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Duke exonerated in Maggette case
<http://www.news-record.com/sports/college/final_four_notes_040204.htm>

By Rob Daniels, Staff Writer
News & Record

SAN ANTONIO -- The NCAA announced Thursday that it cleared Duke 
University of any wrongdoing in the Corey Maggette case this past fall.

David Price, the NCAA's vice president for enforcement, said the 
organization doesn't normally declare that a school has been 
exonerated. It made an exception Thursday in light of a recent 
cbssportsline.com column that suggested Duke's 1999 NCAA tournament 
participation should be vacated because it included Maggette, who 
received improper cash payments from his summer-league coach before he 
enrolled at Duke. That coach, Myron Piggie, was sentenced to more than 
three years in federal prison in May 2001 for one felony count of 
conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and for one misdemeanor count 
of failure to file income tax.

"After a lengthy investigation, we came to the conclusion that there 
was insufficient evidence to determine the institution knew or should 
have known (of the payments)," Price said. "Consequently, no action 
was taken."

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