The Cowboys employ a 'fixer' who reportedly scammed Dez Bryant out of thousands - Washington Post
Get beyond the extraordinarily sad first part — which details how Bryant’s grandmother was a crack addict, how his mother merely sold crack, how his illiterate father was in his 40s when he impregnated his mother at 14, and how his father is also... With his family life in tatters, Bryant turned to someone he had met at an awards dinner the previous winter: “David Wells, a cousin of Texas Tech star Michael Crabtree, was presented to Bryant as an urban fixer, a wealthy former bail bondsman who... Wells had been the bodyguard for Michael Irvin, the Cowboys’ talented yet troubled wide receiver in the 1990s. He parlayed that into both a bail-bond business and further work for the Cowboys, who paid him to run background checks on players and,... Wells took in Bryant after his departure from Oklahoma State, paying for his clothes and a Chevy Tahoe without discussing any sort of repayment. Their relationship continued even after the Cowboys took Bryant with the 24th pick of the 2010 draft, with the wide receiver continuing to live with Wells. Here’s where the Bryant-Wells-Cowboys triangle began to splinter. Source: www.washingtonpost.com
