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re: As The Plains Burn II: FBI arrests Auburn's Assist basketball coach
Posted on 9/26/17 at 12:29 pm to LanierSpots
Posted on 9/26/17 at 12:29 pm to LanierSpots
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I believe this as well.
I'm not sure there will be much more, or at least not much more right now.
This was a sting operation where the feds flipped the bagman and just sat back and let him work for a long time. If they'd found more people to charge, they would have done so today because they've now shown their hand.
With the cat out of the bag, there will be a slew of subpoenas and search warrants for financial records that might (probably will) bring more people in but going through those and putting the pieces together will take a lot of time.
From the NCAA side, who the heck knows. The FBI isn't going to be turning over their investigative files, so the NCAA will have to develop info on their own or wait for the trials/plea deals.
One thing's for sure. Every compliance department in D1 basketball is going to be working this weekend.
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Posted on 9/26/17 at 12:31 pm to Pigfeet
Here is a cliffs notes version of the pertinent info in the complaint:
Confidential Witness 1 (CW1) = money manager that services professional athletes and who plead guilty in Sept. '17 to securities fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and making false statements. He began working as a witness for the FBI in November '14.
Rashan Michel = co-defendant with Person, runs a bespkoe suit company in Atlanta and previously worked as an NBA and college ref.
Chuck Person = defendant, AU assistant coach, former AU and NBA player, and former NBA assistant coach
What allegedly happened?
CW1 was introduced to Michel through a mutual friend who is a sports agent. CW1 told the sports agent he was willing to pay to get players steered to him.
In September '16, CW1 and Michel have phone call about coaches who would take payments to steer players to CW1. Michel says there is a coach that needs a $60k loan and would steer players to him.
On November 29, 2016, Person meet with CW1 and Michel about the bribery scheme. Person told CW1 that AU had the 9th ranked player coming to AU and nobody knew yet that he would begin playing at AU in January.
After the meeting, Person was paid $5000 in cash and then sent a text message regarding another $5000 to be wired.
On December 12th, Person and Player 1 met with CW1 who Person introduced as a financial advisor. P1 told CW1 that whatever Person "was good with, I'm good with, I trust him 100 percent"
Person told P1 not to discuss the meeting with anyone (including sisters and teammates) other than his mother and step father.
During this meeting, outside the presence of P1, Person was given $15k.
December 17, Person tells P1's mother that he has talked to a bunch of nba people and P1 will go 1st round in the next draft. Invites P1's mother to meet a financial advisor at Person's house. Lied to P1's mother saying CW1 was a financial advisor to Person and Charles Barkley. Person also claimed Person wasn't benefiting in any way from this.
Person told P1's mother no one could know about it.
P1's mother and step father met with Person and CW1 and were told he was a financial advisor and he would invest P1's money when he made the nba in June. Until then, CW1 would give them a few thousand dollars each month. CW1 gave them $1000 that day.
On December 27th, Person received another 10k from CW1 and on Jan 12th he received another 11.5k.
In January Person sets up Mother 2 of Player 2 with CW1 and tells her CW1 will make payments to her now, but that since he was an advisor and not an agent, it wasn't illegal.
Person ultimately received $91,500 from CW1 and allegedly gave 11k of that to P1's mother and $7500 to Player 2's mother.
Confidential Witness 1 (CW1) = money manager that services professional athletes and who plead guilty in Sept. '17 to securities fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and making false statements. He began working as a witness for the FBI in November '14.
Rashan Michel = co-defendant with Person, runs a bespkoe suit company in Atlanta and previously worked as an NBA and college ref.
Chuck Person = defendant, AU assistant coach, former AU and NBA player, and former NBA assistant coach
What allegedly happened?
CW1 was introduced to Michel through a mutual friend who is a sports agent. CW1 told the sports agent he was willing to pay to get players steered to him.
In September '16, CW1 and Michel have phone call about coaches who would take payments to steer players to CW1. Michel says there is a coach that needs a $60k loan and would steer players to him.
On November 29, 2016, Person meet with CW1 and Michel about the bribery scheme. Person told CW1 that AU had the 9th ranked player coming to AU and nobody knew yet that he would begin playing at AU in January.
After the meeting, Person was paid $5000 in cash and then sent a text message regarding another $5000 to be wired.
On December 12th, Person and Player 1 met with CW1 who Person introduced as a financial advisor. P1 told CW1 that whatever Person "was good with, I'm good with, I trust him 100 percent"
Person told P1 not to discuss the meeting with anyone (including sisters and teammates) other than his mother and step father.
During this meeting, outside the presence of P1, Person was given $15k.
December 17, Person tells P1's mother that he has talked to a bunch of nba people and P1 will go 1st round in the next draft. Invites P1's mother to meet a financial advisor at Person's house. Lied to P1's mother saying CW1 was a financial advisor to Person and Charles Barkley. Person also claimed Person wasn't benefiting in any way from this.
Person told P1's mother no one could know about it.
P1's mother and step father met with Person and CW1 and were told he was a financial advisor and he would invest P1's money when he made the nba in June. Until then, CW1 would give them a few thousand dollars each month. CW1 gave them $1000 that day.
On December 27th, Person received another 10k from CW1 and on Jan 12th he received another 11.5k.
In January Person sets up Mother 2 of Player 2 with CW1 and tells her CW1 will make payments to her now, but that since he was an advisor and not an agent, it wasn't illegal.
Person ultimately received $91,500 from CW1 and allegedly gave 11k of that to P1's mother and $7500 to Player 2's mother.
This post was edited on 9/26/17 at 5:14 pm
Posted on 9/26/17 at 12:32 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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REC doin' work
These frickers are relentless
This post was edited on 9/26/17 at 12:32 pm
Posted on 9/26/17 at 12:34 pm to JustGetItRight
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Every compliance department in D1 basketball is going to be working this weekend.
You know that every HC and assistant coach in P5 D1 will be questioned by their AD in the next few days about this just to be safe.
Posted on 9/26/17 at 12:36 pm to PearlJam
Appreciate the cliffs. 
Posted on 9/26/17 at 12:37 pm to Pigfeet
So what's going on in this thread? Auburn up to no good?
Posted on 9/26/17 at 12:38 pm to cyde
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So what's going on in this thread? Auburn up to no good?
I mean, the cliffs are literally a couple posts above this.
Posted on 9/26/17 at 12:42 pm to cyde
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So what's going on in this thread? Auburn up to no good?
we out there hustlin
Posted on 9/26/17 at 12:50 pm to skirpnasty
quote:I am not even going to pretend that I know how this sleazy business works. Part of the reason I don't really care for CBB until March. Our girls are fun to watch, though. Plus, I like Vic.
He signed with us and then, from what I remember, his only potential transfer destinations were adidas schools. Not hard to connect the dots there. We 100% have guys on our roster that we signed because of Adidas.
Posted on 9/26/17 at 12:57 pm to Pigfeet
Quote from an Auburn beat writer:
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BrandonMarcello
This is just as bad for Auburn's basketball program. Two players' families involved in scheme, allegedly. Wiretaps. Video evidence. It's bad. Very bad.
I'm sorry, Auburn fans. You don't deserve this.
Posted on 9/26/17 at 12:57 pm to Bankshot
you know that every assistant coach's butt just tightened a little bit.
Posted on 9/26/17 at 12:58 pm to Bankshot
you know that every assistant coach's butt just tightened a little bit.
Posted on 9/26/17 at 12:59 pm to Tuscaloosa
FWIW
Marcello is not sorry, and thinks AU fans deserve this
Marcello is not sorry, and thinks AU fans deserve this
Posted on 9/26/17 at 1:00 pm to Tuscaloosa
What sucks is Auburn wasn't buying players. One of our fricking coaches was working for a sports agent.
Posted on 9/26/17 at 1:01 pm to MrAUTigers
Got about 70k for a few phone calls and a couple of meetings over about 2 months time.
Posted on 9/26/17 at 1:01 pm to MrAUTigers
Yeah, at least for time being, I don't think you can reasonably say we were cheating
Cheating for what? The benefit of some third party?
Cheating for what? The benefit of some third party?
Posted on 9/26/17 at 1:03 pm to PearlJam
I want to know what the frick he needed $60k for that couldn't be loan financed with a $17k+ a month salary.
Posted on 9/26/17 at 1:06 pm to NorthGwinnettTiger
Reading that makes me wonder if he had some gambling debt or something of the sort. Definitely shouldn't have been difficult to find a loan like that with his salary, even if he would have had to go through a 3rd party lending website or something.
Posted on 9/26/17 at 1:06 pm to Pettifogger
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Yeah, at least for time being, I don't think you can reasonably say we were cheating
Cheating for what? The benefit of some third party?
Agreed. Unless there's more, you (through Person as an agent of the program) broke the rules but it wasn't the systemic, program-led cheating we've seen in other *ahem Ole Miss ahem* places.
Still probably looking at sanctions and maybe a postseason ban - which without the guys involved wasn't happening anyhow - but there's not going to be LOIC or any of the other really bad stuff.
Posted on 9/26/17 at 1:07 pm to JustGetItRight
quote:Without more, that is probably correct.
Still probably looking at sanctions and maybe a postseason ban - which without the guys involved wasn't happening anyhow - but there's not going to be LOIC or any of the other really bad stuff.
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