UCLA retained a law firm late last year to conduct an independent review of its athletic compliance in the wake of the bribery and corruption scandal engulfing college basketball, a school spokesperson said Tuesday.
USC commissioned a similar external investigation headed by former FBI director Louis J. Freeh after men's basketball associate head coach Tony Bland was arrested in September and later indicted on federal charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, soliciting a bribe and wire fraud as part of a series of indictments that have ensnared a handful of other college coaches.
USC fired Bland in January, citing the federal charges that involved an alleged $13,000 bribe that Bland received from aspiring agent Christian Dawkins and financial advisor Munish Sood in exchange for steering USC players toward their respective businesses once they turned professional.