Documents, text messages reveal impermissible benefits to five SEC players

[JimLeavy59]

Alabama offensive tackle D.J. Fluker


Yahoo Sports authenticated multiple transactions tying Fluker to Davis and others, including cash transfers, hotel stays, furniture, airline flights and other expenses. The records also included a pair of invoices – one submitted to Davis by the mother of an Alabama teammate for monies that had been spent on Fluker's mother, Annice; another sent from Davis to Fluker's onetime financial adviser Hodge Brahmbhatt.


Brahmbhatt declined to comment through his attorney.

As a junior, Fluker started all 14 games at right tackle for the Crimson Tide during the 2012 national championship season. After being tabbed as an All-American by multiple media outlets, he bypassed his senior season and declared for the NFL draft. The San Diego Chargers selected him with the No. 11 pick in April's draft.

Fluker and his mother Annice declined comment through his representatives.


Among the records authenticated by Yahoo Sports, in chronological order:


• An email to Davis dated Jan. 15, 2013, from Angela Pennington – the mother of Fluker's former Alabama teammate Kyle Pennington – seeking help recouping expenses she allegedly incurred on behalf of Fluker's mother, Annice. The email included auto-generated security information linking it to First Community Bank in Chatom, Ala. Pennington's Linkedin page lists her current job as vice president of operations at a Chatom, Ala., branch of First Community Bank. The email reads:


"Good morning,


I hope and pray that all is well with you and your family. I have attached a copy of the invoice and I know I should not have allow [sic] this to go this far. Annice promised me that she was taking the job at the hospital when she came in January and every month she had another Excuse why she couldn't take it. I was depending on her to keep her end of the bargain and pay me back, but she hasn't. I would appreciate whatever you can do to get my money back.


Thanks for all your help!!!!"


The email was accompanied by a typed invoice with the header "January 2012-May 2012" and listed the name and a corresponding phone number of Fluker's mother Annice. The invoice was marked with a digital stamp indicating it had been scanned in at the bank where Pennington works.


The invoice lists 15 transactions totaling $2,375.71, including 11 corresponding check numbers allegedly used for payments, as well as three listings for "Money Order" and one for cash. The charges listed various expenses, including $1,311.60 for rent and an apartment deposit. There were two months of rent paid at Meagan Manor in Chatom, Ala. Yahoo Sports confirmed Fluker's mother briefly lived at Meagan Manor. The invoice also indicated Fluker's mother paid back a portion of the balance, with a line stating "Annice paid $500.00 cash on 3/5/2012," and that the outstanding debt was $1,875.71.


When contacted by Yahoo Sports, Pennington declined to comment on the invoice without Annice Fluker being present.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf-...e-benefits-to-five-sec-players-202513237.html

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Who cares?

Another shock piece that has no evidence that anyone could actually corroborate or hold up in front of any type of arbitrator.

 

[NAHSTE]

I thought we were making progress when nobody started a thread on that "report" from SI about Oklahoma State. This is actually well reported and the evidence is there, which is more than I can say for that pageview mongering *thing* Thamel and Thayer turned in.

But yeah, no fucks given. NCAA some bammas.

:rolltide:

 

[Maynard]

funny....i was looking for the annoying Okie St thread.

Weedens response to that BS in this video is pretty good.

http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2013/09/brandon_weeden_rips_into_sport.html

 

[ralaw]

For Saban it was a great run in the NCAA..............I wonder which NFL team he will end up with next.

 

[NAHSTE]

For Saban it was a great run in the NCAA..............I wonder which NFL team he will end up with next.

 

[Villain]

$2,375.71

 

[Sportsbuck]

It's pretty clear the way to go in dealing with the NCAA anyways...

You can bend over and assume the position and cooperate like Ohio State.

Or you can lawyer up and essentially say fuck off like they did in College Station.

 

[riley420]

LOL.

So, basically a kid's mother needed help for rent and she couldn't afford to pay it back. $2000. How much did Alabama, the SEC and the NCAA make over that same time period?