NHL goalie Robin Lehner ‘files for bankruptcy stemming from $1.2m SNAKE FARM purchase’

Knowledgeable hockey participant for the Las Vegas Golden Knights has filed for bankruptcy with liabilities of as much as $50million, along with his issues stemming from a $1.2million buy of unique snakes that went badly unsuitable.

Robin Lehner and his spouse Donya filed for bankruptcy on December 30, in response to a submitting within the District of Nevada, with the NHL and the Golden Knights listed as events within the case.

It has been widely reported that the 31-year-old Swedish goalie’s monetary points stem from his $1.2m buy of a set of unique snakes in 2017 from a person named Ben Renick.

A couple of months after the acquisition was accomplished, Renick – a world-renowned seller of the reptiles – was murdered by his spouse and her ex-boyfriend.

Robin Lehner has filed for bankruptcy after his buy of unique snakes went badly unsuitable

Lehner paid $1.2m for an unique assortment of snakes, earlier than the breeder he purchased them from was murdered by his spouse a number of months later. Above is a file picture of unique snakes.

Lehner’s spouse Donya (pictured with their daughter) can be listed within the bankruptcy submitting

KMIZ reported last January that Lehner made an preliminary $200,000 cost to Renick for the snakes, however after his demise stopped any additional transactions.

As reported by the New York Post, Lehner – who beforehand performed for the New York Islanders, the Buffalo Sabres and the Chicago Blackhawks – is the proprietor of RL Exotics LLC, which operates an unique reptile farm in Missouri with three staff on the books.

Lehner estimates the worth of his belongings at between $1m and $10m, whereas his hockey base wage this season is reported to be $6.5million.

The Gothenburg-born goaltender has been tormented by off-field points all through his profession, having beforehand frolicked at a drug rehabilitation clinic and spoken brazenly about his alcohol dependancy.

In 2018, he left a recreation with what was later revealed to be a panic assault, with the then 27-year-old writing within the Athletic that he was later recognized with bipolar dysfunction in addition to consideration deficit hyperactivity dysfunction and post-traumatic stress dysfunction. 

Ben Renick (pictured) was murdered by his spouse within the months after he bought snakes to Lehner

Lynlee Renick (above) is serving a 16-year jail sentence for the homicide of her husband Ben

The panic assault occurred within the midst of a lawsuit filed towards him after he stopped making funds for the snakes he had purchased the earlier 12 months.

Lehner then countersued in December of the identical 12 months, claiming that he took on thousands and thousands of {dollars} in prices taking good care of Renick’s reptiles, saying the snakes ‘started breeding amongst each other in an unsupervised, uncontrolled method’.

Lehner’s attorneys claimed that the breeding prompted the gathering of snakes to then lose worth.

In 2018, the snake vendor Renick was murdered by his spouse Lynlee, who was subsequently discovered responsible of the fees and sentenced to 16 years in jail.

Last week, Lynlee dropped her attraction of the conviction and her sentence, asking for voluntary dismissal from jail.

Lehner has had quite a few off-field points, and was recognized with bipolar dysfunction in 2018

Last week, Lynlee Renick dropped her attraction of the conviction and her jail sentence

In a case that gripped America till the choice was made on January 24, 2022, Lynlee Renick and her former boyfriend Michael Humphrey admitted they have been collectively within the breeding facility on the night time Ben Renick was murdered in New Florence, Missouri.

Humphrey was convicted of first-degree homicide in October 2021, however then went on to make a take care of the prosecution for a lesser cost in alternate for testifying towards Lynlee and main police to the homicide weapon.

The investigation lasted over two years, earlier than one other of Lynlee Renick’s former boyfriends informed police investigators that she had admitted to the homicide of her husband.