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Dunbar released from jail Former Irish player Jarvis Edison accompanies her
Posted: Tuesday October 19, 1999 10:57 AM
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- A former Notre Dame football booster who showered football players with gifts and sparked an NCAA investigation left prison Monday after serving her sentence for embezzling more than $1.4 million from a former employer. Kimberly Dunbar walked out a back door to the Atterbury Correctional Unit south of Indianapolis partially shielded by Department of Correction vans lined up to block journalists' access to her. She was seen embracing an unidentified woman and a man who had driven up behind the vans in a car and then sped off with her inside. The man was later identified by prison officials as Jarvis Edison, a former Notre Dame football player with whom Dunbar has a child. The university awaits word from the NCAA on whether Dunbar's relationship with up to a dozen players will result in the school's first major rules violation. The NCAA's Committee on Infractions heard arguments from Notre Dame in June, but its enforcement staff has not yet issued a ruling that was expected months ago. An NCAA official, who asked not to be identified, said the enforcement staff was looking at possible new rules violations reported by the school last month. The report includes allegations that a part-time tutor wrote a paper for a student-athlete, that a student-athlete allegedly misused complimentary tickets and that that same student-athlete received extra benefits. The official said the committee would consider all of the allegations before deciding whether to penalize the football program. Dunbar, who was sentenced to four years in prison, was released after serving just more than a year. She earned credits for good behavior and for earning an associate's degree from Indiana University. She will remain on probation until Sept. 28, 2014. Dunbar pleaded guilty last year to embezzling money from Dominiack Mechanical Inc. between 1991 and 1998. She has returned nearly $100,000 in cash and merchandise she purchased with the stolen money to Jerry Dominiack, who owns the heating and cooling business. She remains under orders to pay restitution to pay the rest. Dominiack, however, feels Dunbar got off too easily. "It doesn't seem fair," he told the South Bend Tribune. "One and a half million for a year's worth of time; that's pretty good wages." Dominiack still has a civil suit pending against several former Notre Dame players, including Edison, Ray Zellars, Kinnon Tatum and Lee Becton, to recoup some of the money Dunbar stole. Former Irish receiver Derrick Mayes paid less than $10,000 in August to settle his part of the suit. The civil suit seeks $4.3 million from the remaining players and Dunbar's mother and sister.
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