91. Details of the lengths to which the bid committee apparently went in order to curry favor with key members of the IOC continue to trickle out. 92. During those years, the bid committee held tax-exempt status as a nonprofit charitable organization. 93. Geesink was not immediately available for comment Monday, but denied in a newspaper interview last month that he had ever taken money from the Salt Lake bid committee. 94. Ganga also said he offered to pay for his medical treatment in Salt Lake but the costs were covered under an arrangement between the hospital and the bid committee. 95. Garff and Leavitt declined to say whether board members who also were on the bid committee will remain on SLOC. 96. Garff said the panel found no evidence the bid committee had provided female escorts for visiting IOC members, an allegation that had been widely reported. 97. Geesink was not immediately available for comment Monday but denied in a newspaper interview last month that he had ever taken money from the Salt Lake bid committee. 98. Guo Jinzhong, a spokesman for the bid committee, said it has received thousands of similar banners in the past year. 99. Gull also surfaced this winter as the source of rumors that the bid committee had hired prostitutes for IOC members. 100. He denied today that he had worked for the Salt Lake City bid committee or had even done an environmental study for them. |
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