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”