Don King is, to put it mildly, a lowlife. Click here for his Wikipedia entry.
Mike Tyson said of his former manager: "(King is) a wretched, slimy, reptilian motherfucker. This is supposed to be my 'black brother,' right? He's just a bad man, a real bad man. He would kill his own mother for a dollar. He's ruthless, he's deplorable, he's greedy ... and he doesn't know how to love anybody." King settled a Tyson lawsuit out of court for $14 million.
Muhammad Ali sued King in 1982 for underpayment of $1.1 million for a fight with Larry Holmes. Holmes claimed King cheated him out of $10 million over the course of his career. King sued ESPN for $2.5 billion "... after a documentary alleged that King had 'killed, not once, but twice,' threatened to break Larry Holmes' legs, cheated Meldrick Taylor out of $1 million, and then threatened to have Taylor killed. The case was dismissed on summary judgment with a finding that King could not show 'actual malice' from the defendants."
A threat of murder from Don King is not something to be casually dismissed; he has killed two men, and he was convicted of second-degree murder for one of those killings.
"After dropping out of Kent State University, he ran an illegal bookmaking operation ... and was charged with killing two men in incidents 13 years apart. The first was determined to be justifiable homicide after it was found that King shot Hillary Brown in the back and killed him while he was attempting to rob one of King's gambling houses. King was convicted of second degree murder for the second killing in 1966 after he was found guilty of stomping to death an employee, Sam Garrett, who owed him $600. The judge reduced King's conviction to non-negligent manslaughter, for which King served just under four years in prison. King was later pardoned for the crime in 1983 ... with letters from Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, George Voinovich, Art Modell, and Gabe Paul, among others, being written in support of King."
A cabinet post, perhaps?
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