Feeble Louisville assistant basketball coach Dino Gaudio, an genuine member of the instructing group of workers at U of L since Chris Mack current the head instructing job in 2018, has been federally charged with tried extortion by distinction system. In step with charging documents filed Tuesday from the U.S. Attorney’s location of job of Western Kentucky, Gaudio is meant to like threatened to portray media allegations that the Louisville program violated NCAA guidelines in production of recruiting videos for prospective student-athletes.
Gaudio allegedly dedicated the extortion in two separate situations on March 17. The charging list alleges the predominant instance became once in a meeting with University of Louisville personnel where he threatened to fragment the NCAA guidelines violation as a bargaining chip for 17 months salary. He later sent a text that day to Louisville personnel containing indubitably one of many videos he became once threatening to fragment. The charging list alleges Gaudio, in doing so, “knowingly transmitted in interstate commerce, with intent to extort money and other issues of trace from the University of Louisville, a threat to hurt the recognition of the University of Louisville.”
His contract with the college expired the following month and he became once no longer welcomed reduction to this system.
“As detailed within the charging list, after Gaudio became once told that his contract wouldn’t be renewed, he threatened to command participants of the media of alleged NCAA violations within the lads’s basketball program except he became once paid a indispensable amount of money,” Louisville mentioned Tuesday in an announcement. “The allegations of violations are the impermissible production of recruiting videos for prospective student-athletes and the impermissible exhaust of graduate managers in practices and workout routines. While the University can’t comment further as a consequence of the ongoing federal investigation and the NCAA process, it proceed to cooperate with authorities as well to with the NCAA on the matter.”
Gaudio is a successfully-traveled coach whose profession spans nearly three many years. He started his head-instructing profession at Navy within the early 1990s forward of a stint as an assistant at Xavier, where he coached Mack. He later served because the head coach at Loyola (Md.) and finally at Wake Forest, where he led the Demon Deacons to two NCAA Match appearances after a prolonged tenure there as an assistant. He grew to change into a broadcaster with ESPN after his ouster at Wake Forest in 2010 forward of re-emerging on Mack’s group of workers.
In an announcement Tuesday, Mack mentioned he and Louisville are the “victims of Coach Gaudio’s behavior” and that he’s cooperating fully with authorities of their investigations.
