The Portland Trail Blazers have decided to cut ties with the private investigator they hired to look into head coach Chauncey Billups.
According to Willamette Week, the investigator seems to be Dave Hallman, a private investigator/consultant who is based in Roseburg, Oregon. Hallman runs security firm Adler Group and was hired by the Blazers as a contractor.
He was also tasked with investigating the 1997 rape allegation against Billups.
On Thursday, Reddit users posted images of Hallman’s Twitter account, where he retweeted pornographic photos as recently as this past April.
When inquired about the findings, Blazers spokesperson Ashley Clinkscale told the Williamette Week that the organization has decided to not work with Hallman after being made aware of the offending posts.
“Though the Trail Blazers have used the Adler Group for the past 11 years, we were recently made aware of inappropriate content on the personal twitter page of the principal of the Adler Group. The content of the Twitter page is completely unacceptable and is counter to what we stand for as an organization. As a result, we will no longer be using their services,” Clinkscale told Williamette Week.
Although Hallman’s Twitter account is now locked, Reddit users took screenshots of some of his problematic tweets.
For example, Hallman retweeted two cuckolding videos on April 2. The two clips, which have since been taken down, were reportedly “hardcore pornography depicting sex acts,” according to Williamette Week.
On the non-pornographic side of things, Hallman also shared tweets that were skeptical of the Black Lives Matter movement and transgender rights, as well as tweets in support of law enforcement and the U.S. military.
Hallman’s firing comes just a month after Portland’s decision to hire Billups as their next head coach was met with immense backlash. In 1997, Billups was accused of rape while he was a rookie with the Celtics. He denied the accusation and was never criminally charged but did reach a settlement in a civil lawsuit.
At the time of the hiring, Blazers general manager Neil Olshey said that the franchise was content with the independent investigation that was conducted.
“We commissioned our own independent investigation into the incident in question in 1997,” Olshey said. “The findings of that investigation corroborated Chauncey’s recollection of the events, that nothing non-consensual happened. We stand by Chauncey, everyone in the organization, and believe he’s the right person to be our head coach and the right choice to be an ambassador in the Portland community everyone is accustomed to.”
