How Salt Lake City’s 2002 bribery scandal rocked the Olympic movement
More than two decades ago, past Utah bid organizers lavished top Olympic officials with $1 million in cash, gifts and other inducements in hopes of winning the 2002 Winter Games.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Tom Welch addresses the media outside of federal court on Friday, Dec. 5, 2003 in Salt Lake City. Former Salt Lake Olympic bid committee members Welch and Dave Johnson were acquitted by U.S. District Judge David Sam on all 15 counts of their bribery trial.