Ex-Oilers owner pleads guilty, but says he's not

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http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=5227072

However, Pocklington told Global TV Edmonton on Wednesday that he was "not guilty of anything" and his indictment by a federal grand jury for allegedly concealing bank accounts was prompted by errors in his 2008 bankruptcy filing.

"Unfortunately, the lawyer I hired to do the original case is what caused all the problems," he said. "'He said, 'Sign here,' and I did, and unfortunately he left a multitude of things out."

Pocklington said he took the federal prosecutors' plea offer to avoid trial.

"Unfortunately the jury pool is not a jury of your peers; it's a jury of some of them unemployed, some of them that aren't particularly bright," he said. "And of course with press and so on, and in this country and Canada they seem to hate anyone that has been successful."[/Quote]

[Guest Lidstromboli]

"'He said, 'Sign here,' and I did,

hmmmm he sounds pretty bright doesn't he

[mjlegend 155]

hmmmm he sounds pretty bright doesn't he

To be fair, the entire body of players in the National Hockey league also did the same thing with every contract until Ted Lindsay.

I can't believe how totally jeal I am of Pocklington.

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From TSN:

Former Edmonton Oilers owner Peter Pocklington has been sentenced to six months of home detention for making false statements in his Southern California bankruptcy case.

Pocklington also was sentenced to two years of probation today in Riverside.

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