A whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former attorney at the University of Louisville alleges she was demoted and punished for reporting an assistant basketball coach for attempted extortion, and that she experienced pushback from then-President Neeli Bendapudi for doing so.
Amy Shoemaker, an associate general council for the University of Louisville and associate athletic director, alleges in the lawsuit that she was effectively “frozen out” of her job after she reported then-assistant basketball coach Dino Gaudio’s efforts at extortion to police. That came after the men’s head basketball coach, Chris Mack, recorded his conversation ending Gaudio’s employment in March 2021.
The suit says Gaudio “threatens to expose alleged recruiting violation to the media,” and demanded a year and half’s salary. Mack reported the conversation to the athletic director and Shoemaker, and Shoemaker reported it to the University of Louisville Police Department.
Shoemaker’s suit says that in a phone call a few days later, Bendapudi’s chief of staff, Michael Wade Smith, told Shoemaker that she should not have reported the extortion attempt to police. The suit alleges that Smith said “decisions about what should and would be reported to (the University of Louisville Police Department) are up to the President.” Smith is also at Penn...
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