Report: NC State Subpoenaed by Justice Department Tied To College Basketball Corruption Investigation

[News and Observer] - N.C. State received a grand jury subpoena to turn over records from the Southern District of New York on Jan. 17, Fred Demarest, a school basketball spokesman, said Friday.

The school’s Office of General Counsel received the request, which is in conjunction with the FBI’s investigation into college basketball.

The request, Demarest said, is for records and not to interview current staff members.

This thing isn’t going away folks. In the middle of conference tournament Friday, news broke from the News and Observer that NC State received a grand jury subpoena tied to the corruption charges in college basketball. The thing here that is incredibly important though is this isn’t tied to anyone currently on staff. This is all records and again, nothing with Kevin Keatts or any of his assistant coaches.

That said, Dennis Smith’s name came up in the Yahoo report by Pat Forde and Pete Thamel a couple weeks ago. That included the expense report from Christian Dawkins along with plenty of other big time players of either loans or dinner charges. In the Yahoo report was also stated that Mark Gottfried was in contact with Dawkins. I’m only guessing here, but I’m going to assume this subpoena is tied to that.

We still have no clue what’s all going on besides reports like this and I don’t know if we’ll ever find out the entire story. I also don’t think the NCAA will ever find out the entire story. We’ll see if any more schools start receiving subpoenas or if this one leads to anything.