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The New York news media is all over this past week’s story regarding American Pharoah owner Ahmed Zayat allegedly owing offshore gambling companies over $2 million.
On Friday, the New York Post’s Richard Johnson became the latest to take a jab at Zayat.
Johnson doesn’t pull any punches when he writes that Zayat “is already a champion at spinning tall tales”.
The New Jersey resident, who gambles about $200,000 a week on horse races, claimed in a 2014 deposition that he went to Harvard even though The (Bergen) Record reported in 2013 it was a lie.
“This guy is completely full of spit,” one friend of a Zayat creditor told Johnson.
The Page Six columnist mentions a quote uttered by Zayat during Court depositions previously missed by Gambling911.com sources.
“I am not a crook!”
That famous line was once said by none other than impeached U.S. President Richard Nixon. We all know how that one turned out.
“I am not saying I am a saint. I am not saying that mistakes have not happened, errors of judgment,” Zayat told The Record. “Sometimes, as smart as I am, I am naive.”
Gambling911.com this week obtained a bizarre text message conversation presented in Court supposedly between Zayat and a man claiming to be owed the over $2 million by American Pharoah’s owner. Those messages suggest a close relationship between the two men at one time but in a subsequent deposition Zayat insists he only met the plaintiff on one occasion or “maybe twice” or “maybe more times”.
- Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com
