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F.B.I. Investigated Bob Knight Over Women’s Complaints
JULY 8, 2017

The F.B.I. and the Army investigated complaints from four women that the Hall of Fame basketball coach Bob Knight groped them or touched them inappropriately during a visit to a United States spy agency in 2015, an investigation that concluded a year later without charges, The Washington Post reported Friday.

One of the women, whose name The Post did not disclose, told the newspaper that Knight had groped her buttocks shortly before he gave a speech to staffers at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency at its headquarters in Springfield, Va. The woman also filed a discrimination complaint against the agency and the Defense Department in which she claimed she had been pressured to drop the matter, The Post reported.

A lawyer representing Knight, James Voyles, acknowledged to The Post that F.B.I. agents had interviewed Knight at his home in Montana last year and said the investigation had been dropped shortly afterward.

“There is absolutely no credible evidence to support this, in our opinion, these allegations,” Voyles said, adding that the F.B.I. agents had “reported to their superiors that there was no basis for any further action, period.”

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