Last month, the United States Department of Justice formally indicted disgraced former Michigan Wolverines co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss on almost 30 charges, 10 of them that included being accused of "aggravated identity theft."
A pair of former Michigan student-athletes filed a lawsuit soon thereafter, and Tuesday more details emerged in the case against Weiss, per initial reporting by The Associated Press.
Court documents on Tuesday revealed that Weiss illegally obtained via hacking the personal, private information of more than 150,000 student-athletes across the country and that investigators into the case against Weiss had "seized thousands of intimate photos and videos," primarily of the more than 2,000 female student-athletes whose social media and cloud server accounts Weiss allegedly gained access.
An email from lawyers for the ex-Michigan student-athletes who are suing both Weiss and the University of Michigan contained the following graphic information as part of Tuesday's filings that were made public in court:
"Thousands of candid, intimate photographs and videos have been seized from the defendant's electronic devices and from his cloud storage accounts," the email from the Justice Department's Mega Victim Case Assistant Program read. "Many show victims naked. Some show victims engaged in explicit sexual acts."
When he was indicated last month, Weiss was found by the federal investigation to have been examined for these illicit behaviors across almost an entire decade, from 2015-2023.
That timeframe coincided with the former coach's work in the NFL with John Harbaugh and the Baltimore Ravens, as well as his work under Jim Harbaugh at Michigan through the 2022 season, when the Wolverines won a Big Ten Championship and advanced to the four-team College Football Playoff for the first time under Harbaugh. Weiss coached the team's quarterbacks and rose to the level of co-offensive coordinator.
His time on staff at Michigan overlapped with that of Connor Stalions, the embattled former Michigan full-time staff member who was alleged to have orchestrated a wide-ranging, in-depth sign-stealing scheme that pervaded the Big Ten and allegedly extended beyond to potential Michigan CFP opponents.