Michael Jordan being worth $2.2 billion means he’s got an incredible amount of people in his life who want something out of him. Picking who surround yourself with when you have that kind of wealth is of the utmost importance. Luckily for Jordan, his ever-evolving friends circle has always been tightknit.
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A lot of the people MJ has placed around himself are people who he befriended well before he reached this point in his life. Take for example George Koehler, the man who hilariously called himself Michael’s ‘personal slave’ on one occasion but in reality is a close friend of his and started off as his personal limo driver.
Another man who Jordan has known for decades on end now is Adolph Shiver. Shiver and the eventual 6x NBA champion met in North Carolina, where they grew up, while attending 7th grade together. Following their friendship in middle school, the two were inseparable.
Adolph Shiver was convicted of laundering vast amounts of money.
Shiver became a successful club promoter in North Carolina, with his Club935 being a hot-spot for artists to come and perform or debut their new music. However, in 2014, Shiver would have be faced with a variety of federal charges. He would be accused of both money laundering and tax fraud.
Shiver was reportedly caught on tape agreeing to launder $50,000 in drug money from a man who was well-known in the trafficking scene. According to Shiver, he didn’t know of the man’s background and history. He was also accused of filing a false tax return.
The man who Shiver was dealing with told him he could keep $5000-6000 of the money given to him but the remaining balance needed to be returned.
Michael Jordan never spoke out about this situation
Despite how close the two are with one another, or were at certain points in their lives, Michael Jordan never addressed this situation to the public. Rightfully so as Shiver did go down quite a strange path following MJ’s retirement as from 2004-06, he would fail to file his tax returns on income close to $150,000.
When it comes to him being convicted of money laundering from dealings he made in November 2013, his attorney, Jake Sussman, admitted that the dealings did take place. He would describe his client as a ‘hard-working businessman who made a mistake’.
