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The White House has authorized a waiver to loosen shipping rules regarding Puerto Rico that island officials say would be a significant help for recovery efforts from Hurricane Maria.

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"At @ricardorossello request, @POTUS has authorized the Jones Act be waived for Puerto Rico. It will go into effect immediately," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted Thursday morning.

Her tweet comes after Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said he asked the White House to loosen the regulations Wednesday night.

He joined the growing list of officials who argued that lifting the the Jones Act -- a federal law designed to protect the financial interests of US shipbuilders by limiting shipping by foreign vessels -- would help expedite supplies to the ravaged island.

The act was quickly lifted to help Texas and Florida in the wake of hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The Department of Homeland Security said it was able to lift the restrictions quickly because the Department of Defense requested a waiver for those states and the department hadn't yet done so for Puerto Rico.

Trump told reporters on Wednesday that "we're thinking" about lifting the law, but added that a "lot of shippers" didn't want it lifted.

In the wake of the devastation in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz -- along with other US politicians, including Sens. John McCain, R-Arizona, and Marco Rubio, R-Florida -- had urged the suspension of the Jones Act in order to speed up supply deliveries.

CNN's Rene Marsh, Gregory Wallace, Noah Gray and Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.

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"At @ricardorossello request, @POTUS has authorized the Jones Act be waived for Puerto Rico. It will go into effect immediately," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted Thursday morning. Her tweet comes after Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said he asked the White House to loosen the regulations Wednesday night.

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trail attacker grabs a kick boxer and she makes him pay he grabbed her wrist and then she kicked him in the groin .

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Whatever the man in an apparent kidnapping attempt had in mind when he grabbed Stephanie Steiniger hard by the wrist, he clearly didn't know who he was messing with.

When the 51-year-old Overland Park woman ripped her arm free and buried her right foot in his groin, he probably had a clue.

This was a kickboxing instructor. This was a woman infuriated by the idea that such an attack could happen, who stood up the next day to warn other women in a public plea while wearing a purple tank top that read, "Strong is the new pretty."

"I always believe everything happens for a reason," Steiniger said Wednesday. "Maybe it's so I can warn other women to be aware."

Police say the kidnapping attempt occurred around 7:50 p.m. Tuesday, just after dark, on the Indian Creek Trail just west of Quivira Road and south of 119th Street.

It ended quickly.

"I don't do anything half-way," Steiniger said. "I kicked hard."

When she teaches self-defense, she said, she always instructs her students to "think about where it's going to hurt the most."

She kicked him "in the testicles," she said, and she fled, hearing him behind her letting out "a guttural moan."

Fighting back is important in a kidnapping attempt, even if the assailant has a weapon, said Overland Park Police spokesman John Lacy. The danger escalates dramatically if an assailant gets a victim into a vehicle and drives to a hidden location, he said.

"When you fight back like she did, you survive," Lacy said. "You should scream, struggle, call for help. I have a teenaged daughter and I tell her she should fight."

The man police are looking for ran away from the scene in a southwesterly direction. He was described as a slim white male in his late 20s or early 30s, with dark hair and glasses. He was wearing a dark zip-up hooded sweat shirt and dark jeans.

At times in the first hours after the attack, Steiniger started to put some blame on herself, but she determined that was wrong.

"He invaded my space," she said. "I have a right to be on that trail."

She was out later than she expected. She was feeling extra strong and extended what she had planned as something more of a 10-mile run. She had passed 13 miles and was determined to get to 14, keeping her out on the trail as darkness fell.

When she runs at night, she said, she carries pepper spray or even a stun gun. But she did not have them with her this time.

"I fully expected to be done before dark," she said.

She was running west when the man approached, walking east. He asked her if she knew the time and Steiniger stopped and looked at her wrist watch. That's when he grabbed her wrist and set off her swift and effective defense.

After her well-aimed kick, she sprinted to the nearby Little Caesars pizza restaurant and the police were called.

She has been running the trail for 14 years, she said, and has always taken several precautions. She doesn't run the same route every time so her path is not predictable. She said she practices making eye contact and greeting on-comers to help her stay alert.

"I want other women to be aware," she said. "It could happen to you."

Lacy said the police department is not aware of any other recent kidnapping attempts or attacks on the Indian Creek Trail in Overland Park. That part of the trail, near 119th Street and Quivira, usually draws a lot of pedestrians and bicyclists, he said.

The Indian Creek Trail had been an area of widespread concern on the Missouri side in south Kansas City after police said five murders over the past year either on or near the trail appeared to be potentially linked.

Tensions eased when when authorities arrested 22-year-old Fredrick Demond Scott and charged him Aug. 29 with two murders and named him a suspect in the others.

The watch continues, however, for a suspect in the Overland Park trail assault. Anyone with information is asked to call the Overland Park police at 913-895-6300.

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Whatever the man in an apparent kidnapping attempt had in mind when he grabbed Stephanie Steiniger hard by the wrist, he clearly didn't know who he was messing with. When the 51-year-old Overland Park woman ripped her arm free and buried her right foot in his groin, he probably had a clue.

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At a local home daycare in Michigan a toddler got a hold of a handgun and shot 2 other kids. The shooting is under investigation but no charges are being pressed. The two children were wounded, but are now in stable condition in a local hospital. There were other children in the house at the time the child got a hold of the handgun. They were taken to the police station and reunited with their parents.

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Police say a toddler accidentally shot and injured two other children at a home day care facility in suburban Detroit.

Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad says a preliminary investigation has revealed the toddler "accessed a handgun and the weapon discharged" about 10:20 a.m. Wednesday.

The wounded children both are believed to be 3 years old. They have been hospitalized in critical, but stable condition.

Haddad says the gun was kept in the Dearborn home, west of Detroit. Several other children were at the home at the time of the shooting. Those children were taken to the police station to be reunited with their parents.

The shooting remains under investigation. No one has been charged.

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The Royals won last night against the Tigers. The Royals will have to win 3 out of the 4 games left this season to finish .500. If they win all the games left this season then they will finish above .500.

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Omar Narvaez homered and drove in the go-ahead run with a single, Chicago relievers tossed seven scoreless innings and the White Sox rallied from a six-run deficit for a 7-6 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday.

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Omar Narvaez homered and drove in the go-ahead run with a single, Chicago relievers tossed seven scoreless innings and the White Sox rallied from a six-run deficit for a 7-6 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday.

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In Puerto Rico the words "S.O.S. Necesitamos Agua/ Comida". Angelina Ruiz-Lambides , captured the scene while she was flying over Punta Santiago to survey the damage from Hurricane Maria.

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Help finally arrived to a desperate town in Puerto Rico after a single photograph signaled just how badly supplies were needed.

The words "S.O.S. Necesitamos Agua/Comida," which translates to "we need water and food," were written on the pavement of the small town of Humacao. The image was taken on Sunday and has been shared widely on Twitter.

Angelina Ruiz-Lambides, an associate director of the Cayo Santiago Field Station, captured the scene while she was flying over Punta Santiago to survey the damage from Hurricane Maria.

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló saw the SOS image on social media and decided to take action and deliver help himself.

"You may have seen the images on social media, it was a big SOS sign that they wanted food and water," Rosselló said. "We went there, got food and water, established some of the security protocols ... we're really focusing on what needs to get done right now, which is making people have their life support."

With the help of the National Guard, the island's governor was able to deliver a complete shipment of supplies to the people of Humacao on Wednesday.

"The governor saw the photo and he wanted to deliver the supplies himself to make sure they arrived to the right location," said Magdiel Lugo, the governor's photographer.

Rosselló stressed that the government is trying to get food, water and fuel to people across the island.

For now 97% of people remain without power throughout the island and about half the residents do not have water. The US military is set to send another 2,000 to 3,000 troops to Puerto Rico in the upcoming days, military officials tell CNN.

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A woman was forced to be removed because she has a life threatening pet allergy problem. She was going to Los Vargas from Baltimore. She notified the airline staff and she noticed two dogs. One was a pet and the other a service dog. She asked fro them to be removed because of her allergy. She had to stay on the plan because her father was having surgery. She was forced to be removed because she can't prove that she has the allergy.

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A woman was forcibly removed by two police officers from a Southwest flight from Baltimore to Los Angeles Tuesday after claiming to have a life-threatening pet allergy.

While the plane was boarding, the woman notified airline staff of her allergy after noticing two dogs on the plane, one a pet and another a service animal, Fox5 reports.

According to airline officials, the woman asked for the animals to be removed and that she needed to stay on the plane because her father was having surgery. However the airline said the woman was unable to provide the necessary documentation to prove her allergy, Fox11 reports.
ALLEGIANT AIR FLIGHT EVACUATED AFTER SMOKE FILLS CABIN: 'WE USED OUR SHIRTS TO MASK OUR FACES'
"Our policy states that a customer (without a medical certificate) may be denied boarding if they report a life-threatening allergic reaction and cannot travel safely with an animal onboard," the airline said in a statement to Fox11.

According to Fox5, airline staff asked the woman to exit the plane multiple times, but after refusing, local law enforcement arrived on the scene, forcibly removing her despite her objections.

Another passenger on the flight, Bill Dumas, captured the incident on video, which shows multiple police officers attempting to drag the woman off the plane.

The woman can be heard yelling "don't touch me" and says the officers "ripped her pants." As officers struggle with the woman, they yell at her to walk, and one is heard saying "geez lady, get off the plane."

Dumas told CBS News that the woman's behavior was "odd" and the officers were "doing what needed to be done."

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Southwest issued a statement to Fox5, saying: "We are disheartened by the way this situation unfolded and the Customer's removal by local law enforcement officers. We publicly offer our apologies to this Customer for her experience and we will be contacting her directly to address her concerns. Southwest Airlines was built on Customer Service, and it is always our goal for all Customers to have a positive experience."

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A woman was forcibly removed by two police officers from a Southwest flight from Baltimore to Los Angeles Tuesday after claiming to have a life-threatening pet allergy. While the plane was boarding, the woman notified airline staff of her allergy after noticing two dogs on the plane, one a pet and another a service animal, Fox5 reports.

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The state of North Korea is blaming President Trump on Thursday for the exploiting of the death of the Ohio student who died soon after being released from detention in an Asian nation. Otto Warmbier, the Ohio Student, was vacationing in North Korea was sentenced a 15 years in hard labor back in March of 2016. He was allegedly stealing a propaganda poster 2 months earlier.  Otto's parents told Fox News on Tuesday that North Korea tortured and "destroyed" her son. Trump commented on that "Otto was tortured beyond belief by North Korea." The tweet added some series heat between North Korea and Trump's administration.

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North Korea is accusing the Trump administration of exploiting the death of an Ohio man who died soon after being released from detention in the Asian nation.

The state-run Korean Central News Agency quoted an unidentified foreign ministry official on Thursday as criticizing the White House for using the death of Otto Warmbier for propaganda purposes against North Korea.

The official reiterated North Korea's denial that it tortured the American student, who was detained for more than year and died soon after his release to the U.S. in a coma.

U.S. President Donald Trump referenced Warmbier's death in comments critical of North Korea during his debut speech to the U.N. General Assembly earlier this month. He tweeted this week that "Otto was tortured beyond belief by North Korea."

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In Bali Indonesia, The volcano mount Agung became active, and more then 12,000 people fled the region to find safety. The evacuating numbers are rapidly increasing as the volcano becomes more of a threat, and pushing danger zones back farther and farther into the land.

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BALI, Indonesia - More than 120,000 people have fled the region around the Mount Agung volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali, fearing it will soon erupt, an official said Thursday.

The disaster mitigation agency's command post in Bali said the number of evacuees has swelled to about 122,500. The figure is more than double the estimated population within an immediate danger zone but people further away are leaving, too. Those who have fled are scattered in more than 500 locations across the island famed for its beaches, lush green interior and elegant Hindu culture, taking shelter in temporary camps, sports centers and other public buildings. The volcano has been at its highest alert level since Friday, sparking the massive exodus of villagers.

Thousands of cows left behind by rural communities are also being evacuated. The exclusion zone around the mountain extends as far as 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) from the crater in places.

"I was very worried about the situation," said Nyoman Suarta, who was leaving a village a few kilometers outside the official no-go radius. "So I decided to get out to save myself with my stuff and my pet," he said, carrying a cage housing a bird.

Agung, which dominates the landscape in the northeast of the island, last erupted in 1963, killing more than 1,100 people. It remained active for about a year. Volcanologists say the past week's dramatic escalation in tremors indicates an eruption is more likely than not, but they can't say with certainty when it will happen.

"I would definitely be following the advice to stay outside the exclusion zone," said Heather Handley, an assistant Earth sciences professor at Sydney's Macquarie University. The increase in tremors suggests an eruption is "imminent," she said.

Its eruptions in 1963 produced deadly clouds of searing hot ash, gases and rock fragments that traveled down its slopes at great speed. Lava spread for several kilometers (miles) and people were also killed by lahars - rivers of water and volcanic debris.

Officials this week installed warning sirens in several townships. "If Mount Agung erupts, I'm in charge of pressing the alarm button," said Nyoman Kasna, a local official. "Sirens will sound and tell the community the mountain has erupted."

Agung, about 70 kilometers (45 miles) to the northeast of the tourist hotspot of Kuta, is among more than 120 active volcanoes in Indonesia. Another volcano, Mount Sinabung on Sumatra, has been erupting sporadically since 2010, sometimes blasting volcanic ash several kilometers into the air and forcing more than 30,000 to evacuate their villages.

Indonesia, an archipelago of thousands of islands, is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.

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The founder of Playboy (Hugh Hefner) magazine passed away at the age of 91 yesterday (September 28) from natural causes.

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LOS ANGELES -- Hugh Hefner, the iconic personality behind Playboy magazine, passed away on Wednesday at age 91, his media company confirmed.

Playboy sent out a statement on Wednesday:

"Hugh M. Hefner, the American icon who in 1953 introduced the world to Playboy magazine and built the company into one of the most recognizable American global brands in history, peacefully passed away today from natural causes at his home, The Playboy Mansion, surrounded by loved ones. He was 91 years old."

Hugh Martson Hefner was born on April 9, 1926, in Chicago, Illinois.

Hefner began his publishing career as a copywriter for Esquire magazine before launching Playboy, according to IMDB.

The first issue of Playboy hit newsstands in 1953 and featured a nude calender photo of Marilyn Monroe. It sold for 50 cents a copy and was published without a date in case there wasn't a second issue, according to CNN.

But the Playboy brand was a success and introduced everyday Americans to Playboy bunnies, Playmates of the Month and nude centerfolds.

To his critics, according to IMDB, Hefner said Playboy exploited sex the way Sports Illustrated exploited sports.

In 1971, Hefner moved his Chicago-based empire to Southern California where he purchased the Playboy Mansion West in Holmby Hills, which soon became notorious for its star-studded risque parties.

According to IMDB, Hefner once told Esquire magazine, he'd slept with over a thousand women.

"There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married, I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married," Hefner told the magazine.

Kansas City had its own Playboy Club in the 60s. It sat on the top-floor ballroom of the former Continental Hotel. It was a full-service restaurant that served lunch and dinner. It also had two show rooms featuring both local and nationally known entertainers.

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CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio - After Casey Pigge was taken into custody last year for using a brick to kill his cellmate by repeatedly smashing his head, he made one thing clear to investigators.

"Pigge denied any desire to be a serial killer, but could not promise that he wouldn't kill again," a prison social worker said after interviewing him.

Less than a year later, Pigge used a chain meant to restrain him around the stomach to strangle a fellow inmate in a prison transport van as it traveled through Pickaway County in central Ohio. On Wednesday, Pigge pleaded guilty to killing that prisoner, David Johnson, and was immediately sentenced to 25 years in prison.

"I guess you never seen that on a bus before," Pigge boasted to the surviving inmates after Johnson's killing, according to highway patrol records. Johnson was serving an eight-year sentence for sexual battery.

Pigge apparently did not want to be around a sex offender, Pickaway County Prosecutor Judy Wolford said Wednesday.

"Whether the gentleman that was killed was incarcerated or not, he was still a human being, and we still have a victim in this particular case," she said. "I'm pleased that justice has been served for him."

Pigge's attorney, Steve Larson, said he didn't discuss motives with his client.

"My position is, can they prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt. Obviously they could, he made statements against himself," Larson said.

Larson said Pigge was pleasant around him, although security was always tight. The inmate likes to read westerns, he said.

Any time in prison for Johnson's death is moot: Pigge already is serving a life sentence for killing his cellmate Luther Wade and 30 years to life for fatally slitting the throat of his girlfriend's mother in 2008. He gave himself the nickname "box cutter" after the weapon he used to kill her.

The state prisons system has not said why Pigge, with his record, was placed in a van with the ability to carry out the killing of Johnson. The state updated its prison transportation policies afterward but won't release details.

"They definitely was not doing their job and monitoring us even with a known Hannibal Lecter with us," according to a letter from an inmate on the bus that day that was sent afterward to prisons director Gary Mohr, as reported by the Dayton Daily News.

Officers with the prisons' department SWAT unit transported Pigge Wednesday from the maximum Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. Three SWAT members were positioned in the courtroom and a fourth was just outside in the hall. Pigge wore hand and ankle chains in the courtroom during the hearing, which lasted only a few minutes.

Pigge, 29, feared Wade was a member of the Aryan Brotherhood who planned to kill him, records show. He'd been Wade's cellmate at Lebanon Correctional Facility for one day when he talked him into being blindfolded as part of a card trick, then took a brick and brought it down again and again on Wade's head.

Even before Wade's killing, Pigge's prison misconduct record ran nearly 30 pages. Over the years, he repeatedly refused to enter his cell, was found with homemade alcohol, collected contraband like razor blades, electric cords and a TV converter box and fought other inmates.

Records show Pigge was born to a 14-year-old girl who used drugs and alcohol while pregnant with him. Child protection authorities first intervened when he was just 7 days old, according to a 2009 evaluation after Pigge killed his girlfriend's mother.

Pigge was burned with cigarettes as a toddler, forced as a child to urinate in a heating grate when his mother and stepfather locked him in a room, was possibly sexually abused, and was repeatedly abandoned, according to the report by psychologist Dennis Eshbaugh.

"I feel nobody ever liked me," Pigge told the psychologist.

Pigge was placed in dozens of foster homes and hospitals over the years, and diagnosed with a mild mental disability. "In effect, the defendant is functionally a child in an adult body," Eshbaugh said.

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Andrew Welsh-Huggins can be reached on Twitter at https://twitter.com/awhcolumbus.

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Private jets scandal, tax plan test Trump's brand. Donald Trump's self styling as the people's champion who would drain the Washington swamp got him to the White House. Trump's transformation from a billionaire Manhattan real-estate magnate who jetted around in a private Boeing, into an advocate for the crushed dreams of middle class Americans in the globalized economy was one of the most audacious and successful aspects of his presidential campaign.

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The White House as authorized a waiver to loosen shipping rules regarding Puerto Rico. The islands Officials have said it would be significant for us to help them, when Hurricane Maria hit them.

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"At @ricardorossello request, @POTUS has authorized the Jones Act be waived for Puerto Rico. It will go into effect immediately," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted Thursday morning.

Her tweet comes after Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said he asked the White House to loosen the regulations Wednesday night.

He joined the growing list of officials who argued that lifting the the Jones Act -- a federal law designed to protect the financial interests of US shipbuilders by limiting shipping by foreign vessels -- would help expedite supplies to the ravaged island.

The act was quickly lifted to help Texas and Florida in the wake of hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The Department of Homeland Security said it was able to lift the restrictions quickly because the Department of Defense requested a waiver for those states and the department hadn't yet done so for Puerto Rico.

Trump told reporters on Wednesday that "we're thinking" about lifting the law, but added that a "lot of shippers" didn't want it lifted.

In the wake of the devastation in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz -- along with other US politicians, including Sens. John McCain, R-Arizona, and Marco Rubio, R-Florida -- had urged the suspension of the Jones Act in order to speed up supply deliveries.

CNN's Rene Marsh, Gregory Wallace, Noah Gray and Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.

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Hugh Hefner the owner of and founder of Play boy magazine has died at the age of 91.

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Hugh Hefner -- the silk-robed Casanova whose Playboy men's magazine popularized the term "centerfold," glamorized an urbane bachelor lifestyle and helped spur the sexual revolution of the 1960s -- has died, the magazine said late Wednesday. He was 91.

Hefner founded Playboy in 1953 with $600 of his own money and built the magazine into a multimillion-dollar entertainment empire that at its 1970s peak included TV shows, a jazz festival and a string of Playboy Clubs whose cocktail waitresses wore bunny ears and cottontails.

Over the years, the legend of "Hef" only grew as he bedded hundreds of young women, married a few of his magazine's "Playmates" and cavorted on reality TV shows with a stable of girlfriends less than a third his age.

Some critics dismissed him as a relic of a sexist era, especially in his later years, when Hefner spoke openly of his Viagra-fueled sex romps at the Playboy Mansion. But many men envied his adolescent-fantasy lifestyle.

And his pioneering magazine, his biggest legacy, may have helped the buttoned-up America of the 1950s and early 1960s loosen up a little about sex.

"I would like to be remembered as somebody who has changed the world in some positive way, in a social, sexual sense, and I'd be very happy with that," Hefner told CNN. "I'm a kid who dreamed the dreams and made them come true."

Related: Playboy and Hugh Hefner in pictures

A 'male point of view'

Hefner was born April 9, 1926, in Chicago to Glenn Hefner, an accountant, and Grace Hefner, a teacher. Both parents were conservative Protestants from Nebraska.

"My folks were raised pure prohibitionist," Hefner told The Hollywood Reporter in 2011. "They were very good people, with high moral standards -- but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home."

In 1944, after graduating from high school, Hefner joined the U.S. Army as a writer for a military newspaper. Following World War II, he became a promotional copywriter at Esquire magazine, where he began toying with the idea of publishing a men's magazine.

"Esquire was always for older guys, but ... it was very much devoted to male bonding and outdoor adventure," Hefner told CNN. "And I wanted to read a magazine that was a little more sophisticated and was focused really on the romantic connection between the sexes from a male point of view."

Related: Key facts about Hugh Hefner

After raising $10,000 from investors, Hefner published the debut issue of Playboy in December 1953.

The premiere issue had no date, in case it sold poorly and there wasn't a second issue. On its cover was actress Marilyn Monroe, who also appeared in a nude centerfold -- a photograph that had been originally used for a pin-up calendar.

Hefner contributed an introductory essay in which he envisioned the magazine's readers: "We like our apartment. We enjoy mixing up cocktails and an hors d'oeuvre or two, putting a little mood music on the phonograph and inviting in a female acquaintance for a quiet discussion on Picasso, Nietzsche, jazz, sex ..."

Instant success

Playboy was an immediate success, selling more than 50,000 copies.

Hefner helped personally select monthly "Playmates," persuaded famous sex symbols such as Jayne Mansfield and Ursula Andress to pose nude for the magazine and added "centerfold" to the popular lexicon. He was also arrested in 1963 on charges that Playboy violated obscenity laws, but a jury acquitted him after a trial.

"I've never thought of Playboy, quite frankly, as a sex magazine," he told CNN. "I always thought of it as a lifestyle magazine in which sex was one important ingredient."

As if to prove his point, Playboy published articles and short fiction by some of the most celebrated writers of the day, including Ray Bradbury, Ian Fleming, Carl Sagan, John Updike and Vladimir Nabokov -- inadvertently creating a joke phrase, "I only read Playboy for the articles."

The magazine also earned respect for its lengthy interviews with high-profile figures like Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon and Jimmy Carter, who made headlines after granting Playboy an interview during his 1976 campaign for president.

CNNMoney (Atlanta) First published September 27, 2017: 11:24 PM ET

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Hefner founded Playboy in 1953 with $600 of his own money and built the magazine into a multimillion-dollar entertainment empire that at its 1970s peak included TV shows, a jazz festival and a string of Playboy Clubs whose cocktail waitresses wore bunny ears and cottontails.

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there has been more than 120,000 people who have had to leave there homes because of a volcano that could erupt in Bali.

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An Indonesian disaster official says more than 120,000 people have left the region around the Mount Agung volcano on Bali, fearing it will soon erupt.

Nyoman Parwata, an official at the disaster mitigation agency's command post in Bali, said Thursday the number of evacuees has swelled to about 122,500.

The volcano has been at its highest alert level since Friday, sparking a massive exodus of villagers.

An exclusion zone around the mountain extends as far as 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) from the crater in places but officials say people farther from the volcano are also leaving.

Agung last erupted in 1963, killing more than 1,100 people, and remained active for about a year.

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An Indonesian disaster official says more than 120,000 people have left the region around the Mount Agung volcano on Bali, fearing it will soon erupt. Nyoman Parwata, an official at the disaster mitigation agency's command post in Bali, said Thursday the number of evacuees has swelled to...

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Authorities arrested a man for killing his wife who was a second grade teacher. They say she had blunt force injury to the head and sharp force injuries to the neck. There calling it a domestic violence crime in her own home.

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Husband charged with murder of teacher found dead Saturday

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Authorities have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering of his wife, a teacher who was found dead on Saturday. Vanessa MacCormack's husband, Andrew MacCormack, was arrested Tuesday at Revere Police Headquarters on the charge of murder, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley's office said.

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More than 120,000 people have evacuated Bali Indonesia, Indonesian officials say that Mount Agung could erupt in a matter of hours. Villagers and natives of Bali are taking shelter in temporary camps and other buildings. If erupted, Mount Agung can produce deadly clouds of hot ashes, rocks, and gases. Experts and professionals are highly encouraging for people to seek shelter and stay out of the "Exclusion zone."

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Indonesian officials said more than 120,000 people have evacuated Bali as authorities warned a volcano could erupt in "a matter of hours."

Around 122,500 people have fled the island, said Nyoman Parwata, an official at the disaster mitigation agency in Bali.

The exodus of villagers began last week but it has accelerated since Friday after the authorities issued the highest-level alert status.

Authorities said last week that Mount Agung has shown signs of magma rising, forcing them to create a 7.5-mile buffer zone around the mountain where the volcano is located. But officials now said people are fleeing even farther areas.

Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the disaster mitigation agency's spokesperson, said the chances of an eruption were "quite big."

More than 800 earthquakes were recorded in the area Monday alone - with additional 400 by Tuesday midday -- and a smoke column was seen emanating from the crater.

Pak Kasbani, head of the volcanology center, told local media that if the seismic action continues, an eruption - the first in more than a half-century - could be a "matter of hours" away.

The volcano in Bali last erupted in 1963, killing more than 1,100 people.

People fleeing this week were settled in 400 locations across Bali, including temporary camps, schools and other public buildings.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Indonesian officials said more than 120,000 people have evacuated Bali as authorities warned a volcano could erupt in "a matter of hours." Around 122,500 people have fled the island, said Nyoman Parwata, an official at the disaster mitigation agency in Bali.

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facebook deletes thousents of fake account in preperation of the german election. facebook is adding a related artical feture to there sociol network

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Facebook says that it deleted a host of fake accounts from the social network in the buildup to Sunday's German election.

"To prevent people from misusing our platform, we announced a new push to remove fake accounts by spotting suspicious patterns of activity," explained Richard Allan, Facebook's vice president, public policy, for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, in a blog post. "In the month before the election, we removed tens of thousands of fake accounts in Germany."

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc came first in the country's election, paving the way for her to lead Germany for a fourth term. Merkel, however, has emerged from the election with a weakened power base. The nationalist Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party, won 93 of the 709 seats in parliament after a campaign that centered on shrill criticism of Merkel and her 2015 decision to let in large numbers of migrants.
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In the post, Allan explained that, after reports of foreign interference in the run-up to the U.S. and French elections, Facebook worked closely with German officials "to fight disinformation and make Facebook a safer and more secure environment for genuine civic engagement."

In addition to removing the fake accounts, Facebook combated fake news with its Related Articles feature, which gives users access to different perspectives. The social network also offered a tab where political parties could outline their positions on key issues. "When someone clicked on an article about the federal election in their News Feed, they were given the option to compare the major political parties' perspectives," Allan explained. "People were also able to explore the parties' positions on key issues, gaining exposure to a diverse set of viewpoints."
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Facebook also worked closely with Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and trained members of parliament and candidates on online security.

The Menlo Park, Calif.-based firm has been battling fake news and political information on both sides of the Atlantic.

President Barack Obama reportedly warned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the threat posed by fake news on the social network during a private meeting last year shortly after the U.S. Presidential election.

Facebook announced a strategy to tackle fake news in December 2016, making it easier for users to report fake news when they see it, and harnessing fact checking. Earlier this year, Facebook also revamped its systems to make it harder for fake news to be spread and eliminate fake accounts.
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The company recently announced that it uncovered $100,000 in fake ad spending tied to Russian operatives during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. While the vast majority of ads didn't reference the election, voting, or a particular candidate, they did focus on amplifying divisive social and political messages such as LGBT matters, race, immigration and gun rights, according to Stamos.

Last week, Zuckerberg said that Facebook would release the Russia-linked ads to Congress. During a Facebook Live Chat, the Facebook CEO also said that the company would strengthen its ad review process for political ads.
Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers. The Associated Press contributed to this article.

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Facebook deleted 'tens of thousands' of fake accounts in the run-up to the German election

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Facebook says that it deleted a host of fake accounts from the social network in the buildup to Sunday's German election. "To prevent people from misusing our platform, we announced a new push to remove fake accounts by spotting suspicious patterns of activity," explained Richard Allan, Facebook's vice president, public policy, for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, in a blog post.

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The identity of a person killed in California's Yosemite National Park remained unknown early Thursday after a granite slab described as "the size of an apartment building" fell off the face of El Capitan the day before.

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The identity of a person killed in California's Yosemite National Park remained unknown early Thursday after a granite slab described as "the size of an apartment building" fell off the face of El Capitan the day before.

Rangers from the National Park Service took the injured person to a hospital. It was unclear if any of the approximately 30 climbers on the rock, or park tourists below, was injured, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Photos on social media showed dust billowing skyward from the site of the disaster. Ranger Scott Gediman said Wednesday that the tragic accident was "witnessed by a lot of people."

El Capitan is one of the world's largest granite monoliths, towering 4,000 feet (1,219 meters) above Yosemite Valley.

Several people made emergency calls, reporting the rock fall.

"I saw a piece of rock, white granite the size of an apartment building, at least 100 feet by 100 feet, suddenly just come peeling off the wall with no warning," said Canadian climber Peter Zabrok, 57, who was scaling El Capitan and was above the rock fall.

Mountaineers from around the world travel to the park in the Sierra Nevada to scale El Capitan's sheer face. Autumn is one of the peak seasons because the days are long and the weather is warm.

Rock falls are common in Yosemite but seldom fatal.

Ken Yager, a Yosemite climber and historian, said he's never seen a rockfall-related death at the site.

"It's pretty rare," he told the Fresno Bee. "As many rockfalls that go on around here, it's kind of amazing. It's kind of a freak accident in some ways."

Kevin Jorgeson said he and climbing partner Tommy Caldwell once witnessed a massive rock fall in the same area while they prepared for a trek that made them the first people to free-climb the Dawn Wall on El Capitan in 2015.

First they heard a rumble and then they saw a white cloud of dust.

"Yosemite is just a really active, wild place. It's always changing," Jorgeson said. "It doesn't make it any less tragic when someone gets in the way of that."

In 2013, a rock dislodged and severed the rope of a Montana climber who was scaling El Capitan.

Mason Robison, 38, fell about 230 feet to his death. It was Robison's gear digging into the side of the mountain that caused the rock to dislodge.

Yosemite remained open after Wednesday's rock fall, and other activities throughout the park weren't affected, rangers said.

The rock fall happened near the Waterfall route on El Capitan's eastern buttress shortly before 2 p.m. PDT, according to a statement by the National Park Service.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Slab in deadly Yosemite rockfall was 'size of an apartment building'

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The identity of a person killed in California's Yosemite National Park remained unknown early Thursday after a granite slab described as "the size of an apartment building" fell off the face of El Capitan the day before. Rangers from the National Park Service took the injured person to a hospital.

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A guy named Angel Rios Boneta, is using social media to tell families their loved ones are okay. He records people in Porto Rico saying they are okay. Angel posts about it on social media.

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In Puerto Rico, Angel Rios Boneta is helping stranded residents connect with relatives in other parts of the island and overseas via social media.

Rios Boneta, 31, lives and works in San Juan but his parents live in the town of Utuado, a little less than two hours west of the capital city.

On his Facebook page, the father of two has posted more than 50 short videos in Spanish and in English of residents simply stating their names and saying that they are OK in hopes that the messages make it to their families.

"My name is Robert Stone, I live in Utuado, Puerto Rico and I am from Hampton, Virginia and I have friends in Hampton and I have relatives in Georgia and Wisconsin and if they see this thing, know that I am OK and that I'm well taken care of," one man says in English during a video message. " That's it."

After Hurricane Maria struck the U.S. territory on Sept. 20, killing at least 16, demolishing homes and leaving long lines of residents desperate for gas, Boneta drove to Utuado to check on his family and assist in the recovery effort.

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"I arrived in Utuado and people were begging me for water, for food," he told ABC News in Spanish, holding back tears.

Like nearly half of Puerto Rico, Utuado is still without water. The town also has no electricity. Boneta said that in Utuado, water was a main concern as well as a lack of fuel. Decomposing trees also added a foul smell to the already calamitous situation, he said.

For a full week they don't know if they're alive, and the videos help. -- Angel Rios Boneta

Puerto Rico's Gov. Ricardo Rossello called Maria "probably the single biggest hurricane catastrophe in the history of the US."

As Boneta initially set out to check on his family after the storm, he said that one of his uncles had asked him to take a cellphone video of his daughter, who lives in a town between San Juan and Utuado, so he could see she was fine.

That simple request turned into a movement for Boneta, prompting him to make videos for people along the way from San Juan to Utuado and around the town's shelters and streets.

"I feel satisfaction that family members can see that they're alive. There are many people who don't know about their families since day one. For a full week they don't know if they're alive, and the videos help," he said.

Boneta said hundreds of people had been asking for help, not only with sending out their videos, but also finding family members who have not been heard of since Maria hit.

"After I posted the first videos, people were messaging me asking me to find their families members," he said.

The comment section of his videos captures the desperation of many who are still looking for family members they haven't reached for days. The comments also show a flood of gratitude.

"It's not just a person saying 'hi' to their moms or their children. They don't know if other family members are also watching them," Boneta said. "When I get to San Juan and start uploading the videos, I get flooded with messages thanking me for this. People are also contacting me offering help, what they can send, if they can send money for fuel, etc."

In Utuado, Boneta went to two schools now serving as shelters and that's where many of the videos have come from.

"Hi there sister, this is your brother Miguel. I'm here. I'm fine. All of us are fine. Thank God," said another man in a different video.

In comments below Miguel's video, one person exclaimed: "That's my uncle!!!!!"

Boneta said he also tries to call family members of the people he's encountered so they know their families in Utuado are OK.

"Some of them are very emotional, choked up, and I ask them for phone numbers for their family members so we can tell them they're fine," he said.

As he posts videos and updates on his page, Boneta has continued to travel back and forth from Utuado, distributing fuel, food and water to people in the town. He said that he has had to spend hours and sometimes a full day in line for fuel and water. The lack of fuel and long lines made getting to Utuado particularly hard.

He said he has been paying out of pocket for the fuel needed to make the trip to Utuado every other day. The long queues to fill the tank of his small car prevent him from traveling every day, as he spends hours waiting. He said offers for donations were pouring in, but he was not doing it for the money.

"I'm not planning to stop," Boneta said. "I'll keep doing this until things get back to normal, or until someone tells me I need to stop -- and they better give me a valid reason for asking me not to keep doing this."

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In Puerto Rico, Angel Rios Boneta is helping stranded residents connect with relatives in other parts of the island and overseas via social media. Rios Boneta, 31, lives and works in San Juan but his parents live in the town of Utuado, a little less than two hours west of the capital city.

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A 7 year old girl died of head trauma and the mother refused to call the police because she said her phone was low on minutes. The mother now faces up to 99 years in prison and charges could eventually be upgraded.

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Texas mom charged in death of 4-year-old girl didn't call 911 because she was low on minutes, report says

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A Texas mother charged in her daughter's death reportedly told police she didn't call 911 when her daughter was injured because her phone was low on minutes.

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Raianna Brown lowering herself to the ground as the national anthem played at Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta, her knee in the grass while her teammates stood with their hands over their hearts. She is not the only girl that has stood behind the NFL players. WNBA athletes and  Howard  University cheerleaders. They are posting pictures all over social media saying #TakeAKnee

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The Cut 1 day ago Caitlin Moscatello

This weekend, as NFL players knelt down and linked arms at stadiums across the country, a photo of a Georgia Tech dancer went viral. The image showed Raianna Brown lowering herself to the ground as the national anthem played at Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta, her knee sinking into the grass while her teammates stood with their hands over their hearts. Brown tweeted the photo just before midnight on Saturday, and by Tuesday morning, it had more than 35,000 retweets and 128,000 likes.

Proudest & scariest moment as a yellow-jacket happened at the same time. Thank you for inspiring to to take a stand
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Brown never expected the tweet to get the reaction it did. But on Friday, after President Trump ranted against NFL athletes who've followed Kaepernick's lead, #TakeAKnee began trending on Twitter and Brown's photo went viral. While not the only woman to protest in solidarity with NFL players - WNBA athletes and Howard University cheerleaders have also taken a knee - she became a symbol of women in the movement. "I was really surprised," said Brown of the response she received.

This week after her classes, the Cut spoke with Brown - who said she isn't on the dance team this year due to hip surgery she underwent in May - to get the story behind the photo.
I think a lot of people are assuming the photo was taken over the weekend, but it was from last fall, when you were on the Georgia Tech dance team. Where did you first see the photo, and why did you decide to post it this weekend?
I actually first saw this photo last year, right after the game ... One of the photographers that works on the field came up to me and they said they had a photo of me kneeling during the anthem and asked me if they could post it and send it to me. So I said sure ... and I posted it after I got it from him that time. Then, this weekend, I reposted it to just stand in solidarity with the NFL players who would be kneeling this weekend.
Thousands of people have reacted to your post - and the number keeps growing. How is the response different than when you first posted the image last year?
This time it most definitely has gained a lot more traction, probably just because overall in media the #TakeAKnee hashtag has gained a lot more traction as well. This time I've actually gotten a lot more, I guess, blowback; as far as social media, there have been a lot more negative comments. But the negative comments are really outweighed by all the positive support I have received. I have gotten a few comments like, "I hope she gets kicked off the team and loses her scholarship." Stuff like that.
I saw one of those. You responded to one like, "Actually, I'm fine."
[ Laughs] I didn't get kicked off the team and my scholarship has to do with academics not dancing, so, yeah. But yeah, I've gotten a couple of those [comments], but those don't really bother me. I'm just glad that the conversation is being had.
If you can go back, what was going through your mind right before the national anthem started to play, and you knew you were going to do this?
I think it was the day before the game, I reached out to my coach and said, "I plan on kneeling for the anthem during the game. This is why." I sent her an article about the death of Terence Crutcher and gave her all the background and she was really supportive.

I was very, very nervous. As a part of the dance team, you do some dancing before the anthem happens and I'm pretty sure I messed up like four times, and I usually don't mess up. I really just had to center myself on why I was doing it. And so when I took the knee during the anthem, I just said in my head the names of the people of color who have been killed or been victims of racial injustice in the United States, names that I knew like Emmett Till, Sandra Bland, Mike Brown, at the time Terence Crutcher ... all these names. That kind of gave me the strength to make it through the anthem. I'm pretty sure I was crying a little bit too, but I was far away so hopefully nobody could tell.

One of my favorite acts of social justice ... is the Little Rock Nine and when they integrated the high school in Little Rock. It was just amazing to me to think about how much more nervous they probably were than I was. A lot of those stories gave me the strength to be able to make this statement and make a stance on something that is controversial but I think needed to be said.
How did the crowd react?
I was a little nervous if anyone was going to do anything crazy or say anything really mean to me, but I didn't experience anything like that in person at the game.
Unlike a lot of the athletes who protested this weekend, you were kneeling alone. Had you talked to your teammates about your plans to kneel during the national anthem, or asked if anyone wanted to join you?
I told them I spoke to the coach and it was fine and they were welcome to kneel as well, but for the most part, well, I guess actually everyone else didn't kneel for whatever reason. I respect that they didn't. We're still great friends, even though they didn't kneel. I told them everyone has different ways that they participate in social activism. I tend to be more on the visible side of that.
What was the reaction on campus afterward? Did any of your classmates say anything to you?
A lot of my classmates were very supportive. Some of the administration or faculty offices I passed by all the time told me if I had any problems with anyone that they will speak up for me and speak to me about it.
Trump has been trying to frame the conversation around the protests as being anti-American, and an insult to the flag. On Monday he tweeted Like you, some WNBA players took a knee last fall before there was the level of public support we're seeing right now. In your view, is it important, or why is it important for women athletes to also be visible in these protests? , "The issue of kneeling has nothing to do with race." What do you say to that? What's next for you in terms of your social activism?
I don't really have anything to say back to that specifically to him. I would just say kind of what I said before: For me, it's not about being disrespectful toward the country or toward the flag itself. It's more making a statement about what's going on in the country that's being ignored.
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I think a lot of the times women actually are the catalyst for a lot of social-justice change and movements, and unfortunately that is not necessarily portrayed in history all of the time. So I feel that this is most definitely one of those cases where the men tend to get more of the attention. Which, it happens. It's fine. But it's important to know that it's not a one-sided thing. The issue itself is not one-sided. It's not just black men who are seeing this as an issue.

Right now, I'm working on the premiere of my dance company. The dance company is called Raiin Dance Theater and our show that's coming up is called . In Human is described as an examination and celebration of black culture, but for me it has a little bit more than that to it ... It's about recognizing humanity in others, and what happens when you don't and what type of art that leads us to create.

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The Cut 1 day ago Caitlin Moscatello This weekend, as NFL players knelt down and linked arms at stadiums across the country, a photo of a Georgia Tech dancer went viral. The image showed Raianna Brown lowering herself to the ground as the national anthem played at Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta, her knee sinking into the grass while her teammates stood with their hands over their hearts.

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The inside story of how the FBI rocked college basketball

For three years, college basketball -- from coaches to sneaker companies -- was in the FBI's crosshairs. By using wiretaps, surveillance video, undercover agents and cooperating witnesses, the scope of their work and the sport's corruption came to light.

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On Tuesday, the FBI announced that 10 people, including four college basketball assistant coaches, were arrested as part of a three-year investigation into bribes and other corruption in the sport.

Assistant coaches from Arizona, Auburn, Louisville, Miami, Oklahoma State and USC were implicated in the investigation, and on Wednesday, Louisville announced that athletic director Tom Jurich and longtime basketball coach Rick Pitino were placed on administrative leave.

Joon H. Kim, acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, told reporters that the investigation was ongoing. There might be additional arrests and more schools involved.

Court records and sealed complaints released by the U.S. Attorney's office reveal an elaborate, clandestine FBI investigation that involves wiretaps, surveillance video, undercover agents and cooperating witnesses. Here is a look at some of the findings:

First the coaches ...

On May 6, 2016, Louis Martin "Marty" Blazer III, a Pittsburgh-based financial adviser, was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with wire fraud and accused of siphoning $2.35 million from the accounts of several professional athletes in order to invest in movie projects and make Ponzi-like payments. According to the SEC's complaint, when its examiners uncovered the unauthorized withdrawals and asked Blazer to explain them, he lied and produced falsified documents in an attempt to hide his misconduct.

The SEC alleged that Blazer, who founded Blazer Capital Management as a "concierge" firm targeting pro athletes and other high-worth individuals as clients, took the money from five clients without their authorization from October 2010 to January 2013 to invest in two movie projects. The SEC alleged Blazer had personal financial interest in the development of both films, one of which was called "Mafia the Movie" and the other called "Sibling."

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The SEC complaint said Blazer actually pitched the movie project to an athlete as an investment opportunity, but that client "expressly refused to make the investment." Blazer allegedly took $550,000 from the client's account and invested in the film projects. When the client later learned about Blazer's actions and demanded repayment, Blazer then took money out of a different athlete's account to make repayment in "Ponzi-like fashion."

On Aug. 4 of this year, the SEC ordered Blazer to make restitution of $1.8 million and pay a civil penalty of $150,000. The SEC had barred him from the industry in May 2016. As part of a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney's office, he agreed to plead guilty to securities fraud, aggravated identity theft, false statements and documents, and two counts of wire fraud, according to a Sept. 19 cooperation agreement.

It wasn't the first time Blazer was investigated by financial regulators. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, an unidentified NFL player filed a complaint against Blazer in March 2011 with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, an industry-funded group that regulates financial advisers and the firms where they work.

The football player alleged he lost $4 million because Blazer misappropriated or mismanaged his accounts between 2001 and 2009. Blazer told FINRA investigators that the player was recklessly withdrawing money from his accounts, forcing his firm to sell other assets in order to generate cash. An arbitrator awarded the football player $850,000 in May 2012.

In 2015, Blazer was also linked to an investigation of improper cash payments to University of North Carolina football players. A grand jury indicted former Tar Heels player Christopher Hawkins for violating the state's sports agent law by providing money to a UNC player and illegally contacting another about signing a contract. During the investigation, former UNC player Robert Quinn told state investigators that Hawkins gave him money to steer him to agent Peter Schaffer and Blazer, according to court documents. Kendric Burney, another UNC player, told investigators that Hawkins arranged and attended his meetings with Blazer and Schaffer.

U.S. Department of Justice documents released Tuesday indicate Blazer also was accused of a 14-year-long wire fraud scheme in which he made "payments and loans to NCAA athletes in order to induce those student-athletes to retain the defendant as a financial advisor and/or business manager."

Blazer also agreed to one other condition as part of his plea agreement: he became a cooperating witness for the FBI, providing information which sparked the investigation into the relationship between college basketball coaches, financial advisers, sports agents, marketing officials and apparel company employees in recruiting NBA-bound players.

Sometime during the fall of 2016, a mutual friend introduced Blazer to Rashan Michel, a former NBA and Southeastern Conference referee. After leaving pro basketball in 2001, Michel opened Thompson Bespoke Clothiers in Atlanta, which sold high-end, custom tailored suits. His clients included NFL players such as Todd Gurley, Teddy Bridgewater, Sammy Watkins and Mike Evans, among others. In 2014, he designed the suits worn by the top seven picks in the NFL draft, according to his social media account.

This past spring, former LSU tailback Leonard Fournette and Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson were among the players who wore his suits on the first night of the NFL draft.

Michel, 43, attended Talladega College, an HBCU in Talladega, Alabama, and worked as an NBA referee for four seasons beginning in 1997, league spokesman Tim Frank told ESPN in 2011. At the time, Frank wouldn't say why Michel departed the league. According to data on the website basketball-reference.com, Michel worked 212 NBA games as an official.

In an interview with Stacks Magazine in 2014, Michel said he couldn't find work after leaving pro basketball. He started selling clothes for a clothier in Chicago, then spent six months studying under a master tailor in Canada. He launched Thompson Bespoke Clothiers in 2007, according to state of Georgia records. He had recently moved to Charlotte and planned to open a second store there, according to a post on his Instagram account.

Michel had been in the spotlight before. On March 30, 2011, he confronted former NBA star Dominique Wilkins while Wilkins was wrapping up his broadcasting duties after a Hawks-Magic game in Atlanta. A video of the incident obtained by TMZ, which was taken by a fan with a cellphone, showed a person identified as Wilkins throwing at least two punches at a man in the first row before he was pulled away. After yanking off his tie and tossing aside his suit jacket, the 6-foot-8 Wilkins tried to get back at the man before several people stepped in, pushing him onto the court, according to a 2011 ESPN.com story.

Michel told Atlanta police that Wilkins owed him $12,500 for custom-made suits; Wilkins said he believed the suits were a gift. Michel was charged with two counts of misdemeanor simple battery and suffered a black eye. The charges were later dropped.

Michel called into the "Frank and Wanda Morning Show" on WVEE-FM in Atlanta the next morning to give his side of the story, claiming Wilkins punched him first.

"I went down and said, 'Let's handle this like men, work out a payment plan,'" Michel said. "The next thing I know ... the security guard grabbed me and then [Wilkins] punches me."

In October 2011, Michel sued Wilkins and the Atlanta Spirit, then-owners of the Hawks, and claimed he suffered physical and emotional pain and public humiliation as a result of the incident, in which he said that Wilkins repeatedly punched him without provocation. Michel said he also lost his part-time job as an SEC basketball referee because of the fight.

After the mutual friend had introduced Michel to Blazer, during a series of phone calls in the fall of 2016, Michel told Blazer that Auburn assistant coach Chuck Person needed money. "In exchange for such money, Person would agree to steer student-athletes to [Auburn's] basketball team to retain [Blazer's] financial advisory and business management services," according to the complaint.

Person, who is Auburn's all-time leading scorer and helped the Tigers reach three straight NCAA tournaments, was the No. 4 pick of the Indiana Pacers in the 1986 NBA draft. He was the 1987 NBA Rookie of the Year and played for five teams from 1986 to 2000, earning more than $23 million in salary. A former assistant in the NBA and Korea, Person joined head coach Bruce Pearl's staff at Auburn in 2014. He was promoted to associate head coach the next season.

During a telephone call with Blazer on Sept. 8, 2016, according to the complaint, Michel also boasted about being able to connect Blazer with other coaches. "The good thing about it is," Michel said, "I got all the college coaches right now because, guess what, I'm the one that's with them. I make all their suits."

Michel told Blazer that he even had access to team's locker rooms and players.

"The [expletive] basketball guys [get] way more money than these [expletive] football guys," Michel told Blazer. "We can get us [expletive] 10 basketball players in the next five years and we gonna ... have to sit back and do absolutely nothing."

Michel informed Blazer that Person needed a $60,000 loan, and that Auburn was going to have "three or four pros come out a year. [He's] got one or two of them that's gonna be pretty high draft picks." Michel said Person would pay back the money over a 24-month period. During later conversations, Blazer and Michel discussed the loan being forgiven if Person delivered players.

On Nov. 29, Person and Michel met with Blazer at a restaurant near Auburn's campus. Blazer was wearing a video camera and recording device, and FBI agents monitored the meeting, according to the complaint. During the meeting, Person agreed to accept $50,000 in bribe payments from Blazer.

According to the complaint, Michel explained that Person would receive $5,000 in cash that day and then three additional payments of $15,000. Person signed a promissory note, and then asked if he could receive $10,000 up front. Blazer agreed to wire him an additional $5,000. Michel sent Blazer the information needed to wire money to Person's bank account, and the money was transferred the next day.

On Dec. 12, Person, Michel and Blazer met with an unidentified Auburn player at a Manhattan hotel room. The Tigers were in New York to play Boston College in the Under Armour Reunion at Madison Square Garden. The meeting was again videotaped by Blazer, and Blazer told the player that he wanted to "make sure you [have] a face to put with the voice and the name or whatever, so ya know, so when we do get together ... you're good with everything."

The player told Blazer that he was good with whatever arrangement Person was comfortable with. "I trust him 100 percent," the player said. During the Dec. 12 meeting, Blazer gave Person approximately $15,000 in cash.

Person told the player: "The most important thing is that you ... don't say nothing to nobody. ... But don't share with your sisters, don't share with any of the teammates, that's very important cause this is a violation ... of rules, but this is how the NBA players get it done. They get early relationships, and they form partnerships, they form trust."

He also warned the player: "Your personality and the way you do things can't change. Don't flaunt the stuff you get and, you know, don't change the way you speak to people, that's very important, too."

According to a phone call that was intercepted by an FBI wiretap on Dec. 17, Person told the unidentified player's mother that her son "is going to be good enough to go first round. I've talked to a bunch of people ... and I want him to leave to play in the NBA." Person told her that he had a financial adviser he wanted her to work with and that Blazer had worked as his adviser, as well as former Auburn star Charles Barkley's adviser, neither of which was true. Finally, according to the FBI, Person told the player's mother that he wasn't "getting anything" for making the connection.

Person also told the player's mother that Blazer would start giving her $5,000 or so per month, "so that way, you don't have to worry about anything."

On Dec. 18, after the Tigers defeated Mercer 76-74 at home, Blazer met with the player's mother and stepfather at Person's house. Person explained to them how the arrangement would work and explained that they didn't have to sign anything.

"Your word is good enough for him, and your word is good enough for me," Person told them. "When [the player] gets drafted in June then they'll make a formal signing to be a financial adviser. Now, he is not an agent, so he can't do any contracts. So when [the player] starts getting paid, what percentage of money you're going to send to [Blazer] for him to invest is going to be up to you guys. But [the player] should invest a large portion of it, if not all of it, and, uh, you shouldn't work with more than one financial agent."

Blazer indicated he'd pay the player's parents a few thousand dollars a month for the next four months and gave them $1,000 during the initial meeting. Blazer wired $10,000 to Person's bank account on Dec. 27 and an additional $11,500 on Jan. 10, according to the FBI.

During a telephone call with Blazer, Person said he was giving Michel a portion of the bribes, but complained that Michel was trying to "double dip." But that's what Person tried to do when he arranged for an unidentified financial adviser in Alabama to meet with a second unnamed Auburn player. The meeting occurred at Person's house in January, and the FBI believed that he "initially intended for the [advisor] and [Blazer] to jointly represent Player-2, so that Person could receive money from both individuals."

When the second adviser told Person that he didn't want to make the proposed payments, Person advised the second player's mother that she should go with only Blazer. She thanked him for "putting the right people around us."

On Jan. 5, Michel met with Blazer at a restaurant in Atlanta, where he discussed a proposal in which Blazer would pay him on a monthly basis to connect him with other coaches who were willing to accept bribes. Blazer paid Michel tens of thousands of dollars from January 2017 to about September 2017, according to the FBI, and Michel helped facilitate the payment of $25,000 to an unidentified staff member of another school. The staff member received $5,000 during an initial meeting and an additional $20,000 in later meetings in New York and Atlanta.

The FBI said Person received a total of $91,500 from Blazer, and Person claimed to have given approximately $11,000 to the first player's mother and $7,500 to the second player's mother. Michel received $49,000 for arranging the meetings with coaches and player's parents.

Person was arrested Tuesday morning and was released on $25,000 bond. Michel was arrested in Charlotte on Tuesday and appeared in front of U.S. Magistrate Court Judge David Keesler, who ordered him to appear in New York in two weeks.

Auburn officials suspended Person without pay on Tuesday, and the university said it was "saddened, angry and disappointed" by the news. Auburn officials have hired a Birmingham law firm to investigate the allegations.

Auburn president Steven Leath told ESPN that he received a call on Monday night, and was advised that an FBI agent wanted to meet with him the next morning, without any indication of what the meeting was about. Leath said he wasn't worried, because he assumed it had to do with his security clearance related to certain projects and research work on campus - not about athletics.

An FBI agent arrived shortly before 8 a.m. on Tuesday. "They told me that as a result of a long complex investigation, they were going to make arrests and make charges related to NCAA basketball. In fact, they had already arrested one of our assistant coaches earlier that morning," he said.

But the university did get some reassuring news later from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which was that the university itself was not the target of the investigation, Leath said.

"I think it says clearly that they don't think there's some structural problem or some broader problem at the university, that this was an isolated individual," he said. "I don't think anybody else knew. I don't think there's any indication at Auburn that anybody else knew about this."

Leath said coaches have identified the two student athletes referenced in the FBI's investigation but he was not naming them, and he said the school, which has hired an outside law firm to investigate the men's basketball program, will wait for information from that review to determine what further actions, if any, need to be taken.

"It's very disappointing," Leath said. "I think university presidents are always concerned that the tail doesn't wag the dog. And then you see things like this going on under people's noses, and you wonder how it's even possible," he said.

... then the sneaker company

On June 15, the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions announced that it was suspending Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino for five games this season, and ordering the Cardinals to vacate all records from December 2010 to June 2014 as a result of an investigation into the program's high-profile escort scandal. According to Louisville, it would have to forfeit 108 regular-season wins and 15 NCAA tournament victories, including the 2013 national title.

The NCAA accused Pitino, one of the sport's most successful coaches, of failing to monitor former staff member Andre McGee, who allegedly arranged for strip dances or sex acts for three players, 15 recruits and two coaches who were not affiliated with the school at a Louisville dormitory. At the time, Pitino said he was unaware McGee was hosting the parties in the dorm.

"None of us do not feel extreme remorse, regret in everything that went on inside that dormitory," Pitino said at a news conference when the NCAA penalties were announced. "We've said that many, many times. But this is over the top. It's to the point where it's not even conceivable, what I just read.

"We are embarrassed about what went on. We're extremely contrite about what went on," he said. "But one person does not determine the worth of what we're about as a program."

On July 10, less than a month after the NCAA penalties were announced and about a month before the university appealed what it called "draconian" sanctions, an unidentified Louisville assistant coach spoke on the telephone with Merl Code, a former Clemson basketball player and Adidas employee; Munish Sood, a financial adviser from Princeton, New Jersey; and an undercover agent, who was recording the call for the FBI. The men discussed how they were going to mask an initial $25,000 payment from Adidas to the father of a high school player who had recently committed to Louisville.

According to the FBI complaint, James "Jim" Gatto, Adidas' head of global sports marketing who had worked at the company for 24 years, and Christian Dawkins, formerly an agent for ASM Sports who was recently fired for racking up $42,000 in Uber charges on an unnamed NBA player's credit card, and the others had previously agreed to funnel $100,000 to the recruit's father in four payments. Dawkins told the others he was paying the player's father at the request of a Louisville coach.

The player, identified as "Player-10" and described as a top recruit in the complaint, is believed to be Brian Bowen, a five-star guard/forward from LaPorte, Indiana, who committed to Louisville on June 5. The FBI said telephone records show Gatto spoke directly with the unnamed Louisville coach multiple times in the days before the player publicly committed to play for the Cardinals.

During the July 10 call, the FBI alleges the men discussed a plan in which the undercover agent and Sood would front the money for the first $25,000 payment because it was going to be difficult to mask the payments through Adidas' accounts payable system. Dawkins assured Sood and the undercover agent that they'd eventually be reimbursed by Adidas. Dawkins told them they were paying the player's family so the player would sign with Dawkins and his fledgling agency, as well as an endorsement deal with Adidas, when he turned pro.

Code, who was Clemson's point guard from 1993 to 1997 and until recently had worked as the director of rival Nike's elite youth basketball program, explained why Adidas was paying the player.

"You guys are being introduced to ... how stuff happens with kids and getting into particular schools," Code said during the call. "So this is kind of one of those instances where we needed to step up and help one of our flagship schools in [Louisville], you know, secure a five-star caliber kid. Obviously that helps, you know, our potential business."

Code further explained that by funneling the payments to players' families through third parties, Adidas "was not engaging in a monetary relationship with an amateur athlete. We're engaging in a monetary relationship with a business manager, and whatever he decides to do with it, that's between him and the family. ... We can't get involved directly in those kinds of situations and scenarios."

On July 11, the undercover agent went to Sood's office, where he provided him with $25,000 in cash for the player's father, who was flying to New York to receive it. The FBI said Dawkins called the player's father on July 13 and told him that Sood had $19,500 for him, and that Dawkins would take care of "everything else." The next day, Sood confirmed to Dawkins that he'd delivered the money.

After Gatto and Code had problems in obtaining the rest of the money from Adidas, Dawkins arranged a meeting with Jonathan Brad Augustine, president of The League Initiative and program director of the Adidas-sponsored 1 Family AAU program in Florida, at a hotel room in Las Vegas on July 27. The undercover agent, the Louisville assistant and Blazer, the disgraced former financial planner, also were there. Prior to the meeting, the FBI placed video cameras inside the room and recorded the meeting.

During the meeting, Dawkins laid out plans to funnel money to the family of a second player, who was scheduled to graduate from high school in 2019. "The mom is like, 'We need our [expletive] money,'" Dawkins said. "So we got to be able to fund the situation ... We're all working together to get this kid to [Louisville]. Obviously, in turn, the kid will come back to us."

When Dawkins mentioned they'd have to be careful because the Cardinals were already on NCAA probation, the Louisville assistant agreed. "We gotta be very low key," he said.

The men agreed to funnel the money through Augustine's program, and he promised them that "all my kids will be [Adidas] kids." The undercover agent then handed Augustine an envelope containing $12,700 in cash, according to the FBI, and Dawkins told him that it would cover payments to the second player's family for July and August.

Augustine told the group that he expected Adidas to cover the payments because "no one swings a bigger [expletive] than [an unidentified Louisville coach]" at Adidas, and all the coach had to do "is pick up the phone and call somebody [and say], 'These are my guys, they're taking care of us.'"

After the Louisville assistant left the hotel room, Dawkins and the others discussed the payment plan to the first recruit's family. He said that even though Adidas had agreed to pay him $100,000, a rival athletic apparel company was "coming with a higher number," and he needed to get more money from Adidas to secure the player's commitment to Louisville. Dawkins said he'd spoken to the second unnamed Louisville coach and told him, "I need you to call Jim Gatto, who's the head of everything" at Adidas' basketball program.

After ASM Sports fired Dawkins for improperly using the NBA player's credit card, he was introduced to a second undercover agent, who would be involved in helping him set up a new sports management company. The undercover agent who initially worked with Dawkins told him that he was travelling out of the country for the next month, but that Blazer and the second undercover agent would be available to meet with coaches and/or players in his absence.

On June 6, Dawkins, Sood, Blazer and an undercover agent met on a boat docked off Manhattan, where they signed a shareholder agreement that had been drafted by Soot to establish the terms of the financing and ownership of Dawkins' new company. Under the agreement, Sood and the undercover agent agreed to provide Dawkins with $200,000 annually, in four quarterly payments. Dawkins said he'd use half the money for his salary and half the money for travel and expenses. He told the men they probably needed another $100,000 in a separate account to pay bribes to coaches.

"If we take care of everybody and everything is done, we control everything," Dawkins boasted to an undercover agent. "You can make millions off of one kid."

By then, the men were already making monthly payments to Oklahoma State assistant Lamont Evans, who the FBI says accepted at least $22,000 in bribes to steer his players toward Sood and Dawkins. Their relationship started when Evans was coaching at South Carolina, but he left to join the Cowboys because it was "better players, more, more, more business." The FBI alleges they also paid $20,000 in bribes to Arizona assistant Emmanuel "Book" Richardson, whom Dawkins introduced to Sood at a tournament in Las Vegas in March, and $13,000 to USC assistant Tony Bland.

On Aug. 16, during a telephone call with the second undercover agent, which was recorded by the FBI, Dawkins said that he had been reimbursed for the first $25,000 payment to the first player's family, which was transferred to his "Loyd, Inc." account. In the complaint, the FBI said bank records confirmed a $25,000 deposit on Aug. 1. The check Dawkins deposited was issued from a bank account belonging to an AAU program that was sponsored by Adidas. On the same day, the AAU program's bank account received a $30,000 deposit from an account associated with Adidas, according to the FBI.

Dawkins explained to the second undercover agent that they still had to figure out how to get $2,000 monthly payments to the first player's father, and that Louisville would need to get $5,000 to Augustine by Aug. 25 so he could pass it on to the second player's family.

Dawkins explained that Augustine was an important part of the scheme because he runs a "big-time AAU grassroots program" and had two kids who might be "one and dones." He said Augustine had two more players who were ranked in the top 10 in the country for their respective graduating classes. "Everything that can be put into his nonprofit is a write off, obviously, a tax deduction," Dawkins told the second undercover agent. "[So] it's not just like a normal payment to a player" and could "be of benefit to everybody across the board."

Dawkins told the agent he was in the process of drafting agreements for the parents they were already paying. "Obviously, we have to put funding out, and obviously some of it can't be completely accounted for on paper because some of it is, whatever you want to call it, illegal," he said.

On Aug. 23, the second undercover agent met with Sood in New York and provided him with $20,000, according to the complaint. Sood was supposed to send $5,000 to Augustine so he could begin making monthly payments to the father of the first player.

Two days later, Louisville announced that it had agreed to a 10-year, $160 million extension with Adidas, one of the richest apparel contracts in collegiate sports history. It was $7 million more than what any other ACC program was being paid annually, and only Ohio State, Texas and UCLA had more lucrative apparel deals. When UCLA left Adidas for Under Armour in 2016, the Cardinals became Adidas' flagship school in college athletics.

The school announced the deal during a pep rally for administrators, coaches, staff members and student-athletes in the academic center at Papa John's Stadium.

"[It's] an unprecedented deal from our university's standpoint and an unprecedented deal for Adidas," athletics director Tom Jurich told the crowd.

With Louisville and its recruits apparently secured, Gatto, Code, Dawkins and Augustine moved on to more pressing concerns -- a second plan to land a recruit they'd been simultaneously scheming. According to the FBI, they conspired to funnel approximately $150,000 to an unidentified player who was being recruited by the University of Miami. They planned to follow a similar scheme to the one used with the Louisville recruits to keep the player from signing with a school sponsored by a rival apparel company, which they claimed had offered the player $150,000, according to the complaint.

During calls that were intercepted by FBI wiretaps, Gatto asked Code if the payments could be pushed to 2018 because he wasn't sure he could make it work. "I just don't know if I can do anything in '17, that's what I'm saying," Gatto told him. Gatto then asked Code if the player being recruited by Miami might accept $100,000, which is what they paid Louisville's recruit. Code said he wasn't sure if his family would take that much less, but he'd try to reduce their offer by $25,000. Code warned Gatto if they waited until January 2018, the recruit's asking price might be $200,000.

On Aug. 19, Code informed Augustine that Adidas was willing to do what was necessary to help the Hurricanes secure the recruit, but "everything was kind of strapped for '17. So '18 puts us in a better place to have this conversation."

On Tuesday, interim Louisville president Gregory Postel confirmed the university had received notice that it is included in the federal investigation. "While we are just learning about this information, this is a serious concern that goes to the heart of our athletic department and the university," Postel said. "UofL is committed to ethical behavior and adherence to NCAA rules; any violations will not be tolerated."

In a separate statement, Pitino said he was unaware that one of his assistant coaches was involved in the scheme.

"These allegations come as a complete shock to me," Pitino said. "If true, I agree with the U.S. Attorneys Office that these third-party schemes, initiated by a few bad actors, operated to commit a fraud on the impacted universities and their basketball programs, including the University of Louisville. Our fans and supporters deserve better and I am committed to taking whatever steps are needed to ensure those responsible are held accountable."

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