NEW YORK (AP) -- Lawyer Gloria Allred is asking New York's attorney general to investigate Syracuse University's handling of sex abuse allegations against an assistant basketball coach.
Allred says Friday that she believes Syracuse violated a federal law that requires universities to disclose information about crime on campus.
She is asking New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to investigate whether Syracuse violated the law, called the Clery Act.
Allred represents two men who say they were abused by former Syracuse assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine. Fine was fired last year and denies the allegations.
The men, Bobby Davis and Michael Lang, joined Allred at a Manhattan news conference.
Davis says if Syracuse violated the Clery Act, it should be held accountable.
A spokesman for Schneiderman did not return a call seeking comment.
This comes almost two weeks after Allred called the university's investigation of Davis’s claim "a complete whitewash." Allred says the committee failed to criticize the 2005 probe as biased because it was conducted by the university's longtime law firm.
The Syracuse University special committee reviewing the school's response to the Fine investigation found that the school and law-firm made mistakes by treating the allegations as a human resource problem instead of a criminal matter. Committee members also say the police should have been contacted.
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