Louis Martin Blazer III, a former Pittsburgh-area financial adviser, took the stand in New York on Tuesday as a government witness in the NCAA corruption trial. The trial had centered on basketball and the illicit dealings of shoe companies to that point, but with Blazer’s testimony, the topic shifted, as he claimed to have made payments to college football stars at Pitt and several other Division I programs.
Martin Blazer testified on Tuesday he paid football players from Pittsburgh, Penn State, Michigan, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Alabama and North Carolina.
— Matt Norlander (@MattNorlander) April 23, 2019
Blazer testified that he paid college football players sums ranging from $100 to $3,000 per month between 2000 and 2014 in hopes of recruiting them as clients when they became professional athletes.