He will speak today at a noon news conference at the U.S. Capitol. Walsh will not attend, according to Specter's office.
Neither will Goodell, who clearly hopes the scandal is over.
Goodell fined the Patriots $250,000 and coach Bill Belichick $500,000 and docked them a first-round draft pick this year after finding the Patriots guilty of illegally taping signals during a game against the Jets in Week 1 last season. The Patriots admitted to the practice routinely. Walsh supplied eight videotapes of such instances, some of which he taped himself during his stint with the team from 1997 to 2003. He now is a golf pro in Hawaii.
Specter, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, summoned Walsh to Washington after Walsh and his lawyer met with Goodell in New York. The meeting with Specter lasted 3 hours. Neither side commented on the matter afterward.
While little substantive new information surfaced yesterday, Walsh's conversation with Goodell brought up plenty of validation for Goodell's unprecedented measures against the Pats.
Among them:
* Walsh told Goodell that he didn't tape a Rams walkthrough and had no knowledge of such a taping before the Patriots beat them in Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002. A report on Feb. 2 in the Boston Herald cited an unnamed Patriots source that such a taping happened. Walsh, through his lawyer, said he was not the source for the story.
Walsh did admit to attending the Rams' walkthrough in order to fine-tune electronic equipment, then passing along scouting information to Pats coaches.
