Pastner suing booster in Tucson

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Mark Schlabach
ESPN Senior Writer

Attorneys representing Georgia Tech men's basketball coach Josh Pastner filed a civil suit Friday against an Arizona man and woman, who accused him of breaking NCAA rules. In the lawsuit, filed in Pima County, Arizona, the attorneys claimed former Tech booster Ron Bell and his girlfriend, Jennifer Pendley, "began a malicious campaign to defame Pastner, and to extort and blackmail Pastner, by threatening to release and releasing to the public, the media, Georgia Tech and the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), false and patently untrue information Bell and Pendley believed and intended would be extremely damaging to Pastner's reputation and would result in Pastner losing his job at Georgia Tech and being penalized by the NCAA."