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Judge slaps Vick with 23 months for dog fighting

December 11, 2007

RICHMOND, Va. - Michael Vick was sentenced to prison yesterday for running a dogfighting operation and will stay there longer than two co-defendants, up to 23 months, because he lied about his involvement when he was supposed to be coming clean to the judge who would decide his fate.

The disgraced NFL star received a harsher sentence than the others in the federal...

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