Laurie Fine will hold a news conference Wednesday to address accusations made against her by the individuals who have accused her husband, Bernie Fine, of molesting them.

Laurie Fine has hired Lawrence H. Fisher, a Pittsburgh lawyer, to assist her in speaking about the accusations. Fisher implied that Fine might file a lawsuit.

‘The fact that she has hired an attorney could imply that she might be filing a lawsuit,’ he said in a phone interview.

The news conference will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Belhurst Castle in Geneva, N.Y., Fisher said in an email. Fine will be speaking out against the ‘false accusations and scandalous lies spread by Bobby Davis and others,’ Fisher said in the email.

Davis and his stepbrother, Mike Lang, accused former Syracuse University men’s basketball associate head coach Bernie Fine of molesting them when they were ball boys at SU. Bernie Fine has denied the allegations and has not been charged.

Davis and Lang also brought a defamation suit against SU head coach Jim Boeheim after he publicly called them liars. A judge dismissed the lawsuit last week.

Immediately prior to the news conference, an email with a relevant attachment will be sent to the media. Fisher said the conference’s remote location would be more understandable once this attachment is released.

As part of the defamation lawsuit, Davis filed an affidavit stating that Laurie Fine had sexual relations with SU basketball players, gave them gifts and money, lent them her car and did a player’s laundry during the 1990s.

Fine was first drawn into the allegations surrounding her husband last November when ESPN released a recording of a 2002 phone call between herself and Davis, which Davis secretly taped. In the recording, Fine admitted concerns about her husband and did not deny Davis’s allegations that her husband molested him.

Davis and Lang’s attorney, Gloria Allred, declined to comment.

jliannet@syr.edu  

Published on May 14, 2012 at 12:00 pm

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