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Former Michigan Football Coach Indicted on 24 Federal Charges

Matthew Weiss joined the Wolverines as a QB coach following the 2020 season | Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

On Thursday, former University of Michigan coach Matthew Weiss was indicted on 24 federal charges, the U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced.

Weiss is facing 14 counts of unauthorized access to computers and 10 counts of aggravated identity theft, per the release put out by the Attorney's office. He is accused of gaining unauthorized access to student athlete databases of over 100 universities and downloading the "personally identifiable information and medical data of more than 150,000 athletes" over the course of eight years, from 2015 to 2023.

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