The attorney for former Miami booster Nevin Shapiro says she's the NCAA's "patsy" and questioned the sports governing body's motives in its investigation of the Hurricanes, she told the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

The NCAA said Wednesday its enforcement staff worked with Shapiro's defense attorney to obtain information improperly through a bankruptcy proceeding that did not involve its investigation of Miami.

The NCAA did not name the attorney, but Maria Elena Perez told the Sun Sentinel she did not collude with NCAA investigators.

"I think this is completely insane," Perez told the newspaper. "I think there's absolutely nothing here to investigate, and like I told everyone, everything I did was above board."

A source told ESPN's Joe Schad that Shapriro's attorney was given a list of questions to ask during the bankruptcy deposition on behalf of the NCAA. The attorney then sent a bill to the NCAA for expenses, which NCAA president Mark Emmert said led to questions of the organization's conduct in the case.

Perez said the NCAA paid her for her services. She told the Sun Sentinel she shared a common interest with the NCAA, but did not say what it was.

The NCAA considered Sean Allen and Michael Huyghue, former associates of Shapiro, important witnesses in their case against Miami, but they were not required to speak with NCAA investigators because they did not work for Miami, according to the Sun Sentinel.

However, they were deposed in Shapiro's bankruptcy case, in which Perez could speak to them.

"At the end of the day, that does not establish an attorney-client relationship between me and the NCAA," Perez told the newspaper. "It establishes that they wanted to pay for certain things to help Shapiro where there were issues of common interest. Period. There's nothing wrong with that. They didn't pay me to get testimony. They didn't pay me to get a story. There's a huge difference."