Ex-Auburn Staffer Arrested for Leaking Info to Opponents, Who Turned Him In

By Larry Leo•Sep 30, 20269:18 am•

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Football Scoop — A former Auburn football staffer is in jail this week on felony charges that he stole the program’s trade secrets and sent confidential recruiting information to competing schools — a development that landed four days before the Tigers visit Tennessee.?

David Rudolph Jenrath, 24, of Franklin, Tennessee, turned himself in to the Auburn Police Department on Monday, Sept. 28, and was booked into the Lee County Jail on $15,000 bond. He is charged with theft of trade secrets and computer tampering, both felonies.Police say the case originated from a report at the 300 block of South Donahue Drive, the address of the Auburn Athletics Department, that sensitive information had been taken and distributed to competitors. One of those competitors received the material and turned it back over to Auburn. Investigators identified Jenrath as the suspect and obtained warrants.? Charging documents allege that while employed by Auburn, Jenrath retained confidential athletics information and transmitted those trade secrets without consent. The computer-tampering charge accuses him of disclosing, using, controlling or taking computer programs and data “with the intent to harass Auburn University Athletics by disclosing trade secrets of Auburn University Athletics to their opponents.”