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Famous as :
Basketball playerBirth Name :
Earvin JohnsonBirth Date :
August 14, 1959Birth Place :
Lansing, Michigan, USASpouse :
Melissa Mitchell, Earlitha "Cookie" Kelly (since 14-Sep-91)Claim to fame :
Point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers
Magic Johnson Testifies in Fraud Trial
April 16, 2005 10:04:50Retired basketball star Magic Johnson has been called to testify against the president of a speakers agency, Alan Walker, who allegedly cheated him out of $30,000. Johnson was the latest celebrity to take the stand in federal court in White Plains against Walker, who is accused of 68 counts of fraud for failing to pay the people he booked through his Program Corporation of America.
On court Friday April 15, 2005, Johnson testified that Walker's firm booked him to speak on November 19, 2002, at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Ill. He was paid $5,000 up front, with $30,000 more to come. Later the athlete realized that he's been cheated as he hadn't been paid, even though the booking firm had been paid by the university, instead of being given a variety of excuses.
