Slightly off topic here but here's an update on the Powell/McGee investigation & why no charges have been filed.
http://www.wdrb.com/story/37787127/katin...estigation
In an interview on Thursday, Commonwealth’s Attorney Tom Wine said after receiving the police investigation, his office went back to interview witnesses and verify the information. Subsequently, prosecutors decided there was not enough “evidence to go forward to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt," Wine said.
"Simply because they (U of L police) say it, doesn’t make it so, with all due respect to their police department,” Wine said.
Wine said players and recruits denied having paid the women for sex and it is not illegal for someone 16-years-old or older to have consensual sex.
With McGee refusing to talk with police, Wine said it would be impossible to build a case around Powell’s statements, given her lack of credibility.
“It is not unusual for us to reduce charges or not to prosecute a case,” despite recommendations from police, Wine said.
Nearly a year after police handed over the department's investigation, on May 25, 2017, a Jefferson County grand jury declined to indict Powell or McGee on criminal charges in connection with the sex scandal. Prosecutors recommended jurors not indict Powell or McGee and the "grand jury agreed with our assessment," Wine said at the time.
The Commonwealth's Attorney’s office determined there was not the “legally required independent corroboration of the allegations” made in Powell’s book, “Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen,” to justify recommending an indictment.
At the time, Wine said that "in the final analysis there is not sufficient credible evidence assembled to support bringing criminal charges against these individuals."
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Wine has said that while Powell's book indicated that one of her daughters was under age when she had sex with a recruit, that information turned out to be false.
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