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Perhaps add the 10/11/99 letter in there . . . by peeps

[Edit: As well as coachslacker's July 29, 1995 reference to Swarbrick presenting with Nassar. . . http://www.gymn-forum.net/Digests/Vol3/29Jul1995V3I223.htm]

tsl4264's post yesterday:

"The Oct. 11, 1999 letter from USA Gymnastics attached to the Maroney Complaint describes a compromise reached between Swarbrick (on behalf of USAG) and a person named Scott (on behalf of the USOC), wherein Swarbrick recommended to USAG that it agree to forgo its ability to suspend immediately "any individual who has been charged with a felony involving a statute designed to protect children (e.g. child molestation, statutory rape, battery or assault against a minor)."

http://www.californiasexualabusefirm.com/documents/Complaint-FILIED-12-20-17.pdf (letter at pp. 59-62)

The "Scott" who is referred to in the letter is none other than Scott Blackmun, one of the addressees of the letter, who was Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel for the USOC at the time. This is the same Scott Blackmun, the CEO of the United States Olympic Committee, who in an open letter to Team USA called on all USA Gymnastics directors to resign in the wake of the Larry Nassar abuse scandal, in order to start to change the culture of the sport. This the same letter that indicates one of the follow-up actions to be taken by the USOC will be the launching of an independent third-party investigation of USA Gymnastics to determine who knew what and when. It will be interesting to see if the 1999 letter regarding the compromise Swarbrick and Scott attempted to broker will come back to bite both of them."