Friday-Palooza: Austin travel linked to Wichard through Amis AND two of Little’s plates came from an auto dealer now in Federal Prison

Late this afternoon two major stories broke almost simultaneously.  First, this WRAL piece discusses the financial details surrounding a trip Marvin made to California in 2009 from March 7-14.  The media is obviously digging into those phone records and figuring some things out.  Here is an excerpt that gives you a feel about what went on:

Wichard, Balmer and Austin claimed a coach from Austin’s high school paid for the flights for each trip Austin took to California. The coach, Todd Amis, told investigators that Wichard reimbursed his expenses.

According to the warrant, Amis showed investigators a canceled check from Wichard’s ProTect Management.

Blake’s cellphone records show that he and Amis began exchanging calls on March 3. They spoke four times. In one instance, Blake called Wichard three minutes after he spoke to Amis.

Amis and Blake spoke twice on March 6, for a total of nine minutes the day before Austin traveled to California. On March 11, the two spoke again for 12 minutes during two phone calls.

Wow!  A canceled check!  Love it!  I think the “new news” here is the phone call record that suggests that Blake *could* have known and/or set up the Austin trip financials with Wichard.

This next item will blow your mind.  Again from WRAL, this piece talks about some of the plates on Little’s car:

Parking ticket records associated with the vehicle registered to the Little family has been cited using at least three different tags, and one of the plates doesn’t exist according to the Department of Motor Vehicles. The other two plates are 30 day temporary tags issued by dealers when someone buys a car.

Dealers cannot issue temporary tags to the same vehicle for consecutive months but the parking records show tags were issued for the months of March and April 2009.

Both of the 30 day tags trace back to 919 Imports in Durham, according to the DMV.

This auto dealer has since closed and business owner, Shawn E. Brown, is now serving a federal sentence for money laundering.

Little’s father told WRAL Wednesday there is no reason the car should have had multiple plates

 

I don’t even know what to say anymore.


Stay tuned for updates.

UNC Scandal

64 Responses to Friday-Palooza: Austin travel linked to Wichard through Amis AND two of Little’s plates came from an auto dealer now in Federal Prison

  1. Gowolves 06/18/2011 at 3:30 PM #

    I thought so. I just dont think the tickets will be what brings things to a head. It will be the connections to the cars and BMFD cell phone that will tie it all together

  2. choppack1 06/18/2011 at 5:36 PM #

    Gowolfs – Agreed. I think the tickets are a sideshow.

    They do demonstrate a general disrespect for everything but the football program though…and it is a potential issue if the athletes had special treatment for outstanding balances or someone else paid them.

    However, I think the biggest news since Thursday is the Blake, Witchard and Amis triangle AND Blake calling Butch on the only phone he uses – his personal phone. And we know that Butch only uses his personal phone because the record request showed that he didn’t use his university issued one at all. IMHO, this should make anything on Butch’s cell phone fair game since it’s his defacto work phone.

    A couple of things it would nice to see an intelligent, enterprising reporter check into:
    1. Contact in dead periods with recruits by Blake.
    2. See if there was any compliance staff shake up when Butch arrived.

    Both of these items can now be verified.

  3. NCSU88 06/18/2011 at 5:51 PM #

    I keep thinking of this as an episode of 24. Now that would be a great parody.

  4. tuckerdorm1983 06/18/2011 at 9:01 PM #

    old mac(butchy) had a team
    e i e i o
    and on this team there were some cheats
    e i e i o
    with cheat cheat here and a cheat cheat there
    here a cheat, there a cheat, everywhere a cheat cheat

  5. Ismael 06/18/2011 at 11:34 PM #

    Its all starting to make sense. The signout sheet was for the dealer plates. Hahaha roast those bastards.

    UNC: Cheaters on the field, in the classroom and in the community

  6. Icabod61 06/19/2011 at 12:29 PM #

    just in case you guys haven’t seen this one yet:

    http://www.tauntr.com/content/university-north-carolina-recruiting-commercial

  7. highstick 06/19/2011 at 2:42 PM #

    Great commercial! Someone send it to C D Spangler!

  8. Pack78 06/19/2011 at 3:38 PM #

    ^^Ichabod-good stuff

    ^Also a copy to Bill Friday

    ^^^^Tucker-Change the refrain to: Cheat-I, Cheat-I, O

  9. Pack78 06/19/2011 at 3:42 PM #

    Just a thought-How about a stadium full of Wolfpackers this fall at the unc-cheat FB game in full throat yelling “cheaters, cheaters, cheaters…” as the holes come onto the field-some of you inventive types can come up with good suggestions I am sure!

  10. highstick 06/19/2011 at 7:04 PM #

    “Cheater, Cheater, Where’d you get that no good white trash ho(Tutor)”!!!

    Good intro for their team!!

  11. Ismael 06/20/2011 at 10:28 AM #

    like the fans did a “support the troops” placard thing, i’d love a ginormous parking ticket, would be epic. Or for fans to shower the unc sidelines with parking tickets.

    as much as i hated what duke fans did when they threw shoes on the court, and i saw it, it was a damn good taunt.

  12. wufpup76 06/20/2011 at 2:23 PM #

    The video linked by lcabod61 is perhaps the finest video ever produced.

  13. Master 06/20/2011 at 4:30 PM #

    Ismael – I was sitting on the second row behind the State bench in Cameron when they threw shoes on the floor at Corchiani. We lost in OT that night. I hated that Duke team with Hurley and Laettner with a passion.

  14. TruthBKnown Returns 06/20/2011 at 4:50 PM #

    Things sure have gotten quiet on the phone record and parking ticket front.

    Anybody hearing ANYTHING? Is all this stuff that the NCAA already knew? Anybody talking to the NCAA to be sure they know about all this? Wouldn’t want them ruling without all the facts, now would we? 😉

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