{"id":30591,"date":"2025-01-15T23:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T23:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/bo-jackson-gives-up-21m-judgment-in-extortion-suit-with-niece-and-nephew\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T23:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T23:29:20","slug":"bo-jackson-gives-up-21m-judgment-in-extortion-suit-with-niece-and-nephew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/bo-jackson-gives-up-21m-judgment-in-extortion-suit-with-niece-and-nephew\/","title":{"rendered":"Bo Jackson gives up $21m judgment in extortion suit with niece and nephew"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Former baseball and football star gives up $21m judgment<\/li>\n<li>Jackson, 62, said family tried to extort money from him<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former professional football and baseball player Bo Jackson is giving up a $21m judgment against his niece and nephew, whom he said harassed and tried to extort money from him.<\/p>\n<p>A judge in February ruled in Jackson\u2019s favor in the suit he had filed in April 2023 against Thomas Lee Anderson and Erica M Anderson, also known as Erica Anderson Ross. Jackson, a running back who won the Heisman Trophy at Auburn and also played in both the NFL and MLB, Jackson had alleged in his lawsuit that his relatives tried to extort $20m from him through harassment and intimidation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jan\/15\/bo-jackson-extortion-lawsuit-judgment-family\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former baseball and football star gives up $21m judgment Jackson, 62, said family tried to extort money from him Former professional football and baseball player Bo Jackson is giving up a $21m judgment against his niece and nephew, whom he said harassed and tried to extort money from him. A judge in February ruled in &#8230; <a title=\"Bo Jackson gives up $21m judgment in extortion suit with niece and nephew\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/bo-jackson-gives-up-21m-judgment-in-extortion-suit-with-niece-and-nephew\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bo Jackson gives up $21m judgment in extortion suit with niece and nephew\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}