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Friday, November 21, 2008

Ind. Gov't. - More on: IU's legal bills for Sampson issues are $203K so far

Updating this ILB entry from May 29th, 2008, Mark Alesia reports today in the Indianapolis Star in a story that begins:

Indiana University's legal bills have reached almost a half-million dollars in the NCAA infractions case related to former men's basketball coach Kelvin Sampson.

Through July, IU had spent $497,646 on outside legal counsel specializing in NCAA issues, including $211,034 for work done starting in April.

More bills, related to the school's September response to the NCAA's charge of "failure to monitor," are expected.

The latest bill was released Thursday by the school after a public records request by The Star. The time period for the latest bill included a two-day hearing in Seattle before the NCAA infractions committee. The failure-to-monitor charge was added after that hearing.

About $470,000 of the total legal bills came from the Indianapolis firm Ice Miller. The rest were for an attorney representing Sampson and IU at an NCAA infractions committee hearing in 2006 for violations while Sampson was coach at Oklahoma.

Most interestingly, here are the legal bills, via the Star:

Actually, the 19-page bill covers more time than the Star describes - pp 14-16 covers Dec. 07; pp 17-18 covers March 08.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 21, 2008 09:49 AM
Posted to Indiana Government