Ex-Con Advised Cowboys on Practice Structure That Collapsed
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The Dallas Cowboys used advice from an ex-con who falsified his educational credentials to make major structural reinforcements to a collapsed practice facility.
The Dallas Morning News reports that the consultant, Jeffrey Lawrence Galland, was engineering director of a Las Vegas company called JCI even though he had no engineering license.
Galland, 42, said JCI president Scott Jacobs, who is a licensed engineer, supervised his Cowboys work.
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The Cowboys declined to comment.
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Galland was arrested in 1994 after breaking into a home and pointing a gun at a woman in Great Falls, Mont., police there said. Charges included burglary and assault.
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The tentlike practice facility came crashing down in fierce winds May 2, permanently paralyzing scouting assistant Rich Behm.