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September 17, 2019

Report of Multi-Pronged Federal Grand Jury Investigation of USA Swimming, Other National Sport Governing Bodies. Is George Gibney’s Fate in the Mix?

by Irvin Muchnick Scott Reid of the Orange County Register last week published the first major media report I’ve read of the broad and explosive federal […]

September 17, 2019

Greater Tampa Swim Association’s Todd Hoffmeier Doesn’t Respond to Question of Whether His Sister Is a Source of Anonymous Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Ryan Gober

PREVIOUSLY: Meth Possession Arrest of Son of Rapist Hall of Fame Coach Paul Bergen Just the Start of New Round of Scandals in Florida Swimming September […]

September 18, 2019

Tanya Birch — Sister of Tampa Swim Coach Todd Hoffmeier — Seems to Be Using a Fake Email Account. She’s a Window Into a History of Widespread USA Swimming Abuse.

by Irvin Muchnick In the last week and a half, Concussion Inc.’s reporting on new turmoil in the Tampa Bay Area swimming scene has dovetailed with […]

September 23, 2019

In Our Public Records Act Case For UC Berkeley Documents in 2014 Ted Agu Football Conditioning Death Cover-Up, Former $300,000+ Executive Solly Fulp Will Be Deposed in San Francisco on October 3

by Irvin Muchnick Last month I reintroduced one of the central figures in the University of California-Berkeley cover-up of the 2014 football conditioning death of Ted […]

October 1, 2019

Flashback: My 2003 Los Angeles Times Magazine Article ‘Welcome to Plantation Football’

With the passage of and signing by California Governor Gavin Newsom of legislation allowing college athletes to get paid for licensing their names and likenesses, I […]

October 2, 2019

Wall Street Journal Bombshell: Federal Grand Jury and FBI Are Investigating USA Swimming Sexual Abuse — Including Concealed Assets and Irregularities With In-House Insurance Company

by Irvin Muchnick Giving even more teeth to Concussion Inc.’s years of reporting on the irregularities of USA Swimming’s Barbados-based subsidiary, the “United States Sports Insurance […]

October 7, 2019

Flashback: Concussion Inc.’s Early 2019 Coverage Anticipated New Reports of Federal Grand Jury Investigation of Swimming’s Insurance Practices

As George Gibney Action Looms, USA Swimming Is Under the Microscope For Its Uniquely Irregular Insurance PracticesPublished May 22nd, 2019 THE GEORGE GIBNEY CHRONICLES: What the […]

October 11, 2019

Former Cal Deputy Athletic Director Solly Fulp Confirms That It Was His Father Who Was Forwarded Internal Emails on the Ted Agu Football Death For Which the University Is Now Claiming Attorney-Client Privilege

by Irvin Muchnick Solly Fulp, former deputy director and chief operating officer of the University of California-Berkeley athletic department, inexplicably forwarded a chain of administrators’ emails, […]

October 20, 2019

USA Swimming’s Global Reckoning For a Generation of Sexual Abuse and Cover-Up Nudges Ever Closer With New California Statute of Limitations Law and New Litigation

by Irvin Muchnick On October 13, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a more relaxed set of deadlines for the filing of lawsuits against institutions […]