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NCAA wrote letter to judge to get Shapiro lighter sentence

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I can sense Donna walking over to her ***** drawer getting the biggest and baddest one ready for Marky.

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With the spotlight on, no way Enforcement can rely on anything Shapiro says without REAL independent corroboration. The NCAA -- long before it could evaluate and confirm Shapiro's veracity -- went to bat for him in federal court at his sentencing hearing. It follows that Nevin had all the motivation in the world to trump up allegations as quid pro quo for the NCAA's help in reducing his sentence. LULZ.
 
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Everyone and their brother knows that "investigation" was just a sham. What a joke of an organization.

All I want now is someone within the US Attorneys office to take note and begin a real investigation into that BS "charity" of theirs. They'll get the attention they don't want. All we can do is hope this happens though.
 
DMoney said:
This will be one of the focuses of Sean Allen's ESPN Outside the Lines that I mentioned yesterday. I've been told that current enforcement members are CC'ed on the letter and that this was not disclosed during the internal investigation.
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If this turns out to be legit, the NCAA better prepare anuses. Miami better prepare skates as well.
 
The NCAA ****ed this case up on an LAPD ****ed up their case against OJ level.

WOW.
 
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ncaa-...hapiros-behalf

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — One of the investigators who worked the NCAA's inquiry of Miami athletics wrote a letter on former booster and convicted felon Nevin Shapiro's behalf just days before he was sentenced two years ago.

In the same letter, dated June 3, 2011, Ameen Najjar even suggested that the NCAA could eventually hire Shapiro.

Najjar, who is no longer with the NCAA, told U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton that college sports' governing body could have utilized Shapiro "in the future as a consultant and/or speaker to educate our membership."

Najjar also said that Shapiro assisted the NCAA with investigations involving a number of schools. Najjar did not specify the schools — not even Miami, where Shapiro is the central figure in the scandal that has dogged the Hurricanes' athletic department for at least two years.

"Throughout the course of our interactions, it is my belief that Mr. Shapiro possesses a unique depth of knowledge and experience concerning representatives athletics interest ('Boosters'), agents and the provision of extra-benefits to student-athletes," Najjar wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.

Najjar left the NCAA last year and attempts by the AP to reach him in recent weeks have been unsuccessful. The NCAA did not immediately respond Wednesday to a request for comment.

Najjar's was just one of a number of letters written to the court on Shapiro's behalf before sentencing, none of which appeared to sway Wigenton. Four days after the date of Najjar's letter, the judge gave Shapiro a longer sentence than prosecutors asked for on the securities fraud and money laundering counts he admitted to in a plea agreement in September 2010.

She also ordered him to pay more than $82 million in restitution to his victims.

Najjar wrote to Wigenton using NCAA letterhead, and did so when he had the title of director of enforcement. His role in missteps that the NCAA made during the investigation was detailed last month, when a probe that NCAA President Mark Emmert ordered found, among other things, that Najjar appeared to manipulate the investigation by hiring Shapiro's attorney, Maria Elena Perez, and having her use subpoena power to interview people related to the Miami case.

The NCAA does not have subpoena power. Two people were subpoenaed and deposed as part of Shapiro's bankruptcy case, though some of the information gleaned in those interviews was being used in the NCAA's case against Miami.

The NCAA said it was removing that ill-gotten information from the notice of allegations, which Miami was presented with last month and included the charge that the Hurricanes had a "lack of institutional control" when it came to monitoring Shapiro's access to the athletic department.

Perez, in a letter to the Florida Bar dated Feb. 21, said she "is not and has never acted, in the capacity of an attorney for the NCAA." She billed the NCAA for about $57,000 for work she performed related to the investigation, and records show she received about one-third that amount.

Perez told the AP last month that "had I realized I was dealing with, what is in my opinion ... such an incompetent regulatory institution, I would have never allowed Mr. Shapiro to have had any type of contact with the NCAA — period."
 
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I agree the NCAA does nothing but punch themselves in the balls and shovel ***** into their mouths, but how does this specific revelation help us more?
 
Shapiro coned the NCAA into paying for his attorney, paying him commissary and even getting them to write a recommendation letter to the judge! Thats after convincing a lot of very rich and powerful men to give him a billion dollars. And his last con will be trying to convince fellow inmates to not *** inside of him
 
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PUNCICANE said:
Shapiro coned the NCAA into paying for his attorney, paying him commissary and even getting them to write a recommendation letter to the judge! Thats after convincing a lot of very rich and powerful men to give him a billion dollars. And his last con will be trying to convince fellow inmates to not *** inside of him
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And yet they can't understand how he could've influenced some young kids to take some free meals. This dude is a professional con man, the NCAA needs to drop the investigation now to avoid further embarrassment when we take them to court.
 
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riceman said:
I agree the NCAA does nothing but punch themselves in the balls and shovel ***** into their mouths, but how does this specific revelation help us more?
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It establishes a clear motive for Shapiro to embellish or flat-out lie in return for the NCAA's support. This is an additional basis to question his credibility beyond the fact that he's a convicted confidence man who wanted revenge on UM. It is also reasonable to argue that after the NCAA went to bat for him two years ago, he may have felt beholden or obligated to "produce" for the NCAA. It also shows that the NCAA prejudged Shapiro's legitimacy and establishes that the investigation was tainted long before the deposition debacle. This is ******* huge.
 
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