by Irvin Muchnick and Tim Joyce   For the last three weeks, Concussion Inc. has been reporting on Alex Pussieldi, the Brazilian coach who built a swimming empire in South Florida, largely based on imported foreign swimmers – many of whom he housed – before mysteriously “retiring” last year. See complete links at http://concussioninc.net/?p=8652. The […]

The following, reprinted with permission, is the text of a letter to the board of directors of a local YMCA. We have removed names and other identifying features.   In 2011 I reported to the YMCA directors that our daughter had been sexually molested and raped by her swim coach there.  She was barely 13 […]

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by Irvin Muchnick and Tim Joyce   We’ve been reporting extensively on Alex Pussieldi, the nonpareil mystery man of multicultural, multinational swimming prowess — and of USA Swimming sex abuse cover-up. Most recently, the website of Pussieldi’s club, the Davie Nadadores, has gone dark, just weeks after it touted his second consecutive “Coach of Excellence” […]

Sources at USA Swimming confirm that Nancy Fisher, a private investigator who formerly was a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, is making inquiries as part of a re-opened file on Alex Pussieldi in connection with the 2004 complaint against him, which was dismissed at the time. Laura Voet, the manager of the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic […]