Show Standard-Examine- From Page One 4A Tuesday January 26 1999 Standc r 1 THE OLYMPIC SCANDAL Lawyer says Welch did nothing wrong Aaeooatsd Press Wglar SALT LAKE CITY - Tom Welch the man who led Salt Lake's decade-lonquest for the Olympics and is now blamed for g its excesses is being unfairly monized in an ungrateful and ive city says his lawyer The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY - A mer Salt Lake City Council member says the city’s Olympic bid committee kept files on IOC members that included their sexual preferences Tom Godfrey said he learned from former Salt Lake Organizing Committee vice president Dave Johnson’s wife Kim about for- Lake Organizing Committee’s By KRISTEN MOULTON dena- “He didn’t do anything wrong” said attorney Tom Schaffer who has begun talking to reporters while advising Welch former president of the bid and organizing committees to keep quiet “When you say something is wrong to me that means there’s a line over which you are not supposed to go" Schuller said on Monday “There was no line There were no rules” Schaffer said he would be surprised by any criminal indictment of his client "I do not believe was done with that anything criminal intent” The US Justice Department investigators looking into the bid have not yet contacted or subpoenaed Welch Schaffer said Welch has met for several hours on two occasions with the Salt ethics panel but has spoken to no other investigators An International Olympic Committee investigation found Salt Lake’s bid committee spent nearly 5800000 on 14 IOC members including travel expenses scholarships for their children medical care and cash payments in the years leading up to the IOC vote giving Salt Lake the 2002 Winter Games The SLOC board on Jan 8 took away Welch’s $500000 penconsion and 510000-pcr-mont- h sulting contract and forced Senior Vice President Dave Johnson to resign Yet the chief IOC investigator said Sunday that the most he could say about Salt Lake bidders was they showed an extra “willingness to please” And what’s wrong with that? asks Schaffer “That’s how you get votes you make friends” ‘If you want to gain favor with the people who are going to vote to bring world recognition to your city you can’t take them to McDonald’s for lunch” the Salt Lake attorney said -- - M- X'sKs - RiverdUe If 47MH8L y n: '7Wn V:- didn’t come back until all this other stuff started to break and I thought ‘Gosh would we have used that bit of information to try to sway votes or not?’ " Dave Johnson who was a member of the bid committee resigned from SLOC last month as the Olympic scandal widened Kim Johnson and Dave Johnson’s attorney did not return calls Monday but the attorney was preferences” Godfrey KUTV “I didn’t think anything told of it ATLANTA - Atlanta Olympic officials reiterating that their bid for the 1996 Summer Games was clean' are preparing a response to an IOC inquiry The city’s Olympic chief Billy Payne and several of the original volunteer bid group members plan to respond by Sunday the deadline set in a draft letter to all Olympic bidders 1 Payne said it is not clear Scandal fWn whether the International Olympic Committee or the US Olympic Committee would pursue the investigation He said he has not received an official inquiry but welcomes an investigation activity on the part of IOC members After recommending the The Ass that council members will discuss tonight in a closed session “I IOCp mal n same LA Juan drafting a statement on the state’s indemnification of the city “I VoiceStream Winter Blowout! lunch try to cises life” r? Thi fende Ericsson! image wake corrui A K ' “Vi temer 0 - 4 i’- ira”4-- - “L I am time sanne payin ‘"re Rebate - Af - licopt by) G anch go by Instant -$- 50-00 re TV'rywjt rV if- J day T Swiss A bers clean attacl mm critic i r v toqulra new iatadoalimtaedtt quantities dismi resigi on hind See More for detail £ O El ex- pulsion of six members this past weekend IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch said the organization would broaden its From of mi bid ( millii butic a6MI&BltlSaii)EEB3BlEiBEliffl!iaBiaiaEiSSafflSl goinf cloud” will remain over the Olympics at least until the full IOC decides whether to follow 1A through on the recommendations IDC has followed through on its in Pound’s report at a general promise to strike a major blow session in March After that he against Olympic corruption IOC said the ongoing bid process for leaders resisted any temptations the 2006 Winter Games will act Sunday to heap blame back on as the proving ground for the Salt Lake but their hope that an new IOC ongoing SLOC ethics probe will “This is really a systemic polish up the image of the 2002 problem” Schultz said “If you Winter Games was implicit can change it for the existing “We thought about whether Games then you have a chance we should try to judge both sides to fix it for good” in what happened” recalled IOC Schultz said the IOC reforms Vice President Dick Pound who announced Sunday did not vindiled the recent inquiry into the cate or pardon Salt Lake Rather Salt Lake bid “I think it’s far he said all bid cities including better for us to do what we have Salt Lake must take responsibilito do to clean up our part of the for their own behavior and he ty situation and not go around sees the IOC’s actions as one pointing fingers” step in a much longer journey Pound’s report focused almost “I have to feel that another exclusively on the acceptance of chapter in this epic has been gifts and payments by IOC members as opposed to the offers closed and another step has been taken to get things back on coming from Utah But the retrack” he said port doesn’t let Salt Lake comthe hook off Reacting to comments by pletely Gov Mike Leavitt and SLOC “Whatever the failings of certain members of the IOC the chairman Robert Garff the IOC’s marketing director said Commission has been surprised Monday the governing body was the behavior the Lake Salt of by Bid Committee and some of its not willing to divert funds from national teams and other sports senior members” the report said “A study of the evidence and the organizations to support the 2002 hearings of the Commission have Winter Games revealed that the Bid Committee Michael Payne in an interview itself established a system of alwith The Salt Lake Tribune said he remains confident Salt Lake leged grants which in reality consisted for the most part of subsiCity organizers will come up with dies paid to (IOC) members’ the almost $250 million in sponchildren” sorships needed to meet the budThose subsidies and other alget but that the SLOC should are the plan on cutting expenditures if leged influence-buyin- g the money is not raised main focus of an ongoing investigation by SLOC’s independent Garff has said that it would be Ethics Board The ethics report is possible to scale back the games expected to be released to SLOC if the additional money were not trustees and the public by Feb raised 11 With all the investigations in Meanwhile two SLOC staff more steps seem desprogress adminremain on members paid tined to occur in Salt Lake City istrative leave The investigation Utahns will be dealing with allewill try to determine if those indiof Olympic corruption for gations viduals - Kelly Flint vice presisome time yet But they won’t be dent for marketing and legal af- alone fairs and licensing director Rod Other Olympic host cities such were involved in the Hamson as Sydney and Nagano Japan are should and if bribes they alleged facing possible scrutiny regarding remain part of the organization their bid practices and IOC leadThe completion of SLOC’s iners plan to ask all candidate cities quiry however won’t mark the for the 19961998 2000 2004 end of the Olympic bribery scanand 2006 Games for any infordal Three other investigations mation they have regarding activby the US Olympic Committee ities that might have tainted the the US Justice Department and process the Utah Attorney General’s of- Olympic “I do want to reiterate in the fice will still hang over embattled strongest terms that the deciSalt Lake Olympic organizers Federal and state officials have sions taken today represent a beginning not an end to this proplaced no deadlines on their recess” Pound said Sunday as he ports but USOC Executive Director Dick Schultz said his orga- discussed the IOC reforms “I nization’s probe should be can assure you that the IOC will use this pivotal episode as an opcomplete by for renewal and reform portunity Lauin Schultz told reporters sanne that the IOC’s actions were on an ongoing basis” You can reach reporter Bob a “very positive first step” for the Ward at 4 or Olvmpic movement Nonetheless he said a “little bit of a - 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