Daily Herald (Newspaper) - February 3, 1994, Chicago, Illinois Section nation 17 JA look at who's involved in Kerrigan case Phone records help to implicate Tonya documents show Key players in the alleged plot to figure skater Nancy Nancy Kerrigan The old the daughter of da and Daniel Kerrigan of was the 1992 Olympic figure skating bronze medalist and 1992 World Figure Skating silver medalist She was the 1993 U.S Figure Skating Champion On Jan she was clubbed above right knee by an assailant after a practice session for the 1994 U.S Skating Championships in Detroit The next she withdrew from the 1994 U.S nationals On Jan Kerrigan was named with 1994 U.S champion Tonya Harding to the 1994 U.S Olympic team On Jan Kerrigan re- turned to practice for the first time since the attack Nancy Kerrigan Jeff Tonya Harding Tonya Harding Age ter of LaVona and Al of Portland At age Harding won her first skating competition Five years she landed her first triple loop on the ice She began dating Jeff Gillooly at the same year her mother leaves her father married Gillooly in but filed for di- by June 1991 Their di- yorce was not final until August 1993 In Harding finished third in the U.S Figure Skating In February she be- came the first U.S woman to form a triple axel in winning the U.S title The next she finished second in her first world championship com- petition In September she beat defending world champion Kristi placing first in Skate America but finished a disappointing fourth at the 1992 Olympics in behind Kerrigan On Jan Harding placed first in the U.S Figure Skating Championships in and was named along with Kerrigan to the U.S team for the Lillehammer Olympics that begin next week Following the arrest of her bodyguard Shawn Eckardt and two other men in the attack on Harding underwent more than 10 hours of questioning Jan 18 On Jan she said she had knowledge of the but admitted withholding information from authorities for several days that she knew that persons that were close to were in- Jeff Gillooly Age began dating Tonya Harding in the same year he graduated from land's David Douglas High School They married in March 1990 Gillooly worked as a warehouse worker from 1989 to 1992 for the Oregon Liquor Control sion He quit to devote his time to Harding's ing career In July a court ordered Gillooly to stay away from Harding after she alleged he physically abused her They di- Aug but later according to Harding's coach Diane Rawlinson Gillooly was charged Jan 18 by the Multnomah County District At- office with conspiracy to commit assault in the second de- gree for planning the attack on rigan That Harding an- she was separating from Gillooly The next Gillooly was ar- released on bail and ar- On he pleaded guilty to a racketeering charge in the assault on Kerrigan Under the he will receive a sentence of two years in federal prison and pay a in exchange for his mony in the case Shawn Eric Eckardt Age a childhood friend of Jeff Gillooly Described as Tonya Harding's he apparently is em- ployed only once in that capacity who lives with his weighs 350 pounds but according to his resume en- joys skydiving and power lifting as hobbies In Eckardt pleaded no contest to a prostitution charge The next he enrolled in a mail-order of Criminal Justice program at Executive curity International in and attended a residency in 1990 He began the second half of gram in but was terminated in 1993 for failing to maintain quate progress Eckardt was arrested Jan and charged with cy to commit assault in the ond degree for conspiring in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan Eckardt allegedly conspired with Gillooly to plan the assault and recruited Derrick Smith and Shane Stant to cany it out Shane Stant Age 22 The alleged man in the an he is a f Reuters bodybuilder and former member of a Portland football team The former Portland resident most recently Shane resided in Stant Ariz Stant is Derrick Smith Shawn Eckhardt the nephew of Derrick the driver of the getaway car Stant surrendered to the FBI on Jan 14 in Phoenix in the Kerrigan sault case Stant was arraigned Jan 19 in Portland on a charge of acy to commit assault in the second degree in the Kerrigan attack Derrick Smith Age 29 The driver of the getaway car in Kerrigan he is a former Portland dent most re- cently living in Phoenix who formerly worked with the developmentally is the uncle of Shane the alleged hitman On Jan Smith was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit assault in the second de- gree for conspiring in the attack on Kerrigan Diane Rawlinson to Dennis a Portland at- torney who is among those she is a former Ice Capades soloist who was forced by a traffic accident to stop skating She coached Harding from the time Harding was 3 until when they ed She resumed coaching Harding in then parted ways again She was ed with Harding after the 1992 ter Olympics Diane Rawlinson Ore The FBI used telephone records to lenge statements made by figure skater Tonya Harding and convince her to implicate her in the attack on figure skater Nancy documents show Harding's former Jeff accused her of being in- in the attack only after in- showed him the summary of Harding's statement to his lawyer Ron Hoevet has said Gillooly has pleaded guilty to racketeering for his role in the Jan 6 but Harding has not been although a U.S Figure Skating Association panel is ing the case in a proceeding that could lead to her being removed from the U.S Winter Olympic team The FBI released 130 pages of in- transcripts after Gillooly pleaded guilty Tuesday for his role in the clubbing of which forced her out of the national won by Harding Kerrigan was pronounced fit Wednesday to skate in the Olympics this month in Norway The documents include edited agents notes from the in- of Harding on January 18 and a grilling of Gillooly on Jan 26 and 27 Also included were interviews with suspects Shane Stant and rick Smith and with a Pennsylvania journalist who says Harding called her nearly two weeks before the at- tack seeking information on where Kerrigan lived and trained When agents questioned she at first told them she and Gillooly knew nothing about the at- tack on Kerrigan But nearly eight hours into the interview she changed her story after agents questioned her about telephone calls made Dec 28 from her home in rural Beaver to the Massachusetts arena where gan trains At first Harding told authorities she had been trying to reach gan to ask permission for a land sports bar to display a picture of Kerrigan and skater Kristi Yamaguchi When investigators confronted her on the Harding said Gillooly had persuaded her to tell the story about the picture an excuse for the telephone cording to the documents The documents indicate that Harding's bodyguard Shawn Eckardt told agents he believed Harding made the calls to get skating times so that they would know when she could be at- tacked Harding denied that claim with an expletive and said Gillooly and Eckardt had made the calls to the arena At that point Harding told in- she had become con- of involvement in the attack on Kerrigan after she re- turned from Detroit but didn't come forward because she feared Gillooly and his family Gillooly gave a different account and said that he and Harding dis- cussed the plan on Christmas Day and that he suggested calling Vera Marano to get in- formation about abouts a West figure skating confirmed to authorities that she got calls form Harding several times around Christmas seeking in- formation on where Kerrigan trained and whether she owned property on Cape Cod Harding told Marano she needed the information to settle a cording to a summary of statement An employee at the Tony Kent Arena where Kerrigan trains told authorities he remembers a call from a woman inquiring about practice according to the FBI uments The shift supervisor Timothy said the call was the only one regarding Kerrigan he re- in December who confessed to the FBI that he attacked Kerrigan with a metal told 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