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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@lizzy: thanks; that IS a common name. I was just guessing that you might have been looking into some campus forum activity related to that name. Guess not.
OK, I’ve got my Leroy M and Leroy S straight.
So, just grabbing stuff now, the CTA contract business involving Zimmerman ends with another suicide? I haven’t verified these allegations. Book’s author (referenced in this amazon.com review) is also the editor of yardbird.com(?)
“The authors portray R. Budd Dwyer as a politician who accepted the status quo and did nothing to change it. Dwyer claims he only went along with the CTA scheme and that Zimmerman was more involved in it than he was. Dwyer is presented as the fall guy for the scandal.
…Zimmerman’s opponent for Attorney General questioned whether Governor Richard Thornburgh was upset at Dwyer because Dwyer had questioned no-bid contracts awarded by the Governor. Dwyer stated he believed Zimmerman was involved in the CTA award bid. Dwyer committed suicide before he was sentenced.”
http://www.amazon.com/Sins-Our-Fathers-Pennsylvania-Explanation/dp/0962025100
The Attorney Generals office being in charge of all state recognized charities is not the normal State office. This is usually the Secretary of the State who has jurisdiction.
Blink
Are we looking at a straight line where it intersects a circle of corruption at more than one point? The secant approach.
Xbox has been used both by pedophiles to meet children and to exchange child porn. In searching for that email I posted about earlier, I found a name associated with an identical screen name.
(My earlier post, in part: In late November 2009, AOL flagged suspicious e-mail communications between two e-mail users in Pennsylvania, one of whom used the screen name matthew343@aim.com.)
See post #265 at this link:
http://www.psu.com/forums/showthread.php/35367-Official-PS3forums-Clan-Thread/page11?p=955985&viewfull=1
“anyone heard of the rumour of a clan that intentionally only aim for the balls of the characters in the other clan/team?
they attacked my friend in rainbow six vegas last nite wen he joined in random team .they shoot you with rainbow six’s equivalent to a sniper rifle (i don’t know what its called he didnt tell me,his name is matthew jones)
then shout really loud through headsets “HAHA rite in the balls no babies 4 u” and crazy coments like that.
this is on xbox live, I was just wondering has PSN got clans and idiots like this?
his xbox username is matthew343″
That’s why I was asking about Matthew Jones.
I hope an investigation is underway into the second emailer. (And that it doesn’t take, like, 15 yrs. Sigh.)
One thing we’d be looking for is people who could “trade” children they have control over with other people in the same situation.
@beejay, guess not, too, lol.
wow, so many great posts I’m overwhelmed. Kudos to many of you
for this research, beejay in particular. I’ve been doing a lot
of reading and following these links tonight.
It’s a real education, though I’m finding what I expected.
Again, so many parallels to the Franklin abuse case in Omaha.
The difference is – we hope, that enough is breaking so fast,
they can’t cover it up quickly enough.
This case is spreading like slime mold – in all directions.
As I suspected it would.
The NCAA board, the governor, the charitable donors, youth
programs. They can’t shut this one up. They can’t “suicide”
everybody.
My guess is, the next shoe to drop will be a victim coming
forward (he may already have) to testify about abuse from
someone ELSE besides Sandusky – say, a board member of
Second Mile. Or an administrator at Penn.
Then you’ll see this ramp up to the level of Watergate
very quickly. I may have to get cable TV next year, LOL.
I also predict that this scandal will eventually reach
upwards to someone in national politics. Now, for anyone
that’s read The Franklin Cover Up, that prediction is like
shooting fish in a barrel. But when you already have a
scandal naming judges, district attorneys and governors
in the corrupt mix, well, those kinds of fellows tend
to hang out with guys one or two steps up their ladder
in order to advance their ambitions. A congressman can’t
be far behind here. My spidey sense is flashing.
For all the thousands of young boys and girls that have
been abused – you may finally be about to get your day
in court on the national stage, and justice, even if
much delayed.
peace,
Sherlock
Data-dumping here before I get on the road.
The history of questionable activities within various PA govt offices has been published, in several books, by William Keisling. Before I cleared my cache I had a link to his suit against half of the PA govt for some sort of interference with one of his publications, IIRC. See his 12 books (one on Three Mile Island, coauthored with Bucky Fuller!) listed on amazon.com at:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=william+keisling&x=12&y=18
See his book Maybe Four Steps for more info on the CTA contract. I pulled this from a review of that book:
“U.S. Attorney Thornburgh [also PA governor] prosecuted Allegheny County District Attorney Robert Duggan, alleged he received $137,416 in unreported income. Some of this money allegedly came from collections from criminals in return for not prosecuting them. Duggan died from a gunshot, which was ruled a suicide.”
http://www.amazon.com/Maybe-Four-Steps-William-Keisling/dp/0962025178/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322479498&sr=8-1
That reviewer, I think, probably works with William Keisling on research. Reviewer is LEON L CZIKOWSKY of Harrisburg, Pa. Acc. to his page on amazon.com he is/was a Research Specialist for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; formerly a Planning Commissioner in Harrisburg; Staff Chair of the Nat’l Conference of State Legislature’s Children, Families, and Health Committee; BS in Economics and Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, MS in Urban Studies from… read more on his amazon.com page at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A1HMV248RPGTIM/ref=cm_aya_bb_pdp
Reviewer also has a blogspot, I’ve not yet visited, at:
http://alsoiaskthat.blogspot.com/
Cont’d data-dump at next post…
In my last night post about matthew343@aim.com, to clarify: that psu forum is NOT a Penn State Univ. forum. It’s a PlayStation Universe forum. But because PlayStation has the online XBox forum, used by pedophiles to troll for kids and to hook up for child porn sharing, I thought someone might be looking into any connections using that same name on Penn State forums. Just because Penn State is so huge, and a community-wide center, so it seems.
PlayStation has both adult and child accounts available.
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I gather that Christopher G. Lee’s neighbors in Boalsburg are largely unaware they have a child molester in their area. Lee went into a diversion program, as you recall. Bill Speakman, VP of Development for Second Mile, as late as summer 2010, and his wife a 30 yr teacher & sports coach, live in Boalsburg. They may be, still, totally unaware of Lee’s problem.
Posting this one separately, in case Blink wants to hold it for later:
Another deleted link I had was perhaps to author William Keisling–not sure–who said that Corbett opened LOTS of investigating grand juries, but very few indictments. And that those grand juries ended, coinciding closely in time with their subject’s contribution to Corbett’s election campaign.
There’s already so much out there. Including court docs. One can see who the enablers might be. Now we need a short-cut to the pedophiles other than Sandusky. Who are, as we speak, still on the loose, jeopardizing children. (Well, Sandusky is too.)
And, I call BS on needing to delay the Sandusky indictment till a pattern of behavior is established. I realize you need to build a legal case, but it shouldn’t take this long, nor this many victims. Had the victims been related to anyone “important”, and not just “State kids” (i.e., low-risk), Sandusky would have been indicted long ago.
One of my links won’t post. I will have to break it up. I’m going from Zimmerman to Sandusky:
LeRoy S Zimmerman
site sponsored by Highmark Blueshield, ETC Global Carnegie Mellon
http://www.idvl.org/harrisburglivinglegacy/Bio26.html
2011 Board of Directors
LeRoy S. Zimmerman (Chairman of the Board)
LeRoy was appointed a Director of the Company effective January 1, 2006, and was elected Chairman of the Board effective January 1, 2007. Mr. Zimmerman, Pennsylvania’s first elected Attorney General, serves as Senior Counsel at the law firm of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, where he also held a number of prior positions, including Chairman of the Board from 1994-2000. A 1956 graduate of Villanova University and a 1959 graduate of The Dickinson School of Law, Zimmerman is involved with many corporate and civic organizations, including the Pennsylvania Society Council as President, the Society of Attorneys General Emeritus as co-chair, The Hall Foundation as a trustee, and the Board of Counselors of The Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University. He is the Chair of the Milton S. Hershey School Board of Managers, Chair of the Hershey Trust Company Board of Directors, and a member of the Board of Directors of The Hershey Company and the M.S. Hershey Foundation.
That last post came from The Sweetest Place on Earth.
Hershey pa.com (no space) Board of Directors (sorry link won’t post)
I used it to get all of Zimmerman’s 2011 affiliations.
The rest of these links go from Zimmerman to Sandusky.
Zimmerman is on Board of Counselor’s at PSU Law School, so are these guys who have Tom Ridge all over their bio’s.
http://law.psu.edu/news/board_members
Zimmerman page 20 + donation pages
http://law.psu.edu/_file/Dickinson_Lawyer/Summer_07.pdf
Zimmerman PSU 2011
http://alumni.psu.edu/awards/individual/afa/docs/2011-fellow/2011%20Fellows%20Bios%2024.pdf
PA Society (See Zimmerman @ center of picture)
http://www.pasociety.com/council.html
Tom Ridge got the award the year after George HW Bush
http://www.pasociety.com/medal.html
Zimmerman (SAGE) Circle of Friends
http://www.pasociety.com/medal.html
The Hall Foundation (Rocky Woodling scteches of founders)
http://www.coroflot.com/rocky4490/Freelance-Projects/47#scroll
Founders Gerald N Hall & LeRoy S Zimmerman
http://www.powerprofiles.com/people/2/00005164486955/LEROYS+ZIMMERMAN-MANAGER-HALL+FOUNDATION-LEMOYNE-PA-(717)+761-1057
—————————————————————–
And we’re back to Penn State and Sandusky:
Since 1990, Gerald N. Hall Sr. and the Hall Foundation, have been providing scholarships each year to deserving students at Penn State Harrisburg.
The event included a special videotaped tribute to Hall from Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and comments from former Penn State defensive football coordinator and founder of The Second Mile, Jerry Sandusky.
http://hbg.psu.edu/philanthropy/Hall.php
My apologies for the 1/2 snark and 1/2 shizzle. There is nothing I meant to be funny about missing people, and I know Blink was trying to save me from what could have been perceived as insensitivity. I do go to the gallows to express myself when things get incredulous. Beejay, said it, gotta laugh so you don’t cry. This stuff is un.bleeping.real.
Samey, same, Sweetie_pi. Wish I could have read those drafts. I’ll try get there, but I understand the misgivings. I feel like such an ingenue.
I am a gallows gal all the way, you have to be in this work or one’s impact on it will be very short-lived.
B
Is this an insane rant? or another thing everyone suspected but no one knew?
snipped:
“BUTTED UP AGAINST THE GOLF COURSE? ANY WREN DALE GOLF, HERSHEY LINKS, BOARD GOP VISITORS? SELLING MERCHANDISE OR ENTERTAINMENT OUT THE BACK DOOR?
TITAN, PULSE inc $3/4 Million contract buyout military, computer security, hacking)”
link:
http://mamasuntwinkle.wordpress.com/
Blink: Are these bloggers safe? I’m beginning to wonder.
?
B
I can’t believe all this stuff
Has been going on
http://espn.go.com/new-york/story/_/id/7288286/bernie-fine-fired-syracuse-amid-molestation-allegations
The person who met with Nixon when Zimmerman did: http://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/16/obituaries/m-harvey-taylor-gop-leader.html. I guess Harvey knew Nixon from the Eisenhower years: http://www.life.com/news-pictures/50395186/dwight-d-eisenhower-miscm-harvey-taylorjohn-s-fine
M Harvey Taylor was Clearly the PA kingmaker going back to Eisenhower Nixon & a mentor of Zimmerman (taking him into oval office in ’72 as lead PA CREEP.
As far as politics goes, imo as the public we want fair, expeditious, transparent prosecution of those charged; investigation into possible “cover-ups” dating to 70s; knowledge of the extent of the crimes & other participants if any, and so on. I guess the concern is if State financial & political interests might interfere with invesrigation & prosecution of Sandusky & associates.
The “why now” is not the future election but those around 08, 02, 99 & the question for the investigatory & law enforcements arms of gov’t is more “why not then?”
As I read today, I believe Thornburgh was a Zimmerman mentor. But both probably were set up & mentored by Harvey. Thornburgh was a core Fellowship member. (lots of Fellowship members, esp from DOD, were/are at Nat’l Presby, Ike’s church. )
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/us/politics/lobbying-support-for-iranian-exile-group-crosses-party-lines.html?pagewanted=all
Mukasey/Freeh/Ridge article–
Joint authors
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/08/15/american-credibility-at-risk-on-foreign-policy-front-too/
Can anybody tell me, given interlinking financial lobbyist ties to Ridge et al, any member of tge PS Board thinks Freeh is an independent investigator?
Oh, as an aside, a DOD man ( some area of intelligence) at my church (Ike’s) is big on Kurds in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, –promotes a “missionary” couple (formerly in Berlin getting to know iranians & kurds) & is Fellowship connected too. We hosted an Iranian young woman. She was astute & rejected exploitation.
I’m no conspiracy type. I like simple explanations. But people all the way down to naive citizens on the street can easily get used for others’ purposes in the name of righteous politics. Politicians rationalize keeping secrets (Jerry’s secrets for example) for some greater good imo. I found an expose of the Fellowship on line yesterday & the guy madden? was a bit nutty & had his own agenda, but everything I knew of he had the facts right on, right down to the retired DOD man who led my husband’s Bible study at State in the 80s while a DAS (& quashing women’s reproductive rights abroad). I analogise this to the good Catholics and others (Thornburg for ex) holding office in PA
PS my silly aside on the Kurds & Iranian I met here on a short trip hosted by church & really Fellowship
DOD types was occasioned by my memory being pricked by the 11/27 url I’d just posted Which described Freeh & Ridge’s concertedly coordinated lobbying for a minority Iranian group against State Dept advice.
Imo Freeh is wholly motivated by money & politics & too close to Ridge to be credible for Penn State
Dept Ed investigation:
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7AR1QV20111128?irpc=932
thank you Arne Duncan….
(how about Portland PS system too….)
This org is going to wind down by hook or by crook:http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5izl9duftjgZO3E_QeISPxGCf8R9w?docId=93aa88eeb8ad4065bc129f4fce5e5664
so when the molestations, or Jerry’s involvement, is at an end, they have no organizational goals to survive for?
That’s
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5izl9duftjgZO3E_QeISPxGCf8R9w?docId=93aa88eeb8ad4065bc129f4fce5e5664
77 seems young to give up all that Board service income:
http://topics.pennlive.com/tag/leroy%20zimmerman/index.html
Http://m.therepublic.com/view/story/c9945fdf9db64903b66068867401e358/
http://mobile.pennlive.com/advpenn/pm_103954/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=xe2GxTto
RE: The “N/A” on those Second Mile Licenses
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Although The Second Mile holds state licenses as a foster care and private children and youth services provider, annual inspection reports by the Department of Public Welfare going back to 1998 have repeatedly said The Second Mile served no children pursuant to those licenses.
Anne Bale, spokeswoman for the welfare department, said the records show that the organization stopped providing foster care sometime in the 1980s but maintained its license “to help them fundraise.”
Read more: http://www.postgazette.com/pg/11331/1192859-143.stm#ixzz1f3KQDEZC
PA AG ought to immediately investigate 2nd Mile Board members for violation of fiduciary duties to this charity based on the “donate elsewhere” directive: http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?feed_id=1&catid=57332367&videofeed=37
Love that comment:
http://m.deadspin.com/5863174/jerry-sandusky-has-hired-a-private-investigator-so-he-can-get-to-the-bottom-of-these-claims
“beejay says:
November 28, 2011 at 5:33 am
. . . Bill Speakman, VP of Development for Second Mile, as late as summer 2010 . . . ”
Hmmm, we seem to have conflicting information. The info I have (from multiple sources) shows Mrs. Marshall as the VP of Development for Second Mile since January 2008. http://www.linkedin.com/in/bonniemarshall
According to this bit, Mr. Speakman came “out of retirement” (running the inn and chocolate shop) in 2010 to become Director of Operations for another organization.
http://www.yea.org/site/PageServer?pagename=bio_bill_speakman
Also, judging by the pointed absence of a link to the Boal Mansion and Columbus Chapel on their current web page, when pretty much every other Boalsburg spot is listed, I imagine the Speakmans have a clue about Lee. (although the adjacent and leased Boal Barn Playhouse is mentioned) http://www.springfieldhousebb.com/boalsburg.html
But I do think you’re absolutely right that many in and around Boalsburg have no idea about Lee. Any suggestions on how to let them know?
Wow, amazing research, you guys.
Penn State has over half a million living alumni, according to the last estimates that I’ve seen. Penn State currently has over 90,000 students enrolled.
About one in 50 professionally licensed engineers in the U.S. is a Penn State graduate, so for engineers at least, especially in the Northeast, it is very hard to be more than a single degree of separation from Penn State.
Here’s a list of some “famous” living Penn State grads:
http://alumni.psu.edu/about_us/famous/default.htm
And some deceased ones:
http://alumni.psu.edu/about_us/famous/famousd
And some Penn State marks on the world:
http://www.psu.edu/ur/archives/50ways/50ways.html
My point is only that as hard and deep as digging is necessary, most connections are only a matter of statistics.
This guy Zimmerman is a crook of the first order. The trust expected the board to mostly donate their time with only a small renumeration for the work. Instead, we find that the board has found a way to make it very attractive monetarily to serve,.
Someone at the state level has put their approval on this and probably are getting a “kickback” for looking the other way. It only takes a few rotten apples to infect and ruin the whole bushel basket.
This appears to have begun almost fifty years ago and has been covered up for all this time.
Concise article about the Hershey Trust saga.
http://philanthropy.com/article/A-Case-for-Nonprofit/128986/
It is not the intended content of this article that I find interesting, it is the reporters that are on top of the story that I thought was worth posting. I’ve been following Ganim, didn’t know about Sinderson, or Boland, for that matter.
Executive Session with Lou Prato
snip>
There are three reporters who were on it. Sara Ganim, once the crime reporter for the Centre Daily Times, who broke the first public news of the investigation after she had moved on to the Harrisburg Patriot-News; Gary Sinderson, a veteran “one man band” reporter-photographer for WJAC in Johnstown, who knows the Pennsylvania court system and this community inside out; and Pat Boland, the reporter-newsman for the local dual-ownership State College radio stations WRSC and ESPNRadio1450. He helped Ganim in her first job fresh out of Penn State’s journalism program in May 2008.
http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2011/11/28/55649/penn-state-coverage-shows-media-at-worst
Not sure how credible Greg Turchetta is, and why he started talking or how Russel Wantz fell out of favor with LE, but Heim was the attorney for Wantz the security contractor for Corbett and Heim represented Turchetta, as well.
Pennsylvania DA Tom Kearney asks FBI to investigate Corbett security contractor with ties to pedophile sex ring
http://www.yardbird.com/DA_seeks_FBI_probe_of_Corbett_security_contractor.htm
Pennsylvania attorney Larry L.C. Heim boasts of Costa Rican prostitution ring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nrYY6FZQbY
Russell Wantz Preliminary Hearing on Prostitution Charges
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6I-PV8qR4Q&feature=related
Car Sales Manager Part 1: ‘Perpetual Loan Program’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OanFq-Tsl6A&feature=related
Car Sales Manager Part 2: Bid Rigging in York County PA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1MDbAvLtHU
Adult Entertainment in Costa Rica
It is impossible to build a web site that claims to cover all of Costa Rica, and leave off the adult activities available here. First, it is estimated that between 15 and 25% of all visitors to Costa Rica have this as all or part of their motivation to visit the country. The biggest draws are our course prostitution and gambling.
Sex Related Criminal Law in General
The age of consent in Costa Rica is 18 for both men and women and that includes gay or heterosexual interaction.
If anyone is thinking about coming to Costa Rica because they heard it was a good place to have relations with children, I would think again.
The government here does not tolerate it, nor do the people, and there is a very active enforcement effort to eradicate it. You will never know if the person you are talking to is undercover, and there are really good sting operations that net a lot of these people each year. Fool around with kids, and you may never go home.
http://www.therealcostarica.com/travel_costa_rica/adult_entertainment_costa_rica.html#law
PS. Crossing Costa Rica off the bucket list.
I’m assuming ya’ll are reading all the stuff off-screen and looking for connections without posting here–yet. Correct?
Like this:
“York DA asks FBI to investigate Corbett administration security contractor with ties to pedophile sex ring”
from:
http://newslanc.com/2011/11/18/york-da-asks-fbi-to-investigate-corbett-administration-security-contractor-with-ties-to-pedophile-sex-ring/
And everything that yardbird.com publishes (yardbird= William Keisling, who seems legit)
And that you’re researching the PA names that mamastwinkle put up at the link I posted. She appears to be the mother of a child in Arizona whose father took one of her children back to PA against court order (she posted signed order at the link). Following up on the PA names at her link? Any other evidence of rumors about prostitution of children at Hershey School/park?
At:
http://mamasuntwinkle.wordpress.com/
And you’re looking for any ties to known PA pedophiles and/or child porn possessors/distributors who might be involved with Sandusky?
Knowing these politicians and charity/school trustees and employees who are all in bed with each other for financial gain is one thing. They’re the enablers. But finding–and hopefully STOPPING–the pedophiles and peddlers of child porn is the other task here. Who are they?
See Comments:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68816.html
Freehgroup has set up & is advertising its own phone & email tip line. With Freeh’s name associated, will victims or witnesses think his group’s line is an investigatory arm of gov’t? Siphon off tips that should go to law enforcement?
His brother John no longer heads Opus Dei centers (previously DC & Pittsburgh). Married now, he’s a teacher at Hillsdale College (a perfect fit).
Tom Ridge is touted as on tap for PState’s Presidency by multiple news sources, then his functional lobbying partner (at least they appear in tandem in print for same side of interest groups) gets hired by Trustees as chief investigator:
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2011/11/09/is-tom-ridge-on-tap-for-penn-state-presidency/
http://articles.philly.com/2011-11-10/news/30382366_1_joe-paterno-penn-state-new-psu
Released the day after his candidacy was touted (same day philly editorial criticized Ridge): http://m.prnewswire.com/news-releases/statement-by-the-honorable-tom-ridge-on-the-penn-state-tragedy-133611233.html
I just noticed OD’s symbol has two secants.
I heard on CNN this morning that Sandusky has hired a private investigator. Unfortunately, it appears that his defense strategy will be to intimidate the prosecution witnesses.
Yep. Bad Move, but not surprising.
B
I’m so perturbed, I can’t process the Group website below.
The law firm founding partner Stanley Sporkin, very old, was a major hero of mine & any enforcement securities lawyer. I’m getting the sense he was used.
Below is url to Freeh’s law firm. He affiliated with Sporkin (latter in very old age) as part of a 3some to kick it off.
Then I see there’s a new “tip line” & email addy for Freeh’s new investigatory job, but it is not associated with the law firm.
he has a different global consulting group. Ahem, I’m willing to bet this entity was incorporated after the law firm. Sporkin had a stellar reputation in securities law that would immediately vouch for any partner. The 2 firms have the same graphics.
This sucks.
http://www.freehsporkinsullivan.com/
http://freehgroup.com/
I’m not going to read Freeh further. I’m too disgusted.
http://freehgroup.com/go/fss
the law firm is called an affiliate with a header on the Global Consulting business site
I’m too old. the bar rule attorneys should not put themselves in the yellow pages should revive. Doesn’t it violate any bar rule in NY that Freeh was hired for his law firm — at least media cited that firm, but puts out the tip email under his Global Consulting business addy?
Exactly Blink and GeorgiaDad. Or some combination of witness-and-family intimidation and/or offers of very private settlements.
So, does anybody know how to provide REAL protection for these witnesses? Any ideas?
I saw Tyler Perry’s open letter, published in Newsweek, to one of Sandusky’s victims, praising him. Tyler Perry, a survivor of child sex abuse himself, is said to be the biggest black entertainer today. Can he help more?
What about Oprah Winfrey, also a survivor of child sex abuse? Where is the big money to stand up against Sandusky’s underhanded moves???
What can be done?
Where is MockingBirdSings? She writes so well; I’d love to recruit her to do some letters to some powerful Good Guys, with copies to all the media.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/16282471/sandusky-accuser-disputes-defenses-approach-to-case
i read the “Sandusky hires investigator” story as a threat to the victims, trying to find dirt on any to smear their credibility. Shameful. Jerry should take it like a man.
@lizzy: I’d go w/ your info on Bill Speakman. I saw a letter or something, but maybe he hadn’t removed that old title. And this link, but again, maybe this July/Aug 2011 compilation simply hadn’t updated their info. Unless there are two people with that title? IDK
I’m so furious and worried about Sandusky and his PI that I can hardly speak. This is hard enough for his victims as it is.
@lizzy: sorry, i guess you’d like that link! See pg 10 here:
http://voicesweb.org/archive/11jul/11jul-non-profit-guide.pdf
Looks to me like Second Mile and Hershey Trust are both run mostly for the financial gain of their officers, trustees, and whoever those people hand business out to. Do no harm needs to be in there as a MINIMUM standard, though.
Several PSU folks on BVC Board with Christopher Lee. I googled board members names plus Boalsburg, PA. and got some basic information on them. I provided without links as anyone can find the same.
Like Lizzy has stated, odds are everyone is affiliated somehow with PSU in that area, just as it would be no surprise to find Hershey people in Hershey, PA. It’s not so much who they are, but that they are affiliated mostly with PSU & serving with on a board with a known pedophile. It says something about what is culturally acceptable in the movers and shakers crowd.
Chris Lee, VP, BOD of the Boalsburg Village Conservancy
http://boalsburgvillageconservancy.org/
Bruce Lord – Penn State Prof
Harvey Manbeck – Retired (emeritus) Penn State Prof
Robert Flipse – Advancement Chair BSA Troop in Boalsburg
Gert Aron – Dr. Aron Prof Emeritus Civil Engineering
Robert Cameron – Developed Horticulture course @ Penn State
Doreen Diehl – President (& clown) Happy Valley Alley
Protecting victim witnesses must come by court order & Jerry & co should have a gag order
Already happened Sherlock:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062170/Penn-State-scandal-New-sex-abuse-victim-Paul-McLaughlin-molested-professor.html
New Penn State ‘sex abuse victim who was molested by former professor’ says university ignored his claims
* Paul McLaughlin claims he was molested as a boy by former professor
* College ‘rejected’ evidence he gave them of sex abuse
RE:
Sherlock says:
November 28, 2011 at 1:35 am
My guess is, the next shoe to drop will be a victim coming
forward (he may already have) to testify about abuse from
someone ELSE besides Sandusky
“erose says:
November 29, 2011 at 5:02 pm”
oh, erose, you’ve given me my laugh for the day. All I can say is, TRUST ME, that list from the BVC is NOT a list of “movers and shakers.”
erose says:
November 29, 2011 at 1:44 am
Sorry to say that Pat Boland died this summer, after battling cancer.
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” beejay says:
November 29, 2011 at 6:19 am
I’m assuming ya’ll are reading all the stuff off-screen and looking for connections without posting here–yet. Correct?”
YES
erose
The information you have uncovered is amazing. Your statement that Jerry Sandusky should not use the PI and try to “Take it like a man” is beyond this bully’s understanding. He has always had his way and he will continue to do so until they remove his ability to be free in the community.
The people in the State of Pennsylvania have a major problem with individuals from the Governor on down being involved in activities that are morally and legally wrong. I don’t have an answer. All I can do is to support the good people with my prayers.
The statewide housecleaning required to get things cured is going to be a huge effort and take a long time. Finding those that are trustworthy and willing to serve will be a major endeavor.
There are probably more pedaphile victims that have been abused by other than Sandusky as the Daily Mail is reporting a professor being involved. This whole administration IMO has failed its task to protect the students and others from abusive behavior.
Thought it was interesting that the State College Area HS volunteer list includes Second Mile and Boal Mansion. People can say what they want about not knowing what Sandusky was up to, but how can someone send a HS student to the mansion? Wasn’t it public information that he was a pedophile? or did no one care since he never did any time and went into rehab? I don’t get it.
http://www.scasd.org/Page/10401