CLEVELAND — Former National Football League wide receiver Reggie Rucker pleaded guilty in an Ohio federal court on Wednesday to diverting about $100,000 from anti-violence charities for personal use and to pay gambling debts, court records showed.
U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster, released the 68-old Rucker, who played in the NFL for 11 years and with the Cleveland Browns from 1975 to 1981, on $25,000 bond after a 23-minute hearing in a downtown Cleveland federal court.
Prosecutors last week charged Rucker with one count of wire fraud and one count of making false statements to the FBI when agents questioned him about his suspected diversion of charitable funds.