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Tagliabue, Saints continue bounty hearings

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New Orleans Saints football linebacker Jonathan Vilma is pursued by reporters Friday as he arrives at an attorney's office in Washington for a session of the pay-for-pain bounty system with the New Orleans Saints.

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Hearings in the NFL bounty probe of the Saints have resumed with witness appearances by former Minnesota Vikings head coach Brad Childress, Saints assistant head coach Joe Vitt and linebacker Jonathan Vilma. Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue has been appointed to oversee the hearings, which he has scheduled to conclude in New Orleans by Tuesday. There were also several days of witness appearances in Washington, D.C., last week.