Michael Vick to Work at Boys & Girls Clubs

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Suspended NFL star Michael Vick is leaving his job with a Virginia construction company to go and work with children at Boys & Girls Clubs.

Steven Kast, CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Virginia Peninsula, says Vick will be working with children on health and fitness activities at several clubs in the Hampton Roads area. Vick was a regular at the Boys & Girls Club in Newport News as a youngster.

“We were disappointed by some of his recent actions and decisions but believe he has learned from these experiences and is now conscious of his obligations and responsibilities as a prominent sports figure that impacts and influences our kids,” Kast said in a written statement.

Vick needed a job to meet the conditions of his probation and had been working as a $10-an-hour laborer.

Vick’s lawyers were in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Norfolk on Tuesday. Attorney Paul Campsen outlined the highlights of Vick’s revised bankruptcy plan, which was still being drafted, at a status hearing. Campsen assured U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Frank J. Santoro that he will have no trouble filing the document by Thursday’s deadline.

Santoro in April rejected Vick’s first Chapter 11 plan, saying it was not feasible. Among his concerns was that the plan depended heavily on Vick returning to the NFL and that Vick was trying to hang on to too many assets. His first bankruptcy plan would have allowed him to keep the first $750,000 of his annual salary, and Vick also intended to keep two houses and several cars.

The revised bankruptcy plan would funnel more of Vick’s future pay to his creditors and ensure that they receive a portion of his earnings even if he doesn’t return to the league.

Under the new plan, 10 percent of the first $750,000 Vick earns would go to creditors, and he’s agreed to liquidate a house under construction in Virginia. If Vick doesn’t return to the NFL, the new plan would give creditors a portion of whatever he earns from a lower-paying job.

His prospects for playing again in the NFL rest with league commissioner Roger Goodell, who has said he will review the matter after Vick completes his 23-month federal sentence for operating a dogfighting ring.

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