The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this.

The same month Kelley resigned but denied the charges. For the Hall of Fame ice hockey coach see Jack Kelley (ice hockey). On 26 January 2004 Natasa Kandic of the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade disputed his account of using her as a source for a July 1999 front-page story on a typed Yugoslav Army order to "cleanse" a village in Kosovo.

For the Hall of Fame ice hockey coach see Jack Kelley (ice hockey). Jack Kelley was a longtime USA Today reporter and nominee and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2002.