Posted 2/2/2005 5:46 PM Jury convicts businessman of paying for high school recruit MEMPHIS (AP) — A federal jury convicted millionaire businessman Logan Young on Wednesday of paying $150,000 to get a top football recruit for Alabama. The jury deliberated for about 5½ hours before returning the verdict. Young, 64, was convicted of conspiracy to commit racketeering (by breaking state bribery laws), crossing state lines to commit racketeering and arranging bank withdrawals to cover up a crime. Young could receive prison time and a heavy fine. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 15 years behind bars, but federal guidelines would call for a much lighter sentence. The highly publicized recruitment case coincidentally ended up in jurors' hands on college football's National Signing Day. Defense attorneys used closing arguments to highlight the chief accuser's history of lying and the legal standard for "reasonable doubt." But prosecutors said bank and phone records bolstered the testimony of their lead witness, former Trezevant High School head coach Lynn Lang. Lang testified that Young bribed him with a series of cash payments below the $10,000 threshold for IRS reporting to get highly recruited defensive lineman Albert Means to sign with Alabama in 2000. Lang told jurors he got money from two other colleges, Georgia and Kentucky, and offers of cash, jobs or free law school from Arkansas, Memphis, Mississippi, Michigan State and Tennessee. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2005-02-02-recruiting-trial_x.htm?POE=SPOISVA
No NCAA has already closed the book on Bama but 6 other S.E.C. schools plus others mentioned in testimony.. and No LSU was not one :geauxtige
UGA will be cleared because they have proof that Means did work at their camp. UT on the other hand.....I sware I am waiting for something to pop up and have them get torn down.
I don't think UT would be that dumb. Why would you get involved in that mess in Memphis and then, according to every living Alabama fan, turn them in to the NCAA? They may not be that clean, but it will not be this one that gets 'em.
Whoever got the check actually did work at the camp that UGA had....its documented according to the AJC. So, the NCAA won't touch them, IMO. Did they give the check to cheat and maybe get him to come....of course they did.....but at least they covered their own asses
That's probably true. Of course we may be surprised what coaches get paid at the LSU camps too. TN Tiger, I would be shocked as well if UT was implicated at all in the Means fiasco, I can't believe Phil would be near that stupid.
