College football’s Fiesta Bowl has sent letters asking more than 30 politicians in its home state of Arizona who received tickets and other freebies to explain how the gifts benefited the nonprofit game, writes the Associated Press.

A Fiesta Bowl lawyer said the letters will help the scandal-tarred game’s new legal and executive teams determine whether the gifts had a legitimate purpose for the bowl. The organization said it was obligated to try to recover any spending that ran afoul of Internal Revenue Service rules or risk losing its tax-exempt status.

As was the case last month when the bowl asked politicians to whom it had made campaign contributions to return the money, many recipients of the recent letters criticized them as an attempt by the Fiesta organization to scapegoat them for its failings.

The game’s longtime chief executive, John Junker, was fired in March after an internal report alleged misuse of bowl funds for political contributions and lavish perks.