Louisville investigating allegations basketball staffer paid for prostitutes for players, recruits

Louisville investigating allegations basketball staffer paid for prostitutes for players, recruits, Rick Pitino, arch drillmaster of the University of Louisville’s assertive basketball program, has responded to claims that a above agents affiliate solicited prostitutes for players and recruits.

The university abstruse of the allegations on Friday with the approaching absolution of a new book by a Louisville-based escort that claims a above agents affiliate of the alignment paid escorts bags of dollars to accept animal relations with players and recruits.

The book, blue-blooded Breaking Cardinal Rules, which is set to be appear in the advancing days, was bound by escort Katina Powell.

The book alleges that above Louisville player, alum abettor and administrator of basketball operations Andre McGee “paid an escort account for four years to accommodate sex to boyish recruits to advice woo the players to accompany the Cardinals team.” according to a absolution from the book’s publisher, the Indianapolis Business Account Publishing LLC.

The IBJ said the book is “based on hundreds of account entries and bags of argument letters kept by the arch of the escort service,” according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.

Powell reportedly bound the book with Pulitzer Prize-winning announcer Dick Cady.

According to the Courier-Journal, the university assassin clandestine investigator Chuck Smrt, a Kansas-based acquiescence expert, to conduct an analysis into Powell’s allegations afterwards acquirements about them in August.

The university’s able-bodied administrator Tom Jurich said Smrt has been in blow with the NCAA, and that the university contacted the NCAA if the publishers approached the university about the book.

Smrt and an NCAA agent said they would not animadversion on an advancing investigation.

“We’re still aggravating to bare the facts,” Jurich told the Courier-Journal. “We wish to get to the basal of this as abundant as anybody, as abundant as our fan abject does, as abundant as our university and our association does, and we will.”

McGee, who is now an abettor drillmaster at University of Missouri at Kansas City, has been placed on authoritative leave by the school.

Rick Pitino said he began his own analysis into the book’s allegations afore the university’s acquiescence administration asked him to stop.

The Hall of Fame drillmaster said he batten with 12 above administration who formed at University of Louisville amid the 2010-14 aeon mentioned in the book, additional several video and abutment staffers.

Pitino aswell batten with above Louisville advanced Kyle Kuric, who told the drillmaster he had been contacted by the book’s authors.

“When this aboriginal bankrupt a ages ago, I questioned everybody if anybody has even a little ability or buzz or apparent anybody, and everybody, to the person, 15 people, said they had no ability of anything, never apparent anything.”

An IBJ account absolution says Powell has “hundreds of argument exchanges” with McGee and pictures of her escorts with players and recruits.

Yahoo Sports, which acquired an beforehand archetype of the book, appear that Powell claimed she and McGee exchanged added than $10,000 for her and her escorts’ services.On Friday Pitino attempt down allegations that he denied the claims in the book, according to CBS Sports.

“I didn’t say that. I’m crestfallen that this, beneath my watch, could even — annihilation like this could accept happened. How can over 20 humans be involved? Look, we’re heavily complex in this program. We’re in actuality at 6, 6:15 in the morning, and we go backward at night. … Not one of us has anytime heard annihilation of getting out with the amiss people, so that bothers me. I can’t say what’s accurate and not true, because we’re investigating.”
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