Reggie Bush's family home - The Orange Mane

HEAV · 04-23-2006, 11:18 AM

By Charles Robinson, Yahoo! Sports
April 23, 2006

SPRING VALLEY, Calif. – In this sprawling hilltop community with a breathtaking view of Sweetwater Lake, it was no secret who lived in the 3,000-square-foot house at the corner of Apple Street and Luther Avenue.

That home, residents would tell you, was where Reggie Bush's family lived.

That is, until this weekend, when the family abruptly packed up and vacated the residence – less than 24 hours after Yahoo! Sports approached Bush's mother about information linking the property to Michael Michaels, a man who is alleged to have tried to play a role in steering Bush toward an agent and who also has ties to a sports marketing company.

Days before Bush is expected to be the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft, unanswered questions about the residence and how his mother, stepfather and brother came to live in it within the last year have prompted the University of Southern California to refer the matter to the Pacific-10 Conference for an investigation.

NCAA statutes prohibit student-athletes or their families from receiving extra benefits from professional sports agents, marketing companies or their representatives. A breach of these statutes could result in an athlete being ruled ineligible, and games in which they played could be forfeited.

USC finished 12-1 last season, its 35-game winning streak and national championship bid both ending with a loss in the Rose Bowl to Texas. Bush, a junior running back, won the Heisman Trophy and elected to skip his senior season and turn pro in January.

In response to reporters' questions about the matter late last week, USC athletic department officials said they would look into it.

"Rather than jumping to conclusions, we need to determine the facts before commenting on this report," Trojans athletic director Mike Garrett said in a statement released by the school on Friday. "We have asked the Pac-10 to look into this."

State records show the Apple Street home was built in late 2004 and early 2005, then purchased by Michaels on March 29, 2005 for $757,500. Around that time, neighbors say Bush's family moved in. Whether they had visited the house while it was being built is unknown, but there is an inscription in one of the cement slabs in the driveway reading "The Griffins '05."

Michaels is the only person who has been listed on the deed to the home.

Bush's mother, Denise Griffin, was approached in the driveway of the house on Thursday, but declined to comment.

"I have absolutely nothing to say," Griffin said when asked about ownership of the property, which is where Bush's mother, stepfather LaMar and brother Jovan lived during USC's 2005 season.

Before moving to the house on Apple Lane, Bush's family was listed as living in an apartment elsewhere in Spring Valley, a community located about 13 miles east of San Diego.

At some point after Bush's family moved into the residence, Michaels and an associate named Lloyd Lake are said to have contacted San Diego-based sports agent David Caravantes and offered to facilitate Bush's recruitment. A source with intimate knowledge of the meeting said it took place during the 2005 college football season and that Michaels was looking for a local agent to handle the contract negotiations for players he intended to sign to his marketing firm.

Michaels and Lake told Caravantes they were planning to start a sports marketing agency with Bush as their anchor client. It was also during this meeting that Michaels and Lake mentioned the potential name of the agency: New Era Sports & Entertainment.

The pitch to Caravantes was said to have been simple: He would be Bush's agent and Michaels' marketing creation would handle the promotion of the USC star. At some point after pitching this idea, Michaels informed Caravantes that Bush's family was living in a home Michaels owned. Caravantes isn't believed to have met with Bush and was never considered to be in the mix before the USC star hired Reebok adviser Mike Ornstein and agent Joel Segal of Worldwide Football Inc. as his representatives.

Repeated attempts to reach Segal and Bush were unsuccessful.

While it's unclear what official role Michaels played in New Era Sports, indications are that the company barely got off the ground – if at all. According to corporation filings in California, paperwork for New Era Sports & Entertainment was drawn up on Nov. 23, 2005, and records list the business address in Los Angeles under an attorney named Phillip M. Smith Jr.

Contacted late last week, Smith Jr. refused to talk about New Era Sports – even declining to give public details such as a phone number for the company, where the New Era offices were located or who was serving as the company's current president or manager.

Asked why he wouldn't provide such information, Smith ended the brief telephone conversation, saying, "That's really not an issue that I want to deal with." He has failed to return multiple follow-up messages left at his office.

Further attempts to identify New Era produced a single web page with a company logo (http://newerasports.tv/) that contains no active links to indicate where New Era is located, what services are provided or how the company could be contacted. Searches also produced the internet blogs of three self-proclaimed employees of New Era Sports. One such blog included the company logo of New Era and pictures of several NFL players. That blog was taken down shortly after Yahoo! Sports obtained a hard-copy of the page.

Contacted about his alleged meeting with Michaels, Caravantes declined to comment.

Michaels – who is a member of the Sycuan Indian Tribe and works as a business development officer for the tribe's development corporation – failed to return multiple phone calls and was unavailable when Yahoo! Sports visited his home on three occasions this weekend.

The Sycuan tribe, which owns a casino and resort and is engaged in a number of business enterprises in the San Diego area, denied any knowledge of Michaels' relationship with the Bush family.

"The tribe is not aware of his involvement," said spokesman Adam Day, who had been approved to speak for the Sycuan's tribal government. "Any involvement that he has in this situation is his personal involvement. It has no connection or correlation to the tribe, its businesses or Mike's employment by the tribal development corporation.

"What tribal members do on their own time is their own business. It's not the business of the tribe."

Back at the house on Apple Street on Saturday afternoon, the moving trucks had come and gone. A flier offering cleaning services for movers was hung on the front door, and all the shades had been drawn shut. Through a garage window, only a few empty cardboard boxes and straggling trinkets were visible.

Across the street, neighbor Grant Sitton could only shrug.

"I don't know, I guess it didn't work out," Sitton said. "Oh well. They have a big payday coming next week anyway."

Garcia Bronco · 04-23-2006, 11:59 AM

I love it...the hype and money this kid has generated and people are going to get banged up on some shingles and walls.

GonzoLays · 04-23-2006, 12:05 PM

NCAA statutes prohibit student-athletes or their families from receiving extra benefits from professional sports agents, marketing companies or their representatives. A breach of these statutes could result in an athlete being ruled ineligible, and games in which they played could be forfeited.

The only people that can pimp Reggie Bush and profit off his abilities and good name is the NCAA. Now get out there Reggie and sell some more jerseys for USC.

GonzoLays · 04-23-2006, 12:10 PM

NCAA statutes prohibit student-athletes or their families from receiving extra benefits from professional sports agents, marketing companies or their representatives. A breach of these statutes could result in an athlete being ruled ineligible, and games in which they played could be forfeited.

This rule basically stipulates only the NCAA can pimp a student athlete. It distinctly prohibits the whore (Reggie Bush) from collecting any benefits derived from his own hard work. The whore (Reggie Bush) can only sit back and watch the pimp (NCAA) make millions off his image and jerseys while his family lives in poverty.

watermock · 04-23-2006, 12:26 PM

As usual, our full of crap Gonzo. Rules are rules, if you don't like them, have them changed. If they were not in violation, why did they abaondon the house?

Your a dimwit. Bush isn't entitiled to anything more than any other scholarship athlete, certainly not a 745K house as an amature. You call him the NCAA's whore when he's gotten a free eductation, free housing and board every year.

Both the NFL and NCAA says you can't accept money from an agent till you declare for the draft you moron.

Kaylore · 04-23-2006, 12:29 PM

USC has done similar things before to coveted players' parents for recruiting purposes.

Breck Bronc · 04-23-2006, 12:30 PM

Take away USC's 2004 championship!

watermock · 04-23-2006, 12:33 PM

And tell me again how the NCAA was marketing Bush for profit like a whore there Gonzo.

Oh, they can sell Jerseys. Oh jesus.

Jason in LA · 04-23-2006, 12:53 PM

The NCAA, and USC, gave Reggie Bush the stage to show case his skills, which will allow him to make millions. I'd say it's an even trade off. Without the NCAA and USC, Reggie Bush would be working a 9-5 like the rest of us, living paycheck to paycheck.

The rules aren't to keep the athlete down, or to pimp them, it's to level the playing field for all NCAA teams. Lets say they start paying these players. Who are they going to pay? Every athlete in the NCAA? I ran track at UCLA. I'll tell you that I didn't make the school a dime. I ran on the same team with Ato Bolden, was a world class sprinter while he was at UCLA. He didn't make UCLA a dime either.

Are they only going to pay the money making sports? What if that team didn't turn a profit? Do they just pay the top athletes? How is that fair to the other players? And what if some school offers to pay that player more?

These athletes already get paid. They get a set amount of spending money every month. Paying them like pro players would open up a can of worms that's best left closed.

GonzoLays · 04-23-2006, 01:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by watermock

As usual, our full of crap Gonzo. Rules are rules, if you don't like them, have them changed. If they were not in violation, why did they abaondon the house?

Your a dimwit. Bush isn't entitiled to anything more than any other scholarship athlete, certainly not a 745K house as an amature. You call him the NCAA's whore when he's gotten a free eductation, free housing and board every year.

Both the NFL and NCAA says you can't accept money from an agent till you declare for the draft you moron.

Does a pimp not supply his whore with the bare neccessites for life such as food, housing, and clothing while he reaps the cash benefits of her work?

watermock · 04-23-2006, 01:18 PM

Good Lord.

Look you dimwit, it's illegal to have an agent give you 750K house before your represented. Is pimping legal? People sell drugs too. This is essentially no different. Your a fool on so many levels.

What part of being an amature don't you understand?

SoCalBronco · 04-23-2006, 01:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kaylore

USC has done similar things before to coveted players' parents for recruiting purposes.

They got a new home for Whitney Lewis's mom a few years ago.

Priest Dante · 04-23-2006, 01:22 PM

land of the free...

KillerBronco#76 · 04-23-2006, 01:46 PM

poor Reggie got paid 90k to play football for usc not to mention all the free things he got in LA. I bet you the kid never had to pay for anything from shoes to even a drink at the bar. The funny thing is i know players that are scrubs that dont have to pay for jack ****. Mabey thats just this town though.

delany · 04-24-2006, 09:06 AM

Cheater.

Ban him from the draft.

Or should we wait until he proves himself to be a jerk and starts to break Sweetness's records before we condemn him?

GonzoLays · 04-24-2006, 09:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KillerBronco#76

poor Reggie got paid 90k to play football for usc not to mention all the free things he got in LA. I bet you the kid never had to pay for anything from shoes to even a drink at the bar. The funny thing is i know players that are scrubs that dont have to pay for jack ****. Mabey thats just this town though.

You should really call the NCAA and tell them about Reggie Bush getting 90k a year to play for USC. Those buffoons at the NCAA surely would have heard about Bush's money trail by now. You can be the guy that takes down USC! You would be famous! Adored by UCLA fans and loathed by USC. And when ESPN sits you down for their Sunday Conversation and they ask how did you bring down the most powerful school in the NCAA...you say I posted it on a message board. BRILLIANT!

Or all this is nothing but your imagination and unsubstantiated claims.

Rascal · 04-24-2006, 09:31 AM

Overrated.

maven · 04-24-2006, 09:35 AM

Nothing new. I lived in very nice apt. complex and would have some of the "stars" of the college team as neighbors at random times. They would have really nice cars, home furnishings, etc. It's obvious these players get their dough from "someone".

wolf754life · 04-24-2006, 09:36 AM

mock the ncaa rules are a mock, texas athletics made 24 MIllion this year, when is the public going to admit that D1 Football is huge business, just like the NFL, its all about making money. University Presidents love the big checks and the recruits and star players don't even have enough bread to go out for a dinner and a movie. Open your eyes, its a system that breeds corruption! No one should be surprised!

KipCorrington25 · 04-24-2006, 09:38 AM

I'm with Watermock on this one. These guys get a free education and the opportunity to showcase their skills for the NFL. If they don't like the rules that go with that then they can go the Clarett route and try and make it on their own.

Mediator12 · 04-24-2006, 09:42 AM

Look, one of my best friends is an investigator for the NCAA here in INDY. We have both seen all kinds of Freebies handed out to elite athletes at Big schools. The problem the NCAA faces in enforcing them is they are not able to compel testimony from people. The majority of their cases come from Whistleblowers who have been mistreated. If no one WILLINGLY cooperates and there are no Criminal charges attached then they have little to work with.

This is the case here. There may have been some form of misconduct, but unless someone talks, forget about there being any form of action being taken.

04-23-2006, 11:18 AM	#1
HEAV Ring of Famer It's about the Team Join Date: May 2003 Location: The Ville Posts: 12,077 Adopt-a-Bronco: Brian Dawkins	Reggie Bush's family home By Charles Robinson, Yahoo! Sports April 23, 2006 SPRING VALLEY, Calif. – In this sprawling hilltop community with a breathtaking view of Sweetwater Lake, it was no secret who lived in the 3,000-square-foot house at the corner of Apple Street and Luther Avenue. That home, residents would tell you, was where Reggie Bush's family lived. That is, until this weekend, when the family abruptly packed up and vacated the residence – less than 24 hours after Yahoo! Sports approached Bush's mother about information linking the property to Michael Michaels, a man who is alleged to have tried to play a role in steering Bush toward an agent and who also has ties to a sports marketing company. Days before Bush is expected to be the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft, unanswered questions about the residence and how his mother, stepfather and brother came to live in it within the last year have prompted the University of Southern California to refer the matter to the Pacific-10 Conference for an investigation. NCAA statutes prohibit student-athletes or their families from receiving extra benefits from professional sports agents, marketing companies or their representatives. A breach of these statutes could result in an athlete being ruled ineligible, and games in which they played could be forfeited. USC finished 12-1 last season, its 35-game winning streak and national championship bid both ending with a loss in the Rose Bowl to Texas. Bush, a junior running back, won the Heisman Trophy and elected to skip his senior season and turn pro in January. In response to reporters' questions about the matter late last week, USC athletic department officials said they would look into it. "Rather than jumping to conclusions, we need to determine the facts before commenting on this report," Trojans athletic director Mike Garrett said in a statement released by the school on Friday. "We have asked the Pac-10 to look into this." State records show the Apple Street home was built in late 2004 and early 2005, then purchased by Michaels on March 29, 2005 for $757,500. Around that time, neighbors say Bush's family moved in. Whether they had visited the house while it was being built is unknown, but there is an inscription in one of the cement slabs in the driveway reading "The Griffins '05." Michaels is the only person who has been listed on the deed to the home. Bush's mother, Denise Griffin, was approached in the driveway of the house on Thursday, but declined to comment. "I have absolutely nothing to say," Griffin said when asked about ownership of the property, which is where Bush's mother, stepfather LaMar and brother Jovan lived during USC's 2005 season. Before moving to the house on Apple Lane, Bush's family was listed as living in an apartment elsewhere in Spring Valley, a community located about 13 miles east of San Diego. At some point after Bush's family moved into the residence, Michaels and an associate named Lloyd Lake are said to have contacted San Diego-based sports agent David Caravantes and offered to facilitate Bush's recruitment. A source with intimate knowledge of the meeting said it took place during the 2005 college football season and that Michaels was looking for a local agent to handle the contract negotiations for players he intended to sign to his marketing firm. Michaels and Lake told Caravantes they were planning to start a sports marketing agency with Bush as their anchor client. It was also during this meeting that Michaels and Lake mentioned the potential name of the agency: New Era Sports & Entertainment. The pitch to Caravantes was said to have been simple: He would be Bush's agent and Michaels' marketing creation would handle the promotion of the USC star. At some point after pitching this idea, Michaels informed Caravantes that Bush's family was living in a home Michaels owned. Caravantes isn't believed to have met with Bush and was never considered to be in the mix before the USC star hired Reebok adviser Mike Ornstein and agent Joel Segal of Worldwide Football Inc. as his representatives. Repeated attempts to reach Segal and Bush were unsuccessful. While it's unclear what official role Michaels played in New Era Sports, indications are that the company barely got off the ground – if at all. According to corporation filings in California, paperwork for New Era Sports & Entertainment was drawn up on Nov. 23, 2005, and records list the business address in Los Angeles under an attorney named Phillip M. Smith Jr. Contacted late last week, Smith Jr. refused to talk about New Era Sports – even declining to give public details such as a phone number for the company, where the New Era offices were located or who was serving as the company's current president or manager. Asked why he wouldn't provide such information, Smith ended the brief telephone conversation, saying, "That's really not an issue that I want to deal with." He has failed to return multiple follow-up messages left at his office. Further attempts to identify New Era produced a single web page with a company logo (http://newerasports.tv/) that contains no active links to indicate where New Era is located, what services are provided or how the company could be contacted. Searches also produced the internet blogs of three self-proclaimed employees of New Era Sports. One such blog included the company logo of New Era and pictures of several NFL players. That blog was taken down shortly after Yahoo! Sports obtained a hard-copy of the page. Contacted about his alleged meeting with Michaels, Caravantes declined to comment. Michaels – who is a member of the Sycuan Indian Tribe and works as a business development officer for the tribe's development corporation – failed to return multiple phone calls and was unavailable when Yahoo! Sports visited his home on three occasions this weekend. The Sycuan tribe, which owns a casino and resort and is engaged in a number of business enterprises in the San Diego area, denied any knowledge of Michaels' relationship with the Bush family. "The tribe is not aware of his involvement," said spokesman Adam Day, who had been approved to speak for the Sycuan's tribal government. "Any involvement that he has in this situation is his personal involvement. It has no connection or correlation to the tribe, its businesses or Mike's employment by the tribal development corporation. "What tribal members do on their own time is their own business. It's not the business of the tribe." Back at the house on Apple Street on Saturday afternoon, the moving trucks had come and gone. A flier offering cleaning services for movers was hung on the front door, and all the shades had been drawn shut. Through a garage window, only a few empty cardboard boxes and straggling trinkets were visible. Across the street, neighbor Grant Sitton could only shrug. "I don't know, I guess it didn't work out," Sitton said. "Oh well. They have a big payday coming next week anyway."

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watermock "Hoodie Jr" "Hug me!" Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Hot Springs, Ouachitah Posts: 77,090	And tell me again how the NCAA was marketing Bush for profit like a whore there Gonzo. Oh, they can sell Jerseys. Oh jesus. Last edited by watermock; 04-23-2006 at 12:36 PM..

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04-23-2006, 11:59 AM	#2
Garcia Bronco Hokie since 1993 Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 45,991 Adopt-a-Bronco: Tom Jackson	I love it...the hype and money this kid has generated and people are going to get banged up on some shingles and walls.

04-23-2006, 12:05 PM	#3
GonzoLays Five Tool Poster Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 5,650 Adopt-a-Bronco: #3 DJ	NCAA statutes prohibit student-athletes or their families from receiving extra benefits from professional sports agents, marketing companies or their representatives. A breach of these statutes could result in an athlete being ruled ineligible, and games in which they played could be forfeited. The only people that can pimp Reggie Bush and profit off his abilities and good name is the NCAA. Now get out there Reggie and sell some more jerseys for USC.

04-23-2006, 12:10 PM	#4
GonzoLays Five Tool Poster Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 5,650 Adopt-a-Bronco: #3 DJ	NCAA statutes prohibit student-athletes or their families from receiving extra benefits from professional sports agents, marketing companies or their representatives. A breach of these statutes could result in an athlete being ruled ineligible, and games in which they played could be forfeited. This rule basically stipulates only the NCAA can pimp a student athlete. It distinctly prohibits the whore (Reggie Bush) from collecting any benefits derived from his own hard work. The whore (Reggie Bush) can only sit back and watch the pimp (NCAA) make millions off his image and jerseys while his family lives in poverty.

04-23-2006, 12:26 PM	#5
watermock "Hoodie Jr" "Hug me!" Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Hot Springs, Ouachitah Posts: 77,090	As usual, our full of crap Gonzo. Rules are rules, if you don't like them, have them changed. If they were not in violation, why did they abaondon the house? Your a dimwit. Bush isn't entitiled to anything more than any other scholarship athlete, certainly not a 745K house as an amature. You call him the NCAA's whore when he's gotten a free eductation, free housing and board every year. Both the NFL and NCAA says you can't accept money from an agent till you declare for the draft you moron.

04-23-2006, 12:29 PM	#6
Kaylore 6-37, Raider fans. Yummy birds and snow! Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Ceti Alpha V Posts: 41,074 Adopt-a-Bronco: Wesley Duke	USC has done similar things before to coveted players' parents for recruiting purposes.

04-23-2006, 12:30 PM	#7
Breck Bronc Roland Deschain The Gunslinger Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 4,058	Take away USC's 2004 championship!

04-23-2006, 12:53 PM	#9
Jason in LA Gimmie that rep fool! Speaking of Butts & Boob Mojo Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: LA Posts: 12,253	The NCAA, and USC, gave Reggie Bush the stage to show case his skills, which will allow him to make millions. I'd say it's an even trade off. Without the NCAA and USC, Reggie Bush would be working a 9-5 like the rest of us, living paycheck to paycheck. The rules aren't to keep the athlete down, or to pimp them, it's to level the playing field for all NCAA teams. Lets say they start paying these players. Who are they going to pay? Every athlete in the NCAA? I ran track at UCLA. I'll tell you that I didn't make the school a dime. I ran on the same team with Ato Bolden, was a world class sprinter while he was at UCLA. He didn't make UCLA a dime either. Are they only going to pay the money making sports? What if that team didn't turn a profit? Do they just pay the top athletes? How is that fair to the other players? And what if some school offers to pay that player more? These athletes already get paid. They get a set amount of spending money every month. Paying them like pro players would open up a can of worms that's best left closed.

04-23-2006, 01:18 PM	#11
watermock "Hoodie Jr" "Hug me!" Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Hot Springs, Ouachitah Posts: 77,090	Good Lord. Look you dimwit, it's illegal to have an agent give you 750K house before your represented. Is pimping legal? People sell drugs too. This is essentially no different. Your a fool on so many levels. What part of being an amature don't you understand?

04-23-2006, 01:22 PM	#13
Priest Dante Solid Starter Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: KC Posts: 248	land of the free...

04-23-2006, 01:46 PM	#14
KillerBronco#76 Perennial Pro-bowler "The Beast" From the east Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 899	poor Reggie got paid 90k to play football for usc not to mention all the free things he got in LA. I bet you the kid never had to pay for anything from shoes to even a drink at the bar. The funny thing is i know players that are scrubs that dont have to pay for jack ****. Mabey thats just this town though.

04-24-2006, 09:06 AM	#15
delany Uber Bronco Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 764	Cheater. Ban him from the draft. Or should we wait until he proves himself to be a jerk and starts to break Sweetness's records before we condemn him?

04-24-2006, 09:31 AM	#17
Rascal RIP Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 16,581 Adopt-a-Bronco: Turf	Overrated.

04-24-2006, 09:35 AM	#18
maven ★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆ Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,757	Nothing new. I lived in very nice apt. complex and would have some of the "stars" of the college team as neighbors at random times. They would have really nice cars, home furnishings, etc. It's obvious these players get their dough from "someone".

04-24-2006, 09:36 AM	#19
wolf754life Bleed Orange and Blue more scoring + more tackling = $$$ Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,776	mock the ncaa rules are a mock, texas athletics made 24 MIllion this year, when is the public going to admit that D1 Football is huge business, just like the NFL, its all about making money. University Presidents love the big checks and the recruits and star players don't even have enough bread to go out for a dinner and a movie. Open your eyes, its a system that breeds corruption! No one should be surprised!

04-24-2006, 09:38 AM	#20
KipCorrington25 Free Safety Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Centennial Posts: 3,052	I'm with Watermock on this one. These guys get a free education and the opportunity to showcase their skills for the NFL. If they don't like the rules that go with that then they can go the Clarett route and try and make it on their own.

04-24-2006, 09:42 AM	#21
Mediator12 OM analyst REAL Front Seven Bandwagon !!! Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: INDY Posts: 9,701 Adopt-a-Bronco: Malik Jackson	Look, one of my best friends is an investigator for the NCAA here in INDY. We have both seen all kinds of Freebies handed out to elite athletes at Big schools. The problem the NCAA faces in enforcing them is they are not able to compel testimony from people. The majority of their cases come from Whistleblowers who have been mistreated. If no one WILLINGLY cooperates and there are no Criminal charges attached then they have little to work with. This is the case here. There may have been some form of misconduct, but unless someone talks, forget about there being any form of action being taken.