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By Tom Green,
tgreen@al.com
Auburn president Steven Leath said in a statement Tuesday that the university was "saddened, angry and disappointed" in associate head basketball coach Chuck Person in wake of his arrest by the FBI and the allegations leveled against the former Auburn great.
Person was arrested Tuesday morning as part of a covert FBI investigation into the corruption of college basketball. Person is facing six federal charges of corruption, bribery and fraud, and he is alleged to have received $91,500 in bribes over a 10-month period. If convicted of all charges, Person could face up to 80 years in prison.
The school has since suspended Person indefinitely and without pay.
Leath, in speaking to ESPN on Wednesday, said he received a call from an FBI agent on Monday night and was informed of the investigation during a meeting with the agent shortly before 8 a.m. Tuesday. At that meeting, the agent detailed the complex investigation and told Leath that the agency had already arrested Person earlier that morning.
Leath was shocked by the revelation but found relief in the fact that the university was not implicated and is not a target of the investigation by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.
"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," Leath told ESPN. "I don't think anybody else knew. I don't think there's any indication at Auburn that anybody else knew about this."
On Tuesday afternoon, Auburn retained the Birmingham-based law firm Lightfoot, Franklin and White to conduct an internal review of the men's basketball program. The same law firm was hired last month to conduct an extensive review of Auburn's softball program in the wake of that scandal.
Person appeared in court in Montgomery on Tuesday and was released from custody. He was ordered to appear in court in the Southern District of New York on Oct. 10 at 9 a.m. ET. Person has hired Montgomery-based lawyers Joel Connally and Jeff Duffey to represent him.
According to the ESPN report, Leath said the university has identified the two student-athletes discussed in the federal complaint against Person but will not publicly name them. He added that the school will wait until Lightfoot, Franklin and White finishes its internal review of the program before taking additional actions, if any, regarding those athletes and the basketball program.
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