508.html#storylink=rss\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"A former NFL star\u2019s letter asked a judge to go easy on a swindler. It was a fake.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlotte Observer Carolina Panthers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two-page letter to Maurice Deberry&#8217;s judge made an emotional plea for leniency, and it cited an NFL background to elaborate on the importance of trust&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-panthers","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-88-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1308661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903497,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308661\/revisions\/1903497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1308661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1308661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1308661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}