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[SteveKerrFan]

What does that statement about the Kansas player even mean?

[GoCatZ]

Kerrfan, it means he got in a car accident and when they asked for license and registration it didn't belong to him and the car was similar to the one shown below

[WILD]

The biggest news out of Book pleading not guilty & his attorney stating that they want to clear his name is that we are now 100% sure that Book has not flipped on Miller.  Our biggest worry was that he would say that Miller knew of money being given to players. So far this is the only good news out of all of this. 

[DWIZZ]

Check out how much it's costing UofA for Lawyers in the FBI investigation. Bribery scandal could cost UA $600K in legal fees

https://twitter.com/KVOA/status/931563542175678466

Full story below
http://www.kvoa.com/story/36864770/n4t-investigators-expensive-defense

[WILD]

Video reveals key inconsistency in FBI complaint that led USC to sit De'Anthony Melton

Interesting story below on USC's Melton who's being held out due to FBI scandal. I'm curious on if there is footage involving Book that will be coming out soon.

Security camera footage is inconsistent with the FBI's account of an August meeting that is a key part of the college basketball bribery case against USC associate head coach Tony Bland and would-be sports agent Christian Dawkins

The video and the criminal complaint in the case differ on one main point: The complaint said that the undercover agent provided Dawkins an envelope containing $5,000 to give to the family friend at Bland's direction, and that the friend received the money. The video — clear, in color, stamped with the Aug. 31 date and time across the top, but without sound — shows Dawkins receiving the money and leaving with it.

The complaint also states that the money was provided to Dawkins before the meeting, but the video shows the undercover agent brought an envelope to the meeting.

Read the rest of the story below
http://www.latimes.com/sports/usc/la-sp-usc-melton-video-20171128-story.html

[WILD]

Arizona comes in at #10 in College basketball's 20 biggest surprises this season: I think it says a lot.

9. The FBI's investigation has drifted a bit. I certainly expected the games to drive a lot of the conversation, but think back to the middle of October. The tenor of college hoops then was that the FBI's unprecedented case into the crooked ways of recruiting would be something that thrummed weekly throughout the season. That just hasn't been the case yet. It's still there, hanging like a black curtain behind all of what's happening on the stage, but the big question for coaches is: Who's going to be next, and did the FBI dramatically play up how much evidence it really had?

10. Arizona hasn't officially suspended a player. Subscribers to our CBS college hoops pod are familiar with a discussion Gary Parrish and I had back in November. We suspected that Arizona would do what Auburn, USC and Oklahoma State did: suspend a player, or players, who were under suspicion for ineligibility. Auburn continues to sit Purifoy and Wiley. Oklahoma State's Jeffrey Carroll had to miss games for the Cowboys. USC's De'Anthony Melton still has not played for the Trojans. Yet Arizona has not a thing. Rawle Alkins missed the first nine games of the season due to what has only been attributed as something injury-induced, but otherwise? Nothing from Sean Miller. This was eyebrow-raising to many, and if the NCAA or FBI comes to find players were on the court despite having broken laws or bylaws, then it could retroactively put Arizona's 2017-18 season in jeopardy.

Read the other 18 below
https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/college-basketballs-20-biggest-surprises-this-season-kentucky-has-been-quiet-so-far/amp/

[WILD]

Second potentially embarrassing development this week for FBI in the basketball corruption case.

https://twitter.com/PeteThamel/status/962335735163621377

https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/sports/filings-show-potentially-critical-error-feds-college-hoops-corruption-case-023301641.html?__twitter_impression=true


Undercover agent involved in FBI NCAA scandal may have been compromised. This has now officially become a Big Joke. Hopefully this will help the case cause the case to just completely fall apart.

https://twitter.com/playersprogramu/status/961651401834225670
https://twitter.com/joeyrkaufman/status/961642145403715584

[Alumni2000]

Does anyone else believe that "ACE" from PGU was Munish Sood, the wealthy financier indicted in this Federal investigation ? Ace was obviously of Indian ethnicity, and always posted(boasted) of his collection of tricked out vehicles and his house on the beach in Cali? The logical explanation for how he was so omniscient and clairvoyant is that Ace was connected to Book, visited practices in RJ gym, knew stuff that only people who interact with coaches and recruits would know. Then ACE "died" and pgu ceased right when the investigation got really heated..... anyone onboard?

[Little George]

His other businesses are functioning fine as be has people close to him in place to keep them going. I have kept quiet about this because I was not sure about his status. I have had my thoughts on the issue, but when he died he has never contacted me again. I think most people knew he did not really die but his involvement died. Only the FBI thjng has emerged as big enough to push Ace out. I do not know for sure, but 2+2 usually equals 4.

I also believe that with the corruption found in the government, that this will mostly wash away in the coming months as now there is corruption in this case as well and there are major issues at the upper end of the FBI.

[GoCatZ]

Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to drop criminal charges against Jonathan Brad Augustine, the ex-AAU director who was one of the 10 men arrested last year as part of an alleged corruption scandal in college basketball. Looks like the FBI case is slowly falling a part. 

https://twitter.com/WongSportsLaw/status/963442807066300416