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09-29-17 05:54 PM - Post#233371
In response to Silver Maple
No, the job does not "fall to the prosecutors." Prosecutors, especially federal prosecutors, are not supposed to be all-purpose scourges of everything shady or unfair. There are supposed to be well-defined criminal laws that people know when they are disobeying, not a general hunting license for the feds to chase down every impropriety. Does anyone think that the parents who received money for their kid to go to Louisville thought that they were part of a conspiracy to commit wire fraud? Is there one Kentucky taxpayer who is not a UK fan who thinks that he or she was deprived of the "honest services" of the coaches who worked with Adidas and used Adidas money to win a recruiting battle?
Nor do such prosecutions necessarily make the world less shady and unfair. In this case, don't be surprised if the initial impetus for the probe was a tip-off from an Adidas competitor [cough, Nike, cough] upset about losing market share. (Although I saw that a Nike-funded youth league or team might have been subpoenaed as well)
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