A new batch of charges were handed down Tuesday; what’s at stake for Kansas and NC State?
By Matt Norlander | CBS Sports
After more than six months of public dormancy, the FBI and the Department of Justice finally revealed Tuesday the next stage of the corruption, fraud and bribery case that has loomed over college basketball since late September.
A superseding indictment was handed down on James Gatto, a former high-ranking employee at Adidas and one of the 10 men who were originally charged on Sept. 26, 2017, when the case went public. Included in the 36-page federal complaint are new details about how players were allegedly steered, with payments in the tens of thousands of dollars, to Kansas and North Carolina State through the conspiracy efforts of Gatto and others.
This story has a lot of entanglements and a lot of details. Further below, we’ll get into the important factors and info to know with many of the people affiliated with this story, but first here’s what you should broadly be aware of in the aftermath of Tuesday’s shakeup: