Nevin Shapiro is determined to bring down the Miami football program

Nevin Shapiro, the former Miami booster who orchestrated a $930 million Ponzi scheme, isn’t done with his allegations and rants against the University of Miami athletic department and is determined to see several players pay for what he determines to be a betrayal against him.

“I’m more of a victim than a Ponzi schemer and assailant,” Shapiro wrote in an email to the Miami Herald.

Shapiro told Yahoo! Sports in August that he provided extra benefits, including meals, prostitutes and trips to Shapiro’s million-dollar Miami Beach mansion, to 72 Miami student-athletes and provided the financial documents and sources to back up his claims. The story took 11 months to report.

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So, of course, in the wake of the latest college sports scandal, there echoes the latest college sports pablum.

Oh, those poor underprivileged children from the University of Miami. If only the NCAA allowed the football players to be paid, a sleazy booster wouldn’t have been able to buy them. Oh, the hypocrisy, the unfairness, the shame.
In the words of a surely weeping Keith Jackson … whoa, Nellie.
Did you actually read the Yahoo Sports report on the many impermissible benefits alleged to have been doled out to the Miami football and basketball players by a Ponzi scheme crook named Nevin Shapiro?

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