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    Charles Robinson is an award-winning writer who has covered the NFL for newspapers in Michigan and Florida. He also has extensive experience reporting on college football. He graduated from Michigan State with a degree in journalism.

    • Allegations: Leon Williams

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      Miami booster Nevin Shapiro alleges he provided multiple extra benefits to Leon Williams during the player's career with the Hurricanes. Among the benefits he claimed to have provided:

      • Drinks and VIP access in nightclubs on multiple occasions.

      • Food, drinks and entertainment in Shapiro's $2.7 million Miami Beach home on multiple occasions.

      • Entertainment on Shapiro's $1.6 million yacht and jet skis.

      Corroborating accounts

      • Yahoo! Sports has acquired a photo identified by Shapiro and a second source as Leon

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    • Allegations: Marcus Robinson

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      Miami booster Nevin Shapiro alleges he provided a handful of extra benefits to Marcus Robinson during his career with the Hurricanes. Among the benefits he claimed to have provided:

      • A dinner at Japanese steakhouse Benihana and drinks, VIP access and entertainment at The Cheetah in 2008.

      • Food, drinks and entertainment at Shapiro's $6 million mansion on at least one occasion.

      Corroborating accounts

      • One source corroborated Robinson and other Miami players receiving a dinner at Benihana and a strip club visit to The Cheetah in 2008 which was paid by Shapiro.

      In

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    • Allegations: Vernon Carey

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      Nevin Shapiro and a second source said this photo of a sleeping Vernon Carey (left) was taken aboard the booster's yacht during a fishing trip in the summer of 2003.

      Miami booster Nevin Shapiro alleges he provided a handful of extra benefits to Vernon Carey during his junior and senior seasons. Among the benefits he claimed to have provided:

      • Food, drinks and entertainment at Shapiro's $2.7 million Miami Beach home.

      • Entertainment on Shapiro's $1.6 million yacht.

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    • Allegations: Andrew Williams

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      This photo was taken at Miami’s team awards banquet following the 2002 season. From left to right are Nevin Shapiro, Vince Wilfork and Andrew Williams.
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      Nevin Shapiro on Andrew Williams: Play audio

      Andrew Williams was one of dozens of Hurricanes players named by Nevin Shapiro in recorded interviews with federal agents. During those interviews, the booster admitted supplying benefits to an array of Miami players from 2002 to 2009. Shapiro alleges he provided multiple extra benefits to Williams during the 2002 season. Among the benefits he claims to have provided:

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    • Allegations: Ralph Nogueras

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      Miami booster Nevin Shapiro alleges Ralph Nogueras witnessed him committing multiple NCAA violations with Hurricanes football players. Among Shapiro's allegations:

      • Nogueras encountered Shapiro in nightclubs on multiple occasions with Hurricanes football players.

      • Nogueras witnessed Hurricanes players being entertained in his $6 million Miami Beach mansion on multiple occasions.

      In Shapiro's words

      • "I met Ralph Nogueras through the equipment room and via Sean Allen. Ralph was in my house a number of times and met me at the clubs on occasion. During both of those types of sequences, I was with student athletes from the football program."

      Documents

      Nevin Shapiro's cell phone providers condensed his calling records from 2002 to 2008 and deleted

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    • Allegations: Arthur Brown

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      Arthur Brown was one of dozens of Hurricanes players named by Nevin Shapiro in recorded interviews with federal agents. During those interviews, the booster admitted supplying benefits to an array of Miami players from 2002 to 2010. Shapiro alleges he provided multiple extra benefits to Brown during his two seasons with the Hurricanes. Among the benefits he claims to have provided:

      • A dinner at Japanese steakhouse Benihana and strip club visit to The Cheetah during Brown's freshman season in which Shapiro paid for drinks and private entertainment in a VIP area.

      • A lunch at Smith &

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    • Allegations: Jon Beason

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      Miami booster Nevin Shapiro alleges he provided multiple extra benefits to Jon Beason during his career with the Hurricanes. Among the benefits he claimed to have provided:

      • Cash gifts.

      • $1,150 in bounties. Shapiro said he paid Beason $650 in bounty money for his first career start at Virginia on Nov. 13, 2004. The cash was doled out for Beason notching eight tackles ($50 each) and a sack ($250) in a

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    • Allegations: Kayne Farquharson

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      Miami booster Nevin Shapiro alleges he provided an extra benefit to Kayne Farquharson during the 2008 season. The benefit he claimed to have provided:

      • Drinks, VIP access and entertainment for Farquharson and Robert Marve at Solid Gold strip club in Miami. Shapiro said the trip occurred in late August 2008.

      Corroborating accounts

      • One source corroborated Shapiro's account of paying for VIP access, drinks and entertainment for Farquharson to Solid Gold strip club in late August 2008.

      • Yahoo! Sports also acquired the August 2008 bill for Shapiro's American Express

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    • Allegations: Charlie Jones

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      Miami booster Nevin Shapiro alleges he provided extra benefits to Charlie Jones and had improper recruiting contact during the player's official visit. Among the benefits he claimed to have provided:

      • Drinks and VIP access at two Miami Beach nightclubs – Opium Garden and B.E.D. – on the night of Dec. 12, 2003. Shapiro said he arranged for Jones and other Miami players to enter both clubs and paid their bar tabs.

      • Shapiro also said he knowingly broke recruiting rules when he met and briefly spoke to Jones in the booster's VIP area at B.E.D. Jones was subsequently quoted in the Miami Herald on Feb.

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    • Allegations: Jeff Stoutland

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      Nevin Shapiro alleges that Jeff Stoutland was present when he had impermissible contact with offensive line recruit Matt Patchan in the summer of 2007. Among Shapiro’s allegations:

      • Stoutland joined a second coach, identified by two sources as then-assistant Joe Pannunzio, at Shapiro's $6 million Miami Beach mansion for a recruiting pitch to offensive line prospect Matt Patchan. The visit, which Shapiro and two sources said occurred in the summer of 2007, included

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