re: Were the FBI looking for bigger fish ???

This thread delivers and should be stickied. I am addicted to this story!

The FBI already has Cecils spending history. They're letting him hang himself, so he will roll over. If his credit cards suddenly got paid off, or bigger than normal monthly charges since Dec. Sucks to be the Newtons.

And a preacher whose church was on the demo list, was certainly running big credit card balances. blee dat

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The FBI is involved in this because they are conducting a giant investigation into NFL Agents. It has nothing to do with Auburn boosters.

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Link?

I remember someone put up a link to some ESPN interview, with Chris Low I believe, in which some journalist checked out the Newton's church, and it was in very shoddy condition. Then they went by the Newton's house unannounced. Once again, the house was in very shoddy condition. Then Cecil pulls up in what looks to be a $60,000 pickup truck. People in the past have gotten in trouble for financial crimes due to the fact that their vehicle was a cause for suspicion.

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Hell, they probably tapped his phone after hearing him talking to boosters on their taps.


We can thank President George W. Bush for the PATRIOT Act."

So Auburn may go down because of a few hanging chads?

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If you win over a certain amount the casino has to report winnings to the IRS. I'm not positive, but I think the winner has to fill out IRS paperwork when they collect their winnings.

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You are missing my point. If a big Auburn booster, Milton McGregor, owns a casino and you want to pay his father is it not possible for him to visit your casina and play a rigged machine?

Our last mayor in Birmingham, Larry Langford, was instrumental in McGregor getting the Birmingham Race Course (horse track) and that is where he set up some of his bingo machines. It has been reported that langford won approximately 1.5 million over the years in Uncle Milty's casino playing rigged bingo machines. but it is legal to win at bingo so what can you do?

If Cecil won the money in a casino is there anything that can be done about that? I don't think so.

Oh...and Mayor Langford is in a ederal Prison in Kentucky and Uncle Milty got indicted by the federal government in October of this year.

Wow. This thing has so many levels. I can't stop thinking about this story!

From the original link...

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Updated October 21, 2010

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Getty was indicted largely on the basis of intercepts of cell phone and land line conversations with those in the alleged pay-for-play scheme.

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The writer mentions this in passing as if it were a well known case. I know there has been message board chatter about Newton for several weeks, but most of this stuff just went public in the last two weeks. Any idea why he would've mentioned it like that?

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Now lets look at the attoney Auburn hired, I think his name was Mr. Gene Marsh and he is with the firm Lightfoot, Franklin & White in birmingham.

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Marsh has focused on collegiate sports work for the past twelve years. He served as the University of Alabama Faculty Athletics Representative to the Southeastern Conference and the NCAA from 1996 through 2003. He served as chair of the University Compliance Committee, the University Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics, and the NCAA Certification Committee and Self-Study Project. He was a member of the Alabama Athlete Agent Committee.

Marsh has extensive experience in the NCAA infractions process, having served as a member of the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions from 1999 through 2008. Marsh served as Chair of the Committee on Infractions from 2004 to 2006. He was also a member of the NCAA Business/Finance Cabinet and the NCAA Ad Hoc Committee on Financial Penalties and Forfeitures and currently serves on an NCAA subcommittee reviewing infractions penalties. He was a member of the Working Group of the Six Major Athletic Conferences and served on the Working Group Subcommittee on Incentive Clauses in Employment Contracts. Marsh has also served on several committees for the Southeastern Conference, including work on the Executive Committee, the Task Force on Compliance and Enforcement, and the Commissioner Search Advisory Committee.

Marsh has published two law review articles on NCAA investigations and the infractions process. He has made presentations for NCAA regional compliance seminars, the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, the Faculty Athletics Representative Fall Forum, the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, Street and Smith’s Intercollegiate Athletics Forum and the National Association for Athletics Compliance.

Marsh has been a member of the faculty of the University of Alabama School of Law since 1981. He currently teaches Contracts, Sports Law, Consumer Protection, and Corporate Finance in the School of Law. He was the Reporter in Alabama for the revisions of Articles 1, 3, 4, and 7 of the Uniform Commercial Code. He is the author of many commercial law publications and worked in numerous cases involving business organizations, consumer credit, and contracts. He has served as an arbitrator and mediator in consumer litigation and complex commercial cases.

He is married to Jenelle Mims Marsh, who is a graduate of Washington and Lee University School of Law and serves as Associate Dean for Students/Academic Services at the University of Alabama School of Law. They have two children.

There is a guy by the name of David Marsh in Birmingham that is thought of as one of the best attorney's in the state, I wonder if they are related?