A donor requested permission to bring a former WSU women’s basketball player from California who was staying with them to the event, which Ganders said he approved, according to the records.
Ganders said he noticed Gesser and the former player knew each other.
“I immediately recognized that Jason and [former player] knew each other, were classmates,” Ganders told investigators. “It was a great way to bring her back into the fold, to support CAF and student-athlete scholarships, since she benefited from a scholarship.”
After the event, Ganders said in the records, a group of people including Gesser and the former player went out for drinks, after which the former player elected to get a ride home from Gesser.
The donor then called Ganders the next day and brought up the fact the former player had not returned until 4 a.m. the next morning, which the donor called “weird,” according to the records.
Farkas said in his interview with OEO that Ganders had told him the donor called and was “irate because Jason dropped [the former player] off the following morning,” according to the records.