Hello Mary Lu

And once you thought the scandal was over...

I got a copy of a press release written in January that announced that Salt Lake City Skating Judge, Jon Jackson had finally won his case in an arbitration court.

• The American Arbitration Association (AAA) awarded Jackson over $18,000 in attorneys' fees, costs and arbitration costs, following its ruling that US Figure Skating had failed to follow its own bylaws and rules in an attempt to sanction him. Jackson was a key witness in the pairs figure skating judging scandal at the 2002 Olympics. Previously, US Figure Skating had attempted to strip Jackson and Ron Pfenning, the referee of the 2002 Olympic pairs event, of their eligibility after they formed the now defunct World Skating Federation as a competing organization to the International Skating Union in 2003.

For those of you who don't remember Jon Jackson and Ron Pfenning were the two who blew the whistle on the International Skating Union and judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne over the judge fixing in the Salt Lake City Olympic pairs event.

Also the USFSA has completely exonerated Jackson and Pfenning of all charges. Personally it's about time.

Jackson's upcoming memoir, On Edge: Backroom Dealing, Cocktail Scheming, Triple Axels, and How Top Skaters Get Screwed, is now in stores and on Amazon. It should prove an interesting read. Friends who have read it say Jon's ripped the lid of the years of backroom deals and corruption. Too bad we can't get Speedy out of office. But considering how many problems his new scoring system is creating-- we can hope.