Dino Gaudio, who once led the men’s basketball programs at Army and Wake Forest, threatened to expose violations of N.C.A.A. rules at Louisville, where he spent several years as an assistant coach, unless the university paid him more than a year’s worth of salary, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
The United States attorney offered few details of his office’s case in a filing in Federal District Court in Louisville, where Gaudio was charged with a single count of interstate communication with intent to extort. The type of filing signaled that Gaudio will ultimately plead guilty to the charge, which carries a potential prison sentence of up to two years, as part of an agreement with the authorities.