Funny, I’d always wondered how Greensboro ultramarathoner Charlie Engle financed his globe-trotting lifestyle. Turns how someone else did, too:
Engle didn’t know it at the time but it was his run across the Sahara that began his latest downfall.
IRS special agent Robert Nordlander testified that he began looking into Engle’s finances after reading a story about the ultramarathon across the desert and wondered how Engle could afford to pay for such an adventure.
Yesterday a jury convicted Engle of 12 counts of fraud, “finding that he bilked banks out of $150,000 to finance his athletic efforts.”
