Posted on 12/28/2017 1:07:10 PM PST by zeestephen
Six years after the Sandusky scandal rocked Penn State, university leadership is still fighting a civil war over the case, a conflict fueled, in part, by weaknesses that have developed in investigations that concluded top Penn State officials covered up for the convicted child molester.
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‘And Ray Gricar is still missing...’
according to his brother, Gricar had serious problems with PSU and its football program; doubtlessly over the mishandling of a mother’s complaint against Sandusky...
I have a grandson there,sophomore-—never mentions it———ancient history to most students.
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Spanier got 2 months at a halfway house, IIRC, and he’s out while he’s appealing that. That’s not a sentence. It’s an abomination.
They were in elementary school when it was happening.................
Not only did he not take a coaching job, nobody even asked him or courted him. It's almost like he was airbrushed out of history like the guys Stalin purged. Sandusky, for all his faults, could coach a defense. And in a profession where winning is everything, not one AD wanted him.
Everyone knew. Nobody talked.
If ever a college football program deserved the death penalty, it was Penn State’s. If Penn State did not deserve the death penalty, no NCAA program ever will again.
At the center was Spanier, now 69, who once ranked among the nation’s most prominent and longest-serving university leaders. Prosecutors with the state Attorney General’s Office contended that he decided to bury a claim that Sandusky had been seen showering with a boy one night in a campus locker room in 2001, three years after police investigated a similar allegation about the assistant football coach.
From his ouster after Sandusky’s arrest in late 2011 through his trial this spring, Spanier insisted he was innocent and did not realize that Sandusky was a threat to children.
But as he pleaded with the judge for a sentence that would spare him from jail, Spanier apologized to the victims, the Penn State community, and others affected by his actions. “I deeply regret I didn’t intervene more forcefully,” he said, in a nod to Sandusky’s victims."
June 2017 “story”
There were also a couple of people who kept defending Cardinal Law and the archdiocese of Boston. I wonder if they are still around?
‘I believe there was evidence that the guy who saw Sandusky in the shower with the little boy told Joe Pa.... ‘
yes, McQueary told Paterno; at that point in time, Sandusky no longer reported to Paterno...
‘As to how long he knew, I don’t know.’
he was clearly aware of rumors concerning Sandusky’s predilictions, and from McQueary’s description of Paterno’s reaction, I suspect he then realized that the rumors were evidently true...
What war? One of two things transpired: either they knew and helped cover it up, or they didn’t know and were grossly incompetent. Doesn’t really matter which, at this level of allowed evil misfeasance and malfeasance are the same.
The corrupt crook in the is Tom Corbitt, the attorney general who pushed the investigation while in charge of it, and then became governor where he was automatically sat on the Penn State Board of Trustees where he became judge and jury.
His job prior to AG was in house legal counsel for Waste Management Inc. Need I say more.(They leave that out of his bio!)
Per Wiki:
Thomas Wingett Corbett Jr.[1] (born June 17, 1949) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 46th Governor of Pennsylvania from January 18, 2011 to January 20, 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Born in Philadelphia, Corbett is a graduate of Lebanon Valley College and St. Mary’s University School of Law and served as a captain in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. Corbett began his career as an assistant district attorney in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in 1976. Corbett then joined the U.S. Department of Justice as an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, serving from 1980 to 1983, upon entering private practice. In 1988 Corbett was first elected to public office as a Commissioner in the Pittsburgh suburb of Shaler, before serving as the United States Attorney for Western Pennsylvania from 1989 to 1993 in the George H.W. Bush administration.
In 1995, Corbett was appointed to fill the remainder of Ernie Preate’s term as Attorney General of Pennsylvania, until 1997. Corbett then reentered private practice and worked as the general counsel for Waste Management, Inc before being elected Attorney General of Pennsylvania in 2004. Corbett was then elected to a second term in 2008, serving a total of two non-consecutive tenures as attorney general from 1995 to 1997, and 2005 to 2011.
Corbett declared his candidacy for governor in March 2009. He won the Republican nomination and defeated Democratic nominee Dan Onorato, with 54.5% of the vote in the 2010 general election. He was sworn into office on January 18, 2011. On November 8, 2013 he announced his intention to run for a second term as the state’s chief executive. Corbett lost his bid for a second term to Democrat Tom Wolf in the November 4, 2014 general election. This election marked the first time an incumbent Governor running for re-election in Pennsylvania lost since William Bigler in 1854.
Corbett convened a grand jury in 2009 to investigate longstanding allegations of child sexual abuse by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.[16] The grand jury uncovered evidence of criminal misconduct, and a 40-count indictment against Sandusky was issued in 2011, ultimately leading to Sandusky’s criminal conviction in 2012. Corbett has been criticized for the three year time span between the grand jury investigation and Sandusky’s indictment, and for his gubernatorial staff approving a $3 million grant to Sandusky’s Second Mile charity for children, which, according to the grand jury findings, served as a repository for potential sex-abuse victims.[17] Former FBI Director Louis Freeh’s report on the Penn State scandal did not fault Corbett’s handling of the Sandusky case.[18]
In 2000, he was actually almost hired as Head Coach at Virginia. I think somehow Penn State officials put the kibosh on it, possibly by threatening Sandusky. Current Detroit Lions Head Coach, and their Tight Ends coach, who was the Miami Head Coach, had already committed to Sandusky's staff at Virginia.
Note.. Corbitt used this case as his PR to stay in the news as he ran for Gov.
Those dirty homophobes. Sandusky and his gay ring loved those little orphan boys.
“Paterno knew”
I don’t think so. Paterno was a straight shooter. As straight as they come. I was a professor at Penn State and I watched him for years. I didn’t like him as a coach as he was too old school and not a strategist, but as far as I am concerned, he would bench his starting quarterback for breaking the rules even if it was a championship game. He was a by the rules great guy.
I don’t know. Law resigned in 2002.
Oh, to be young.
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