From the NYT:
"In January 2013, days after Mr. Winston was identified by his accuser, senior Florida State athletic officials met privately with Mr. Winston's lawyer. Afterward, they decided, on behalf of the university, not to begin an internal disciplinary inquiry, as required by federal law.
...According to a statement released by the university on Tuesday, senior athletic department officials met with Mr. Winston's lawyer, Mr. Jansen, within days of his identification as a suspect and quickly concluded that "there were no grounds for further action." The accuser's former lawyer, Patricia A. Carroll, said the department did not contact her at the time to get her client's side of the story."
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/us/florida-state-football-casts-shadow-over-tallahassee-justice.htmlAccording to the plaintiffs complaint:
https://www.espn.com/pdf/2015/0614/KinsmanCivilSuitFSU.pdf The FSU Athletics Department Learns of the Sexual Assault and Conceals it from the School Administration
70. FSU, in concert with the Tallahassee Police, took steps to ensure that Winston's rape of Plaintiff would not be investigated by either the university or law enforcement.
71. Tallahassee Police Investigator Paul Osborn called Winston on January 22, 2013, 11 days after Plaintiff's identification of him as her rapist, to request that Winston come by for an interview.
72. Investigator Osborn then called Bonasorte and told him that Winston was suspected in a rape investigation.
73. At 5:02 p.m. on January 22, 2013, Bonasorte initiated the first of two consecutive phone calls with someone at a cellular phone number registered to a "Candice Fisher," the wife of head football coach Jimbo Fisher. Shortly after speaking with the individual using Candice Fisher's phone, Bonasorte called Tallahassee criminal defense attorney Timothy Jansen.
74. In roughly one hour following his first phone call to Candice Fisher's phone, Bonasorte talked back and forth with "Candice Fisher" and Jansen seven different times.
75. The following day, on January 23, 2013, Winston refused to appear for his scheduled interview. Instead, Jansen came in his place. Bonasorte spoke with attorney Jansen at least three additional times that day and then followed up with two more phone calls to "Candice Fisher" the following day.
76. In 2013, Bonasorte was FSU's Senior Associate Athletics Director ("SAAD"), the second in charge of FSU's Athletics Department and the individual who oversaw FSU's football program together with Fisher, FSU's head football coach. Along with FSU campus police officials, Bonasorte and Fisher were for Title IX purposes appropriate persons with authority to take corrective action, given FSU's duty to report sexual harassment and control over students on the football team.
