Dustin Perry, the Poor Man’s Alex Pussieldi, Faces USA Swimming Ban Hearing — With No Apparent Witnesses
Add a New Charge Against Chuck Wielgus and USA Swimming: Clumsy and Paranoid Hacking of Critics’ Computer
June 10, 2014Still Awaiting Meaningful Words or Deeds From Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz on the USA Swimming Alex Pussieldi Cover-Up in Her District
June 10, 2014by Irvin Muchnick
Yesterday we reported that USA Swimming is rushing through a National Board of Review hearing on Dustin Perry, the coach whose continental-wide nomadic abuses have been widely documented by Concussion Inc. We also noted that Perry victims declined the organization’s request to participate in the hearing.
Jonathan Little, an attorney for victims, confirms that he has twice been solicited to lend legitimacy to USA Swimming’s Perry proceedings — and has twice said no.
“I will not participate, nor advise my clients to participate, in a ‘court’ where my opposing counsel is the judge,” Little told us.
The process is reminiscent of swimming’s hurry-up-and-wait handling of Mitch Ivey, a legendary sexual predator. Ivey was busted in a national television report in 1993 and fired by the University of Florida. USA Swimming banned him, with all deliberate speed, 20 years later … coincidentally, just as a Congressional investigation was heating up.
One of swimming’s excuses, as communicated to Ivey victim Suzette Moran by safe sport director Susan Woessner, was that Woessner’s crew had a hard time running down this witness because Suzette Moran is such a common name. As indeed it is. And such was the breadth of Ivey’s abuses that he had two separate, unrelated victims with the surname Moran!
While the Inspector Clousseaus and Mr. Magoos of USA Swimming were leaving no stone unturned, Ivey continued to make a living in the aquatics industry through the patronage of John Leonard, head of the American Swimming Coaches Association.
Suzette Moran, like attorney Little’s Perry victims today, would have nothing to do with USA Swimming’s kangaroo court. But once motivated, the National Board of Review moved with the alacrity of a star chamber. Previously, swimming had argued that due process required an accuser at the hearing. Now, an article about Ivey in the semi-captive industry website SwimSwam.com sufficed for evidence.
For further reading, enter “Mitch Ivey” in the search field at this site. See, in particular, “Congress Needs to Ask USA Swimming Top Exec Pat Hogan What’s the Difference Between Him and Belatededly Banned Rapist Coach Mitch Ivey,” November 26, 2013, https://concussioninc.net/?p=8358.