SALT LAKE CITY -- The hefty report that laid out this city's Olympic bid scandal should be excluded as evidence in the trial of the two men who brought the 2002 Winter Olympics to Utah, defense lawyers said in their final motions before the trial starts Oct. 28.

The lawyers also want a federal judge to throw out any mention of immigration fraud leveled against John Kim, the son of a powerful International Olympic Committee member.

The bid leaders' lawyers objected to an internal report released in February 1999 by a five-member ethics panel for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. They called it prejudicial and based on hearsay instead of direct evidence.

The ethics panel produced a 1½-inch-thick report explaining what payments were made to International Olympic Committee delegates and their relatives based on interviews with bid chief Tom Welch, deputy Dave Johnson and other officials.

Justice Department trial attorneys Richard Wiedis and John Scott did not return a call Friday from The Associated Press. The prosecutors have indicated they would not respond to the defense motions until Tuesday.

The bid scandal began to unravel in late 1998 when a Salt Lake City television station reported on a draft letter by Johnson showing the bid committee had been making college tuition payments for the daughter of an IOC member from Cameroon. Within weeks, then-SLOC President Frank Joklik acknowledged the bid campaign had provided nearly $400,000 in financial aid to relatives of six IOC members.

That mushroomed into an international scandal when IOC member Marc Hodler alleged that corruption was rampant in the selection of cities to stage the Olympic Games.

The Justice Department accused Welch and Johnson of lavishing $1 million in cash, gifts and other inducements on IOC members who awarded Salt Lake the 2002 Olympics. The defendants are scheduled to go on trial later this month on felony charges of fraud, conspiracy and bribery racketeering.

Kim, of South Korea, was accused of using a no-show job arranged by the Salt Lake bid committee to obtain a green card to stay in this country.

The Kim case is a "bizarre subconspiracy" with little relevance to the main government case against bid Welch and Johnson. It adds "an entirely separate and highly inflammatory dimension" that could distract a jury, says one of the defense motions filed Tuesday.

The defense team asked U.S. District Court Judge David Sam to block prosecutors from raising the Kim affair unless they can show Welch or Johnson submitted false documents helping Kim get the green card.

Kim is fighting extradition from Bulgaria, where he was arrested on an Interpol warrant last May planning to visit an Olympic training site. His U.S. lawyer says the Justice Department is trying to pressure Kim to testify against the bid leaders.