Less than 24 hours after FBI agents arrested Michael Avenatti in New York on suspicion of trying to extort more than $20 million from Nike, the lawyer accused the sports-gear giant of paying associates of prep players, nathanfenno reports.
Federal prosecutors alleged in a criminal complaint unsealed Monday that Avenatti threatened to hold a news conference accusing Nike of paying associates of high school players unless the company paid his client, an AAU coach, and retained the lawyer's firm to conduct an internal investigation.
“If the … prosecution team thought Avenatti’s allegations were true, they would investigate them, not arrest him,” said David Vaughn, a former federal prosecutor who represents colleges and coaches involved in NCAA investigations. The Supreme is a decade-and-a-half old program that was a veritable factory of players who moved on to play for top colleges and professionally. Ayton and Bol both played for the Supreme in 2017, along with a slew of college-bound players such as Devonaire Doutrive , Tevian Jones , Shareef O’Neal and Brandon Williams .Franklin’s son, Gary Jr., played for the Supreme before going on to a college career at California and Baylor from 2010 to 2014.During a news conference in New York on Monday, U.S.
"Nike will not be extorted or hide information that is relevant to a government investigation,” the company said in a statement Monday.
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