Posted on 02/10/2013 7:10:13 AM PST by Uncle Chip
A report commissioned by Joe Paterno's family calls the July 2012 Freeh report that was accepted by Penn State trustees before unprecedented sanctions were levied by the NCAA against the school's football program a "total failure" that is "full of fallacies, unsupported personal opinions, false allegations and biased assertions."
The Paterno family report, which targets nearly every conclusion and assertion the Freeh report made about Paterno in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, states that while former FBI director Louis J. Freeh has had an honorable past and good reputation, his investigation -- especially as it relates to Paterno -- relied on "rank speculation," "innuendo" and "subjective opinions" when it concluded that Paterno concealed facts about Sandusky in part to avoid bad publicity.
Freeh was hired on Nov. 21, 2011 and paid $6.5 million by Penn State University trustees --
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The Paterno family immediately roundly and loudly rejected the report, and, four days after its release, instructed its lawyer to form a "group of experts" to conduct a comprehensive review of the facts and conclusions. The Paterno family asked its attorney's law firm, King and Spalding of Washington, D.C., to start "a comprehensive review of the report and Joe Paterno's conduct. They authorized us to engage the preeminent experts in their field and to obtain their independent analyses."
The law firm hired former U.S. attorney general Richard Thornburgh, former FBI supervisory special agent and former state prosecutor James Clemente, and Dr. Fred Berlin, a treating physician, psychiatrist, psychologist and expert in sexual disorders and pedophilia at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine. The family's report attacks Freeh's conclusions, assertions, methodology, investigative abilities and choices, disclosures and independence.
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It is true.
To all the Paterno enablers who continue to post new threads as well many of the posts in those threads, I just spent the last hour or so over on the ESPN.com website to get a gauge on the reaction to the new Paterno (bought and paid for) Report.
I would estimate that judging by the comments posted to the published article on ESPN that the sports public finds this report laughable. The comments are running, in my estimation, about 95-97% against Paterno and his enabling of the pedophile Sandusky.
Don’t believe me? Go over there and judge for yourself. However, let me warn you that the comments are being posted so quickly that you will have to click on the “pause” button at the top of the page. The number of comments are already in the thousands.
So go over to ESPN.com and click on the Paterno story that is on their main web page. Once at the story scroll down to the comments and click on the number. This will bring you to the comments(pages). Then, enjoy! Some of the comments are hilarious.
Freeh said he respected the family’s right to conduct a campaign to “shape the legacy of Joe Paterno,” but called the critique self-serving. Paterno’s attorney was contacted for an interview the coach, he said, and Paterno spoke with a reporter and biographer before his death but not Freeh’s team.
Curley and Schultz also declined numerous requests for interviews, Freeh said. They have been facing criminal charges since November 2011.
Freeh on Sunday cited grand jury testimony by Paterno in 2011 in which Paterno said a graduate assistant relayed to him a 2001 allegation against Sandusky of a “sexual nature” with a child.
He referred to a key point in the July report in which he said Spanier, Schultz and Curley drew up a plan that called for reporting Sandusky to the state Department of Public Welfare in 2001. But Curley later said in an email that he changed his mind “after giving it more thought and talking it over with Joe.”
And yet he was fired. I guess he wasn't the "most", was he???
To try and pretend he new nothing about this disgraceful incident is pure fantasy.
Who is saying that??? What he knew he acted upon??? Did you read the Freeh report???
Go ahead and stick you heads in the sand
I prefer to stick mine in the pages of the reports -- the Freeh and the Thornburg and others. You should try it sometime.
I'll offer the strange circumstances that led to the arrest and conviction of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel as a perfect piece of evidence to support this.
Gee, I wonder what the results will be. I mean, this has to be the most impartial report to ever have been released, right?
Paterno’s corpse should be exhumed, dumped in the street, set on fire, and fed to wild dogs.
Tom Corbett was elected Governor of Pennsylvania.
As governor, he was an ex-oficio member of the Penn State Board of Trustees. As the former Attorney General of Pennsylvania, he was also privy to the details of the Sandusky investigation. As a trustee of Penn State he had a fiduciary responsibility to do whatever it took -- without compromising any confidentiality of the Sandusky investigation -- to act in the best interests of the university. Firing Paterno was really the only course of action for the Board of Trustees to take once Corbett announced his decision to attend that formal meeting of the board in November 2011.
What a stupid and moronic thing to say!
I agree! Why would someone ever consider poisoning even feral dogs?
My care meter isn’t pegged enough to read the Paterno family’s self-serving report. Did the report discover that Paterno didn’t know after all about Sandusky allegedly boogering a boy in the PSU lockeroom?
BS.
No one is sticking their head in the sand.
It is you who claimed Paterno's law firm to be paid assassins.
I merely pointed out to you that Louis Freeh was paid 6.5 million to generate a report that the NCAA used as justification for crushing Penn State with 60 million in fines plus egregious sanctions.
Stick with the facts, and knock off the ad hominem nonsense.
Stick with the facts, and knock off the ad hominem nonsense.
The facts my friend are obvious if one just wants to know them...I suspect you are willing to defend Penn state at all costs...including the facts.
'nuff said.
“nothing a lawyer comes up with will change what the obvious facts of this case has revealed!!”
Please POST those facts in summary form to back up your exclamation points... because the Freeh report had little in the way of facts. You must have an additional source you can share.
They paid some guy $6.5 MILLION to write a report? That’s the job I want. That’s more money than I would make in 4 lifetimes. And he made it for report.
Of course, apparently universities have so much money to throw around that they can afford to pay $6.5 MILLION to write a report.
I trust this report far more than i trust anything Freeh put together.
It is good to see the Paterno family punching back at the disgraceful lynch mob.
There you go with the BS again. You have no idea what I'm willing to defend. But I'll give you a hint, I will not defend the NCAA at all. They're a disgrace.
Oh please. More jurist mindset nonsense. We all instinctively know what happened here based on the facts we already have. The old Man is lucky he died before he too could’ve been rightfully strung up.
Buncha excuse makers.
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