MALDEN – A complaint by East Boston Principal Michael Rubin against what he calls illegal recruiting practices on the part of Lynn English – particularly its boys basketball program – will be heard Friday morning at 8 a.m. at Malden High.Although Rubin could not be reached for comment Tuesday, Paul Wetzel, the spokesman for the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association, confirmed that the complaint centered around the Jets’ Cory McMillan, one of two players who transferred into English from out of the city for whom principal Andy Fila sought permission to play basketball.Neither McMillan nor Bryan Ortiz, who was an Item all-star from Salem High last season, were granted permission by their respective sending schools, and both lost waiver appeals with the MIAA, Wetzel said.The complaint – which alleges that McMillan was approached by a member of the English High athletic staff for the specific purposes of playing basketball – will be held by the district committees in which both schools are placed: Districts A (English) and B (East Boston). One of the District A committee members is Martha Jamieson, currently athletic director at Wayland, but also a former standout English athlete and softball coach.Typically, Wetzel said, committees charged with hearing cases such as this will render their decisions within a week. If there is an appeal involved, it would be heard by the MIAA board of directors, or a subcommittee appointed by the board.Answering a question as to whether the complaint was exacerbated by a reported verbal altercation between Rubin and an English assistant coach (Simmie Anderson) during the Christmas break (which resulted in Anderson being suspended by Lynn School Superintendent Cathie Latham for one year), Wetzel said the seeds for the action were sown last Oct. 5, when English first sought permission for McMillan to play.”Mike just feels enough is enough,” Wetzel said. “He’s adamant that he doesn’t want to harm (McMillan), but feels we have rules for this, and we have to hold schools accountable.”Fila denied any tampering with McMillan.”He came here for a particular reason,” Fila said. “His best friend was shot in the same area of Jamaica Plain where he lives.”He has cousins who work at KIPP Academy, and they told the family about English, and that good things were happening here. He could have also gone to live with his mother in Florida, but he wanted to say close to his father, so they agreed to move to Lynn.”Fila also questioned reports that had McMillan as the team’s leading scorer last season.”He was academically ineligible for half the season last year,” Fila said.The whole transfer situation has been following English around all year. It reached a head just before the Benedetto Jamboree when it was learned that a group of Northeastern Conference coaches were considering boycotting the scholarship event in protest of English’s seeking waivers for McMillan and Ortiz.While Fila acknowledges that he was happy to help the two players involved, he also stressed that the transfer situation worked both ways. The Bulldogs have lost two impact players – Dorian Brown and Antonio Anderson – to other public schools in recent years, and in both cases, he said, English did not stand in the players’ way.He also said that all three of Lynn’s public schools have been victims, as well as beneficiaries, of transfers within the city.Wetzel explained that the MIAA rule on transfers stipulates that varsity players who transfer must sit out a year unless given permission by their sending schools. If such permission is not granted (by the principal signing a Form 200), the receiving school can appeal for a waiver through the MIAA.While Wetzel says the purpose of the rule is not to bar kids from playing sports, and that the MIAA is willing to consider any one of a number of extenuating circumstances, he also stressed that there are two hard, fast rules the association follows. The first states that both the sending and r