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fired Fine in response to the allegations. Cantor said she made her decision after ESPN released a tape of a 2002 phone conversation between one of the former ballboys, Bobby Davis, and Fine's wife Laurie. In the tape, Laurie claimed she knew about her husband's behavior, but felt powerless to stop
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searched Fine's house and seized file cabinets, computers, and other potential evidence. The investigation included more than 150 interviews with 130 witnesses, and a review of more than 100,000 pages of documents that included emails, travel records, financial records, computer records, and phone
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of ESPN) "criticized the network's reporting on the story and said it went against ESPN's internal guidelines" in publicizing uncharged claims. In March 2016, a federal judge dismissed a libel lawsuit filed by Fine's wife, Laurie, against ESPN over the television network's reporting.
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In 2011, Fine was fired after being accused of sexual abuse of 2 former
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program that they had been molested by Fine from the late 1970s to the 1990s. Fine and head men's basketball coach
Boeheim denied the charges. Because the incidents occurred over 10 years prior, District Attorney William Fitzpatrick indicated that the
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and two others alleged that Fine had molested them years earlier. The two others later recanted and admitted that they had fabricated their stories. In 2012, after an investigation federal prosecutors announced Fine would not be charged.
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It was announced on March 29, 2013, that Fine intended to file a defamation of character suit against ESPN in regard to how it handled the story. During the lawsuit, it was discovered that two ESPN executives (including the
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editorial calling for an explanation for why it kept Fine on the job in 2005, Cantor said that had
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