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Apparently you would prefer to speculate that the GC of the by cj

USAG knew nothing about over 300 sexual abuse accusations involving over 50 pedophiles.

Both you and Vair have minimized the extent of the scandal to nassar. I’m not sure if that was deliberate or an oversight.

Vairish84 “Some of it should have been stopped. There were clearly adults who knew, but none of them really challenged any of it. Nassar manipulated the adults as much as he abused the girls.”

austindomer "If Swarbrick did indeed help write the sexual harassment policy for USAG, then this scandal, even if he was unaware of Nassar's actions, reflects very poorly on him professionally and could be used as grounds to terminate him."

Why did both of you ignore the scores of other pedophiles, some jailed and over 360 victims?

Why do you avoid not one but 2 USAG headquarter enabling policies that were in full force under swarbrick’s tenure? “Hearsay” and allowing pedophiles to change venues?

Saucy under oath:
Q. Let's go through those real quick. Are you aware of any sexual misconduct scandals involving coaches and athletes in USA Gymnastics?

A. Yes.

Q. Have you advised USA Gymnastics in that situation?
A. They were clients.

Q. And you're not going to say whether or not you advised them on sexual misconduct?
A. I'm not going to talk about anything I advised them on specifically.

Wow, that is some forthright testimony from the man who according to Vair, "USA gymnastics had a sexual assault policy, and a good one. JS helped write it;"

"Legal experts and child advocates expressed alarm about that approach, saying the best practice is to report every allegation to authorities. Laws in every state require people to report suspected child abuse.

“USAG failed at this,” said Lisa Ganser, whose daughter filed the Georgia lawsuit, which is still being argued. “USA Gymnastics had enough information, I think, to have done something about this. It didn’t have to happen to my daughter, and it didn’t have to happen to other little girls.”"

swarbrick finds himself dead smack in the middle of the most vile sports scandal in the history of the USA. You can throw him all the speculative lifelines in the world. He’s going to be put to task in the worst way. Right now he is praying for a settlement of sorts. He’s in the cross hairs of some very powerful people. ND would be wise to cut him loose so he can focus on his defense.

PS I am guessing that ND’s PTB haven’t asked him squat. The information they need is “privileged” for now. However, imo if they have asked him and he invoked privilege those would have been his last words as an employee. Lastly, the guy absolutely stinks at his job as AD. He's not worth a plugged nickel.