{"id":13648,"date":"2019-02-26T08:21:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T16:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13648"},"modified":"2024-05-29T17:03:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:03:21","slug":"ebook-bonus-introduction-and-table-of-contents-of-the-george-gibney-chronicles-publishing-friday-march-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=13648","title":{"rendered":"eBook Bonus: Introduction and Table of Contents of \u2018The George Gibney Chronicles,\u2019 Publishing Friday, March 1"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nYesterday Concussion Inc. announced the Friday, March 1, publication of <\/span><\/i>THE GEORGE GIBNEY CHRONICLES: What the Hunt For the Most Notorious At-Large Sex Criminal in the History of Global Sports Has Told Us About the Sports Establishments and Governments on Two Continents<\/span><\/span>. The 30,000-word ebook is available for $3.49 US at <\/span><\/i>amzn.to\/2SmUl6c<\/span><\/i> <\/a>. Anyone without a Kindle-compatible device can receive an emailed PDF copy by remitting $3.49 via PayPal to <\/span><\/i>paypal@muchnick.net<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Today we offer a preview of the <\/span><\/i>THE GEORGE GIBNEY CHRONICLES<\/span> with the ebook Table of Contents and Introduction.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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TABLE OF CONTENTS<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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Introduction<\/span><\/p>\n

I<\/span> George Gibney Rapes and Impregnates One of His Swimmers on a 1991 Training Trip in Tampa, Florida<\/span><\/p>\n

II<\/span> An Irish Supreme Court Chief Justice Who Helped George Gibney Get Off the Hook in 1994 Is the Sister of Gibney’s Lawyer<\/span><\/p>\n

III<\/span> Clear As Mud: The Murphy Inquiry<\/span><\/p>\n

IV<\/span> George Gibney Scores a Golden Winning Ticket in the Donnelly Diversity Lottery Visa<\/span><\/p>\n

V<\/span> The American Job Offer Letter – And the Probable Enabling Role of the American Swimming Coaches Association in George Gibney’s Quarter Century of Safe Harbor<\/span><\/p>\n

VI<\/span> George Gibney in Colorado<\/span><\/p>\n

VII<\/span> 2010: Irish-American Activist Evin Daly Forces George Gibney’s Hand<\/span><\/p>\n

VIII<\/span> The FOIA Case Exposes the U.S. Government’s Fumble and Double-Talk – ‘We’re Not a Refuge For Pedophiles’<\/span><\/p>\n

IX<\/span> What the Irish Government Is Doing, Or Not Doing<\/span><\/p>\n

X<\/span> Ireland Teachta D<\/span>ál<\/b>a Maureen O’Sullivan and the American Politicians<\/span><\/p>\n

XI<\/span> ‘U.S. Center for SafeSport’ Has Its Usual Murky Role<\/span><\/p>\n

XII<\/span> American Media: Missing in Action<\/span><\/p>\n

XIII<\/span> George Gibney Coaching <\/span>Prot\u00e9g\u00e9<\/span> Peter Banks Again Relocates to the U.S., And American Swimming Coaches Association Boss John Leonard’s Swimming Media Lackey Closes Up Shop<\/span><\/p>\n

XIV<\/span> Chalkie White and the Problem of ‘Ambivalent’ Victims<\/span><\/p>\n

XV<\/span> Bringing It All Home<\/span><\/p>\n

APPENDIX A<\/span>“Five Things You Should Know About Youth Sports Coach Sex Abuse,” December 11, 2017,<\/span> https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=12358<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

APPENDIX B<\/span>“Unreasonable Delay: Reprint of Irish News Site Broadsheet’s Timeline on Rapist Irish Olympic Swimming Coach George Gibney and His More Than Two Decades As a Guest of the American Government,” May 3, 2016,<\/span> https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=11046<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

FURTHER READING<\/span><\/p>\n

ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/p>\n

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INTRODUCTION<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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THIS EBOOK IS PROMPTED<\/b> by what, at the time of publication, is serious movement on deporting George Gibney, the 1984 and 1988 Irish Olympic swimming head coach, who has been hiding in plain sight in the United States for almost a quarter of a century. In his native country, should he be extradited for trial as well as deported, he would face targeted charges from a universe of more incidents of child sexual assault than we may ever know. Though the ranking of monsters is a useless convention, I am confident in tagging him, at a moment of heightened awareness of abuse in all walks of life, as the most notorious criminal, ever, anywhere, of his type and in his genre.<\/span><\/p>\n

And a global story the Gibney saga is – one with some direct paths to my baseline interest in reporting sports corruption, plus some curlicues away from it. Wholesale abusers, like others, “act local but think global”; they are enabled by social and professional networks, some obvious, some not.<\/p>\n

I have been on the Gibney trail since 2015. Though the ongoing agony of his countless victims has been a serial front-page story in Ireland, it has made nary a ripple in the news media on our side of the Atlantic. Perhaps Clint Eastwood can make a movie about it some day and make us all feel better. In the meantime, the culmination contemplated by this repurposing of real-time blog content from my website ConcussionInc.net is the direct result of findings from my 2017 settlement of a Freedom of Information Act case against the Department of Homeland Security for information and records from Gibney’s immigration file. I’ll be referring throughout to the “FOIA.”<\/span><\/p>\n

What needs to be explained with care next is the limited extent of what can be responsibly revealed about the current state of the U.S. government investigation of Gibney’s paradoxical protected status. (He was barred from citizenship in 2010 because he lied on his application by failing to disclose his 27-count indictment in Ireland in 1993, yet somehow he was deemed “not removable” on the basis of not having been convicted of a crime in a court of law.) The outcome of this effort, within a vast bureaucracy in a time of political division over almost everything, is not a sure thing. In the wake of repeated dashed hopes across many years, Irish readers in particular are entitled to their continued skepticism of my own new optimism.<\/span><\/p>\n

That being said, sources I find highly credible tell me that the current hot government investigation is much more than blandly “aspirational.” In publishing this ebook, my judgment is that dragging the feds’ current work into the light of day in this limited way seems likelier to inspire a good end game than relying on the same secrecy playbook that heretofore allowed Gibney’s crimes to remain buried.<\/span><\/p>\n

So let’s call this piece an exercise in <\/span>educated prediction<\/span><\/i>. Based on what I have been told, I am saying 2019 will be the year of reckoning. The facts and commentary herein backfill why.<\/span><\/p>\n

My government sources characterize the Gibney aspect of their investigation as its caboose, not its locomotive. In other words, what brings matters to this pass is no newly aggressive or honorable processing of the disgrace of the Olympic movement and of the U.S. government in the comings and goings of this particular character. The tipping point, rather, is the unfolding of widespread abuse scandals in these “amateur” sports under the catchphrase “post-Nassar.” Exposure of the hundreds or thousands of heinous acts committed by Dr. Larry Nassar under the auspices of USA Gymnastics synergized with the #MeToo movement to cast a net around many related narratives I and other journalists have been chipping away at for years. Gibney’s is simply one of them (albeit one whose neglect to date has been on a scale equal to the years of lookaway passes given to Nassar’s crimes).<\/span><\/p>\n

As the sharks circle, Gibney, in his eighth decade of life, is finally chum in the water.<\/span><\/p>\n

This ebook intends not history but historiography – the meta-history of the discovery of one particular branch of abuse, from one tree, falling in the forest with no one hearing it (or at least so pretending). There is no ambition of comprehensiveness here. There is no classic narrative. I do not represent anyone’s perspective on these matters other than my own. I do happen to believe my information and perspective are instructive.<\/span><\/p>\n

I will not waste bandwidth, nor feed the maw of salaciousness, by parsing all the forensics of all the cases. I will not attempt to persuade you that a certain one of them, or their accumulation, crossed some objective threshold of sensationalism or outrage or urgency. Somewhere around, oh let’s say April 30, 1945, the crimes against humanity of the native Austrian named Adolphus Hitler passed<\/span>into the collective conscience, without the need for much more than a clerical or documentary review of the impending proceedings at Nuremberg. Similarly, somewhere around the publication of the Irish government’s elliptical 1998 Murphy Commission report, which called Gibney “the first named coach” whose accusers “were vindicated,” the same could be said for the superfluousness of any possible revival of his abortive 1993-94 criminal prosecution.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, previously apathetic news outlets interested in picking up on this material are invited to insert the “allegedly”s in accordance with their own standards, along with production values. Inevitably, the latter will include someone tracking down Gibney in some parking lot in Florida and sticking a microphone in his face. There are two sides to every story, you know. Even the one in which the accused sex abuser skates on a technicality, gains safe haven in a new country, and stays there a long time by breaking the immigration rules and lying.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of Gibney’s victims are on record saying they do not want the redundant trauma promised by a trial and whatever too-little-too-late justice it might mete out; they are at peace with the closure they have granted themselves internally, or at any rate they are certain that their peace level consequently would go down, not up. As I will elaborate – perhaps controversially but I hope not callously – I do not at this juncture regard as dispositive the wish lists of survivors. This many years later, victims deserve our respect, support, and measured deference. They do not, however, wield veto power over the forward-facing public interest. And to assert as much is not to re-victimize them.<\/span><\/p>\n

I do agree that this project, at bottom, is not about justice, with either a small or a capital “J.” It is about accountability<\/em>. The bells of accountability toll for, among others:<\/span><\/p>\n