Suzanne Gage, spokeswoman for the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office, said Tuesday that the office was contacted in August by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office seeking information about Washington.
An Attorney General’s Office investigator contacted the University of Nebraska — Gage didn’t specify who at NU was called — then received contact information for Washington and made multiple phone calls to him, Gage said.
A university spokeswoman said the Attorney General’s Office called UNL police “requesting a point of contact for Athletics to contact a football player.”
“The contact information for Athletics and the Attorney General’s Office were provided to each,” the spokeswoman said. “The nature of the inquiry was not known at that time.”
Sometime in mid-September, the attorney’s general’s investigator received a call from Jon Bruning, a former Nebraska attorney general. Bruning at the time told the investigator that he represented Washington and that Washington declined to comment.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office said in a statement Wednesday that after their attempts to contact Washington through the AG's Office and UNL police, Bruning contacted their detectives.
"Our detectives were contacted by Mr. Jon Bruning, the attorney for the University of Nebraska's Athletic Department," the Sheriff's Office said. "Mr. Bruning informed our detectives that he was also representing Mr. Washington. We notified Mr. Bruning of the pending investigation and sent a copy of the search warrant, again requesting to interview Mr. Washington. To date, Mr. Washington has not provided us with a statement."
