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Vick finding loyalty showed to old friends hasn't been returned
Sunday, August 19, 2007 3:43 AM
By Selena Roberts
 Tom UhlmanAssociated Press
Surrounding himself with friends didn't keep Michael Vick from being caught up in a dogfighting furor.
The crooked circle Michael Vick drew around himself has tripped and squeezed him.
The first to fail Vick was Davon Boddie, a cousin and personal chef. His marijuana-possession charge in April led police to a white house with black buildings behind it on Moonlight Road in Surry County, Va.
The first to flip on Vick was Tony Taylor, a fast friend from Newport News, Va., with an arrest record for drug trafficking and a traffic record for reckless driving. He pleaded guilty last month in the macabre dogfighting case that has consumed the NFL.
The latest to betray Vick is Quanis Phillips, a friend since middle school. Along with Purnell Peace, Phillips, who once served jail time on a drug charge, accepted a plea deal Friday and implicated Vick as the owner and operator of a dogfighting ring. Vick was Phillips' sole breadwinner. "At certain times," a court summary of facts stated, "Phillips used a large portion of his money for living
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