Just when you thought Rutgers was in the clear!
BLOG: Mike Rice Needs To Get Sent On A Long Vacation by Eric Newman
On the heels of coach Mike Rice’s dismissal for berating the basketball team with homophoic slurs, the university said it plans to commission an independent review of its mens’s basketball team, including how the university handled its investigation into Rice’s abuse.
At the same time, the FBI is investigating whether a former Rutgers basketball employee tried to extort the university before he made videos that showed ex-coach Mike Rice shoving and kicking players.
A person familiar with the FBI’s probe told The Associated Press on Sunday that investigators are interested in Eric Murdock, who left his job as the men’s basketball program’s player development director last year and later provided the video to university officials and ESPN.
A December letter from Murdock’s lawyer to a lawyer representing Rutgers requested $950,000 to settle employment issues and said that if the university did not agree by Jan. 4, Murdock was prepared to file a lawsuit. The letter was obtained last week by the AP and other media outlets.
No settlement has been made. The video became public last week, and Murdock on Friday filed a lawsuit against the university, contending he was fired because he was a whistleblower trying to bring to light Rice’s behavior.
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Three other officials have left in the wake of Rice’s ouster: Athletic Director Tim Pernetti, interim University General Counsel John Wolf, and Assistant Coach Jimmy Martelli.
Just goes to show that what you do in the dark will eventually come out in the light! Damn, Rutgers!
SOURCE: HuffPost
