Lawyer leading SJSU transgender lawsuit reacts to controversial probe into trans athlete's alleged misconduct

Former NCAA swimmers Riley Gaines and Kylee Alons, and their attorney William Bock, told Fox News Digital that they would all support criminal prosecution against officials allowing trans athletes to play in women's and girls' sports.

EXCLUSIVE: San Jose State University's transgender volleyball player controversy reignited last week. Fox News Digital reported that the Mountain West Conference hired the same law firm to investigate the trans athlete's misconduct allegations that the conference was using to defend the athlete's eligibility for the conference tournament in court. 

The White House released a statement addressing the revelation, and now the lawyer leading a lawsuit against SJSU and the Mountain West on behalf of 11 current or former conference women's athletes, William Bock, has spoken out against the conference in the aftermath of the revelation. 

"It is outrageous, improper, and deceptive that the MWC hired the same law firm to both conduct a supposedly independent investigation of its member SJSU and defend the MWC in a federal lawsuit about MWC’s joint conduct and actions with SJSU," Bock said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. 

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Fox News Digital reported on June 24 that the Mountain West hired the firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher (WFG) to investigate allegations against Blaire Fleming of conspiring with an opponent to have teammate Brooke Slusser harmed during an Oct. 3 game. 

The Mountain West hired the firm to handle the investigation in the same month that the same firm represented the conference to protect Fleming's eligibility in a request for preliminary injunction to have the trans athlete disqualified from women's competition and the