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June 24, 2014

As Women’s Sports Foundation Nibbles at USOC’s Dangling Carrot, Quest to Fully Engage Congress on USA Swimming Sexual Abuse Proceeds Without Their Help

by Irvin Muchnick Under the heading “the rest of the story,” we pick up with more detail on the events following the approval in February […]

June 24, 2014

Summer 2013 Flashback: USA Swimming’s Big-Money PR Campaign to Combat ‘Perceptions’ and Ward Off Congressional Investigations

EXCLUSIVE: Internal USA Swimming Memo Exposes Plan for New PR Strategy to Combat Negative ‘Perceptions’ of Safe Sport Program Published August 2nd, 2013 ***** Read USA […]

June 26, 2014

Why Next Week’s Court Hearing on City of Fort Lauderdale’s Deletions of Public Records on Alex Pussieldi Matters For the Federal Investigations of USA Swimming

by Irvin Muchnick Next Monday a Florida Circuit Court will hear my case against the City of Fort Lauderdale under the state’s public records statute. […]

June 27, 2014

What Next Week’s Florida Court Hearing on Fort Lauderdale’s Public Records on Abusive USA Swimming Coach Alex Pussieldi Still Won’t Cover

by Irvin Muchnick No preview of next Monday’s Florida court hearing on our claim that the City of Fort Lauderdale is illegally withholding public records […]

June 30, 2014

Florida Judge Is Conducting ‘In Camera’ Review of City of Fort Lauderdale’s Redactions of Documents on USA Swimming’s Alex Pussieldi

by Irvin Muchnick Today’s court hearing in Broward County concluded as expected: Without objection by the City of Fort Lauderdale, Judge John B. Bowman will […]

July 1, 2014

Will the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Next Move on Coach Sex Abuse Be a Disastrous One That Lets USA Swimming Wiggle Off the Hook?

by Irvin Muchnick The calendar has turned to July – which means that the clock may be ticking on the announcement of a deal between the […]

July 7, 2014

Australia’s Royal Commission Shows the Way For U.S. Congress – Turns Attention From Catholic Church Priests to Swimming Coaches

by Irvin Muchnick Per capita, the swimming industry is bigger in Australia than in the United States. But that hasn’t stopped a royal commission investigating child […]

July 9, 2014

Government Probe of Swimming Australia Coach Sex Abuse Blows Congress Out of the Water on USA Swimming – While All Lanes Lead to Alex Pussieldi’s Brazil

by Irvin Muchnick Naturally, the only thing the American media care about swimming is that Michael Phelps has come back. But with no one except […]

July 11, 2014

Time For Women’s Sports Foundation to Disclose Financial Ties to USA Swimming and U.S. Olympic Committee

by Irvin Muchnick It’s all well and good that the Women’s Sports Foundation slapped around USA Swimming executive director Chuck Wielgus for his cover-ups of sexual […]