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Ginsberg asked Vitt about an interview with NFL investigators Joe Hummel and Jeff Miller in March 2012: "Jeff Miller and Joe Hummel showed me documents, and they said that I think it was 8-10 players had testified to these documents are true and, you know, that some coaches have come in and said that these documents - corroborated these documents and there's a bounty program in place. And I was absolutely shocked. And I could remember like it was yesterday looking at Joe Hummel and Jeff Miller in the face saying, you've got two guys responsible for this. This is Mike Cerullo, and this is Gregg Williams, both disgruntled employees that have been fired at our company. They denied even knowing who Mike Cerullo was, but they agreed with me that, yeah, Gregg Williams is a little crazy. They both agreed with me on that. So I would say that it wasn't a very good meeting."

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When asked what else did he say to the investigators when you were asked if there was a bounty program, Vitt said, "I said that under no circumstances have any of our players ever crossed the white line with the intent of injuring, maiming or taking away the career of another player in the National Football League. I tried to explain to them that it is certainly not very good business that if you want to pay a player $500 of $1,000 or whatever number figure you want to put on to go out and end a career of another player, he's going to be ostracized in the league by the players themselves in this league, because that's not what they do; and then, No. 2, there's a pretty good chance he's going to serve a four-game suspension that's going to take away a quarter of his salary. So it's just not good business. It's not the way you try to teach, motivate and inspire your players to become world champions if you're going to have a bounty system in place and you're going to do this."

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Ginsberg: "Were you specific and clear that the allegations that Jonathan had put money on Brett Favre to knock him out of the game did not happen?"

Vitt: "Yes, and I stated so in front of a Federal Judge also. But, I mean, this is the same format in which I'm accused of putting a $5,000 bounty on a player, that I put $5,000 into a program. It's what I'm alleged to have done also. It's been acknowledged by the league that I certainly didn't do that, but it's still going up on every slide that I see and every bit of evidence that's out there, that Mike Cerullo hand drew in $5,000 that I gave to a bounty. I've offered to take a lie detector test, and I've offered to sign a sworn affidavit. Nobody wants to take one. So I'm in the same boat. One is for $10,000, and I'm in for $5,000. I'm in the same boat."

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"I guess it's a joke. I guess it's just a big joke. I can tell you, there's no one in New Orleans laughing, and no one in our organization is laughing. I'll tell you who is not laughing, is our owner Mr. Benson. Because Jeff Miller took a plane ride from New York down to New Orleans, and the way he talked to our owner, what he said to our owner made me want to throw up, to the point where Mr. Benson kicked him off the property and didn't let him back on the property; the third time when I talked to Jeff Miller at the Hilton.

"This is - let me tell you something. This almost killed our owner. Our owner has done nothing but be a great owner in the National Football League the whole time he's been in the league. ... And now this guy takes a plane ride down and throws some documents in front of our owner's face, and our owner has got to kick him out of the building? That's what we're dealing with. That's fine."

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"Upon Jeff Miller's arrival in New Orleans when Mr. Benson kicked him off the property, our organization called the next day that the NFL was going to have a press release, and they were going to expose what they thought was a bounty system. Now, I had not talked to any investigators yet. And so I had to read a press release that was sent to me from New York that said in the press release that I gave $5,000 to a bounty and was actively involved in financing of injuring other players. I told Vicky Neumeyer, who is our team attorney, they can put in there whatever they want to, but at no point in time did that ever happen. Well, they took that sentence out.

"Four days later, Jonathan Vilma is on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and article written by Peter King, explaining in detail what this bounty system was all about. Now no one - I have never talked to the league investigators before any of this. But my name, my name was on the release that I gave $5,000 or I actively was involved in a bounty to hurt other players. I have not talked to anybody.

"So, you know, I don't know where they got that from. I do now. I do now. I know now that Mike Cerullo told them that. Now, Jeff Miller and Joe Hummel vehemently denied that they ever heard Mike Cerullo's name. Mike Cerullo is not even in this. We never heard of him. We're getting this testimony from players and coaches that worked in your facility that are corroborating this evidence. So I guess Mike Cerullo is involved with this, though. Mike Cerullo is big time."

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"I'll say this. I may be wrong, but I thought that the first time that these investigators - when Mickey went up to New York, Mickey showed these investigators a threatening letter that he got from Mike Cerullo in the middle of the '11 season. I know for a fact somewhere along the line, and I don't know who I heard this from, whether it was my director of security or somebody, that an e-mail was sent to the league about Mike Cerullo long before these charges were brought up on our football team saying that Mike Cerullo was crazy, that Sean Payton had to have a police escort or, excuse me, police protection at his house because he was going to the owners' meeting, and he was worried about his family with Cerullo. This is the kind of guy we're dealing with, alright?

"So this whole investigation has centered abound Cerullo. It hasn't been what the investigators told me, well, we've got 7-10 players, we've got former coaches that are corroborating all this evidence, the 50,000 pages and 18,00 documents, we have it all corroborated. So, (expletive), now I'm thinking, goddamn, Gleason has ALS, Kevin Turner's got ALS. I'm getting buyer's remorse. Maybe I'm coaching this game wrong. Maybe I'm coaching it wrong. This whole thing is because of Mike Cerullo. Our general manager is suspended, the head coach is out for a full year because of Mike Cerullo? Mike Cerullo? That's what we think. That's ..."

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Vitt: "No. Again, I'm going to say this, and I've got Drew Brees sitting right here, I've got Marques Colston sitting right here, I've got Jahri Evans sitting right here, I've got Vilma, Fujita sitting right here. What goes around in this league comes around. So if you teach your team to maim an opponent, sooner or later it's going to come back and get you because it's an unforgiving league. So to answer your question in short, no."

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