As Manti Te'o and his parents will be interviewed by ABC's Katie Couric this week, another party in the bizarre Lennay Kekua hoax story may be readying a public statement.
According to the Associated Press, the Tuiasosopo family -- of which Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the person identified as the perpetrator of the Kekua hoax, is a member -- has hired an attorney and will convene this week to discuss how to address the story.
"We want to do it right," Peter Navy Tuiasosopo, Ronaiah's uncle, said. The AP noted Tuiasosopo never directly talked about the hoax or described his nephew as being involved in it.
"We're just a family of faith. The family is holding up well," Tuiasosopo said. "They're holding up the way I would expect a family to. This is a storm."
Deadspin originally reported Ronaiah Tuiasosopo was the mastermind behind the Kekua hoax, and Te'o said this about him when asked by ESPN's Jeremy Schapp Friday night: "I hope he learns. I hope he understands what he's done. I don't wish an ill thing to somebody. I just hope he learns. I think embarrassment is big enough."
On Thursday, Te'o's great uncle Alema went after Tuiasosopo multiple times on a Salt Lake City radio station, saying: "Ronaiah Tuiasosopo is a liar, he concocted the whole thing, he misrepresented whatever program that he was trying to get across to Manti, and shoot, he lied every step of the way."
He added: "Ronaiah, if youre listening to me, bud, youre a liar and a dishonest man."
A response from the Tuiasosopo camp directly addressing the Kekua hoax may shed some more light on the saga. According to Te'o, Tuiasosopo admitted to the hoax last Wednesday via direct messages on Twitter.
But whatever the Tuiasosopo camp releases probably won't be enough to bring the story to a finite conclusion -- in fact, that may never happen. Whatever Tuiasosopo says -- if anything -- will add more information, but likely raise more questions about this strange saga.