EAST LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Michigan State University spent $850,000 on its investigation of fired head football coach Mel Tucker.

The law firm Jones Day was paid nearly $600,000 investigate if anyone had leaked Brenda Tracy’s name to reporters after she filed a sexual harassment complaint against him in December 2022 and did not intend to make her case public.

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Her attorney says an outside source leaked her name and the university’s investigation found it was not an MSU trustee, official, or employee.

A second law firm billed MSU $250,000 to represent Trustee Rema Vassar.