Manti Te'o's Dead girlfriend never existed?

#501
#501
Swarbrick says:

1) He would refer all of the media to the documentary called Catfish and sort of things you'll find about it. It is a scam. Covered by Dr. Phil recently. And it covers the exact arc of this. And is shocked by this kind of stuff.

2) Manti developed a relationship online, the alleged traffic accident/illness, and then her (alleged) death. There's apparently a sport in this and do it successfuly. There is a platform of this.

3) The internal consistencies. He wanted to make sure that the investigation lined up with what they knew from Te'o.

4) The investigators discovered online chatter among perps that proved ultimate proof. They "Joy" they were taking from this and "celebrating" from their accomplishments.

5) He did explain how they met, and Manti will talk about this. But this was exclusively and online relationship.

6) AD says Manti will most likely talk tomorrow, but no details. The university did not send condolances, but Te'o and someone else in the football facility. There was a place to send flowers. There was no detail of the hoax undoned, Swarbrick says.
 
#508
#508
Swarbrick doesn't know the exact length of time, but did began with an online person reaching out to him.

Swarbrick says the timeline does line up with Brian Te'o's story from October, and that Manti tells the story, it will line up.

1) When AD first talked to Manti, and went through this on 27th, Manti said we met, and meant an online meeting.

2) As part of hoax, several meetings were set up where Leena never showed, including some in Hawaii.

3) There are a remarkable number of characters involved. Both male/female, cousins, brothers, mother...don't know if people are playing multiple characters.

4) Bunch of independent pieces that reinforce the story.

5) First time Te'o knew of hoax was at the awards show.
 
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#510
Vols4us said:
That's the point about ESPN and the rest of the lame media. They tried to pull a Woodson for Heisman type push along with many in the media and used the false stories to promote the personality and ND. They didn't do their due diligence on the stories.

Kudos to Deadspin.
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Pull a Woodson for Heisman? You mean like awarding the Heisman to the best player in the country which Wooodson was?
 
#511
#511
The pain, grief, and emotion was real. That's the nature of this cruel game.

Swarbrick says that there a vigourous discussion about what to do (telling the media).

At the time of the 27th, until the investigators gathered info, ND didn't have much info and no ideas to motive and was very significant to ND. Was someone trying to create NCAA violation? Impact football games with playing with emotions? An exortion request coming? When you match the lack of details until investigation help and the risk of possible scenarios, until ND knew more, had to continue to work to gather facts.
 
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Vols4us said:
That's the point about ESPN and the rest of the lame media. They tried to pull a Woodson for Heisman type push along with many in the media and used the false stories to promote the personality and ND. They didn't do their due diligence on the stories.

Kudos to Deadspin.
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Musburger and K.Jackson's drooling on air love fest anytime ND, Michigan, or USC are on national tv are sickening to listen to. Some of the ESPN guys are almost as bad, but not to those two's level. You could almost hear the despair in Musburger's voice as ND started getting b**** slapped.
 
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#517
#517
Swarbrick says this was Manti's story to tell and that it was his decision when to tell it.

Manti and girl have never met face to face according to Swarbrick.

He says he won't comment on what laws (if any) were broken but a clear of illegality would have been extortion. The Te'o's thought about letting this play out until he signed a contract to see if an extortion letter would come. (my point: That confuses me).

Swarbrick says as parent of 4 children, it's frightening. For people his age, it's unfathomable. This online/social media thing is hard for him to get his arms around. These perps didn't limit themselves to Manti as a target (my point: very interesting).
 
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zjcvols said:
Swarbrick doesn't know the exact length of time, but did began with an online person reaching out to him.

Swarbrick says the timeline does line up with Brian Te'o's story from October, and that Manti tells the story, it will line up.

1) When AD first talked to Manti, and went through this on 27th, Manti said we met, and meant an online meeting.

2) As part of hoax, several meetings were set up where Leena never showed, including some in Hawaii.

3) There are a remarkable number of characters involved. Both male/female, cousins, brothers, mother...don't know if people are playing multiple characters.

4) Bunch of independent pieces that reinforce the story.

5) First time Te'o knew of hoax was at the awards show.
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Common. Does he actually believe what he is saying?
 
#524
#524
The relationship was telephonic and online. They did talk to each other very late at night, so he did have conversations with her. What's real, what's not is very complex in terms of who and what.

The other targets of perps were not at ND, that's he aware of.

Says the relationship with cousin (Tuisappio?) was not aware to Swarbrick and does not believe that happened, but Te'o's know for sure.

Had to talk to Manti about handling the press, especially because of the timing.

Said ND knew it was going to come out. There was no intention or belief the story wouldn't be told, and that Manti would say it first, but didn't get opportunity, but he'll have the opportunity to talk about it.

He wanted to talk to parents personally and talk to coaches personally about situation. He went home to Hawaii and talked to them, came back from xmas break, and told coaches.

ND nor Te'o's will not release reports of investigations at this time.

The perps had a complete story (my words, not actually his). Manti can get into details of story. Next phased of hoax was played out and was in character after Leena did not die. They continued to be in character.

Swarbrick said the motive was casual cruelty and enjoyed the joke. Shockingly casual comments about what and how they were doing it.

Leena had no comments with other teams, just strictly Manti.
 
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