April 2013 – Page 2 – Concussion Inc.

April 22, 2013

Questions About USA Swimming National Board of Review Chair Jill Chasson Go Deeper Than Her Marriage to Sun Devil Aquatics Owner Mike Chasson

by Irvin Muchnick Last week I received solid information that North Baltimore Aquatic Club teenage swimmer Jill Johnson had an openly known relationship in the […]

April 18, 2013

Baltimore Mailbag: Swimmers Gone Wild at Out-of-Town Meet. Or As They Call It at the Club Made Famous By Michael Phelps … April.

This post has been deleted, consistent with a July 15, 2013, consent order in U.S. District Court in Maryland. The full text of the consent order […]

April 17, 2013

Baltimore Health Department: Mark Your Calendars

“We have received your request, dated April 11, 2013,” Baltimore Health Department chief public information officer Tiffany Thomas Smith just emailed, “and will respond in a […]

April 17, 2013

Baltimore Mayor Rawlings-Blake and Health Commissioner Barbot Join Doomed Game of Running Out Clock on Interest in Teen Swimmer Louis Lowenthal’s Wrongful Death at Michael Phelps Swim Club

by Irvin Muchnick Baltimore’s commissioner of health, Dr. Oxiris Barbot, has been as quiet as a mouse in the October 2012 lifeguard-free drowning death of 14-year-old […]

April 16, 2013

‘Audrie Pott’s Parents Ask For Classmates Who Saw Photo of Alleged Sexual Assault to Come Forward’

http://abcnews.go.com/US/audrie-potts-parents-classmates-photo-alleged-sexual-assault/story?id=18956803#.UW0EqbXvv2s

April 15, 2013

Paging Baltimore’s Health Commissioner, Dr. Oxiris Barbot, on Response to Louis Lowenthal Death and Public Information Request for Meadowbrook Aquatic Center’s Public Pool License Applications

Commissioner Barbot: Please get back to me on the following questions, for a story that will be published around noon Eastern time Monday. 1. I have […]

April 15, 2013

Abused Swimmer Jancy Thompson in Sacramento Tuesday For State Senators’ News Conference on Bill Extending Statute of Limitations in California

Concussion Inc. is the middle of a series chronicling the sexual molestation of former swimmer Jancy Thompson by her coach Norm Havercroft, and the cover-up by […]

April 14, 2013

Bruno Sammartino’s Fellow WWE Hall of Famer, Larry ‘Abdullah the Butcher’ Shreve, Is Confirmed to Have Hepatitis C — Probably Infected Other Wrestlers in Blood Matches

A couple of years ago, as he was being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, we related that a blubberbuss named Larry Shreve, who went […]

April 14, 2013

Abuse Evidence Is Clear (Part 2, USA Swimming’s Cover-Up of Norm Havercroft’s Molestations of Jancy Thompson)

PREVIOUSLY IN THIS SERIES: “Introducing Our Series on Miscarriage of Justice in Cover-Up of Coach Norm Havercroft’s Molestation of Swimmer Jancy Thompson — And Need to […]