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\nIn the previous post<\/a> I reprinted my Beyond Chron <\/em>column earlier this week on coaches’ sexual misconduct in USA Swimming. That piece followed the publication of my ebook PENN STATE IN THE POOL: The Cover-Up of the USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unless you believe the business of America is business – or maybe more accurately, giving people the business – then you will recognize that this is a story that cannot go away. There are untold dozens of victims across the country, and the same leadership of our Congressionally-created national competitive youth swimming organization remains in place, while doing something between nothing and halfway about the problem.<\/p>\n

And spare me your mal mots<\/em>, please, about lawyers who exploit sensationalism. News flash: It’s one of the most important ways justice gets served in our system, especially in the absence of action by the two other branches of government.<\/p>\n

To his credit, USA Swimming board of directors member David Berkoff – an International Swimming Hall of Famer who did much to get this issue the attention prior to his appointment to the board less than two years ago – spoke to me for my Beyond Chron <\/em>column. But Berkoff left a number of open questions, and I told him so directly, and I told him again yesterday via voicemail, email, and fax.<\/p>\n

I’ll take Berkoff’s answers to the following either on or off the air:<\/p>\n

1. I do understand your desire to change USA Swimming from within and contain exposure to lawsuits. I guess what confuses me is the abruptness of your reappointment to the board. Please explain how this came about.<\/p>\n

2. Your defense of executive director Chuck Wielgus seems to me too aggressive in light of false and misleading public statements USA Swimming has made subsequent <\/em>to the 20\/20<\/em> report in 2010. These are documented in my new ebook. A particularly disturbing example is the representations about Peeping Tom coaches’ locker room video, when Wielgus and his team in Colorado Springs knew full well that a coach in Pennsylvania was wanted by the FBI for this very practice.<\/p>\n

3. If the goal is to change the culture, Wielgus has to answer the allegations from my earlier Beyond Chron<\/em> column about blowing off families in Idaho and Colorado who faced local retribution for certain complaints. But Wielgus has not replied to me in any form. Now I ask you about these same allegations (see https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=5485<\/a>).<\/p>\n

4. In a September 15, 2010, email to Mike Saltzstein, you wrote that there was “no way” you could support Wielgus “being in charge of the decision to investigate a charge of abuse or not.” What is the context here that squares with your stated confidence that Wielgus is capable of righting the ship at USA Swimming?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Irv Muchnick<\/em><\/p>\n

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To order <\/strong>PENN STATE IN THE POOL: The Cover-Up of the USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal<\/strong><\/em> by Irvin Muchnick, go to http:\/\/amzn.to\/JoS53m<\/a>, or get a plain PDF file by sending $1.49 via PayPal to paypal@muchnick.net<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"