Byline: Associated Press
NEW YORK -- A top Olympics booster pressured his copper mining company's suppliers to donate money to Salt Lake City's bid for the 1998 Winter Games, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
Frank Joklik, the former president and chief executive officer of Kennecott Corp. in Salt Lake, urged business associates to contribute to the bid and targeted companies that spurned him.
The Journal reported that Joklik, who later led the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Games, got 12 of Kennecott's suppliers -- including Caterpillar Inc., Ingersoll-Rand Co. and Bechtel Co. -- to contribute to the unsuccessful bid for …
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