SUSPENSION! The New York Giants have suspended Plaxico Burress! Plaxico Burress has been suspended for the entire 2008 season and playoffs. Plaxico Burress’ suspension was first broke by LALATE NEWS last weekend as a possibility for the Giants player. Since then Buress has been arrested on a felony gun charge and yesterday become the target of furor by Mayor Bloomberg.

Bloomberg has called for Burress to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

As recap, reports have indicated that Buress shot himself in the leg in New York hotspot nightclub, Latin Quarter, on a crowded night last weekend, with a gun concealed inside his pocket, in New York where Buress does not have a license to carry a concealed weapon. Yesterday, he was arrested by NYPD.

On Monday also, Bloomberg was critical of the Gaints’ handling of the matter after it occurred. Now today the Giants have fined and suspended Burress for the rest of the 2008 season.

Buress has also reportedly been put on “reserve non-football injury list”. That means he can’t appear in the playoffs either. As LALATE has been reporting to you all week, the NFL Power Rankings Week 14 puts the Giants in the number 1 position.

Burress now faces illegal weapons possession charge that reportedly carries a minimum penalty of 3 1/2 and as much as 15.

No comment by Burress nor agent, Drew Rosenhaus.

In other reports, Giants physican tells AP that the wound from the gun shot would have put out Buress as much as 6 weeks for the year even without the suspension.

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