Syracuse: Audiotape wasn't given to school in '05

In this Nov. 14, 2011, photo, Syracuse basketball assistant coach Bernie Fine watches a college basketball game against Manhattan in the NIT Season Tip-Off in Syracuse, N.Y. / AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli, File

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor says an audiotape that has surfaced in the Bernie Fine case wasn't provided to the school during its investigation six years ago. Meanwhile, the U.S. Attorney in upstate New York and the U.S. Secret Service are now involved in the investigation into Fine, CBS News has learned.

ESPN aired a tape Sunday that Bobby Davis says he recorded in October 2002 during a telephone conversation with Laurie Fine, the basketball coach's wife.

On the tape, Davis is heard repeatedly asking the woman about her husband's alleged molestation of Davis when he was a ball boy for the Syracuse men's basketball team.

The woman is heard saying she knew "everything that went on" and that "Bernie has issues."

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Bernie Fine, a longtime assistant on coach Jim Boeheim's staff, was fired by the university Sunday. He has denied any wrongdoing.

In an email sent out Sunday, Cantor said the taped phone call was never given to university officials investigating the allegations back in 2005.

The feds' involvement in the case indicates that the sex abuse allegations have raised issues that federal laws have been violated, possibly concerning the bringing of children across state lines with the intention to commit a crime. The Syracuse police department and Onondaga District Attorney's office are also involved in the probe.

The U.S. Secret Service is lending its electronic and forensic computer expertise to the investigation. The federal agency is also routinely tapped for investigations into missing and exploited children.

A federal source told CBS News "this investigation is evolving so quickly."

[jxknowles]

Jim Boeheim should learn to keep his yap shut while there is an investigation underway.

[kenodenis]

Is there nothing wholesome anymore? What the heck is this country coming to? Thank goodness that I feed my birds and squirrels every day. They give me hope that there really is an "innocence" out there - somewhere.

[Lerianis4]

The investigation in question reeks of them automatically taking these accusations as rote truth. With all due respect, after the McMartin case years ago and the Duke rape accusations, I do not understand how we can do that.

Add into this that these 'victims' could have easily stopped the relationships before they got started just by telling their parents or even just threatening to do that, as we have been telling children to do for 50+ years now and.... something reeks about these allegations.

They seem to me to be children/teenagers, now adults, whining about consensual sexual encounters they were in with adults as children.

Yes, there is such a thing before someone rails about "THERE IS NO SUCH THING!"

I personally had them as a child/teenager with older children/teenagers/adults, so I know better.

These allegations REEK of sex remorse, brainwashing to think that someone 'took advantage of you' (which I could manipulate a adult man/woman into thinking that their husband/wife 'took advantage of them'), etc.

[vielmann]

The thing is, a lot of this stuff gets tried in the media, where the frenzy is quick and the facts are few. And even when you think you know the facts, something may be wrong with the so-called facts. I don't know if these allegations are true or not. On the surface, it seems like a slam dunk, but I wish there was some kind of limit of what gets put out until we know the absolute facts, and then we can go from there.

[IBBuckshot]

Lerianus4, My sincere wish is that you get help soon for your deeply seated problems. It seems you were once an innocent victim or are excusing somehow your own actions.