All he does is win.
David Ortiz is in the midst of an amazing final season as the Boston Red Sox continue to make noise in the American League East. He recently scored a victory off the field, though, as a Middlesex County judge ordered a California jeweler and his family’s company to pay the Red Sox slugger more than $300,000 in damages in a lawsuit stemming from low-quality jewelry, according to The Boston Globe.
Ortiz filed the lawsuit in 2014, alleging the jeweler, Randy Hamida, sold him fake or low-quality jewelry for $127,000 in 2010 and then failed to refund the money when Big Papi discovered the issue.
Judge Maynard M. Kirpalani clearly agreed with Ortiz, writing in a four-page ruling Monday, according to The Globe, that Hamida made “false representations” to the three-time World Series champion about the jewelry’s quality in order to make him pay “amounts far in excess of their true value.”
According to the ruling, Hamida promised to return the $80,000 check and the gold necklace and bracelet that Ortiz paid in exchange for the jewelry the Boston designated hitter ultimately discovered to be of low quality. The jeweler never followed through on his promise, though.
It was not clear Tuesday when Hamida will have to make payments or if he plans to appeal the judge’s ruling, according to The Globe.
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