# James Jordan Convicted? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-jordan-convicted/322491 "2005-09-20T04:01:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PanicZone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PanicZone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PanicZone)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-jordan-convicted/322491/1 "2005-09-20T04:01:37Z")
A friend told me that James Jordan, Michael Jordan’s late father, was once convicted of embezzlement. Is this true? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-jordan-convicted/322491/2 "2005-09-20T04:20:19Z")
According to the first paragraph of [this page:](http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id1635/pg3/): > [@](#): > > James Jordan wasn’t a saint, truth be told. He was found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison (which were suspended) for being a cog in a larger embezzlement scheme in 1985, and at the time of his death, he was the subject of several lawsuits concerning the unpaid bills of his clothing company, JVL Enterprises, Inc. ---
**Author:** ![PanicZone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PanicZone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PanicZone)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-jordan-convicted/322491/3 "2005-09-20T04:47:06Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > According to the first paragraph of [this page:](http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id1635/pg3/): That’s the only site I found, too. Other sites seem to plagiarize that one. I wonder whether it’s true.