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Scandal Hits University of Miami

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    Nevin Shapiro admits to have given improper gifts to football players for past 9 years

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-- The Fox Report.

It's the bottom of the hour time for the top of the keys.

A potential hurricane of us.

-- now blowing across Coral Gables.

A convicted Ponzi schemer and former booster for the Miami Hurricanes football team.

Reportedly claims He showered dozens upon dozens of players would gifts including sex parties cash jewels and course.

He's -- and Evan Shapiro serving twenty years in prison.

But He tells Yahoo! Sports over a hundred hours of interviews that for the past nine seasons he's given improper benefits to current and former members of the team.

As well as other Miami athletes.

Among the one of his seasons quarterbacks.

Jeffrey Harris.

And the former hurricane Devin Hester who is now one of the top players for the Chicago Bears.

Those players haven't commented but the gifts reportedly did not end with fancy yacht parties and nights of club and Shapiro also tells Yahoo! that He offered bounties for injuring a players on opposing teams and that He even played for an abortion.

For a stripper with -- up -- player reportedly had sex.

Might -- -- -- from WSVN fox seven for the Miami and South Florida area live on campus in Coral Gables tonight Mike this has been a season for scandals in college football.

Today you talked with Miami's new head coach Al Golden you must be in a horrible mess.

Good evening shepherd He is but he's trying to keep this program together.

I keep in mind that this happened -- 2002 to 2010 allegedly.

And He said today point blank -- -- school officials knew about this when they hired him -- they told them nothing about this.

He would be angry because He felt He would been blind sided He has cleanup program that for example on and off the field issues but nothing like this.

Did you know the NCAA says it's been investigating this.

-- I don't know like eleven months.

What they have for five months and that this investigation could be over within about a month.

But they're looking at the improprieties.

Going back to 2002 as I mentioned 2010 and -- -- 72 players past and current players.

Twelve of those star players are on this team.

And twelve of those players most of them are starters for Al Golden.

Use had its share of problems I -- to tell our audience that might but a lot of people thought they turned a corner.

Well -- go back in the eighties when McCain referred to as a convicts and the Notre Dame squad as -- -- when they face.

They talked about allegations back then in the late ninety's the team was placed on probation there were some suspensions.

And scholars who have taken away so.

This program it's try to regroup but this latest.

Fire ball if you wanna call it it's about to explode and Al Golden he's just trying to keep it together any insists He knew nothing about this when He was hired from double.

Expect more on this my deepest Wally from seven -- -- ESP in the news station in South Florida.

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