Update: Former 92.3 The Fan producer J.G. Spooner was sentenced this morning by Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Brian J. Corrigan to 30 months in prison for a variety of disgusting and sad scams.
Spooner first entered into the crime blotter in 2015 after setting up a GoFundMe account for a woman fighting cystic fibrosis. He stole the crowdsourced funds instead of turning them over to the victim and later blamed GoFundMe when questioned by the family about where the money went.
In the ensuing months and year, Spooner engaged in a series of other frauds, including listing an apartment for rent on Craigslist he neither owned nor was legally allowed to rent. He’d collect deposits from at least six victims. It should be noted that Spooner did this after coming under indictment for the GoFundMe scam and after the first rental scam victims got in touch with authorities.
The whole sad tale is best relayed in Cleveland.com’s coverage, which includes a capper indicative of exactly what brand of shitbag Spooner was to those around him even as he was dealing with charges.
While Spooner was committing that scam, a friend of Spooner’s family let him work at a West Park bar to make money. Within weeks, he stole blank checks from the bar and wrote himself more than $6,500 in fraudulent checks, Brydl said.In addition to the prison sentence, Spooner has been ordered to pay $16,000 in restitution to his victims.
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(Original story 12/28/16): J.G. Spooner, who this time managed to wear a shirt for his mugshot, is now facing a variety of new felony theft charges related to a scheme in which he placed Craigslist ads for a rental he did not own.
Spooner, if you’ll remember, has been in the news this year after facing and then pleading guilty to charges that he stole money from a GoFundMe campaign that was supposed to benefit a person with cystic fibrosis.
After his arrest in that case, the first details regarding his new scheme surfaced. Basically Spooner listed his place for rent even though he didn’t own it, and once he collected deposits, he kept the money. Those first victims weren’t alone. In fact, we got a note from someone who was victim to the same scam. There are now at least six victims.
Spooner is alleged to have collected about $6,000 in all, and at least some of that total after his scheme was pointed out in court documents and in media reports. Cleveland.com reports the grand jury filing indicates Spooner is cooperating with authorities. His arraignment is scheduled for January 6.
This article appears in Dec 28, 2016 – Jan 3, 2017.
TV news reports showed images of a house on West 158th, in Cleveland.
That’s three different dudes behaving badly…in the same month.
Why are all these sports-talk guys such assholes?
Chuckles the Clown
Dispicable human being. Throw the book at him.
Correction: Make that despicable. Never cared for this arrogant idiot on 92.3.
One has to wonder if he pulled any fundraising scams while on remote with the radio station……it would have been dealing with straight cash that could have easily been pocketed at the end of a gig. On the all-time despicable radio guy meter…..Spooner is battling with Jerry Shirley for the top spot.
Good bet says this is just the tip of the iceberg, as LakeErieSeaGulls points out in the above post. Talk about two losers from that shitty station: JG and Booms. Couldn’t stand those two on that morning show.
We finally have two successful and winning pro sports franchises in this town…three if you include the Cleveland Monsters. But sports-talk radio is so full of losers…gotta wonder why that is. I quit listening to all of them years ago. I’d rather listen to monkeys in a zoo…or silence…or my own thoughts.
It’s no co-inky-dink that there are so many bums on these shows. The pressure of ratings, the need to fill the airwaves with whatever bullshit comes into their cabezas, the jock-wannabe mentality they all seem to have, and the need to be outrageous and controversial. All of these things make them what they are.
But once they start acting out their outrageousness and assholery when they are away from their microphones, they’ve crossed the line.
Throw the book at these assoholics. Fine them. Fire them. Jail them.
Chuckles the Clown