Jailed quarterback to pay for care of seized pit bulls</p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> Suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has agreed to set aside close to $1 million to pay for the care of the 54 pit bulls seized from his dogfighting operation.</p> In court documents obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Billy Martin, one of Vick's attorneys, said Vick will deposit $928,073 on Friday into an escrow account controlled by Martin's Washington law firm.</p> The money is being set aside "to pay whatever restitution amount is ultimately ordered in this case," a court filing said, according to the Journal-Constitution.</p> In court papers filed last week, the government asked U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson to issue a restraining order that essentially would freeze the money to fulfill Vick's legal obligation to cover the costs of caring for the dogs and finding homes for them.</p> Vick faces a prison term of up to five years when he is sentenced Dec. 10 on a federal dogfighting conspiracy conviction. He voluntarily began serving his prison term on Nov. 19 in Warsaw, Va.</p> The pit bulls were confiscated from his Bad Newz Kennels property in Surry County.</p> On Tuesday, a judge scheduled for April 2 a jury trial on state dogfighting charges.</p> The dogfighting operation known as Bad Newz Kennels operated since 2001 on Vick's 15-acre spread in Surry County. A drug investigation of a Vick relative led authorities to the property, where they found more than 50 pit bulls and equipment commonly used in dogfighting.</p> </div></p>
He has "agreed" to do this in the same sense that the court "convinced" him to do it. Quite a spin that article has.</p>
$1,000,000/54 dogs = $18581.52.....</p> </p> $18k per dog? $18 freaking thousand dollars per dog? Now whos priorites are fucked up</p>
hahahaha, what loser. trying to clean his dirty concience!, this guy is laughable, he threw away his carreer for dog fights!</p>
