Witness Says He Paid Football Players At Michigan

At the second trial in the federal investigation into college-basketball corruption Marty Blazer former Pittsburgh-based financial adviser testified that he paid football players at a number of schools, including Michigan, between 2000-2013.

He did not offer specific regarding names of football players but some of the schools implicated include Penn State, Pitt, Notre Dame, Alabama and North Carolina. Blazer went on to say that he would pay college football players from $100 to $3,000 per month. The payments were usually in a cash or by by Western Union via a player’s friend or family member.

UM spokesman David Ablauf said “We just read the reports from today’s tria in New York, as that is all the information we have at this time, we are unable to further comment due to the lack of any specific information contained in those reports.”

Blazer will continue his testimony today in NYC.