re: Is it possible?

quote:

---

This has probably been discussed, but is it possible that what CWW said on tape was all a set up to get guys that the FBI now has?

---

I've thought about it and think it is highly unlikely. Remember, Wade wasn't wiretapped, Dawkins was.

1. Feds fought the admission of their own wiretap
2. even crazier if they caught their own snitch inadvertently on a wire tap
3. Dawkins is a defendant, so he wasn't a snitch entrapping coaches.

Occum's Razor: Dawkins was wire tapped and Wade was talking to him as a normal course of business.

I will say this, I interpreted the key lines of that transcript as Wade offering Dawkins money with the implied understanding that Dawkins would pass what money was necessary to get Balsa to LSU (and keep the rest).

The problem is, it's subject to interpretation. Most of the interpretations are violations. Very few interpretations lead to no violations.

One of the few is that Wade was simply paying Dawkins for his services and a "finder's fee" or some BS and that he thought none of that money would make it to a recruit(s).

eh, could make that case.... but not easily (assuming there's nothing else out there- which there is).