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Records show high legal bills for UNC during scandal
Published: 2012-07-11 18:22:00
Updated: 2012-07-12 06:02:00
Updated at 6:02 a.m.
Chapel Hill, N.C. ? The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill spent nearly $67,000 in legal services and fees in a three-month span in 2010 while dealing with the fallout of NCAA violations and an academic scandal, according to a 208-page release Wednesday.
The heavily redacted documents also shed some light on some of the academic improprieties that were going on between members of the football team and an unnamed tutor.
In one email exchange, an unidentified student-athlete reaches out to a tutor saying, ?Please help. I?m going down,? with a two-and-a-half page, single-spaced paper attached.
A response to the email shortly thereafter reads, ?I looked over your paper, and expanded it in a lot of areas!!! You are now at 8 ? pages!!!?
In a Statement of Facts compiled by the university, the student-athlete said he worked with the unnamed tutor ?approximately 20-25 times? including getting assistance on 10 to 12 papers even though he was only questioned on two of them.
In a deposition on Sept. 8, Amy Herman, associate athletic director for compliance at UNC, said that it was a search of select football players' email accounts in the summer of 2010 that led them to suspect academic problems on the team.
In a June 2, 2011, notice of allegations sent out by the NCAA, former football player Michael McAdoo was declared ineligible for receiving improper assistance from tutor Jennifer Wiley "on multiple assignments across several academic terms." McAdoo was later found to have heavily plagiarized at least one paper while at UNC.
McAdoo has since moved on to the NFL, but he is appealing the November dismissal of his lawsuit that seeks damages after he was ruled ineligible for his senior season.
According to the documents released Wednesday, UNC filed nearly a dozen Requested Reinstatement forms to the NCAA as a result of unethical conduct, extra benefit and preferential treatment violations in regards to academic improprieties.
The most recent documents were made public in response to a public records request made by multiple media outlets, including Capitol Broadcasting Co., the parent company of WRALSportsFan They are only a portion of the requested documents leading up to a July 19 hearing on a joint lawsuit that lists former athletics director Dick Baddour, former head football coach Butch Davis, Chancellor Holden Thorp and Director of Public Safety Jeff McCracken as defendants.
The lawsuit still seeks communications between the law firm and the university, as well as recordings in their possession, an unredacted copy of UNC?s submission to the NCAA sent in September and records of Davis? personal phone that was used for university business.
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RE: Records show high legal bills for UNC during scandal
8 pages of comments and still no chapelthrill2012RE: Records show high legal bills for UNC during scandal
This is the biggest scandal in the history of college sports.?
- Posted by packfan07Biggest scandal? Really? Really?
Sandusky??
- Posted by unc70
SO... that's unc CHeat's Talking Point.... At least nobody got raped!
RE: Records show high legal bills for UNC during scandal
Why are some of the UNC Law School graduates not doing some pro bono work here to relieve the tax payer of some of this bill??
- Posted by rec1646
Conflict of interest?
RE: Records show high legal bills for UNC during scandal
Why are some of the UNC Law School graduates not doing some pro bono work here to relieve the tax payer of some of this bill?RE: Records show high legal bills for UNC during scandal
They received a lot of free legal help if the bill was only 67k. There is a complete lack of integrity on behalf of UNC in their investigation and reporting of these activities and in the conducting of scam ficticious classes with phantom professors giving ATHLETES credit for doing no or virtually no work. This cast a shadow on all athletic accomplishments of the university, basketball, football and any other sport whose athletes took part in these scam classes.
Source: http://www.wralsportsfan.com/unc/story/11306188/
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