Craig Jones

It all came about because I questioned leadership on how some things were evolving that seemed to be sinister.

And a lot of individuals in positions of power took issue with that, and they silenced me by terminating me.

I wonder if you could read this as I sit here in front of you.

The email states, And for the non-English majors among us,

The way that I would translate it is that my mother used to tell us all of the time, don't be touching nobody else's stuff.

And J.C.

Tretter and Jalen Reese-Maben.

The player president.

And a host of others thought that they were going to take advantage of the players we serve.

And as we used to say on the street, create an okey-doke where others will fall for something that wasn't real.

And so what of him who created all of this, who brought in Lloyd Howe?

And myself and many, many of the good people there were, well, how did this happen?

If they had such a line-by-line formula that was going to bring to the union the very best and the choices, how did we end up with this guy?

And when he got there, it became even more apparent.

How did we end up with this guy?

Because he and everybody consorting with him were distanced.

They were aloof.

You can tell that they were duplicitous and that they really didn't have the union's best interest at hand at all.

it became difficult for a lot of us because we knew that this just is going to taint the organization.

And it was infuriating because, Mr. Torre, I've seen players destitute.