Lennay Kekua, A Hoax!

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Go through 'em like crap through a goose!
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I love that guy...ahhh the days when a war was a war...
 
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Etu ironman...etu

...ok it was kinda funny...
 
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dont know if its been said before, but if the story of 'unnamed' nd players selling out manti to the media are true, then I think those unnamed players are cowards. If anything you have to say worth anything at all, is worth signing your name to it.
 
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nsideirish said:
Such BULLSHIT that this innocent St. Mary's student is now going to get harassed by the media.
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...yea that sucks...guessing all those people cluthing the "gay" theory just got a little frowny faced and sad...lets reacp shall we...he wasn't in on it, he isn't gay, he is going to make mondo $$$ shortly, and he is loved by fans and those who know him...

I'd say the media burned about three days ensuring it is known far and wide they collectively share 75 IQ points...
 
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Listening to Cowhurd around 12:45 est. They had a female reporter from California that advised the woman that started all this crap has come fourth and told them that Teo had nothing to do with it . He was screwed.
I forget the reporters name. Im not going to form an opinion til it all comes out. I think alot of people are going be sorry when this is all said and done. This whole thing stinks !
 
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phgreek said:
...yea that sucks...guessing all those people cluthing the "gay" theory just got a little frowny faced and sad...lets reacp shall we...he wasn't in on it, he isn't gay, he is going to make mondo $$$ shortly, and he is loved by fans and those who know him...

I'd say the media burned about three days ensuring it is known far and wide they collectively share 75 IQ points...
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All of this.
 
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Listening to Cowhurd around 12:45 est. They had a female reporter from California that advised the woman that started all this crap has come fourth and told them that Teo had nothing to do with it . He was screwed.
I forget the reporters name. Im not going to form an opinion til it all comes out. I think alot of people are going be sorry when this is all said and done. This whole thing stinks !
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Boom...
 
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BleedBlueGold said:
Also, ESPN is STILL reporting inaccurately that Teo and ND found out Dec. 6th. That's not true and needs to be corrected.
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The call happened on Dec 6th. That is not in dispute. If it is please post said dispute.

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@TMZ: New photos have surfaced showing Manti and Alexandra del Pilar together around Christmastime. Manti Te'o -- Rebounded with ACTUAL Girl, When Fake Girlfriend 'Died' | TMZ.com
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Meh.

enrico514 said:
Manti doesn't owe us anything and I am fine with him going by his own timeline.
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He doesn't owe us anything. However he is a potential first round draft pick and stands to lose up to $500K and guaranteed money dependent on his draft slot. He owes it to himself to come clean, like he was supposed to a few weeks ago, like he was going to a few weeks from now and like Swarbrick said he would.

Also if you people feel like posting links of stuff that have been posted already, please be diligent like the rest of us who have read this whole thing from front to back. Don't apologize in advance because that just means its old enough to have been put here. Also, you can search each post for a possible double posting. Here is a protip: If it is more than an hour old, its probably here.
 
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phork;887721[B said:
]The call happened on Dec 6th. That is not in dispute. If it is please post said dispute.[/B]



Meh.



He doesn't owe us anything. However he is a potential first round draft pick and stands to lose up to $500K and guaranteed money dependent on his draft slot. He owes it to himself to come clean, like he was supposed to a few weeks ago, like he was going to a few weeks from now and like Swarbrick said he would.

Also if you people feel like posting links of stuff that have been posted already, please be diligent like the rest of us who have read this whole thing from front to back. Don't apologize in advance because that just means its old enough to have been put here. Also, you can search each post for a possible double posting. Here is a protip: If it is more than an hour old, its probably here.
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I think the distpute is that they say Manti AND ND were informed on the 6th. According to multiple reports, Manti informed ND of the situation on 12/26.
 
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Update since midnight last night? PM anyone? Dk what I can pay you for it besides some vbucks and mad respect, but I'd appreciate it
 
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This thread is insane....i go away from irish envy for a few days and boom im 30 pages behind
 
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sharksamardzija8345 said:
Update since midnight last night? PM anyone? Dk what I can pay you for it besides some vbucks and mad respect, but I'd appreciate it
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It's becoming quite clear that Te'o was duped. Acquaintances of Tuiasasopa are slowly coming forward and telling what they know, i.e. that he is giant scumbag, and Te'o was in the dark until December.

Basically just waiting for Te'o to go public, do some explaining, apologize for embellishing the relationship and lying about meeting her. And then we can all move on.

I think it's funny that the comments on freaking TMZ are more logic-based than the ones on ESPN. I strongly advise all Irish fans to stay away from the comment section on the ESPN article about Tuiasasopa's alleged confession. Sickening stuff, to say the least.
 
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EXCLUSIVE: Woman tried new hoax in December call to Te'o - Hawaii News - Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Manti Te'o has told family and friends that the woman who was the voice of his fictitious girlfriend “Lennay Kekua” called him in December and said she had to fake her own death months earlier to elude drug dealers, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser has learned.

The woman, who has yet to be identified, tried to re-engage a relationship with Te‘o months after she supposedly had died of leukemia in early September, the Notre Dame All-American linebacker has told the people close to him. The account was shared with the Star-Advertiser by a source close to the Te‘o family.

According to the account, Te'o asked the woman to transmit a photo to him with a date stamp, which she did, but this did not allay his suspicions and he later told his family and Notre Dame officials about being scammed.

The account does not give the date of the call but on Wednesday Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick told a campus press conference that the woman contacted Te'o on Dec. 6 while he was in Florida for an ESPN post-season awards show. "He received a phone call from a number that he recognized as having been associated with Lennay Kekua," Swarbrick said. "When he answered it, it was a person whose voice sounded like the same person that he had talked to, who told him she was, in fact, not dead."

On Dec. 26, Te'o notified school officials, according to a statement from Te‘o Wednesday.

Subsequently Notre Dame commissioned an investigation that concluded Te'o had been the victim of a hoax, the school said.

In his statement, Te‘o said he was embarrassed to acknowledge that he was the victim "of what apparently was someone's sick joke and constant lies,” a hoax in which he had a long-distance online and phone relationship with a fictitious woman, whom he knew as Lennay Kekua.

However, Te'o has yet to address questions about statements he made to the press about her death from cancer after Dec. 6.

The bizarre case became national news after the website deadspin.com published a story Wednesday that Kekua did not exist. The story of Te‘o playing through the pain of having his grandmother and girlfriend die within 24 hours of each other became a major narrative in Notre Dame’s storybook 2012 season. With Te‘o as a team captain, the Fighting Irish had a 12-0 regular season and lost in the championship game to Alabama on Jan. 7.

The new details on the December phone call come on the heels of a report earlier today by ESPN which quoted a woman who said the California man allegedly behind the girlfriend hoax had admitted to her that he and his cousins had duped Te‘o, a 2009 Punahou School graduate from Laie.

The woman told the ESPN show “Outside the Lines” that Ronaiah Tuiasosopo of California cried when he admitted to her in December that he was involved in the scam. ESPN did not identify the woman at her request but described her as in her 20s and a church friend of Tuiasosopo.

"He (Ronaiah) told me Manti was not involved at all, he was a victim. The girlfriend was a lie; the accident was a lie; the leukemia was a lie," the woman told ESPN. "He was crying; he was literally crying. He's like 'I know, I know what I have to do.'"

She added, "It is not only Manti, but he was telling me that it is a lot of other people they had done this to."

Outside the Lines interviewed two others who said they had family members who had a similar hoax played on them by Tuiasosopo.

The deadspin.com story identified Tuiasosopo as the man behind the scheme, but also raised questions about whether or not Te'o was a willing participant in the hoax.

Notre Dame’s Swarbrick, meanwhile, said Friday he has strongly encouraged the Te'o family to speak publicly. Except for the brief written statement Wednesday following the deadspin.com report, the family has not commented. A planned one-on-one interview Thursday with Te'o was scrubbed.

Meanwhile, several TV sites, including Inside Edition, have identified the woman in the photo that had been posted on Kekua's Facebook page as Diane O'Meara, a 23-year old who works in marketing. She has said the photo was used without her permission and she was not involved.

O'Meara was not at her Torrance, Calif., office Friday. Messages left on her voice mail were not immediately returned to the Star-Advertiser.
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If money was a driving force in the Tuiasosopo circle, why didn't the girl just go the traditional, gold-digging route and marry Te'o only to divorce him once he made it to the pros?

Not sure if this should be in italics.
 
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So basically he didn't find out on the 6th that he had been duped, but that the fake girl had faked her fake death to avoid fake drug dealers?


Good God. I feel incepted.
 
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irishpat183 said:
So basically he didn't find out on the 6th that he had been duped, but that the fake girl had faked her fake death to avoid fake drug dealers?


Good God. I feel incepted.
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irishpat183 said:
So basically he didn't find out on the 6th that he had been duped, but that the fake girl had faked her fake death to avoid fake drug dealers?


Good God. I feel incepted.
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welp, if true, there goes the media's hope of trapping te'o in his comments about her in december. from there, in terms of judging manti, it's only a matter of how much he embellished/lied about the relationship. the pendulum swung fast (allegedly).

edit: "embellished/lied about the relationship" meaning the details of meeting and communicating
 
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going off of the December 6th date is inaccurate it seems to be at this point. from what i understand is manti thought the call was just a simple prank and the denial factor may have still been sunk in. way i understand it is that he didn't see it as a scam til four or five days later after the heisman ceremony
 
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