A financial advisor working for Mike Tyson, Glen Rice & Dikembe Mutombo pleaded guilty Monday to embezzling more than $1 million from his clients, with prosecutors alleging he used the death of Tyson's daughter to hide some of his theft.
With a full-head of white hair, a tweed jacket and a healthy tan, 55-year-old Brian Ourand didn't explain why he did it, but admitted to using fraudulent checks, credit cards and illegal wire transfers to steal from four professional athletes between 2006 and 2011.
Federal prosecutors said if the case had gone to trial, they would have shown how Ourand embezzled more than a half-million from Rice alone by forging the former NBA All-Star's name on "almost 100 checks" made out to Ourand or simply "cash.