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Sandusky child sex abuse scandal has cost Penn State University $41 million
The Daily Mail Online ^ | March 12, 2013 | AP

Posted on 03/13/2013 6:39:53 AM PDT by Uncle Chip

Edited on 03/13/2013 6:48:59 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Some vocal alumni had called on university leadership to release itemized costs, in part to promote transparency....

Those critics had also asked the university to release the letter of agreement, or "engagement letter" with Freeh, that outlined the scope and responsibilities of the former FBI director in leading the internal investigation into the scandal....


(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: paterno; pennstate

1 posted on 03/13/2013 6:39:53 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

Money can’t replace the boys lives.


2 posted on 03/13/2013 6:41:25 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Uncle Chip

Give it up...attacking Freeh won’t rehabilitate or clear Joe Paterno. Paterno’s grand jury testimony is damning.


3 posted on 03/13/2013 6:42:42 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Uncle Chip

Their endowment is $1.7 billion. 41 million is a drop in the bucket


4 posted on 03/13/2013 6:44:05 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Uncle Chip
This nightmare should be costing Pedo State a lot more than money. There are far too many stories about how badly this is hurting the school, and not nearly enough ink about how this school destroyed the lives of so many innocent children.
5 posted on 03/13/2013 6:51:48 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: P.O.E.

{{Penn Ping}}


6 posted on 03/13/2013 6:53:18 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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In particular, Lubrano has said the school should ask for a refund from Freeh because the investigation was not full or complete ....

He praised the school for releasing the letter, but said “In my view, pointing to the recommendations is a deflection of the real issue.

“The real issue is that Freeh did not deliver what he was engaged to deliver, what he was paid to provide,” Lubrano said Monday in a phone interview.

School spokesman Dave La Torre said the letter was released after multiple requests from alumni, and that “the board thought it was appropriate to do so.”

He declined comment when asked if the release of the letter might answer questions from critics.

In a statement, the alumni watchdog group Penn Staters for Responsible Stewardship said the engagement letter’s release was important because it showed the Freeh team’s obligation was to the trustees and not the school itself, and that the report should be reviewed by the public and NCAA in a “far different light.”


7 posted on 03/13/2013 7:00:54 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: EEGator

That is absolutely true, however, in the end it is about the money. The attorneys will make a fortune, the abused will still have the emotional and psychological scars and the University will just raise tuition to cover their loss. What a beautifully contrived system we have created with our “rule of Law”. Lawyers become wealthy and in the end the public pays the bill.


8 posted on 03/13/2013 7:04:28 AM PDT by Machavelli (True God)
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To: Machavelli

Lovely isn’t it?


9 posted on 03/13/2013 7:17:19 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Timber Rattler

Give it up...attacking Freeh won’t rehabilitate or clear Joe Paterno. Paterno’s grand jury testimony is damning.

..actually, Paterno’s grand jury testimony was rather bland...he was asked little, and responded with little...in effect, the grand jury soft-soaped him, and instead turned the heat up on Curley and Schultz...of everyone in this sordid mess, it would appear Schultz (and the Second Mile officials)is the most culpable, as he admitted to knowing of the 1999 investigation of Sandusky for shower room malfeasence with a boy, and claims to not have informed the football program of it, and then in 2001, when basically the same thing happened again, he responded in house, when outside involvement clearly was called for...

...of course, one could choose to believe that Curley and Paterno knew as much as Schultz did about 1999, in which the case their minimal response to 2001 is obviously inadequate...we must remember that Paterno was a man who prided himself on knowing such things as when a player was skipping Spanish class, or had an off season speeding ticket...could such an individual not know his right hand coach, almost as popular as he himself, was under investigation by law enforcement elements? You make the call...

...we can ascertain, from Paterno’s testimony, that rumors at least were abundant, and under questioning, he said as much, letting a little bit of the cat to escape the bag...but as my die hard Penn St. in laws are wont to say, ‘it’s obvious Joepa knew nothing from nothing’ about the whole mess...I guess one could come to that conclusion...then again, well, you decide...


10 posted on 03/13/2013 7:17:23 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Uncle Chip

...I’m sure you realize that citing Penn State loyalists concerning the Freeh report isn’t exactly the road to proper objective analysis of this sorry mess...


11 posted on 03/13/2013 7:22:53 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade

This interests me from the engagement letter:

“FSS [Freeh,...] of course, is delighted to be asked to provide legal services to the Task Force, and we are looking forward to work with the Task Force on this engagement.”

So Freeh saw himself as working for the Task Force and answerable to them and not the Board of Trustees.

Interesting ———


12 posted on 03/13/2013 7:28:09 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Machavelli

The attorneys will make a fortune, the abused will still have the emotional and psychological scars and the University will just raise tuition to cover their loss.

...in reality, the ones screaming the loudest over ‘emotional scarring’ are the PSU football fans, who must now endure a few seasons without bowl games, and the possibility that the program might not be up to the standards of the past...we must be vigilant, and recognize true suffering when we see it, and show appropriate remorse...


13 posted on 03/13/2013 7:32:26 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Uncle Chip

I wouldn’t go anywhere near that filth factory.


14 posted on 03/13/2013 7:35:15 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: EEGator
How many Penn State administrators still think it was worth it to keep Sandusky in order to win more games, regardless of the harm he was doing to children and the $41 million in recent costs?

It would be good if they would have a couple of decades of 1-11 and 2-10 seasons. (They can always schedule a couple of non-conference games against small schools one-tenth their size.)

15 posted on 03/13/2013 7:48:52 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Machavelli

The attorneys will make a fortune, the abused will still have the emotional and psychological scars and the University will just raise tuition to cover their loss.


Sometimes monsters sink institutions. The feeder is killed for all the suckers and then other suckers get serious about abuse because they don’t want to kill their feeder.

Since all liberals value is money, money is where to hit the amoral who feed their internal black hole via ripping off, bullying and raping people.

I don’t mind that at all. Penn State might go out of business. It’s not the victims and the lawyers who nurtured and created that amoral black hole at the center of the institution.


16 posted on 03/13/2013 7:55:24 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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Under the section for waiver of future conflicts, the letter specifies that the agreement is also predicated on “the mutual understanding” that FSS was “free” to represent other clients, including adversaries as well as “take positions adverse to you or an affiliate.”

So then Freeh,S,S could have had The Second Mile, Centre County Youth Services, the Department of Public Welfare, BOTs and all as clients while it prepared this report that was being paid for by Penn State, and used this report coincidentally to shield those other clients of any blame for their failures in Sandusky's criminality.

How sweet!!!

No wonder they call it an "engagement letter".

17 posted on 03/13/2013 7:57:02 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Verginius Rufus

I’m sure any who knew about this and said nothing thinks it was stupid now.

The greater damage done to Penn State is in its reputation. Joe Pa the saint is no longer that in the eyes of most.


18 posted on 03/13/2013 8:42:07 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: onedoug

<>I wouldn’t go anywhere near that filth factory.<>

Which one???

Bombshell: MBNA bank while Freeh was co-chair and general counsel was major corporate sponsor of Jerry Sandusky and Second Mile.

http://www.tominpaine.blogspot.com/2012/09/bombshell-mbna-bank-while-freeh-was-co.html

http://www.psu.edu/ur/2000/sanduskydinner.html


19 posted on 03/13/2013 9:48:46 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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Let me get this straight:

Louie Freeh was co-chair and general counsel for MBNA Bank during the time that his superior was on the Board of the Sandusky’s Second Mile charity [TSM] in 2001 when TSM was notified of Sandusky’s 2001 shower incident for which it then failed to take action specified by law, failing to call the DPW or CYS.

And Louie Freeh is subsequently paid $8 million to investigate this incident???

How sweet is that!!!

No wonder he finds no wrongdoing at TSM, CYS, or DPW!!!


20 posted on 03/13/2013 10:16:58 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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