The Los Angeles Clubs team is regaining against allegations that the team and owner Steve Palmer are circumventing the American Professional League’s salary through a company now owned by Palmer.
Wednesday, Investigation journalist and former ESPN correspondent Pablo Toure said The Cleibers Kawahi Leonard star has signed a 28 million dollar support agreement with ASPIRATION, a sustainable financial services company, which will be paid over the past four years from 2022 to 2025. The company submitted bankruptcy in March 2025.
Tori’s investigation, on his podcast, “Pablo Toure, discovered”, stressed that Leonard did not rely publicly or even the aforementioned ambition.
The list of bankruptcy files from ASPIRATION, Leonard’s Company, KL2 Aspire LLC, as a creditor is still worth $ 7 million.
Tori was martyred in storing internal documents from ambition, indicating that Palmer invested $ 50 million in the company through the personal company LLC in September 2021.
Last month, Joseph Sanburg, the co -founder of students, agreed to acknowledge the fraud of investors and lenders in a plan of $ 248 million, According to the American Ministry of Justice.
In a statement by KTLA on Wednesday, Klibers denied any violations.
The team said: “Mr. Palmer or Clepers did not embody the salary ceiling or participate in any misconduct related to ambition. Any confirmation is a wrong.” “The team ended its relationship with ambition during the 2022-23 season, when the ambition was behind its obligations. Nor Clepers nor Mr. Palmer was aware of any inappropriate activity through the ambition or the co-founder even after the government put its achievement.”
The team added that Ballmer and Clippers are ready to fully cooperate with the application of the law.
Leonard, 34, joined Cleibers in 2019 after winning the American Professional League title with Toronto Raptors. In January 2024, the contract was extended for a period of $ 149.5 million to stay with the team during the 2026-27 season.
The American Professional League has not yet commented on the allegations or confirmed whether it will launch an official investigation.
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