Word: eckardt
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Where Was Shawn Eckardt...
...vision. According to Gillooly, when Harding interpreted disappointing scores in a Japan competition last December as a sign that she might be frozen out of the Olympic Games (in fact she flubbed a crucial combination), Gillooly fell into a discussion of sporting politics with his old friend Shawn Eckardt, who ran something called World Bodyguard Services from his parents' Portland, Oregon, home. Eckardt recruited two associates to right matters by maiming Nancy Kerrigan, the favorite to win the U.S. National Championships -- the event that determines who goes to Norway...
...dream team. According to Gillooly's statement to the FBI, Harding was worried early on that Eckardt could possibly pull off the attack. The plotters' schemes would seem almost ludicrous if it weren't for their viciousness. A scenario that called for running Kerrigan's car off the road was rejected because the team was afraid that their own "beater car" might be disabled and strand them at the scene of the crime. The hitman, Shane Stant, roamed Cape Cod in a vain attempt to find his quarry. She wasn't there, though Gillooly claims that Harding herself made phone...
...date is Dec. 28. Jeff Gillooly has just been dropped off by his ex-wife, Tonya Harding, at the home of Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt. Inside, Gillooly, Eckardt and two out-of-town thugs for hire discuss ways to keep Nancy Kerrigan from competing Jan. 7 and 8 in the U.S. figure-skating championships in Detroit. Methodically the four men run down their options: cut Kerrigan's Achilles tendon, break her leg or kneecap, kill her. According to Gillooly, he then calls Harding and asks her to pick him up. As Gillooly drives, he details a proposed...
...poorly. Last Tuesday, Gillooly's attorney Ronald Hoevet publicly elaborated on his client's guilty plea. Hoevet charged Harding with obtaining both the name of the Tony Kent Arena and Kerrigan's hotel-room number in Detroit and of participating in a Jan. 10 meeting between Gillooly and Eckardt at which an alibi was concocted. He said he had "no doubt" about Harding's guilt and suggested that it would be "unconscionable" for Harding to skate at the Olympics. The next day the state bar was flooded with calls questioning whether Hoevet had violated Oregon's code of professional conduct...