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Show SatSunMonTues, October 4-7, 2003 The Park Record Oly bribery scandal heading to trial SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Defense lawyers and federal prosecutors were back in court Wednesday after a two-year absence to make arrangements for the bribery trial involving the 2002 Winter Olympics. The trial, which starts Oct. 28, is expected to take six weeks. Tom Welch, 58, who was president pres-ident of the Salt Lake bid and organizing committees, and Dave Johnson, 44, who was senior vice Welch's lawyer, told reporters askinj about prospects for a plea bargain, It's going to trial, period." peri-od." Johnson's lawyer. Max Wheilcr, affirmed that: "I think the mances of this going to trial ,are Almost certain." At ast twice before, Welch and Jolnson rejected government plea offers to a single count of tax fraud, although the government ,'cfused to make any guarantees president, are accused of lavish- ..about prison or probation. ing $1 million in cash, gifts and ,'j The government hasn't other inducements on renewed offers to the two men. International Olympic John Scott, one of the prose- Committee delegates who award? ed Salt Lake City the game. Welch and Johnson face- a 15-count 15-count felony indictment charaiig bribery racketeering, fraud nd conspiracy. ,' Neither defendant was in court Wednesday as their hwyers argued jury selection anc other arrangements with the tvo trial attorneys resurrecting thJustice Departments case. Outside court, Bil Taylor, cutors, said he will open the gov ernment case with charts showing Welch and Johnson "paid bribes to a bunch of IOC members." The charts will cite expenses uncovered by auditors after the scandal broke in late 1998, almost four years after Salt Lake won the bid for the 2002 games. The defense has insisted those expenditures reflect simple gratuities, gra-tuities, not bribes. U.S. District Court Judge UDOT's long-range plan goes public After months 6f gathering and compiling information, UDOT is releasin Utah's long-range long-range transpor.ation plan, "Transportation 2030" to the public and seeks hput to make it better. Transporfltion 2030 is a tool to guide investment decisions deci-sions for the transportation system sys-tem in order jo preserve and enhance Utah 'quality of life. For the fit time, UDOT's long-range pl;h will be available in electronic jbrmats. CD-ROMs will be place! in county libraries throughout sJtah along with hard copies of (he document. The long-rangj plan . can also be accessed via the Internet at www.udot.utah.govprogdevtran s2030. 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The ruling forced Sam to reschedule the trial, which had been originally set to begin months before the 2002 Winter Games. Some trial strategy was revealed Wednesday. Prosecutors indicated a preference for jurors with little knowledge of the scandal, scan-dal, while defense lawyers argued for keeping the jury pool as broad as possible. The defense hopes sympathetic Utah jurors will reject the government's case as overreaching. The Salt Lake Olympic scandal scan-dal led to the ouster or resignation resigna-tion of 10 IOC members and tightened international bidding rules. ft if I 1 , U" ffiltl t its; -ZD 3Xi ' T5 a i 03J l'.. i I.T3 1ISILf.it) 3CD r-rOvDl' 15 i 1 '"EEC? teats afJ"3Ba- Kidsyfsd V? I Prom j Lin" LAST CHAH5I U Sale PHees on New O3-04 Equipm" I Taylor provided a glimpse at another defense strategy when he rose to question Justice Department plans to call a government gov-ernment agent at the end of its case to summarize testimony and documents for jurors. 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