A Boston lawyer with Pittsburgh ties today revealed that he was hired to investigate allegations about an encounter a 26-year-old woman had with Ben Roethlisberger.

"Six months ago I was retained by a client of mine, a close friend, to investigate allegations against Ben Roethlisberger in a Las Vegas nightclub that were absolutely identical to this Georgia girl's story. And the outcome was the young woman did not want to proceed and we dropped it and never took any action," Harry L. Manion III said during an interview with a Boston radio talk show.

But contrary to the impresson left by the radio interview that there might have been an allegation of illegal sexual contact, Mr. Manion clarified his statements later in the day.

"There's no allegation. We don't know what happened," Mr. Manion said in an interview with the Post-Gazette.

A subsequent e-mail from his office stated: "Mr. Manion did not mean to express or imply that he has any information that Mr. Roethlisberger engaged in any illegal behavior."

That same addendum was posted on the website of the radio show, The Dennis & Callahan Morning Show.

Mr. Manion said the only parallel he was making pertained to his client being ushered into the VIP area of a nightclub to socialize with Mr. Roethlisberger.

"I don't have any details at all," Mr. Manion said. "I was retained by a family. It went nowhere. I have no specifics. All I know is it involved an evening with Ben Roethlisberger, and I never got any of the details. I offered it [on the radio show] only because it was such a similar situation -- a young woman at a nightclub asked, invited into a VIP area."

In the Georgia case, the 20-year-old accuser joined Mr. Roethlisberger and his friends at a nightclub in Milledgeville, where she drank shots of alcohol. The woman alleged that Mr. Roethlisberger attacked her in a bathroom. But after a month-long investigation, the local district attorney decided not to prosecute because of a lack of evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that included shifting statements by the accuser.

Mr. Manion declined to disclose any other details about his client's encounter.

Neither Las Vegas police nor any of the other three police departments in the immediate area around the city have any report on file involving Mr. Roethlisberger.

Pittsburgh hockey fans might recognize Mr. Manion's name -- he was lead counsel for the Penguins Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.

Transcript of the interview with Mr. Manion.

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