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Show The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH/WORLD SLOC Won’t Release Documents “It was . . . the sole purpose ofthe bid committee to influence the votes of IOC members.” . Mf No Plea for Welch, Lawyer Says An attorney for former Salt Lake City Olympic leader Tom Welch issued a statement Tuesday rejecting recent news reports that a plea’agreement was being negotiated with U.S. Justice Departmentofficials investigating the bid for the 2002 Winter Games. “Neither I nor anyone on Mr. Welch's behalf is having guilty plea discussions with the United States government,” said William Taylor III, Welch’s attorney in Washington, D.C. “Reports of @ Continued from A-1 Lake’s dubious lobbying campai paign. “Tt could very well have made a Max Wheeler Dave Johnson's attorney a such discussions are categorically untrue. Mr. Welch would not consider pleading guilty to any criminal offenses because he has One such report, produced dur- not committed any crime.” ing Salt Lake City’s campaign for the 1998 Winter Games,notes that difference, surely,” said Hall, a former Utah Supreme Court chief justice. “But again, that’s going toward fault-finding and that really wasn't our mission. We were interested in any facts and circumstances that would haye given rise toa breachofethics.” SLOC spokeswoman Caroline Shaw said Tuesday the document was discovered after the ethics report was issued, and turned overto Justice as soon as it was found. However, she could not pinpoint the time frame when the document cameto light. The evidence surfaces at a time when SLOC is refusing to give the news media access to many documents, including a list of lawyers billing SLOC for scandal-related work. But the existence of the computer document has been it would be a “good idea” to invite Nigeria’s IOC delegate to speak at the University of Utah Medical therefore could not say if Johnson created it. But, he said,bid officials routinely gauged the sentiments of known among SLOC lawyers and senior staff, federal investigators, and defense attorneys involved in the mountain of legal work surrounding the scandal. The Justice Department and FBI have been investigating for more than a year the $1 millionplus in payments, gifts and other incentives offered to IOC members to help Salt Lake City win the bid. Noauthoris listed on the document, but bid committee Vice President Dave Johnson — who business that is essentially a lob- know how his hand will be spent years living in Europe — of- bying business has to go through.” ten referred to supportive IOC members as “geld” or “golden.” Johnson’s attorney, Max Wheeler, said he was unfamiliar with the documentin question and The bid team generated many greased,” the report states. Another update was written by dossiers, reports and updates, someof which have been provided to the Justice Department and obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune. rish following an October 1989 meeting of the European national Olympic committees. Parrish School. Of Australia’s Phil Coles, the documentnotes his loveof goif and suggests he be invited on the governor’s river trip. The report also recounts what American IOC memberAnita DeFrantz had to say IOC members and inquired about their likes anddislikes. “Tt was the stated goal, the sole purpose of the bid committee to influence the votes of IOC members. Out of necessity, you have to about Republic of Congo IOC member Jean-Claude Ganga, the biggest beneficiary of Salt Lake’s handouts. “Ganga is very political and he keep track of who they are, what they want and how youcan influence them,” Wheeler said. “It is part of the regular process any is the kind of guy that wants to bid committee member Stan Par- Corruption Charges Threaten Chavez’s Re-Election Bid THE ASSOCIATED PRESS case against congressional chief Luis Miquilena for allegedly giv- CARACAS,Venezuela — The attorney general on Tuesday ing a government printing con- moved to bring corruption charges against the leader of congress and the former secret police chief who tried to bring him down. The congressional chief, whois arguably President Hugo Chavez’s most importantpolitical ally, had been accused of influence peddling by the former police chief, who now faces similar corruption charges himself. i With three weeks to go before Chavez's re-election bid, the attorney general’s move underscored discrepancies between the anticorruption platform that helped Chavez sweep to powerandthe accusations offavoritism dogging his administration. Attorney General Javier Elechiguerra saidhis office is recommending that a court open a tract to a company in which he held shares andfor giving a lucrative justice ministry contract to an insurance company owned by one of his business partners. Those allegations were first brought by Jesus Urdaneta,one of three former army officers who helped Chavez stage a failed 1992 coup attempt, but who recently broke away from the president, saying he has betrayed theoriginal goals of their rebellion. On Tuesday, Elechiguerra told reporters he was also recommending that Urdaneta, who until recently served as Chavez's secret police chief, be investigated for the crime of illegal enrichment, a charge Urdaneta has denied. Miguilena has also denied any wrongdoing, saying the investigation against him is politically motivated by those whoare trying to thwart Chavez’s re-election bid. The charges “have no foundation, which will be plainly proven in the future,” Miquilena told a news conference Tuesday, adding that he wouldn’t seek to be shielded by parliamentary immunity if the accusations were shown to have merit. Venezuelans goto the polls May 28° because a new constitution pushed through last year by Chavez requires mostpublic offices, including the presidency, to be “re-legitimized” through new elections. 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According to a fund-raising letter written by former SLOC President Frank Joklik, efforts to win IOC support continued unabated after Salt LakeCity lost the 1998 bid — NATURAL to Nagano, Japan. GAS Headquarters In a Dec.3, 1992, solicitation to Franklin International Institute President Arlen Crouch, Joklik Residential, Mobile Homes, wrote: “Our efforts since July 1991 have concentrated on maintaining our ties with individual IOC members and keeping enthusiasm for the bid alive in the community. We believe our efforts are bearingfruit and our chances for a win in 1995 look good.” It was during this period, from July 1991 to December 1992, that bidofficials began offering tuition assistance to the children of IOC members interested in attending U.S. colleges. It is also whenthe bid committee was preparing a four- © Pennies t dayy * Second water heater extends showers & hot water needs year budget. 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