Christian Dawkins is currently in federal prison in Alabama for, in part, defrauding the University of Louisville. Merl Code and James Gatto served between five and seven months this year, for in part the same reason, before being recently paroled.
Gatto and Code were executives and consultants, respectively, for Adidas grassroots basketball. Dawkins was a budding basketball middleman with a fledgling sports marketing agency.
Federal prosecutors accused them of using Adidas funds in 2017 to pay the family of U of L recruit Brian Bowen Jr. so he’d play for the Cardinals.