On Tuesday night, the LA Times dropped a bit of a bombshell relating to USC Basketball’s suspension of sophomore guard De’Anthony Melton: What the FBI says happened may not have actually happened.
The FBI probe which resulted in the arrest of USC assistant coach Tony Bland and implicated Melton included an allegation that, at a particular meeting in August, a family friend of Melton’s received a cash payment facilitated by Bland.
According to surveillance video from the hotel lobby, viewed by Nathan Fenno of the LA Times, the family friend, Dave Elliott, did not actually receive anything.