The Boots Del Biaggio era in the NHL is official over.
Predators owners complete purchase
Del Biaggio is currenlty in federal prison for, among other things, cutting and pasting his name onto someone else’s financial statements to inflate his personal wealth to the NHL. Yes, he cut and pasted his name to other people’s financial statements and thought he could get away with it. Pathological…
In case you have a short memory, William “Boots”, “cut and paste”, Del Biaggio was the chosen owner for an NHL franchise at Sprint Center. AEG said they had a deal with “cut and paste”. When “cut and paste” purchased an NHL team, he would locate it in Kansas City in the Sprint Center.
Sam Mellinger in a Kansas City Star column gave AEG a pass on this one saying it wasn’t their fault that Del Biaggio was a criminal-in-waiting. True.
However, as I said before, it is absolutely AEG’s responsibility to make sure that if they deal with speculative ownership group like this, they had better fully vet that owner. I would think a global company like AEG would be more careful about with whom they enter into business agreements. And, the last thing Kansas City needs is another ownership group like the one at Kauffman Stadium. What we need is more ownership groups like On Goal LLC.
