Investigation at SMU to Continue

Texas Atty. Gen. Jim Mattox, saying he entered the case at the request of alumni and state legislators, announced Tuesday that he will investigate whether Gov. Bill Clements and other former Southern Methodist University officials used SMU funds to cover up a football payoff scandal.

In addition, two Texas House members said that they will file impeachment or recall resolutions against Clements as early as today, without waiting for Mattox’s report.

Mattox said his office will look at possible violations of state law covering misapplication of fiduciary property or property of financial institutions and into the more than $863,000 SMU is paying former Athletic Director Bob Hitch, football Coach Bobby Collins and assistant Athletic Director Henry Lee Parker, all of whom left SMU in the wake of the scandal, in which football players were paid.