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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I appreciate your post. I tried to find the “man up” comment on a quick reread. I’d like to take credit, because I agree, but your kind words were most likely for Beejay or Rose. Glad you wrote though, because it gives me a chance to say I’m praying with you .
A Texas Grandfather says:
November 29, 2011 at 8:53 pm
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I take ‘em any way I can get ‘em.
But seriously, what are they doing with this guy?
lizzy says:
November 29, 2011 at 7:11 pm
“erose says:
November 29, 2011 at 9:15 pm”
As a parent in the school district, I’m concerned and frankly appalled that those appear as “service opportunities” on the high school list. It’s not necessarily easy for a parent to know about Lee, unless you were paying close attention at the time. His plea doesn’t put him on the Megan’s Law list, and if you google, it’s not even easy to find the charges. We need to be able to count on our schools to be as vigilant as legally possible.
In this video excerpt, former Pennsylvania Police Chief Herbert Grofcsik discusses how he was forced to ask federal agents to investigate the sex abuse of young people at the hands of prominent and protected Pennsylvanians.
Later, court officers would openly boast of enjoying sex with children, and praise Corbett for protecting their illicit activities, and another local DA, Tom Kearney, would be asking federal officials to investigate contractors with ties to Corbett.
DA Kearney told the FBI that concerned citizens and even high-ranking law enforcement officials in York County are helpless to stop the well-placed courthouse pedophile and prostitution ring. DA Kearney in his letter asked the FBI to “review and follow-up.”
http://www.yardbird.com/tv_police_chief_cant_stop_pedophile_sex_ring.htm
If anyone has any doubt this goes on, please watch erose’s link.
B
My question:
Why did Penn State announce they were hiring “Louis Freeh” to conduct an independent investigation, rather than announce they’d hired “Freeh Group International Solutions”, a lobbying firm (representing among others a small splinter Iranian exile group) to whom the check will obviously be cut? Because: (1) the tip line & email addy being set up at Freehgroup; (2) the resources of the law firm are very meager for an investigation–only two associates!
Judges Sporkin & Sullivan are not listed as principals or employees of Freeh Group. Wonder if they get any income from the big money flowing through the lobbying affiliate for putting their names on the law firm door?
How does Penn State setting up Freeh Group, tip line & all, to “investigate” differ at all, functionally & morally, from the other defendant (PS is a titular defendent, or will be in civil suits) Sandusky hiring a private investigator? They’ve both hired a private investigator. In PS’ case a whole lobbying group of investigators. So, I think that more heinous than Sandusky’s PI. Setting up a tip line is not a retrospective investigation. That PS is an institutional defendent, & Sandusky a person, makes no difference in their self defense investigatory interests.
Thanks for the perspective. It seems this was hushed up by the people who did know and you are right, it is extremely hard to find any information on the case. I know if we shine this kind of light on my neck of the woods, we would see some rats, too. Who the heck is in charge, or do we have to take charge?
lizzy says:
November 29, 2011 at 11:33 pm
IMO, you are absolutely correct. That tip line, if set up at all, should be set up with the criminal investigators, which is essentially moot in a system free of corruption. When victims aren’t sure who they can trust, then possibly a tip line straight to the DA. If I had any kind of relevant information, I would hand pick a lawyer and go from there.
Rose says:
November 30, 2011 at 12:35 am
This newspaper can’t even determine which of Freeh’s business entities PS contracted with:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11334/1193438-454-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml
Interesting 2008 map, though she’s got the law firm partners confused with the consulting firm principals.
http://news.muckety.com/2008/05/26/former-fbi-chief-louis-freeh-sells-his-services-to-corporate-elite/3001
Is this business still functional?
http://www.gavelconsultinggroup.com/what_we_do.htm
Former Pres of Freeh Group, now a Sr Consultant there, lives in Philly:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mmarquardt
Philadelphia law firm claims on Business Integrity page to work closely with Freeh Group
http://www.pepperlaw.com/PracticeArea_preview.aspx?PracticeAreaKey=71
Sullivan: A member of Nixin’s defense team during Watergate:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_R._Sullivan
G Bluford PS alum on Special Committee
Government man all his career. Now a Minority small business contractor since 2002
http://aerospace-technology-group-the.sbcontract.com/profile.htm
In the Bush years (2002ff) money poured into small minority defense contractors from the govt & big cos. Big cos. needed preferential tratment for DOD & Homeland Security & other Fed agencies in that contracting out era & worked thru these type businesses.
Lizzy, glad you’re doing all the offscreen follow-up. I can’t imagine how frightening this is for locals, esp parents.
I hope some local parents and non-parent citizens will follow up on everything that is discovered and rediscovered. And make it all known, repeatedly, and with personal followup with your schools, who are taking kids on field trips and such.
Because when there’s this much secrecy and corruption, you have to stay vigilant for the NEW organizations that will move in to fill the voids, assuming the old, criminal or immoral ones are ever fully cleaned out.
Please read ALL the links at erose’s Nov 30, 12:09 am link. There’s SO much more; it’s already known, but you won’t read it on the front pg of the papers. Plus, they often never follow all the way thru to the outcome.
Here’s a snip, I think taken from a link off erose’s main link above, but there’s other places I’ve found all this too. It is out there!
“In August 2006, two concerned York County, PA, public officials made sworn federal court statements that they handled allegations that Wantz allegedly provided prostitutes for executives from General Motors, and allegedly secretly video taped sex acts. The sworn statements were made by former York Police Commissioner Herbert Grofcsik, and York city controller James Sneddon. The two say they requested the U.S. Justice Department to investigate Wantz, and others, for alleged involvement in prostitution and other activities, but that Wantz is protected from investigation.”
[I, beejay, assume his protection comes from his status as a contractor with a state agency? IDK Wantz also had a car dealership. There are COURT documents on this!]
continuing…
“…supposedly Wantz was then recording and filming the sexual acts so that he would have something over General Motors or over these executives,” Sneddon said in the court document.”
continuing to snip bits to meet copyright restrictions, please read it all–
“…Sneddon described a not-too-secret, upper-crust York sex society, called The Reciprocity Club, which he said had its roots in “a Chamber of Commerce organization.” Often sex acts were secretly recorded on tape…to gain protection, and state contracts.”
So Wantz was blackmailing politicians and others for protection, and to get contracts for his detective agency. Here is where this stuff has some hope of getting to the higher-up enabler/criminals: it can’t come from with Pennsylvania; ties are too close. Only the feds, IMO, have a hope in hell. Don’t know current status, but when this article was published:
“…Former Police Commissioner Grofcsik, who now works as a federal customs officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security….”
link:
http://www.yardbird.com/wantz_dropped_from_house_hearing.htm
God help us all. We’re looking at the faces of murderers and child sex abusers and whatever else…
Do we know the GM execs names and the gender of said prostitutes?
Who will be our next Vincent Foster? Find him, and we find tapes and photos.
Who is savvy and maverick enough to take this to hill people?
I am honestly at a loss. Between this case, and another I am currently working, I have to say that I am in utter disbelief at the rampant sexual deviants that are running around and the idiots helping them to do so.
We need a list of investigators for the PA dept of welfare as well. We may need a war room just for this.
Sheesh.
B
Bumping my earlier post. The law firm where LeRoy S. Zimmerman works as a lobbyist, filed a required registration for their firm, listing Zimmerman as the lobbyist, and their client as General Motors, based in Detroit.
Wantz had a car dealership as well as his detective agency.
My earlier post:
beejay says:
November 27, 2011 at 8:39 pm
Yep, Rose, here’s Zimmerman’s law firm’s lobbying registration in 1999; client: GM
http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=BAA4592F-5E7D-498A-A791-C7A0F41C0857
New news:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/30/justice/pennsylvania-penn-state-scandal/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
I continued to be sickened by this.
To all of you who are working so hard on this – THANK YOU and YOU ROCK! I can barely keep up!
To read more about Wantz, you can also go to the link below. NOTE the Nov 16, 2011 date reporting Kearney’s recent request of the FBI:
“November 16, 2011 — District Attorney Tom Kearney, of York County, PA, has asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate longstanding allegations that Corbett Administration security provider Russell Wantz, Jr. has ongoing close ties to a prostitution and pedophile ring centered in and around the York County courthouse.
Sex offender Wantz, of York County, was arrested in a Craigslist sting in December 2007, by Swatara Township police. In 2009, Wantz was granted an ARD by Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico. At the time Marsico refused to investigate Wantz further.
Wantz is the owner of the Schaad Detective Agency of York. Schaad holds multi-million dollar security contracts with the administration of Gov. Tom Corbett. Schaad guards sensitive state complexes such as the PennDot headquarters in Harrisburg….”
[That's just the lead-in to that story.]
link:
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/showthread.php?8900-Rumor-Claims-Sandusky-“Pimped-Out”-Boys-to-Rich-Donors/page2
I wonder if his contract included Centre County? Maybe time for a little schaad fishing.
B
First civil suit filed against Sandusky. This is the victim he took to a bowl game:
“…sexually abused a young boy more than 100 times after meeting him through the charity he founded, then threatened the boy’s family to keep him quiet about the encounters, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday…”
read more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/penn-state-scandal-jerry-sandusky-lawsuit-new-accuser_n_1120726.html
And he needs a PI to do what? find out who was wearing an ugly Sandusky mask those 100 times?
At this point, I am grateful each time someone comes forward, although I am saddened at the thought of each victim.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/30/9116806-new-accuser-sues-sandusky-claims-more-than-100-instances-of-abuse
I wonder if the “threatened the boy’s family” means that he told the boy he would hurt his family, or if he directly threatened other family members? The former is more probable, but the latter would provide contemporaneous corroboration.
Question
Did anyone post a list of investors in Wren Dale prior to the sale to Hershey School? Per the article below, there were 40- 50 local business men to include Richard H Lenny.
Ref:
Excerpt:
The deal tossed a financial lifeline to 40 to 50 local businessmen and doctors who had invested in Wren Dale and faced substantial losses. One of them was Richard H. Lenny, then-chief executive officer of the Hershey Co. and a member of the charity board that approved the purchase.
http://www.protecthersheychildren.org/documents/Appeal_To_IRS_Commissioner_Shulman.pdf
This is not the first PA Supreme Court ruling that made me have cause for pause. The Hershey Trust is another one. Seems to me there is corruption there as well.
snips>
Posted March 8, 2011 — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that a judge who is the subject of a book can preside on a case seeking to punish and gag the author of the book.
In the Luna book, Keisling writes that he was told by a court expert of an apparent influence peddling scheme involving Judge Richard Renn in a case involving a victimized child. Renn is also the subject of Keisling’s forthcoming book, A Town Gone Bad: The Secret and Troubled Life of Richard Renn.
http://www.yardbird.com/a_town_gone_bad_judge_renn_suppresses_luna_book.htm
OMG!
March 8, 2011
“Wantz is currently running for public office in York County.”
-from my previous post.
Info on the “customer friendly” candidate.
http://www.inyork.com/ci_17680852
I was wrong on my DUI comment, was a relative, but he is not showing in my system with anything pending and certainly not trafficking. Is someone saying others were arrested with him, and he was not?
There is not even a petition for expungement.
B
This link has many stories of the coverups going on in the PA judicial and LE system. We can’t forget the ‘Kids-for-Cash’ program that the 2 judges were nailed for in August of this year.
http://judicial-corruption.net/category/states/pennsylvania-pa/pa-courts/
P Chief Grofcsik & Corbett: what was their general era–time frame, dates??
Good thought Venetia. Obvious the Wrendale owners/sellees who approved the purchase as Hershey Board members should be investigated by PA Sec of State or DOJ for violation of fiduciary duty to the Trust. What small town slimes.
prostitution
http://www.yardbird.com/reform_pa_wantz_prostitution_state_contracts.htm
I have searched under every number associated with that complaint, as well as DOB and SS- it is not in the system, fyi, not even as nolle prosequi, ARD, nolle contendre, nada.
B
mid’90′s – 2000ish
Rose says:
November 30, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Thanks for the link sunshine_4me
This is a link to an organization that may have the means to bring down this whole mess of corruption.
The people of central Pennsylvania need to check the viability of their work and get behind them to clear this trash from the communities.
The clients of Don Bailey are presenting motions on their own regarding the cases where the courts were punishing Mr. Bailey and his clients did not get a fair hearing.
There is no doubt that the entire York County and central Pensylvania judicial system along with the administration of PSU are involved with a monster of criminal conduct. There are a lot of branches to this crime ring and some of them may not yet be known.
Joe Paterno may have been told to keep his mouth shut and not do anything more than his presentation to the Grand Jury. However, he was a national figure and if he had made the decision to do the right thing, he could have gone to the national media and exposed the entire operation.
Rose
There is a group of people who have contacted the IRS regarding the activities of the Hearshey Board of Trustees. See the link by Venetia above. I have downloaded the pdf file for further study. They have been working on this part for several years. To date, the IRS does not seem to be responsive. Perhaps you have read a portion.
“Small town slimes” does not begin to express what they really are. IMO they are “white collar criminals” while protecting their budies who are equally “white collar criminals”. Dirty lawyers and dirty judges need to be removed from their communities and be given a minimum of life in prison sentenances for their activities.
“beejay says:
November 30, 2011 at 10:08 am
Lizzy, glad you’re doing all the offscreen follow-up.”
Far far far far from all, but whatever I can squeeze in. Unfortunately, this mess is growing like a cross between The Blob and Freddy Kreuger. The alien and malignant fungus that invaded and grew around us.
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“beejay says:
November 30, 2011 at 10:27 am
First civil suit filed against Sandusky. This is the victim he took to a bowl game:”
I think this is ANOTHER victim that he took to a bowl game, not the one in the grand jury presentment. A newly-declared victim who has found the courage to come forward in the stories of those assaulted after him. He’s gone straight for the civil suit first, and I think maybe there is good in that after everything posted here. Could I really suggest that he trust the wheels of Pennsylvania justice?
Found a 2005 article about Russell L Wantz, Jr
“…has close ties to embattled York County District Attorney Stanley Rebert.
Rep. Mark Cohen, of Philadelphia, in a December 30, 2004, letter to Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Colonel Jeffrey B. Miller, called on the State Police conduct a “full and complete” investigation of Russell Wantz, owner of the Schaad Detective Agency, of York.”
Among other things Cohen wanted looked into:
“…(3) Does Wantz have associations with organized crime that should lead to the state dropping the Schaad Detective Agency as a security provider?”
link:
http://www.yardbird.com/midnight_ride_pa_state_police_russell_wantz.htm
I’ve read in several places references to suspicions that Wantz was/is(?) involved in procuring female prostitutes as well as in the financing end of the ring. Underage. Not yet read about young boys.
I think “expunged” means, in his case, erased, disappeared.
Why doesn’t that surprise me. Apparently this fine upstanding citizen is the victim of a smear campaign (100% snark). Pays to line up hookers for the DA’s office, I guess. And as seemly as that is, I am a big girl, and I can handle that, and I can handle bid rigging from his car lots, too, but when the story goes to children, which I have to say it barely skims, then we are on a whole ‘nother level. How many icebergs are out there?
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I have searched under every number associated with that complaint, as well as DOB and SS- it is not in the system, fyi, not even as nolle prosequi, ARD, nolle contendre, nada.
B
The petition for expungement should at a minimum, be searchable under the prosecutor and or defense counsel- something is rotten in the Denmark of the prothonotary.
B
I should have added that I think the Wantz file is sitting on top of the Christopher Lee file which is hidden by all the “related” suicide files that are on top of the “missing person” files. No wonder you can’t find it. The fact that all this is fairly common knowledge is uttlerly astounding. I can see the good people of PA have their hands tied, and full.
Next to the donation voucher. Yep.
B
Rose, I’m just getting up to speed on the Hershey Trust fiasco.
Unreal! I just can not believe that people would rob a Trust that
was set up for needy children. So many ‘upstanding’ businessmen
involved. Unbelievable!
Beejays’ post:
http://mamasuntwinkle.wordpress.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H12afWUeoIc
At 3:33 the video suggests that the viewers research:
Hershey Medical Center …
That has me thinking of many possibilities- none good.
At approx 5:45 the speaker informs about the 50 million $$$
and 500 acres of land being given to Penn State for a hospital.
There were subsequent gifts to the hospital from the needy
childrens fund (Hershey Trust). 1 million in 2006 and another
1 million in 2009. IIRC.
Then there is the Founder’s Hall. More $$ doled out to the
business community at the cost of the children to whom it was
intended to serve. Also mentions children from Hershey School,
working at functions held at Founder’s Hall as waiters,waitresses,
car park employees and clean up crew workers- all with no pay!
Then, there are cutbacks at the school. Budget cuts. The
local businessmen get their pockets lined and the children get
budget cuts and work for free for those who have taken their trust
funds. Cinderella comes to mind.
Informative video.
Texas Grandfather
Re: IRS as relates to the Hershey Trustees, IMO would be
concerned only with the Trustees/partners paying taxes on the profits
from the sale of Wren Dale Golf Club to Hershey School. OTH, if someone
pointed out that the Trustees had a “fiduciary duty of care” over trust assets as pointed out by Michael Hussey, associate professor with
Widener Law School, it seems that would be a basis for taking legal steps.
Civil.
Scroll down to Michael Hussey- link below:
http://www.philly.com/philly/business/Inq_HT_Hershey_Trust.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary
http://legal.practitioner.com/regulation/standards_9_3_6.htm
A breach of fiduciary duty is often easier to prove than fraud.
Is Amendola doing a bad job on purpose? Calling Jerry for an impromptu telephone interview?
Now, today, discussing that they are prepared to defend all 8, but Jerry might consider pleading guilty if more come forward.
And the defense for #2? Sandusky gave them the name of the kid, and he said there was no sex and he didn’t see anyone? So, HELLO, wrong kid.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/patriot-news_exclusive_jerry_s.html
I absolutely believe that 100%. That pedophilic imbecile is going to jail for the rest of his life and he is too arrogant to realize that is the plan.
B
During some of these years of corruption, I guess the buck stopped at the top of the FBI.
But now he’ll be paid more for same outcomes.
Some offices need wires if probable cause can be found.
Criminal Complaint and Probable Cause on Wantz. Looks like he was not in York County which may be why he was arrested to begin with, IDK. I have been getting so much information off of Yardbirds, I don’t feel like much of a researcher, as YB’s have done all of the work. I should have submitted this with my original post, but I only just found it.
http://www.yardbird.com/pdfs/Wantz_arrest_sheets.pdf
He was in a sting where the cop answered the prostitutes cell phone, lol, I presume there was no getting out of that one, o wait, he did.
B
While we are all gawking at Sandusky, with our chins on the ground, the rest of the rats are going unnoticed. Is that the plan? We are kind of kicking ourselves today on the Kyron thread, that we allowed ourselves to be scandalized by the constant loads of daily dirty laundry, and weren’t looking at the bigger picture. I’m trying to pick my chin up off of the ground and not make the same mistake here. Trouble is, everyday I am more scandalized.
lizzy says:
November 30, 2011 at 10:35 pm
Bless this kid’s heart, but this is part of the problem. This is not a singularly bad event, IMO, and treating it as such will not yield good things. This is systemic, at the very least in the people who chose to riot, and at it’s worst the people who potentially covered this up or God forbid, participated. I think if everyone just tries to put a band aid on this right now, they will regret it later. Again JMO.
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“It’s a singularly bad event, but there can still be positive repercussions and good things happening from it.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/1st-penn-state-abuse-suit-accuser-15062206
Sorry, just one more post.
I’m not buying what Bradley is selling.
How about, “I believe in Penn State. My heart has been here for 33 years, and this isn’t just a job. I believe we have more good than bad, and we ask that people give us a chance to earn back their trust.”
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“I’m selling Penn State — that’s my job,” Bradley told USA TODAY on Wednesday.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/bigten/story/2011-11-30/tom-bradley-sells-penn-state-to-recruits/51517254/1
I realize at this point I am just jaded to anything that was in place during the Sandusky era, and I have personal knowledge that Bradley has been actively calling around personally looking for jobs.
B
Last one. Here is the rotten. Among illustrious others, including Wantz, the prothonotary (Pamela Lee) is named along with her husband (Rick Lee) a reporter for the York Daily Record in a US District Court Appeal by Wm. Keisling. (BTW, “donations vouchers” was prime.)
http://www.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/104346np.pdf
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The petition for expungement should at a minimum, be searchable under the prosecutor and or defense counsel- something is rotten in the Denmark of the prothonotary.
B
A prothonotary married to a reporter, now that is a concept, lol.
B
something is rotten in the Denmark of the prothonotary.
B
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For those who didn’t get that reference, that prothonotary is Pamela Lee, and others have noted in print their suspicions about her role in information not surfacing. If only because she is protective of her beloved town.
I totally agree with Blink about Sandusky’s fall being assisted by his atty. Who owns him, and just how–is it merely by money??
Yep, I have those. Amendola is just playing his role, a small one, in all of this by the end of the day.
B
Public persons with the stature of Sandusky and Paterno are mere throw-aways in the overall “scheme” of things. The criminals involved in the tentacles of this decided that the public sacrifice of them would impress everyone sufficiently. That goes for anyone else who gets trotted out in public in the upcoming time horizon. Look deeper, in the shadows.
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Blink: you did see the police reports on Wantz from his arrest in the Craigslist prostitution sting? They are out there, with arresting officers’ names (for you locals who’re interested)
Venetia says:
November 30, 2011 at 9:43 pm
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Milton Hershey isn’t just rolling over in his grave, he’s doing laps.
It sickens me to see how corrupt these people are, how they can take something that was meant for the greater good and twist it for their own evil purposes. I’m beginning to think money really IS the root of all evil.
Wantz also uses another name. The licensee for his ULS License is:
Russ and Associates
Russell L Wantz JR
1114 Roosevelt Ave
York, PA 17404
link:
http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp;JSESSIONID_ULSSEARCH=DJZZTXMShfbhcnTnnMJt3bvbqDgqczY5rJCCvpystpvQWpKBqRjh!374391590!938406370?licKey=1651591
alternative link, just go to bars within the page, click on “Main”, “Admin”, “Frequency” to see all the info:
http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/licenseAdminSum.jsp?licKey=1651591
So, Wantz is a thug-for-hire, with (at one point) 500 employees providing private guards and other stuff (!). Town of York is well aware of his shady nature and honest LEOs and others have tried to out him. They get defeated, harrassed, and…(?) while Wantz thrives (although he lost his bid for town council last spring) due to the photographic evidence and whatever else he has on people in high places. He, too, is expendable, but that’s risky since there’s no telling what he has done to ensure that telling evidence past his own death. Is that about right for this small player?
That is considered a large agency by any standard. I guarantee you it is filled with p/t LE.
I have not had an oppty to check at PA moonlight law for off duty LE, but in many states it requires prior approval and weekly reporting, and in every state I am aware of cannot include the same duties assigned WHEN on duty.
Did we run across the State of PA master vendor/bid procurement for security services?
What other clients do they have? Apparently, some in MD.
B
For anyone looking for 2011 names of York county officials, scroll down to pg 27 of the official Court Calendar, as submitted by Pamela Lee. And in the first few pgs of it you’ll find all the judges.
http://www.york-county.org/departments/courts/courtcal/2011CourtCalendar.pdf
Valley Girl-
You are reading my mind re: Milton Hershey doing laps!
Agree that the love of money = the root of all evil
Erose- you say “I’m not buying what Bradley is selling.”
“I’m selling Penn State — that’s my job,” Bradley told USA TODAY on Wednesday.
Evidently there are lots of people who are not buying what Bradley is selling:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2011/11/22/penn-state-mechandise-sal_n_1107315.html
Penn State Mechandise Sales Down 40%
“This is the first time I can recall ever seeing a decline of sales right out of the box,” said Matt Powell, an analyst with industry research organization SportsOneSource Group. “I have never seen anything this before.
“But we’ve never seen a scandal quite like this before.”
I’m curious why the Sky Metalwala disappearance in Bellevue, WA
is not being discussed here? (don’t know where else to ask the question on the site here)
Have not had an opportunity in my caseload to cover it.
B
Two decades in the York County DA’s office, and not even a year on the bench. Sad, and possibly suspicious. I wouldn’t normally think that way, but after the suicides of the massage parlor owner, Larry Keeney, Dick Parks aka pimp for the courthouse, and Pete Shellem, the reporter, one has to wonder what Chuck knew. I haven’t figured out who the forth or fifth witnesses are that Sneedon references.
November 25, 2011
York County, Pa. Common Pleas Court judge collapses at courthouse, later dies
The Associated Press reported that 62-year-old Clarence N. “Chuck” Patterson, Jr., of York, who had been a common please judge since January 2010 after more than two decades serving as a prosecutor in the county district attorney’s office, died after what the county coroner determined to be a sudden cardiac event.
“Judge Patterson was an excellent judge and a wonderful person,” Linebaugh told the AP. “In his short tenure on the bench he made an indelible impact on the lives of the many children ad juveniles who came before him.”
http://pennrecord.com/news/york-county-pa-common-pleas-court-judge-collapses-at-courthouse-later-dies/
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Dick Parks, PI, had DA badge, supplied prostitutes for county officials, also committed suicide. (from Sneedon video link)
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“I was initially looking into the death of a massage parlor owner named Larry Keeney who supposedly committed suicide …”
Before copies of the tapes could be given to Keisling, [Pete] Shellem apparently committed suicide in October 2009.
“The tragedy of Pete Shellem’s death only accentuates the mystery surrounding the Wantz case, where now four or five witnesses have died in extremely unusual circumstances.”
http://www.yardbird.com/a_town_gone_bad_judge_renn_suppresses_luna_book.htm
Correction: Patterson was on the bench just shy of two years.
YorkCountyResidentFraudDetective says:
May 11, 2011 at 12:50 am
I can verify that Linebaugh is a crooked judge who does plenty of backroom deals with the prosecution to try and squash any claims of corruption in York County no matter how severe they are.
I worked for SHAAD (SHADY) detective agency over 10 years ago and the corruption, pedophilia, prostitution, re-selling of drug evidence, crooked cops and everything else I witnessed them partake in and coverup with York County officials is astounding. I’d love to blow the whistle, but these people will put a bullet in me and call it suicide.
It’s amazing they’ve been able to keep it quiet so long, but that’s thanks to Pamela Lee’s ties to the York Daily Record, so of course, you only get the news York County Courthouse approves of.
http://judicial-corruption.net/2011/05/judge-stephen-p-linebaugh-is-denying-author-bill-kiesling-a-fair-trial-and-evidence-in-his-defense-for-not-leaking-his-sources-which-are-protected-because-he-is-a-journalist/
Venetia
The downloaded pdf file is many pages long and it addresses three different aspects of the Hershey BOT including the fact that the original trust document set forth the amount of one thousand dollars per year for board services. As is now known, the BOT has approved yearly salaries of one hundred twenty-six times that amount.
It does include the purchase of the golf course land at many times its real value in an attempt to take care of their local businessmen investors who would loose a considerable amount of money unless the trust bailed them out. The amount the trust paid for the golf course made the original investors a ton of money at the expense of the children.
The third thing in the document is the fact that there is not proper personnel on the staff of the Hershey School to address some of the problems the children need help with. This is an appeal to the IRS to investigate the trust and its management.
I agree with you. There should be a civil suit to unseat these robber trustees and criminal charges brought to place them in jail.
The thuggery in the Criminal Justice System appears to go all the way to the state Supreme Court. When a court rules in the favor of a judge in a lower court to NOT recuse themself regarding a case where the court itself is suspect, this is not justice, it is just pure abuse of power.
The Wantz agency is probably one of the major players in the statewide criminal enterprise. If this agency could be shut down and investigated, perhaps some real progress could be made in cleaning up the decades long corruption.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/25022888/State-Contract-9985-24-Uniformed-Un-Armed-Armed-Security-Guard
Wantz is a repo man too!
http://www.schaad.com/services_5.asp
Read all three pages of the links. “Parts of the investigation remain sealed.” Must mean they aren’t finished.
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Tipped off by America Online, the FBI had cause to move quickly when it first became aware of Charney in late 2009. “Let me know if you ever want to make it happen with one of my boys, they’re always available,” said one e-mail sent to Charney, who used an alias screen name.
Charney is the second child-sex offender uncovered at the Hershey School in recent years and the latest in a string of sexually charged issues to confront the school’s administration and its Board of Managers. It comes as the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office is investigating multimillion-dollar expenditures by the school of funds meant to sustain the institution and expand its enrollment.
Before the Charney case, the most publicized of the sexual improprieties was the school’s decision in 2010 to settle the claims of five former students who said they had been sexually abused by Charles Koons 2d, a serial molester who gained access to the campus through his mother, a part-time house parent. Though a mother of a boy warned the school about Koons in the late 1990s, Koons continued to visit the campus.
In 2007 and 2006, two teachers, one male and one female, were prosecuted in separate cases for having sexual relations with students.
Daryl F. Bloom, the assistant U.S. attorney handling the case, said Charney had cooperated in a government investigation. Parts of the case remain sealed. The U.S. Attorney’s Office would not comment on the second e-mailer.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20111030_How_child-porn_case_led_to_Hershey_School.html
Complaint of Wm Keisling. What a guy, pro se.
Pages 24, 25
As a concerned father, citizen, and a writer, Keisling soon learned from other concerned citizens of many other alleged ongoing criminal activities involving employees at the York County Courthouse, including, but not limited to, influence peddling, case fixing, kickbacks, murder, reckless endangerment of children, prostitution, human trafficking, sex with juvenile minors, unlawful electioneering in the courthouse and other public property, and the use of public employees and/or equipment to perform personal chores for elected Republican officials, including Defendant Judge Sheryl Ann Dorney.
http://grassrootspa.com/blogcore/pdf/Amended_complaint_12-17-09.pdf