the case began when the investigation of an automobile rollover accident during mateen cleaves' 1996 michigan wolverines recruiting trip revealed a curious relationship between martin and the team. several michigan basketball players were implicated over the next few years and by 1999 several were called before a federal grand jury. four eventual professional basketball players (chris webber, maurice taylor, robert traylor and louis bullock) were discovered to have borrowed a total of $616,000 from martin. during the investigation, webber claimed not to have had any financial relationship with martin. eventually he confessed to having accepted some of the money he was charged with having borrowed. for his perjury during a federal grand jury investigation, he was both fined in the legal system and briefly suspended by national basketball association after performing public service.