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Article: SALT LAKE OPENS INDEPENDENT PROBE FORMER BID HEAD DEFENDS TACTICS.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 19, 1998
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Salt Lake's Olympic organizers pledged yesterday to confront a burgeoning bribery scandal with an independent investigation into whether the 2002 Winter Games were bought and sold.
``I'm glad this has now happened,'' Frank Joklik, president and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, said after board members emerged from a 5 1/2-hour emergency meeting called to deal with the scandal.
The committee turned the investigation over to a five-member ethics panel that would, according to a written resolution, be ``free from any direction or control'' by organizers.
The panel's report, to be made public, will be due no later than Feb. 11.
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