Former University of Georgia football coach Jim Donnan, who's accused of operating a fraudulent investment scheme, told a judge Tuesday that he will not testify in his federal trial. The prosecution called dozens of witnesses, many of them investors, over four and a half days and rested its case Tuesday. Defense attorneys called a handful of witnesses and told the judge they would have one more Wednesday morning. A federal indictment against Donnan and Gregory Crabtree, of Proctorville, Ohio, says the pair ran the scheme from September 2007 to December 2010 through West Virginia-based GLC, which dealt in wholesale and closeout merchandise.
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