Paula Levine

Here's how Fednal remembers those conversations.

That's Brian and his teammate Willie Williams on one of Brian's home videos.

They're in a hotel room in Atlanta around the time the team played in the Peach Bowl during Brian's junior year.

Our team was drawn to this mysterious source of money.

Brian's brother Fednal was too.

In fact, he was worried.

Yes, because he owed it.

So we took our questions to the Miami-Dade police.

Dan asked Detective Dominguez how far police had followed Brian's money trail and whether they ever found out who my guy or uncle was.

Did Miami-Dade PD know that, according to Brian's brothers, he was receiving money from someone during his time at the university?

There was that information I did hear that he was allegedly receiving money from somebody.

I don't know if that's true or not.

I wasn't able to uncover that.

It's important.

It shows a lifestyle.

A lifestyle that it appeared the police didn't look into very much, but one we would come to learn all about over our years of reporting.

For starters, money was absolutely swirling around University of Miami athletes at the time.

A few years after Brian's death, all that money led to a major scandal that dominated college sports news.

See, before 2021, the NCAA forbade players from getting any extra benefits.

Even a free pizza could get a guy in trouble.