BRIEFLY : MORE INFORMATION IN IOC SCANDAL.

Byline: Daily News Wire Services

The son of a leading International Olympic Committee member from Africa worked as an intern at City Hall while Salt Lake City was attempting to become the host city for the 2002 Winter Games, the Salt Lake City's mayor's office told the New York Times on Thursday.

The admission raised more questions about the extent to which an effort was made to sway votes in landing the Olympics.

Also, Tom Welch, the former president of the Salt Lake City organizing committee, said visiting IOC members had been given presents such as shotguns, skis and free lift tickets, airplane flyovers of Utah's arresting canyons, and tickets to the opera and Utah Jazz basketball games, and had been taken on hunting trips for pheasant in a successful attempt to attract their votes.

And Christer Persson, the official who headed the Swedish bid that lost the vote to play host to the 2002 Games, said he wanted Salt Lake City organizers to reimburse the expenses of their rival cities if the group is penalized by the IOC.

``In some ways, we spent our money in vain,'' said Persson.

These were the latest eruptions in a mushrooming vote-buying scandal among cities seeking to play host to the Olympics that has been alleged by Marc Hodler of Switzerland, the second-highest-ranking member of the IOC. Salt Lake officials have acknowledged spending about $400,000 on scholarships and athletic training for 13 people, including six relatives of IOC members, but they have denied Hodler's charge that this money amounted to bribery.

Two investigations of the Salt Lake charges are being conducted, one by the IOC and one by the ethics panel of the Salt Lake Olympic organizing committee. Attorney General Janet Reno said Thursday that the Justice Department's criminal division was reviewing the matter amid reports that the scholarship fund was not reported on federal tax forms.

The IOC has said that it will not take the 2002 Winter Games away from Salt Lake City, which won in a landslide vote in 1995 over Ostersund, Sweden; Sion, Switzerland; and Quebec. But there has been a furor, and embarrassment over allegations of vote buying is widespread.

JURDISPRUDENCE: Kenny Brunner, a former Fresno State basketball recruit suspected of threatening a man with a Samurai sword, is off the hook after a judge dismissed four felony counts.

``I think this started out as a bunch of horsing around by people who were doing a lot of drinking,'' Fresno County Judge Michael Feinberg said.

``I'm just happy that it's all over with,'' said Brunner, who attends Santa Monica City College and holds out hope of going back to Fresno State.

Brunner and former Fresno State center Avondre Jones were arrested last March for investigation of threatening an acquaintance with a gun, beating him with swords and stealing his camera just hours after the Bulldogs beat Memphis in an NIT game.

Jones was convicted Tuesday of one felony count of weapons possession and three other misdemeanor charges.

Richard Gnida, the limousine driver convicted in the 1997 crash that injured three members of the Detroit Red Wings, is back in jail after being arrested for a probation violation.

Gnida was ordered held on $50,000 cash bail at his arraignment following an arrest at his home six days after he missed a court hearing and failed to provide information on drug and alcohol counseling sessions he was ordered to attend under the terms of his two-year probation.

The June 1997 crash left Red Wings defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov and team masseur Sergei Mnatsakanov in comas for several weeks.