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April 18, 2024

USA Gymnastics’ Larry Nassar Abuse Survivors Settle With Justice Department for $100 Million. My Upcoming Book Chronicles the Parallel and Even More Sprawling USA Swimming Abuse Scandals.

In the news: “Lawyers for Nassar assault survivors have reached $100M deal with Justice Department,” https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245491081/lawyers-for-nassar-assault-survivors-have-reached-100m-deal. My bookUNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA […]

April 24, 2024

University of Texas Hires of Head Swimming Coach Bob Bowman and Assistant Erik Posegay Trigger Look Back at Michael Phelps’s North Baltimore Aquatic Club

by Irvin Muchnick Bob Bowman, well known as the coach of Michael Phelps, history’s greatest ever Olympic swimmer, has jumped from Arizona State University to […]

May 1, 2024

ECW Press Announces September Publication Date for ‘UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe’

May 22, 2024

For Congress, Doping Violations in the Chinese Olympic Program Are a Job for the FBI. As for Sexual Abuse in Our Own … We’ll Get Back to You.

by Irvin Muchnick The House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party – yes, there is such […]

May 26, 2024

Pre-Order ‘UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe’

Pre-orders of UNDERCOVER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe are available at the links below. Official publication date is […]

May 26, 2024

FOIA for Prince Harry’s 2020 U.S. Visa Application Extensively Cites – and the Newest Court Development Mirrors – Our 2016-17 Case for George Gibney’s Immigration Records

UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe will be published shortly after the Paris Olympics by ECW Press, distributed […]

May 29, 2024

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May 29, 2024

‘WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning’ Launches Thursday, October 5, at Berkeley’s Books Inc.

Join us for the launch event, Thursday, October 5, 7 p.m., Books Inc. In the meantime: Read the excerpt from WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS […]

June 5, 2024

“George Gibney and the Rape of ‘Stella’” – My Article Later This Month in Ireland’s Village Magazine

A piece about Irish and American law enforcement’s inaction in the case of the teenage swimmer raped and impregnated in 1991 by George Gibney, the former […]

June 10, 2024

Advance Praise for ‘Underwater’ from Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle: ‘Nobody rakes the muck with a more relentless sense of purpose’

“Irvin Muchnick made my carefully selected list of personal heroes long ago. Nobody rakes the muck, nobody shines a searchlight on human cockroaches with a more […]