Not true
Paterno didn't refuse.
Only Curly, Schultz and Spanier and that because they were facing indictments.
And it was the state AG who asked that he not talk to McQueary.
Where was Dr Dranov's, Mr McQueary's, the university's legal counsel's interview???
Where were Freeh's interviews with Dr Raykowitz and the 2nd Mile Charity officials who knew about Sandusky and did nothing???
Where were Freeh's interviews with Jerry Lauro and the PA Department of Public Welfare???
Without those under oath he had no evidence that state officials had not been notified as he alleged in his report.
It is true.
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.”