A piece in this morning’s News and Observer is well worth reading. It is relatively short but contains a lot of important information. Right off the top, in keeping with UNC’s spirit of cooperation and openness:
The University of North Carolina did not fulfill requests on Monday for information on its internal investigation into parking tickets for a dozen football players or for football coach Butch Davis’ cellphone records.
Also, Butch apparently had four official phone lines for University business:
UNC released records from three landline numbers for Butch Davis’ office and a monthly summary of a cellphone issued to Davis, with a 919 area code, from December 2008 to November 2010. There were no calls on the logs released by the school.
A different cellphone used by Davis, with a 216 area code, showed up on Blake’s call logs, but the records for that number were not released by the school.
Hmmm. That’s interesting. Butch never used any of his official University lines at all (or used the landlines very infrequently — it is not quite clear), but kept his Cleveland phone and apparently conducted at least some University business on it (calling Blake). How did these things not raise a red flag to the UNC-CH compliance office and/or Butch’s bosses? Also, I am sure that UNC’s failure to turn over the 216 phone’s logs was an oversight. I mean, what possible damning information could be on those logs?
Regarding the parking ticket situation, today’s article also has a great quote from Nancy Davis, UNC’s Associate Vice Chancellor for University Relations.
“As part of its internal investigation, the University reviewed the parking tickets reflected in this report,” Davis wrote in an email Thursday. “That review showed that each car receiving a ticket was registered either to the student, a parent or grandparent, or a fellow student.”
That’s interesting. It took the media about 15 minutes to make all sorts of discoveries with the parking ticket information, including WRAL with this piece that explains that Little had three different plates on one car during a short period of time. One of these plates doesn’t exist according to DMV records. The other two were 30 day tags.
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.
It will be interesting to see the details of the UNC “investigation” that somehow missed all that.
Is it Friday yet?
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