Attorney general investigated agent-runner who paid former Oregon Ducks player

[SlyPokerDog]

SALEM -- Even as supporters argued Tuesday in favor of a tougher state law governing sports agents, the Oregon Attorney General's office dropped a case against an agent who allegedly paid an Oregon football player.

Details of the case surfaced during a hearing at the Capitol on Senate Bill 5, which would broaden the definition of an agent to catch more violators. UO athletics official Bill Clever testified to the details of the 2008 incident, without using names, in which agent runner Tim Norling allegedly bought dinner for Oregon football player Fenuki Tupou and paid him $100.

Later Tuesday, Department of Justice spokesman Tony Green said that the office had dropped the case because Norling couldn't be located and the player wouldn't cooperate with investigators.


http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindducksbeat/2011/02/oregon_attorney_general_prosec.html

 

[PapaG]

Really old news. Tupou was suspended for the UW game after UO self-reported the incident, and then he tried to give back money to a charity.

Point of this thread?

 

[Ed O]

Really old news. Tupou was suspended for the UW game after UO self-reported the incident, and then he tried to give back money to a charity.

Point of this thread?

It's not old news. They just announced that they dropped the case on Tuesday.

In terms of a point, from the article, a point might be:

But the dropped case illustrates that without cooperation from players, agents or other sources, it could be difficult to punish rogue agents even with a stiffer law.

Ed O.