Reggie Bush Remains Evasive Over Possible Lawsuit

For the first time since arriving at the NFL Rookie Symposium on Sunday, Saints running back Reggie Bush yesterday agreed to an interview request.

With one provision: He would not answer any questions about whether he and his family violated NCAA rules last year during his final season at USC.

“I cannot comment on that because there's a possible lawsuit pending,” he said.
Later, during a break in a youth football clinic at La Costa Resort & Spa, he said: “Today is about the kids and the Rookie Symposium, so I don't feel like that would be something that I want to address today. So, anybody else that has questions about that, there you go.”

The attorney for two investors whose failed sports marketing company sought to represent Reggie Bush is claiming that Reggie Bush and his parents defrauded his clients of $300,000 in cash, start-up costs and back rent.

Brian Watkins contends that Reggie Bush and his parents backed out of an oral agreement in which Reggie Bush would have been the primary client of New Era Sports and Entertainment, the fledgling marketing agency whose investors included Michael Michaels and Lloyd Lake, each of whom is represented by Watkins.

Watkins said yesterday that, barring a settlement, he intends to proceed with the suit and hopes to file the paperwork by the end of July.

Reggie Bush's attorney, David Cornwell, told NFL Security in April that his client was the target of an extortion attempt.

He later said the FBI had opened an investigation into an alleged extortion attempt. However as of yesterday, Watkins said neither he nor his clients had been contacted by the FBI or NFL Security.

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