The FBI will initially prove that the payments occurred. Then they will charge the "sources" of the funding with "failure to report income/payments". They cannot seek restitution from the recruit's parents because you cannot obtain "blood from a turnip". A large donor to Alabama, however, has assets that the FBI can target. Anything over $14,000 is no longer a gift. It is taxable income. The FBI now has to prove that the donors knew that they were providing actual payments to future athletes, which is fraud, and in turn makes the donors liable since they are now part of a conspiracy.
If the FBI is able to successfully execute this campaign, they will use it as a blueprint for the football investigation that is undoubtedly currently underway. Basketball entails 9 scholarships a year, maybe, and an average payment of approximately $25,000 per player. Football generates HUGE revenue for schools, and the SEC has paid up to $200,000 for a single athlete (Sony Michele received $200,000 for example). Imagine the penalties that the FBI can assess and later recoup on football........... They are using the basketball case as a "training ground". Watch, they will start reporting on these "foundations" within the next 2-3 years.
Emmert is going to jail! Not to mention that outside of Vanderbilt and Florida, an SEC degree is worthless outside of the backwater, Southern United States (the most decrepit economic region of our country!)!
