Tuesday morning, four college assistant coaches were named in a corruption scandal. The story first reported Tom Winter (NBC) alleges that the FBI has arrested several NCAA assistant basketball coaches in a corruption scheme according to authorities.
Emanuel “Book” Richardson of University of Arizona, Lamont Evans of Oklahoma State, Chuck Person of Auburn University, Tony Bland of the University of Southern California are coaches named with charges in a corruption scheme.
The head of Adidas marketing Jim Gatto and others are accused of paying high school players to attend Adidas schools, and then have the players sign with Adidas later. Person is named as a person agreeing to a 50,000 dollar deal to steer players to agents according to reports. The case will be held in Manhattan federal court.
There will be a press conference at noon today where charges will be discussed livestreamed on Facebook @usatoday.
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