SYRACUSE -- United States Magistrate Judge Andrew Baxter has unsealed two of the key search warrants in the investigation into former Syracuse University Associate Head Coach Bernie Fine.
The warrants detail a laundry list of electronics seized from the home, office and safety deposit boxes of Fine by law enforcement under the direction of Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Clymer. Until now the warrants had been sealed since the searches took place on Friday, November 25th and Tuesday November 28th.
Read the search warrants (PDFs): Home, Office, Safe Deposit at Key Bank, Safe Deposit at HSBC
The warrants detail what the investigators were allowed to seize. Areas included pornographic materials that "could have been used to sexually arouse or groom young males to engage in sex acts." The warrants also allow seizure of documents or records related to travel, basketball schedules, photographs, telephone bills and passports.
The federal authorities actually seized: numerous cell phones, DVDs, VHS tapes, computers, video cameras, safe deposit box keys, boxes of checks and two iPads. Here are the items seized, as they are listed in the warrants:
Taken from Fine home:
1 iPod Touch
1 Sprint LG flip phone
1 Dell laptop
1 CD
1 Kodak Picture Viewer
1 Motorola cell phone
1 Blackberry phone
2 CDs
1 iPod in container
1 VHS tape
1 DVD
1 disposable camera
1 voice recorder
1 picture display
1 VHS
4 VHS
6 VHS
6 CDs
2 Disposable Cameras
1 envelop to Bernie
1 HSBC deposit slip
61 CDs
1 Dell desktop
1 mulicode jukebox
10 CDs
1 Netgear Router
2 VHS
1 Sony video camera
1 VHS
1 Olympus Trip XB3
1 Cannon
8 film cans with film
1 Samsung cell phone
1 iPod Nano
1 Phillips tape recorder
1 CD
1 picture
1 Bag containing negatives
1 Tape audio
1 TDR tape
7 safe deposit keys
3 file cabinets
2 boxes full of documents / pictures
1 VHS
1 file drawer
2 boxes of checks
41 VHS
The warrant for Fine's office at the Carmelo K. Anthony Center at Manley Field House also allowed for seizing the same materials listed for the the home. Investigators removed one Dell laptop, one Optiplex 760 tower PC, 135 CDs, 217 VHS tapes, one box of documents/photos, one bag of documents, one iPad box and one Blackberry box.
Federal court documents also reveal authorities have searched two safety deposit boxes held in Bernie Fine's name. One is housed at the HSBC Bank in Shoppingtown Mall. The other at the Key Bank in Nottingham Plaza. Authorities obtained seven letters from the Key Bank location.
Fine was fired from his position as Associate Head Coach of the Syracuse basketball team after serving for 36 years. The firing came ten days after the story of allegations of child sexual abuse broke on ESPN on Thursday November 17th.
