Some troubling details surrounding Adrian Peterson and his charity have been brought to light in an extensive Minneapolis Star Tribune investigation of the suspended running back.
Peterson’s future with the Minnesota Vikings has been in doubt following his indictment on a charge of recklessly or negligently injuring a child, and the Star Tribune’s lengthy report Monday reveals even more that will prompt additional questions.
According to the Star Tribune’s Monday report, a relative of Peterson’s used a credit card for the star’s charity — the All Day Foundation — to pay for an Eden Prairie, Minn., hotel room for an orgy back in 2011. The investigation uncovered a 38-page police report from the incident that chronicles “a night of drinking, arguing and sex that involved the running back, two relatives — including Peterson’s brother, a minor — and four women, in various pairs.”
One of the women filed the police report, but prosecutors declined to press charges.
The Star Tribune report also raised allegations about Peterson’s charity, which was shut down in September, and its financial records. The charity’s financial reports conflict with what the organizations actually received, as many of them denied receiving any funds at all from the All Day Foundation. In 2009, the All Day Foundation said it gave $70,000 to Straight From the Heart Ministries in Maryland, but the president of the organization told the Star-Tribune they never received that donation.
Among the number of other details about Peterson’s off-field life, the paper also uncovered that he has fathered “at least” six children by six different women.
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