Larry Miller, today the Chairman of Nike’s Jordan Brand is Larry Miller. He worked for companies such as Kraft Foods, Campbell Soup, and the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers.

He kept it a secret all the time: At 16 years old, Miller pleaded guilty in 1965 to second-degree murder in Philadelphia. Miller was sentenced to four and a quarter years imprisonment. He was sentenced to another five years for several armed robberies.

Miller, who pleaded guilty to murder, was made public in Philadelphia Daily News. But nobody noticed him as he moved through corporate life. This was the case until October when Miller and Laila Lacy, his daughter, announced that they would be co-writing and publishing “a telling-all memoir.”Jump: My Secret Journey From the Streets to the Boardroom.”

The memoir published last month — and writing it was freeing, Miller told Sports IllustratedIt will be held in October. He said that, more importantly, it would prove previously incarcerated persons are capable and successful in rehabilitation.

Miller explained that “it’s about helping people to understand that former prisoners can still make a difference.” And that individual’s error, or their worst mistake in life should not control the outcome of what happens to the rest. [their] life.”

Miller now in his seventies,He also said that some of the smartest, most intelligent and creative people he had ever met were inside prison. He said that all their abilities and talents were being “wasteful inside jails.”

Miller was incarcerated and pursued an education with Pell grants that were available to prisoners. He was released on Sunday and enrolled in college. He arrived at college on Sunday. toldCNN reports that CNN said that this experience helped them believe they could change their lives.

He graduated Temple University in Temple at the same moment as his release. When he revealed his criminal history, he was just one interview away from landing a job at an accounting firm. He was denied the position and spent most of his life hiding the fact that he had been incarcerated.

Sports Illustrated was told by Miller that he had never lie on an application. However, he could often find loopholes. Miller stated that most applications asked him if he had been convicted within the past five years. He began to experience migraine headaches, and even nightmares as he became more wealthy.

CNN’s he said that there had been tension, fear and a constant worry about how this might happen. “It’s going be a disaster for everything I’ve worked so hard to get to this point.”

Sports Illustrated was told by Lacy that Lacy spent many years encouraging Miller’s writing. Miller stated that he discussed the book with close friends, as well as colleagues such as Phil Knight, Nike’s co-founder, and Michael Jordan, NBA legend.

Some controversy erupted ahead of publication: Miller’s family was shocked when Sports Illustrated published the name of Edward White, the victim.

Miller met White’s sister Barbara Mack in December and the two of their children Azizah Arline (Hasan Adams) and Azizah Arline (Zizah Arline). Mack and Adams told the New York TimesThey could forgive Miller. Arline claimed she required more time.

According to the Times, Miller in is discussions with the family to establish a scholarship foundation, funded in perpetuity, to help White’s descendants — and potentially others, too — attend college or trade school.

“If nothing else comes out of this book … the most important thing for me is to be able to know that in spite of the pain and hurt I caused their family, that they’re willing to forgive me,” Miller told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” last month.

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