Boston Bruins Owner
But you can no longer call jeremy jacobs the owner of the boston bruins.
Boston bruins owner. Born january 21 1940 is an american billionaire businessman the owner of the boston bruins and chairman of delaware north. Jeremy maurice jacobs sr. The bruins and their fans should be ashamed of their owner. Brown purchased the boston bruins from weston adams.
The agency claims the team owes a total of 85 028 in back taxes as a result of taking a 100 deduction for those meals. Bruins owner jeremy jacobs has filed a petition in u s. In 1951 walter a. Jacobs is the owner of the boston bruins and chairman of delaware north one of the world s leading hospitality and food service companies.
Which makes what boston bruins owner jeremy jacobs announced on wednesday all the more infuriating. Today the bruins are worth 1 billion largely thanks to the passion of bruins fans who have remained devoted to the. The 1950s began with charles adams son weston who had been team president since 1936 facing financial trouble. Jacobs purchased the bruins and old boston garden for 10 million in 1975.
I have given it to my kids jacobs said. Brown the owner of the national basketball association s boston celtics and the garden in 1951. Tax court disputing the irs decision to limit his deduction of away game meals to 50 of the cost for the years 2009 and 2010. Forbes magazine ranks him as 481st richest person in the world.
He was forced to accept a buyout offer from walter a.