The Kansas athletic department received two subpoenas from federal prosecutors requesting information related to the FBI investigation into college basketball, The Star has learned through a Kansas Open Records Act request.
The first subpoena, dated Jan. 8, 2018, asked for “[a]ll documents regarding the recruitment and enrollment” of a player whose name was redacted by KU. In addition, the subpoena asked for any record of communication between KU and that player and his family. The document later requested all exchanges between KU department officials and “James Gatto, a/k/a “Jim”; (ii) Christopher Rivers; (iii) Thomas (“TJ”) Gassnola; (iv) Merl Code, and (v) any other representative of Adidas” before asking for all of KU’s contracts and oral agreements KU had agreed to with Adidas.