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Albert Pujols prop betting odds were being offered up at Sportsbook.com following reports of alleged misconduct by his superagent Dan Lozano. (Where will Albert Pujols go odds here)
Deadspin.com reported on these alleged improprieties that included “whoring and harassment and a skeeviness in financial matters that goes beyond what's usual for the species”. They referred to the Lozano scandal as “Sleaze Mountain” with an accompanying photo that appears to the left of this article.
From Deadspin.com:
A plain manila envelope with no return address recently appeared on the desks of a number of media outlets, including ESPN.com, Sports Illustrated, Fox Sports, and Deadspin. Inside were names, documents, and photographs, all telling a story of Lozano's rise to power by any means necessary.
Some of those photos have been published on the Deadspin.com website.
Free agent first baseman Albert Pujols told the Post-Dispatch late Wednesday night that Dan Lozano will remain his agent and that he will not change representation in response to an online report that used unnamed sources to allege his agent was involved in sordid activities.
"I am absolutely staying with Danny as my agent," Pujols said when reached in Hawaii while on a family vacation. "And he will continue to negotiate my free agent contract. I am embarrassed for the people who are behind this. I want to make sure that people hear that."
The Deadspin.com extensive report also noted:
Lozano told USA Today that the allegations against him are the product of jealous agents whom he's beaten out for the biggest names in the game. That doesn't mean the claims are lies, or that they can't be verified by people familiar with his past. Among the people who were willing to discuss their experiences with Lozano, there was anger that he'd been able to get away with his tactics for so long without repercussions. But there was also pity and a sense that everything got away from Dan Lozano long ago, and the life he's living is no longer the one he wanted, but one that requires more lies to keep it going. For an agent, it's possible to keep up a life like that indefinitely—at least until somebody decides it's time to take you down.
Lozano has been Pujols' agent since 2000.
- Dan Shapiro, Gambling911.com
