ALBANY — Federal prosecutors say disclosure of information used to obtain search warrants for the home and office of former Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine would jeopardize their ongoing investigation “into the sensitive area of child abuse and molestation.”

Prosecutors said in a letter to a judge yesterday that disclosure would lay bare their investigative steps while potentially embarrassing witnesses.

Fine was fired on Nov. 27 after three men said he sexually abused them when they were boys.

He has denied wrongdoing.