Report: Cousin was voice of Kekua

Throw another new name into the Manti Te’o debacle. Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the man believed to have created Te’o's fake girlfriend, “Lennay Kekua,” apparently didn’t alter his voice to sound like a female after all. According to the New York Post, Tuiasosopo’s young female cousin, Tino Tuiasosopo, was the one who spoke on the phone with Te’o throughout the course of what the Notre Dame linebacker thought was a legitimate relationship. “Tino is the girl that Manti has been talking to all these months,” a Tuiasosopo cousin told the New York Post. Tino Tuiasosopo reportedly convinced Te’o that her name was, in fact, “Lennay Kekua” and that the two had a real relationship. She reportedly would call Te’o at school, tell him she loved him and even sobbed hysterically when another girl answered Te’o's phone. This revelation goes against the claims made by Ronaiah Tuiasosopo’s attorney, Milton Grimes. Grimes said that Ronaiah Tuiasosopo altered his masculine voice to play the role o