Ending The Nittany Nightmare: Penn State Pre-Game Plea, An Open Letter To President Rodney Erickson
An Open Letter to Penn State University President Rodney Erickson
With much respect -Do what I say, and do it today.
Hire the best Public Relations firm in the country for PSU’s needs. I am redacting that recommendation for the publication of this open letter, but it is included in my email to you. Don’t spend the time or manpower to run through the approved vendor lists and bid it out- not that kind of gig. The Board of Trustees can WebEx if necessary and this is the kind of emergency proxy was invented for.
Once retained, have the agency facilitate meetings through their agents with Bill Parcells and Bill Cowher immediately. Specify no leaks to the press until after they occur and by mutual agreement. Cowher may be the low hanging fruit on this one, he is returning to CBS next year.
If neither is interested in a head coach commitment of an 8-1 Big Ten team, follow their recommendations about who to contact next and ask them; beg if necessary, if they would be willing to consider a consulting gig for the recruitment process. Urban Myer is a fine coach and leader, but regardless of who PSU ultimately chooses, efforts to rebuild the PSU brand must start with a nationally recognizable face of a trusted and respected winner, like yesterday.
Champions attract champions and without that, it is like asking collegiate coaching candidates to walk into the lion’s den (pun intended) wearing a raw steak necklace. You will not even get one to tour Lasche, trust me on this.
This strategy would likely also include a public facing spokesperson effort, and worth every penny if that is all you can get a commitment for from either coach.
Pay them to sit in the lobby. Pay them to ride the elevator a few times, but get them on grounds. Pay them to have a motivational meeting with the team.
If you have some strong players they could attach to quickly and produce an “I remember when I was a young fig on the tree” memory synapses, it couldn’t hurt.
Instruct all team members never to roll the eyes should the phrase “When I was your age we played ball with pads made of glass and never wore cleats in the snow”; if they told me that I would believe it.
This is the kind of benchmarking that will revitalize wilting spirits of a young athlete, and the parents with the trembling hand over the eject button.
Half the free world is digging old milk cartons out of the recyclables to see if they recognize any kids they may have seen with Sandusky or on the sidelines of a game- they need a new visual association.
As you already know, if you are lucky enough to get this far, they will advise you to release every staffer from the interim athletic director to the water boys that were ever part of Paterno’s camp or rolled up his pants before the game. Do it.
This might be a good time to allow a try before they buy scenario if either are willing, as “guest coaches” to finish the season.
While I am at it, I might suggest a reality miniseries of the process- I know some folks from HBO familiar with the Hard Knocks of football, I would be glad to make a connection.
Donate those proceeds to Coach Parcells or Coach Cowher’s disadvantaged children’s charity of choice which is vetted in advance by a specially appointed member chosen by the new Ethics officer.
Point is, you need immediate public support and that will require immediate damage control or your Titanic does not even have the measly lifeboat option.
The public perception is that there is more to this horror movie after the commercial, and the commercials are disappearing as well.
Your job is to employ the resources that can change the channel when the public is not looking, and forget what they were watching in favor of the new programming, which includes sponsors aligned with that audience.
It is about as transparent of a plan as I can offer- with hope and promise to the innocent victims of this tragedy.
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will joe paterno still receive retirement benefits?
Yep, unless he violated his ability to do so, which I doubt, he will.
B
I agree with your assesment of more than skin deep Blink. This is more than likely going to involve a lot more than the school and the non-profit organizations. I at this point have zero proof, but I believe it will affect some of LE, and the Courts. In addition, it may reach well beyond the boundries of the State of Pennsylvania.
Reading an IRS document is not difficult. The problem is getting the information contained in the real books, not the “cooked” ones used to get the taxes filed. My father was an accountant and I learned some things from him. The records that support the books are going to be very important. That is the only way to verify what was going on.
There are reports of missing records that may have contained information that will lead to other groups and crimes. Some of this could lead to a ring that stretches across many states.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/did_legal_adviser_for_ousted_p.html
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Did the two Penn State officials facing charges they helped to hide a report of sexual assault on campus get bad legal advice?
Up until about a week before charges were filed against athletic director Tim Curley and Vice President Gary Schultz, they didn’t have their own attorneys.
Instead, they relied on the advice of former state Supreme Court Justice Cynthia Baldwin, the university’s first in-house counsel. Baldwin represented them when they testified before the grand jury in February.
As recourse, Curley and Schultz could file an ethics complaint, Hazard said. They might also opt to sue for malpractice.
I am going to have to disagree with that report. I can assure you that counsel advised these defendants of their rights, and they KNEW the protections of a grand jury subpoena do NOT extend to intentional perjury.
If I had to guess, provided they were truthful as it related to the limited use immunity, I would be willing to bet they had immunity for the “failure to report” and those charges only came into play when they voided immunity with perjury.
The actions they testified to, were taken in their roles as employees of PSU- yes, but how many house attorneys are criminal specialists, when was she hired and for what purpose, now that I think about it.
B
When I think of how many kids may have been molested by Sandusky alone . . . and even though I know he carefully selected vulnerable boys . . . it is hard to imagine that so few told anyone . . . or that there were multiple adult witnesses . . . but no one followed up even if they “reported” it . . . . . . .
I reach the conclusion that some people, whether boys or adults, must have been silenced. And that the fear in others was immense.
I know this is what Blink and others have been writing, but it somehow just hit me as a CERTAINTY today.
There is just no way around it. The “how” this could happen at this scale MUST be brought to light, or it happens again. And I am not even referring to the cycle of abuse that undoubtedly follows- nobody is, yet.
B
Some Baldwin headlines from Penn State Live:
http://live.psu.edu/tag/Cynthia_Baldwin
She was appointed VP and General Counsel in January 2010. As a past-chair of the BOTs from 2004 to 2007 and a board member for 15 years, she is Penn-State-entrenched.
http://live.psu.edu/image/4951156323
http://people.forbes.com/profile/cynthia-a-baldwin/47797
I can’t say too much about my role, but I can say that I was disappointed that Baldwin was not more helpful/vocal during the period of threats facing some Penn State African-American student leaders during her time as chair of the BOTs. Maybe not her responsibility, but at least seemingly a lost opportunity.
Another thought from today, arising after a rare afternoon nap:
Did any of you notice that Sandusky said:
“BOB COSTAS:
. . . What do you say?
JERRY SANDUSKY:
I say that I am innocent of those charges.”
I paid more attention to the later nonsense spoken by Sandusky, but the “I say that I am innocent,” rather than “I am innocent,” seems telling to me, even for the way Costas worded the question. This way, Sandusky actually told the truth. He does SAY that he is innocent.
Could be under another name- or simply filed under one of the “friends” programs?
B
Here’s the press release issued by Baldwin’s former employer at the time she left them for Penn State. It said that she’s on Penn State’s Board of Trustees and was chair of the board 2004 to 2007.
Oh, this could be helpful to a university: PR said she chairs the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C.
“Baldwin has been a partner with Duane Morris, a 700-lawyer international law firm, in its Pittsburgh office since early 2008. Baldwin previously served as a justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
As general counsel, she will oversee all of the university’s legal work, including reviewing contracts and policies, establishing procedures and advising the board of trustees and senior management.”
http://www.duanemorris.com/pressreleases/cynthia_baldwin_penn_state_3540.html
Well I am going to have to say, “advising the board and senior mgt.” included in that pressr, and her background in both “giving organizations” and as a trial judge in a neighboring county, and the timing of January 2010 sounds like a cheaper way to attack upcoming legal fees by the hour.
B
This article, says more about Baldwin at the time she joined PSU and also about the firm they use on the outside. I have to say I’m shocked, totally shocked that any organization of this size did not have a fulltime inhouse legal dept, of several attorneys, already. That’s just bizarre. Snip:
“She will be based at the main campus in University Park and will report to Graham Spanier, the school’s president.
Prior to naming her to the post, the university used McQuaide Blasko, a State College law firm, as its counsel. The move to an in-house counsel resulted from a recommendation from an external peer review, which found that many large universities have in-house counsel on staff.
The university will continue to tap McQuaide Blasko for legal services, Ms. Baldwin said.”
http://72.46.232.150/pg/10026/1031021-28.stm
That is Courtney’s firm, and I would like to see that “external peer review”
B
From McQuaide Blasko’s website, under Community Involvement(see top navigation bar) is this:
“…We volunteer our time and our financial support to benefit the Central Pennsylvania communities where we all live and work. Here are just some of the programs we support:”
One of them is The Second Mile
http://www.mqblaw.com/mcquaide_blasko_community_involvement.html
Their attorneys are listed at the link below. Bring up each name to find their individual pages. I just looked at a couple (Wendell Courtney and John Snyder) and right after their name it says “State College Shareholder.”
http://www.mqblaw.com/mcquaide_blasko_attorneys.html
It gets better, I am ordering my “universe sized venn diagram” program so I can present.
What an elitist bunch we have here.
B
I have a few tidbits that I am unsure if they have been mentioned yet. Forgive me if they have.
JP transferred his stake and ownership in his home to his wife in June or July for $1.
Internet rumors say that Ray Gricar has been seen since his disappearance, in Michigan. Nothing has been substantiated but a few age progression photos on every news channel for a few days would be cool.
“Gricar’s 53-year-old brother, Roy J. Gricar, vanished under similar circumstances in May 1996, and was later ruled to have drowned himself, The Centre Daily Times reported.”
http://www.amw.com/missing_persons/case.cfm?id=31411
Stay tuned Red Ranger, I am going to have some thoughts on this. What is very strange, is that a BOC editor came to me in early October and said.. I would like for us to work on Gricar, here’s my thoughts.
Freaky how things come full circle when they are apparently supposed to-
B
If Penn hired a former state Supr Ct justice as their first in-house, imo on college’s part it was political (retention date is a fine question) & on her part, it was the salary. And imo it was malpractice and a conflict of interest for her to represent these 2 Univ employees in what was at its heart a criminal procedure.
Sandusky sex-abuse scandal emerged from a secretive Penn State
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“Our position is the more access, the better, not just with regards to Penn State, but with all state agencies in general,” Melewsky said. “Without access, there’s not accountability. The public really has a problem holding public officials accountable, and that’s the problem.”
Spanier went before the state House Government Committee in August 2007 and said the school would lose millions of dollars if it was forced to abide by the proposed state open records law. Donors would stop giving money to the school if they knew their identities were going to be made public, he pleaded with state legislators.
Terry Mutchler, executive director of the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records, said she always found the president’s vigorous fight to keep the records private odd. Now with the growing abuse scandal engulfing her alma mater, she said she can’t help wondering whether Spanier’s testimony was solely based on a desire to protect the school’s integrity and donors.
“Or was it driven by the explosive investigation that’s been lurking right behind the scenes here?” she asked.
Even 20 years ago when she was a reporter for the school newspaper, The Daily Collegian, she said, “We were fighting tooth and nail” to get basic information.
“There is a very real, tight grip. I don’t think there is a culture of openness. I think it’s 180 degrees the other way.”
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/11/20/3276300/sandusky-sex-abuse-scandal-emerged.html#ixzz1eEd6L6Gd
Morning news today:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063820/Penn-State-scandal-Jerry-Sanduskys-charity-paid-250k-use-school-facilities.html
Penn State paid over $250,000 by Sandusky’s charity for use of school facilities until just two years ago
By Daily Mail Reporter
They have paid over $125K to PSU almost annually.
B
@T.Ruth: re your Nov 16 comment on the older thread.
I read a tiny bit on Glenn Thompson’s website, snips below. First
elected PA Fifth District, U.S. House of Representatives in November 08 and reelected in Nov ’10. Has a strong record of community service as well,having been a volunteer firefighter and
“A 30-year veteran of the Juniata Valley Boy Scout Council, GT was the Council’s President during 2007-2009. He has enriched the lives of young men throughout Central Pennsylvania.”
from:
http://thompson.house.gov/about/biography.shtml
Pennlive.com takes another crack at it: it’s a worthwhile read today just to see what some Board of Trustees did say about what they knew and when:
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/penn_state_trustees_say_jerry.html
Blink: you said about Baldwin “…and the timing of January 2010 sounds like a cheaper way to attack upcoming legal fees by the hour.”
Yes, and that was my read of one of her statements and/or a press release too. Here’s another thought: employment contracts (think: university personnel) usually contain indemnity clauses these days. Where the employer agrees to fully indemnify the employee. That means the employer gets to provide those legal services as they choose. Ergo, in-house, Ms. Baldwin.
But, really, who lies to a grand jury? One who thinks there won’t be any contradictory evidence, of course. So, did somebody change his testimony midstream here?
Or were Spanier & Schultz, the gatekeepers to internal info on JS, willing to take the fall. And how does that affect any future testimony from them, or its believability?
I’m open to all options, including an initial “uh-oh”, then a negotiated agreement for Plan B (it could NOT negotiated by their own attys). Remember my story about that scheme before in GA? I’m not even sure in that case that in-house counsel knew about it till after the fact, when they handled the future payments. I think line management handled that little negotiation.
Full circle indeed. So many other things I followed before finding Blink have crossed the path I have followed with her. From young male, most college students that go missing to Morgan. From young male college students that go missing in Oregon to Kyron. This car ride always amazes me. It is like waiting to see what will connect. I am not saying that anything I mentioned above is connected to the other.
I get it Ode, and thank you.
B
I wasn’t at all surprised to see McQuaide Blasko attys being State College shareholders. I WAS surprised to see it blasted up just after each one’s name. Is that routine?
Anyone with patience to search for google-cached pages of those individual attorneys to see when the firm started titling their attys pages that way? Recently???+
(referencing my post: beejay says:
November 19, 2011 at 8:49 pm ). See last link there
Blink,
I read this article: http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/19/us/sandusky-memoir-profile/index.html?hpt=us_c2
and my favorite part of it is the comment by TonyG21 (despite the typo): “One question, does compass police have to report a crime or are they there to protect the colleges”
Wow! Great great question! That made me think of Morgan Harrington’s case.
Thanks for the link to pennlive beejay
A very interesting read, including some of the comments. Based on the article, the take away has to be that this entire school administration and its board were too cozy to take proper care of business.
It also raises the question of how many other schools across the US are operating under similar circumstances. The various states are going to be faced with the task of forcing their colleges and universities to undergo an outside operational audit as well as a financial one. The people have the right and the need to know.
This whole situation was created by allowing people to stay too long in a position of authority and making non-profit organizations an adjunct to the school.
The fact that the board was packed with former students or faculty defeats the purpose of a board. The article discusses how difficult it was to make a decision to fire the president and head coach. A real board would have members that were not so closely tied so that it could do its job as intended.
Haven’t quite finished this article yet, and have NO idea how the facts have been influenced by its writer. But it’s a great summary of Gricar and others who have gone missing around there. Very long, so I’m sure my snip below is less than 10%:
“Over the years, Pennsylvania law enforcement has had an equally bizarre history of attempting to classify these events as suicides.
In the Gricar case, the AP and the State College daily paper, the Centre Daily Times, have already begun floating suicide theories. Gricar’s “late brother, Roy J. Gricar, of West Chester, Ohio, went missing for more than a week in May 1996 before his body was found in the Great Miami River. He was 53, according to the Dayton Daily News,” the paper reports. Brother Roy Gricar, the paper relates, told his wife he was taking a walk, was was later found drowned in the river, his death ruled a suicidal drowning.
Three other curious cases where suicide theories were floated come to mind: Jonathan Luna, of course, in 2003; Allegheny County DA Robert Duggan in 1974; state attorney general aide Gaylor Dissinger in 1983. Both Duggan and Dissinger were found shot to death under mysterious circumstances, even as controversies involving organized crime swirled around the offices of the deceased.
“Cops historically in Pennsylvania have floated suicide theories in cases they’re unwilling or unable to crack. Particularly a case involving internal agency corruption,” I point out in The Midnight Ride of Jonathan Luna. “Suicide offers a convenient explanation that allows an expensive and embarrassed investigatory team to be broken up and sent home. Case closed. It also seeks to reassure people living around the death scene that a murderer isn’t on the loose…. There are other benefits, sometimes involving cover-up of mob infiltration (or is that informant misbehavior?).”"
link:
http://www.yardbird.com/midnight_ride_another_missing_PA_prosecutor_1.htm
Which may have more to do with people not wanting to ID themselves as victims, than being afriad or embarrassed.
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There is just no way around it. The “how” this could happen at this scale MUST be brought to light, or it happens again. And I am not even referring to the cycle of abuse that undoubtedly follows- nobody is, yet.
B
I have to wonder why Paterno and Bradley had private council and Shultz and Curley had access to Baldwin. And did Baldwin represent Spainer as well? Courtney’s firm had been reps for PSU and Second Mile up until then, but they must have seen an “uncomfortable” resignation of services coming, so it was better to bring someone else in before it was demanded by ethics? Did Paterno and Bradley have private council because they are considered faculty and Shultz and Curley were administration, so they used Baldwin? HAD to use Baldwin? Or, is it better to have two different reps since the stories MUST change between faculty and administration in order to explain the travesty?
We’re gonna need 3-D glasses for that venn diagram.
And a wide screen.
B
Blink, I still have a post from the 17th that is awaiting moderation. ???
I never posted it because you told me that it was old news, lol- post or no?
I am happy to check out back.
B
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Reuters) – A special committee formed by Penn State trustees to investigate the university’s actions after reports of child sex abuse by a former football coach said it will hold a news conference Monday in connection with its investigation.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/21/us-crime-coach-trustees-idUSTRE7AK06520111121
Another charity, Smart Start, and some familiar names for the spirograph.
http://www.smartstartcc.org/about/structure.html
Board of Directors
Chair
Charlene Friedman, Friedman Real Estate Group
Secretary
Rebecca Ardoline, MidPenn Legal Services
Treasurer
Doug Erickson, Patton Township
Members
Patricia Best, State College Area School District
Roxie Nestlerode, Early Development & Education Institute, Penn State University
Robin Oliver, M.D., Centre Medical and Surgical Associates
Jack Raykovitz, Second Mile
Mark Righter, McQuaide Blasko
Robert Sunday, Kish Bank
Anthony D’Augelli, College of Health and Human Development, Penn State University
Joe Webber, Merrill Lynch
All this talk about whether the men, who actually witnessed Sandusky in the act abusing a child, reported it. I would like to know why in the hell they didn’t run immediately to the aid of the child. What man would watch a child being molested and then walk away quietly leaving the boy defenseless? Sick!
Why the heck was Penn State kissing Second Mile’s a$$ a week and a half after the 2002 sexual assault?
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State sold about 40.7 acres of undeveloped land to The Second Mile for $168,500 in April 2002
Assistant football coach Mike McQueary told the grand jury that on March 1, 2002, he saw Sandusky sexually assaulting a young boy in the showers of the Lasch Football Building.
About a week-and-a-half later, McQueary met with Tim Curley, Penn State athletic director, and Gary Schultz, the retired senior vice president for finance and business.
The land sale was finalized on April 23, 2002.
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/FBC-PENNSTATE-SECONDMILE_6583929/FBC-PENNSTATE-SECONDMILE_6583929/
Here is the deed for the land.
http://media.centredaily.com/smedia/2011/11/15/23/32/18amB0.So.42.pdf
The Richard King Mellon Foundation
TRUSTEES
Seward Prosser Mellon
Richard A. Mellon
Alison M. Byers, Psy.D.
W. Russell G. Byers, Jr.
Catharine Mellon Cathey
Bruce King Mellon Henderson
Constance Elizabeth Mellon Kapp
Armour N. Mellon
Robert B. Burr, Jr.
Lawrence S. Busch
Scott D. Izzo
John J. Turcik
http://foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/rkmellon/stafflist.html
@erose Looks like the former veep for finance found a way in March-Apr ’02 for second mile to take their business “private” with off-campus showers.
T. Ruth says:
November 20, 2011 at 4:59 pm
Blink, I still have a post from the 17th that is awaiting moderation. ???
I never posted it because you told me that it was old news, lol- post or no?
I am happy to check out back.
B
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Actually I was referring to a different one from that day. Not important, I just had made a comment that if proper accounting practices were followed by SM, an annual *independent* audit of the organization’s records, perhaps Jerry’s “recruiting” would have been caught long ago. I find it totally unbelievable that no one else within the SM organization was aware of Jerry’s comings and goings, period. I hope the feds step in and block all this talk of dispersing their assets elsewhere until a thorough investigation has been done.
There is no way a charity of this size did not know something was fishy in the accounting area.
As I have said before, I am no math genius, but I am a damn good analyst, and I got 4 pages through the filing and was like- these people really had no idea this would ever come to bear, and that scares me in and of itself.
B
Blink, in case you haven’t heard we have yet another one here in Orlando. Believe it or not, I heard last night TexasEquusearch is coming to help. It’s hard to believe after what the c word has put them through. If you have any contacts would you please thank them for me for offering to help find this young lady. This one reminds me soooo much of the Jennifer Kesse disappearance it’s remarkable.
Oops, left off the link:
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Crews-search-new-areas-for-missing-mom/-/1637132/4797580/-/vh1vhu/-/index.html
Not only did that prosecuter disappear in 2006 but now they’re saying his records have disappeared too. Some of Sandusky’s charity records are disappearing too. Questions, questions, questions?
You mean Gricar? April 15, 2005, and I am not famiiliar with anyone alleging his records are missing.
B
You’re right January, what kind of man would walk away from that? I guess they really needed a job, huh?
This may be too pro-Paterno for most of you, but just remember it’s hard to see your hero’s flaws. This editorial has some good points, a different perspective on the limits of Paterno’s power, and some valuable links, too.
http://crownsports.blogspot.com/2011/11/sandusky-cover-up-scandal.html?spref=fb
what do you think of psu hiring the ex-fbi director Louis Freeh to lead the probe? i think heads are going to roll but it was a good move by them to hire him.
Boz says:
“November 21, 2011 at 10:21 am
Not only did that prosecuter disappear in 2006 but now they’re saying his records have disappeared too. Some of Sandusky’s charity records are disappearing too. Questions, questions, questions?
You mean Gricar? April 15, 2005, and I am not famiiliar with anyone alleging his records are missing.
B”
Blink, it’s been widely reported that Gricar’s files, if any, from the 1998 Sandusky incident, could not be located.
ok, now I understand. It is likely that because their was no grand jury convened or charges filed, the matter would reside with the University police file, which I understand is in the hands of the AG office.
B
Free registration necessary to access IRS 990s:
http://www2.guidestar.org/organizations/23-2061185/second-mile.aspx#
I hope government witnesses & victims are not lured to “cooperate” with Penn State’s after the fact investigation by the name Freeh before the full conclusion of the criminal case. Could be used to impeach their testimony at trial, or argue testimony has been tainted.
Freeh’s “investigation is in essence a jury replacement
The following statement is from the story in the link provided. It’s not exactly what I saw to make me mention the lost records. I saw a video today on MSNBC or CNN which was more current about Gricar’s missing records. I can’t find that video now. I’m still trying but here:
Gricar’s file on the 1998 allegations against Sandusky also can’t be released, Miller’s office said, because “there are no such records in the office.”
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/breaking-news/index.ssf/2011/11/ray_gricars_disappearance_like.html
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Former FBI director Louis Freeh, tapped to lead Penn State’s investigation into the child sex-abuse allegations against a former assistant football coach, said his inquiry will go as far back as 1975, a much longer period than a grand jury report issued earlier this month.
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/penn-state-panel-plans-news-conference-abuse-14996287
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJR2-eBU-IY
I have no idea about Freeh, but I do see several companies and organizations he is or was affiliated that could overlap with some of the potential players here.
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Judge Freeh served as General Counsel at MBNA America Bank from 2001-2006. Judge Freeh is currently the Senior Managing Partner at Freeh Group International and a Director for several public companies.
Judge Freeh is Chairman of the Governance and Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors for Bristol-Myers Squibb, and sits on a number of non-profit boards, including the United States Naval Academy Foundation, the National Italian American Foundation and the International Association of Chief of Police Foundation.
Judge Freeh is also a founding partner of Freeh, Sporkin and Sullivan, a law firm comprised of former federal judges with offices in Washington and New York, which speicalizes in corporate governance, compliance, white-collar crime and securities matters.
http://www.niaf.org/about/board_officers.asp
i spoke to soon, apparently the fbi director psu hired to do an internal investigation does have ties to psu…
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-phillydeals/Penn-State-investigator-was-exec-at-firm-with-PSU-ties.html?cmpid=125219969
Disclosure: MBNA was a large client of mine years ago, and I handled a few key initiatives as they transitioned to BOFA or as I like to call them, “Pay us to use your own cash” bank. I shot under 100 with minimal cheating, I mean mulligans on their course.
It seems to me it will be hard to find someone at such a level completely free of any corporate guidances- it is what they all do once they retire, lol.
I would say the audit committe of BMS will not sit well with Mr. Merck on the BOT.
B
The article wasn’t too pro-Paterno for me. He fulfilled his legal obligation, which is why he, like some others, has not been arrested. All restrictions and hierarchy aside, he did not do what a person is supposed to do. His actions, or lack of, were egregious. The fact is there are people whose actions are also egregious doesn’t minimize to me what he did not do.
It is easy for me to feel compassion for an elderly paternal figure, who seemingly led an exemplary life, but I must remind myself to save my compassion and empathy for the little boys that were violated, that might have been saved, if real men would have stood up. If I let myself blur this line, then I think I become part of the problem. When “it” hits the fan, I got to keep it black and white. JMHO.
lizzy says:
November 21, 2011 at 10:24 am
To his credit, Jopa has himself, agreed he could have done more.
I wish he had.
B
Lizzy, I have to go but thanks for that Paterno link.
From your link:
Phantoms9805
(new game: six degrees of separation to Penn State)
sunshine says:
November 21, 2011 at 1:26 pm
http://www.salon.com/2002/06/04/freeh/ this doesnt look good.