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Deborah Crowder meets with NCAA investigators about UNC scandal

A woman at the center of North Carolina’s multi-year academic scandal interviewed with NCAA investigators after previously declining to cooperate in the probe.

Raleigh attorney Elliot Abrams told The Associated Press on Wednesday night that his client – Deborah Crowder – met all day with investigators. Crowder is a retired office administrator in the formerly named African and Afro-American Studies (AFAM) department.

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“She has never wavered in terms of what happened,” Abrams said, “and I think she knew that this was a chance to actually tell her story, and she did a good job of doing that.