George's new team offers him a chance to rebuild his career source: indystar.com Larry Curry has returned to Indy-car racing 70 pounds lighter and six inches thinner around the waist. His hair has been artificially lightened, his face tanned by the sun. Whether the leader of Tony George's new Indy Racing League team is actually a changed man will be judged over time. In 2001, Curry and a California man were convicted of defrauding Team Menard, an Indianapolis-based Indy-car team, of nearly $900,000 over a three-year period. As senior manager of the championship-winning operation, Curry allowed team owner John Menard to pay false invoices for parts and services not delivered. Curry and William B. Felts of Source One Engineering then split the profits. Both men went to prison. Curry spent most of his 26 months in a minimum security facility in Jesup, Ga., but he was exposed to the federal penitentiaries in Atlanta and Talladega, Ala., as well. "I deserved to be punished," Curry said, "and I took my punishment like a man." Curry was transferred to a halfway house in August 2003 and released two months later. Through the fall of 2006 he is required to follow a supervised release program that includes monthly meetings with a court-appointed officer. Curry and Felts still owe Menard approximately $500,000, according to Curry's attorney, Jim Voyles, who said the two men will end up paying about $1.5 million before restitution is met. The complete story at indystar.com
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