when i spoke to dick brodhead and told him i was doing this, his first reaction is why? we are beyond this. do not dredge it up again. >> we are talking about "the price of silence" and you said it could cost duke $100 million. >> each boy, each of the three indicted players got $20 million. >> is it public or something you found out? >> it is something i found out. i was told that repeatedly. one of the players had some publicity about this and received a tax bill from the irs which was written about in a detroit paper. if you do the arithmetic, you can get the idea he was taxed based on something like a $20 million payment and this has since been confirmed to me. and that was of course, that is $60 million. there was a settlement with coach pressler who was fired. the lacrosse coach. they had to resettle with him because he brought a libel suit against the university when they paid $20 million to each of the players. the rest of the players on the team, the non-indicted players also sued duke. it was resolved in february of last year. they got cash and settlements. one

that would have been something i would have loved to get from dick brodhead.alked to trustee members. when i asked about -- >> chairman of the board? >> he would not comment on why they settled. other members would in and off the record. basically, the reason he gave -- they gave was that some duke administrators early on who were not lawyers gave the kids bad legal advice which was do not tell your parents, do not go lawyers, cooperate with the police, and this will go away. that gave duke -- they thought they had legal exposure because of that. there was this desire to make this go away, to protect the duke brand. to make sure what it was decided that if these kids were innocent, what duke wanted was not to litigate with them about what happened. that course of action is to give them $20 million. signing nondisclosure agreements which explained why they are not talking to me and have not talked to anybody. it is not exactly clear why duke felt the need to pay these kids. people get wrongly convicted all the time. there are places like the innocent project th

when i spoke to dick brodhead and told him i was doing this, his first reaction is why?we are beyond this. do not dredge it up again. >> we are talking about "the price of silence" and you said it could cost duke $100 million. >> each boy, each of the three indicted players got $20 million. >> is it public or something you found out? >> it is something i found out. i was told that repeatedly. one of the players hade