Cliff's Notes (kinda):
TD:
AU Board of Trustees is controlled by a bunch of good-old-boys, the most
powerful of which ran a large bank that was seized by the FDIC and is
now under FBI investigation for all sorts of misdeeds. Another BoT
member/booster owns a casino/dog track in the state. Several AU
BoT's/boosters were also on the board of the seized bank.
In the course of the FBI's investigation into improprieties at the bank,
their wiretaps recorded several AU BoT members/boosters discussing
pay-for-play schemes involving Newton and other members of the recent AU
recruiting class, which was remarkably improved over the previous
year's lackluster class. Schemes included slot machines rigged to pay
out big bucks to AU players, laundering booster money through the casino
and into player's hands, secret ATM cards from the bank in question,
and funneling money from the university's fundraising arm into the hands
of recruits and their families. AU recruiting coordinator Trooper
Taylor also heard on wiretap discussing pay-for-play and how much money
he needs to wrap up the recruiting class.
AU booster funnels $250k from a non-profit org. to Newton's uncle, who
sends it to Cecil. Cecil's church is suddenly repaired. Cecil owns a
small trucking company with just a couple drivers. After Cam signs,
business picks up to the point where over a dozen drivers are needed.
AU knows they are SOL, but instead of sitting Newton for the rest of the
year, they figure they'll try to win a MNC, SEC Champ., and Heisman
Trophy and deal with the consequences later. AU's President wanted to
sit Cam against UGA but was overruled by AD and boosters. AU was
threatened with loss of accreditation (academic equiv. of the death
penalty) earlier this decade, but was spared and given probation. The
SACS (accrediting body) is not going to spare them this time. So not
only is AU looking at a death penalty from the NCAA, they could also
very likely become unaccredited as an academic instritution, meaning
loss of all federal funds and obviously dismissal from the SEC.
also, from
http://forum.tidesports.com/<wbr>viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15506 Someone forwarded me a story out of Montgomery that, if true, really means Auburn and Newton are dirty. Here it is :
McGregor and 10 others are scheduled for arraignment Friday morning in
federal court in Montgomery on charges accusing them of buying and
selling votes on pro-gambling legislation.
The bigger picture here is that the Feds have been investigating Milton
McGregor (A major Auburn Booster and the owner of VictoryLand, which is
located just outside of Montgomery) for quite some time. The Feds are
investigating efforts to pass gambling legislation in Alabama and money
laundering schemes involving McGregor and other prominent Alabama
politicians and Auburn boosters.
The Feds have tape from wire taps made on McGregor and other prominent
Auburn boosters from their investigation. The Newton's were just
shopping their talent's to the wrong people at the wrong time and thus
there is hard evidence available that incriminates everyone involved.
It's only a matter of time that all of this information becomes public.
FBI found out about Cam before the NCAA did while wiretapping Milton
McGregor and others related to the casino/bingo indictments. They
uncovered conversations with McGregor, Auburn and Cam's uncle in
Michigan. McGregor paid $250K to the uncle through a PAC and other
hidden entities and the uncle funneled the money to Cecil.
The FBI gave this information to the NCAA sometime after the indictments
were handed down. They had to sit on the information for 6 months until
the grand jury indicted the men and women in the gambling deal. All of
the wiretap information was sealed and that is why the delay in
investigating. The NCAA had to go to Miss St to see if Cecil had
solicited money from them as well. That is why Miss St is involved. They
are basically connecting all of the dots. Miss St may be cleared
because they told Cecil no. He then went to Auburn. The offer was on the
table from McGregor but Cam wanted to play at Miss St and not Auburn.
When Miss St declined to pay him, he went to where the money was...
hence the comment, "The money was too much." The FBI met with the Miss
St coaches, John Bond and Bill Bell today to get their official
statements.
The final gem of the day came from TD Poster "Tuck", on pg. 68 of Egg's "Mega Thread"
some more goodness, not from BOL though:
quote:
The FBI has been investigating Colonial Bank and Lowder for a number
of possible violations in the financial market crash which are
unrelated to AU. Part of the investigation involved gambling fraud
between McGregor and Colonial Bank. Something called the Rico Stature
allowed the justice department to set up wiretaps on Colonial Bank.
On the wiretaps the FBI found major AU recruiting infractions involving
Lowder, McGregor, Dye, Trooper, boosters and others.
Heres what they say the FBI has on tape and can prove AU did:
The people above are on tape explaining who they paid and how they did it.
It involves many AU players
Providing unmarked Colonial Bank ATM cards to players to withdraw
money from secret accounts.
Giving slot machine cards to the players, which now involves the
Alabama Gaming Commission.
Provided improper loans to some of the families in our last and
current recruiting class.
The NCAA strongly recommended that AU sit Cam for GA. game because
of the mounting evidence.
President Grogue wanted to sit Cam but was overruled by Louder and
the Board of Trustees.
Coach Chizik knows none of this and has been lied to by Jacobs.
The people named above know the S%#& is going to hit the fan ?big
time and have decided ?we?re going down? so lets win the title even
if they take it away later.
Slive knew about this early and sat on the information and is also
in the crosshairs of the FBI..
The corruption is so deep at the highest level (trustees) that AU
will be evicted from kicked out of the SEC.
This will be revealed by the end of the week.
anic:I whole- heartedly agree. And i hope they prove that.
