USA Swimming learned of the arrest around 11AM Mountain Time on Monday as the news was breaking more broadly. USA Swimming alerted SwimSwam to the arrest shortly thereafter, saying that they placed Hilliard on leave immediately and removed his access to any USA Swimming data and financial mechanisms. USA Swimming is also immediately starting its own investigation into whether there has been any impropriety in his short time at USA Swimming. Hilliard was hired in December as the USA Swimming CFO under the tenure of new CEO Kevin Ring. USA Swimming says that those concerns did not come up in the organization’s background checks or vetting of Hilliard.