Ex-Giant Pete Hall, 85, sentenced to five years in prison
Clyde Hall played in 1961 for the New York Giants after a college football career at Marquette.
Hall, who had two receptions for 22 yards in his NFL career, is now 85. He turned that age on Feb. 28.
Hall was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for trying to sell fentanyl-laced drugs to an undercover cop in 2021.
Clyde “Peter” Hall, 85, was sentenced to a minimum of five years in prison Monday by Manhattan Federal Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil after he took a plea deal last year admitting to slinging the drugs while he was out on “compassionate release” in a financial fraud case.
Hall has spent much of his post-football career in trouble with the law. Per his Wikipedia page:
He was arrested in 2010 for investment fraud after stealing more than four million dollars from investors, and his wife was arrested along with him for the scheme. He spent over a decade defrauding people. Hall had defrauded investors with fake letters from big banks, stole $80,000 from an ex-wife, and filed phony bankruptcy claims. For this crime, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
He was also arrested in the past for wire fraud and other offenses. Hall was released from prison into home confinement due to the pandemic, and while in home confinement he arranged for a cocaine deal with undercover agents and was arrested once again in his apartment in April 2021.
The buyer was an informant working with the Drug Enforcement Administration, prosecutors have said.
His attorney, Jason Goldman, offered a strange sentiment after the plea deal for Hall, who has been locked up since his arrest.
“The Court today saw Mr. Hall for who he truly is, an 85-year-old man who deserves to spend his final years surrounded by family, not prison walls,” Goldman said. “We are grateful that the absolute minimum sentence was handed down.”
