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May 27, 2013

The Many-Splendored Lies About and Cover-Ups of Sex Abuse by USA Swimming and Its CEO, Chuck Wielgus

Yesterday my colleague Tim Joyce deconstructed the fabulistic statement by Chuck Wielgus, the chief executive of USA Swimming, in response to last Thursday’s prison sentencing of […]
May 26, 2013

WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL CALLS FOR CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF USA SWIMMING

“[Kelley] Currin is exactly right in calling on Congress, which created USA Swimming in 1979, to start asking questions and providing the oversight that seems to […]
May 26, 2013

JOYCE: USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus’s Web of Denials Doesn’t Even Come Close to Plausible

by Tim Joyce   Avoiding the facts. Insulting anyone of meager intelligence. That is the essence of the response to the Rick Curl sentence from that […]
May 24, 2013

WaPo With Major New University of Maryland Angle in Rick Curl Story

U-Md.: Curl sex abuse was reported to attorney general’s office   By Amy Brittain and Chris Trevino A University of Maryland spokesman acknowledged Friday that the university […]
May 24, 2013

From the Archives: The Strange Journey of USA Swimming’s David ‘Blastoff’ Berkoff — Now David ‘Backoff’ Berkoff

Resolving Conflict in Accounts Between Olympic Gold Medal Swimmers David Berkoff and Pablo Morales Published April 18th, 2012 *** ‘Olympic Gold Medalist Denounced USA Swimming Child […]
May 24, 2013

Mark Schubert — Who Falsely DENIED Hiring a Private Investigator to Follow Sean Hutchison — Now ASSERTS He Hired P.I. to Track Rapist Rick Curl

See how they run. With Rick Curl’s statutory rape victim, Kelley Davies Currin, calling out top USA Swimming officials, including her former University of Texas coach, […]
May 24, 2013

Holiday Weekend Reading: Our April 2012 Ebook ‘PENN STATE IN THE POOL: The Cover-Up of the USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal’

Including facsimile reproductions of primary-source documents from civil lawsuits against the U.S. Olympic Committee’s governing body for competitive youth swimming, this follows the story of widespread […]
May 24, 2013

Flashback 8/23/12: David Berkoff’s Smoking-Gun 2010 Email on USA Swimming’s Widespread Knowledge of Coach Rick Curl’s Sexual Abuse

EXCLUSIVE: Full Text of 2010 Email Confirms That USA Swimming Board Member David Berkoff Noted Widespread Knowledge of Coach Rick Curl’s Sexual Abuse Published August 23rd, […]
May 24, 2013

Flashback 9/20/12: ‘USA Swimming Apologist David Berkoff Should Blast Off’

In the Next Stage of Rapist Rick Curl’s Saga, USA Swimming Apologist David Berkoff Should Blast Off Published September 20th, 2012 The busting of rapist coach […]
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