"Swarbrick said Notre Dame did not take the matter to the police, saying that the school left it up to Te'o and his family to do so. He added that Notre Dame did not plan to release the findings of its investigation.
"We had no idea of motive, and that was really significant to us. ... Was somebody trying to create an NCAA violation at the core of this? Was there somebody trying to impact the outcome of football games by manipulating the emotions of a key player? Was there an extortion request coming? When you match the lack of sort of detail we lacked until we got some help investigating it with the risk involved, it was clear to me until we knew more we had to just to continue to work to try to gather the facts," Swarbrick said.
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So ND is aware of this for about a month, thinks that one of its players might be blackmailed or subject to some type of criminal extortion, or someone is forcing the school into a NCAA violation yet they don't report any of it and now they are refusing to release anything about their investigation? Why is ND covering it up?