The University of Michigan took your tax dollars, spent $12 million on a law-firm investigation into its disgraced football coach, and now refuses to release the findings — and a former employee is suing to force them open.
Paige Shiver, who worked in Michigan's football department from 2021 until this year, filed suit Tuesday in Washtenaw County Circuit Court alleging the university wrongfully denied five separate Freedom of Information Act requests seeking records related to the Sherrone Moore scandal. The university hired Jenner & Block in December to investigate both Moore's relationship with Shiver and the athletic department's broader culture. Roughly $12 million has been spent on legal fees, according to invoices obtained by MLive. Now the school won't say what that money uncovered.
Shiver's attorney, Andrew M. Stroth, put it plainly:
