If you don’t know by now, Mary Willingham is the person who confirmed the UNC Academic fraud scandal and broke it wide open. She’s the John Snowden of UNC athletics. While Snowden informed us all that we were being monitored by the NSA, Willingham exposed the corruption of the Chapel Hill's “mother of all academic fraud violations.”
Mary Willingham's role in the exposure of the fraud only confirmed what The Raleigh News & Observer (N&O) reporter Dan Kane and two other N&O investigative reporters found. The initial accusations, however, came from UNC defensive end Michael McAdoo when he filed a lawsuit against the NCAA in 2011 seeking reinstatement to the UNC football team after the NCAA had declared him ineligible for accepting improper benefits and academic dishonesty.