Kiefer Sutherland caught up in alleged cattle-selling scam
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Time to circle the wagons. Kiefer Sutherland has been kicked in the financial teeth to the tune of $869,000 in an alleged cattle-investment operation gone awry, according to the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s office.
That’s a decent-sized dent, even for a guy who’s finishing out a $40-million, three-year contract on the hit show ’24.’
Through a financial adviser, Sutherland became involved with suspect Michael Wayne Carr, who allegedly promised to buy cattle in Mexico and resell them in the U.S. for a profit. Though the money was transferred, prosecutors said, there is no evidence any cattle buying or selling took place.
A New Mexico couple lost their $177,000 investment, a Colorado cattle mover lost $400,000 worth of livestock that had been in Carr’s care, and a man from Escalon, Calif., came forward to say that he’d loaned 54 cattle to Carr but had yet to get them back or get paid for them, prosecutors said.
Carr, a cattle manager and competitive steer-roping promoter, is expected to be arraigned Feb. 8 on 12 felony charges, among them multiple counts of grand theft, forgery, embezzlement, obtaining money by false pretenses and falsifying corporate books.
The TV-terrorist-tush kicker -- who in the ‘90s was involved with competitive roping -- has been ‘very friendly and helpful’ with the investigation, a prosecutor told People magazine. Good thing Jack Bauer is only a character, yes?
-- Christie D’Zurilla
P.S. If you’re a fan of Sutherland or of ‘24,’ you might enjoy this 2009 Men’s Vogue article we stumbled across while assembling this post. Nothing breaking-newsy, just a good read.
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