(Joshua Gunter/cleveland.com)
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Federal prosecutors want to garnish the pension of imprisoned former Cleveland Browns player Reggie Rucker receives from the NFL to pay back the money he embezzled from his nonviolence nonprofits.
The U.S. Attorney's Office wrote in a court filing last week that Rucker owes $110,482.02, the vast majority of the restitution a federal judge ordered him to pay, and that any earnings from the NFL should go to the nonprofits.
Prosecutors say this would include earnings on a pension, which Rucker's attorney confirmed he receives. It might also include money Rucker receives as part of a nearly $1 billion class-action settlement the NFL agreed to pay to football players who suffered concussions during their careers.