Soon-To-Be-Former Minnesota Vikings RB Adrian Peterson is a Real Dirt Bag

The Minnesota Vikings were probably hoping to get Adrian Peterson back sooner rather than later, but in light of some recent reports it sounds like they should be thinking of cutting ties with him immediately.

If they don't the legal system might do it for them.

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Peterson is currently embroiled in a legal matter involving alleged child abuse that has popular opinion split about the running back. Many think it is within his right to discipline his children as he sees fit. Many more think using a switch on his four-year old in the manor he did was excessive and criminal.

How that legal matter is going to resolve remains to be seen, but chances are he is going to be thrown in to another one involving his charity, All Day Inc. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune there is some questionable financial activity.

Apparently the charity has reported making donations that the recipients know nothing about:

The charity’s 2011 financial report showed $247,064 in total revenue, and listed just three organizations that received money. A fourth outlay, entitled simply “clothing for needy families,” listed “unknown” for the number of recipients.

In 2009, the charity said its largest gift, $70,000, went to Straight From the Heart Ministries in Laurel, Md. But Donna Farley, president and founder of the Maryland organization, said it never received any money from Peterson’s foundation. “There have been no outside [contributions] other than people in my own circle,” said Farley. “Adrian Peterson — definitely not.”

The East Texas Food Bank, based in Tyler, said it received money from Peterson’s foundation in 2009, although the foundation’s tax filing for the year listed just one donation to a food bank — the North Texas Food Bank, based in Dallas.

Colleen Brinkmann, the chief philanthropy officer for the North Texas Food Bank, said that while her agency partnered with Dallas Cowboys players, she could not recall ever getting money from the All Day Foundation. “Was he with the Cowboys before?” she asked of Peterson. “I’m not a football fan.”

There are some that already question the Vikings for holding on to Peterson while the child abuse case unfolds, but now that there appears to be some potentially illegal activity involving his charity the call for him to be cut is probably going to get louder.

It will be hard for the Vikings to do since Peterson is one of the best running backs to ever play the game, but no one likes anyone that abuses children and steals from charity.

For now the word 'allegedly' is the only thing saving him, but should that word be dropped from his charges anytime soon he has to go.

[Minnesota Star Tribune]

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