Paul T. Dee (January 6, 1947 – May 12, 2012) was general counsel and athletic director of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.
Federal officials described the scam as "perhaps the largest centralized fraud ever committed in the history of the Pell Grant program.
The NCAA also ruled that the university failed to wholly implement its drug-testing program, and permitted three football student-athletes to compete without being subject to the required disciplinary measures specified in the policy.
[4] From 2002 to 2010, the University of Miami football program was provided with thousands of impermissible benefits to at least 72 athletes from booster Nevin Shapiro.
[5] According to news reports, from 2002 through the end of Dee's tenure, booster Nevin Shapiro provided the University of Miami football and basketball players with numerous benefits that violated NCAA rules including hundreds of thousands of dollars, gifts, prostitutes, access to yachts and housing, and expensive social events.