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\u201cU.S. Olympic Committee\u2019s controversial abuse investigator fails upward \u2014 to the federal courts,\u201d Salon, May 11, 2021, <\/span>https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2021\/05\/11\/us-olympic-committees-controversial-abuse-investigator-fails-upward–to-the-federal-courts\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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by Irvin Muchnick<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Katie Zacharia, Donald Trump\u2019s new press secretary, lied about being a lawyer. She has never passed a bar examination. Trump\u2019s mouthpiece is a liar. Shocker.<\/span><\/p>\n

Concussion Inc. readers will recall a similar scenario with Michael Henry, founding lead staffer at the U.S. Center for Safe Sport. In 2018 he and a Safe Sport investigator named Kathleen Smith sandbagged an abuse survivor, Sarah Ehekircher, who was lured into her intake interview at a Denver law firm that has represented the U.S. Olympic Committee and affiliated national sport governing bodies. Smith had told Ehekircher that Henry would be there for \u201c<\/span>help with note-taking.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Some Man Friday this was. Turns out Henry was calling himself the center\u2019s Director of Legal Affairs in his email signature, though that title was in dispute. He changed his LinkedIn listing to say that he was \u201cDirector, Investigations & Outcomes.\u201d He was the agency\u2019s highest-paid employee, with a salary of <\/span>$148,938 and additional \u201cbonus & incentive compensation\u201d of $69,985.<\/span><\/p>\n

And Henry never passed a state bar exam.<\/span><\/p>\n

No legal credentials, no problem \u2013 he jumped from the Safe Sport position to the post of \u201cnational judicial integrity officer for the federal courts.\u201d The job description is, obviously, as integrity-optional as that of the White House press secretary.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SEE ALSO: \u201cU.S. Olympic Committee\u2019s controversial abuse investigator fails upward \u2014 to the federal courts,\u201d Salon, May 11, 2021, https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2021\/05\/11\/us-olympic-committees-controversial-abuse-investigator-fails-upward–to-the-federal-courts\/   by Irvin Muchnick   Katie [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nTrump\u2019s New Press Secretary Is No Lawyer. 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