After the first day of his fraud trial on Aug. 30, Rumeal Robinson was chewing on a steak at a downtown Des Moines restaurant. Dressed in an olive suit, he wore a Seiko watch bearing the logo of his alma mater, the University of Michigan. Back in 1989, Robinson gave the Wolverines their only national basketball championship, nailing two free throws in the final seconds to edge Seton Hall by a point. While he never blossomed into a National Basketball Assn. star, the former first-round draft pick earned about $5 million during six years in the league and hundreds of thousands more playing overseas. Now, according to prosecutors, it's all gone-and as he ran through the money, they allege, Robinson committed 11 counts of financial fraud, including a kickback to his banker related to a failed real estate deal.
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