A new indictment in college basketball’s ongoing FBI investigation shines a light on players who attended Kansas.
According to charges from the U.S. Attorney's office in the Southern District of New York, a mother and a guardian of two unidentified KU student-athletes are said to have benefited from illegal payments, which were made without the knowledge of the university.
Adidas executive James Gatto was among a group that beginning around October 2016 and continuing until around November 2017, “conspired to illicitly funnel approximately $90,000 from Company-1 (Adidas) to the mother of a top high school basketball player,” according to court documents.