The Nittany Nightmare Continues: More Financial Incest At PSU- Accused Perjuror Gary Schultz Head of Nittany Insurance Pays First Victim Payout AND His Lawyers
State College, PA & Burlington, VT- In the latest example of financial incest involving PSU, The Second Mile, and a bevy of double-dipping board members and executives, we arrive at the first discovery between an accused suspect in the case and his principal interest in an insurance company that recently paid out a settlement to an alleged victim of Jerry Sandusky. As the filing has likely been sealed as a condition of it’s settlement, it is unknown if Schultz or anyone else within PSU in addition to Sandusky was named in the civil action.
Gary C. Schultz, interim Sr. VP for Finance and Business returned following previous retirement from PSU this past July.
His return to the PSU payroll around the time that a grand jury was meeting about his possible complicity, FOLLOWING his own alleged perjurious testimony begs the question-As Schultz knew he was under investigation as well as Sandusky and Curley-
Did Schultz come out of retirement in anticipation of incurring significant legal fees he did not want coming out of his own pocket?
You read that correctly.
Mr. Schultz, who along with Tim Curley were bound over for trial at their preliminary hearing on perjury charges and a misdemeanor failure to report summons last month, is being provided legal representation costs through Nittany Insurance Company, where he is a paid Director. According to Acting President Erickson, it will also be used to cover any civil settlements and judgements in the Sandusky debacle et al.
This would seem to be in violation of the Vermont Captive Insurance Regulations Section 12, or conflict of interest.
In a letter sent to Penn State Interim President Rodney Erickson, Senator Michael Stack (D) Philadelphia, expressed his concern that taxpayers and donors should not be footing the bill for the Universities necessary legal representation for the various civil and criminal issues and potential settlements.
In a response to Senator Stack, President Erickson assured him that such costs would be accommodated by it’s liability insurance. Nittany Insurance Company is listed as the professional liability insurance company of record on the PSU site as well as the provider for PSU students in programs including the Hershey Medical Center.
President Erickson did not reference Mr. Schultz’s directorship position within Nittany Insurance Company although www.blinkoncrime.com was able to confirm with the Vermont Secretary of State that as of this afternoon, there are no pending changes to its registration.
Gary Schultz’s co-director at Nittany Insurance Company, is Allan Anderson, Former VP and Chief Executive Officer for Hershey Medical Center.
While the captive insurance firm is self-administered, as Director, Schultz would be in a position to review, award, accept, negotiate or reject settlements within the framework of their contract with PSU and appropriate regulatory requirements. Captive insurance companies are often developed as part of a risk mitigation strategy and as an entree to the reinsurance market for payouts exceeding a fixed amount. Registered in Vermont, Nittany Insurance Company was formed in 1993.
It would seem a good starting point for questions on the regulatory and compliance matter might be how the bid is/was awarded for initial self-administered liability coverage directed by a potential party and what the premiums, which are deductible to PSU, were and are?
What adjustments to same have been made in relation to the known incidents and corresponding dates alleged against Sandusky, Curley and Schultz?
What else is Nittany Insurance funding it may have had ample heads up about?
Does Schultz have a poster of Ken Lay in the top of his humidor? Bernie Madoff?
www.blinkoncrime.com poster erose contributed to the research of this article.
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Absolutely. Who *can* we trust?
Word Girl says:
February 1, 2012 at 3:32 pm
Paterno “sold” Penn State for decades. He was IMO their icon and their icon, if you follow me. Does anyone else agree that making sure his image is not tarnished, in effect, protects the image of the school? Forget for a moment what part he may or may not have played in the scandal, if there was a PR strategy to recover what was lost in those days following Sandusky’s arrest, wouldn’t they look to rehabilitate the image of the icon, first and expect the rest to follow? IMO, clever and working, if you go back and read an article like this one, and then look at how far things have already spun. JMHO.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/sports/ncaafootball/internet-posting-helped-sandusky-investigators.html?_r=1
The Text Content on Page 2 of Tyrone Daily Herald , February 21, 1981 is:
BOB IRVIN PSU Coach good family environment Second Mile residents will attend State College schools and have a normal family life complete with household chores and parental support HELP OFFERED The Second Mile has already been offered free services of barbers tailors and a child psychologist They have been given building supplies labor and ar services Help has come from all of the state and the home will accept boys from every part of Pennsylvania but priority will go to cases from the central counties which in clude the Tyrone area dream extends beyond the Mate College facility The goal is to establish foster homes for the youngsters who cant return to their own homes when they have completed the program and to have Second Mile homes all over the state
CODER TO DIRECT Ron Coder who will direct the program shares lifelong interest in kids and athletics While a Penn State student he played soccer on two national championship teams He later made the 1956 Olympic team as its goalkeeper A retired Air Force officer and he worked with youth groups while he was a base commander in Japan His four sons have all played football for Penn State
KUBIN A FRIEND The part of the Second Mile program already underway was explained by Penn State defensive end Larry Kubin who has enlisted as a Ive been working with a junior high school kid with some family he said Im kind of like a big brother He doesnt have a dad and he really gets a kick out of it when I take him places with me and go to see him play basketball He talks to me about a lot of things Todd Blackledge Penn State quar terback works with another boy and other members of the football team are waiting for their turn to help
TICKETS ON SALE The 200 TAHS students volunteered to sell tickets for the concert to help finance San dream to help kids with problems Tickets may be purchased from any member of the four organizations at the Bull Pen or by calling the high school office TAHS Principal Neil Smith said that the goal is to sell all the Maynard Ferguson tickets by March 13 one month before the concert Maynard Ferguson and his band have been termed phenomenal musicians and have won the appreciation of audiences in every age group As for the cause the purchase of a ticket will help to provide in Jerry words a second mile in lifes journey for a child in need
http://www.newspaperarchive.com/tyrone-daily-herald/1981-02-21/page-2/
Coder was on the ground floor of TSM and the Boalsburg Museum
Boalsburg Museum 1982
That meeting was held at Duffy’s Tavern on September 28, 1982, with 30 people in attendance. Tentative plans were outlined whereby a museum would be setup on the second floor of the Harris Township building in quarters formerly occupied by the historic furniture factory and before that by the carriage shop. Harris Township Supervisors had unofficially endorsed the idea. A Museum Association was proposed, then formally approved by those in attendance. Solicitor, Thomas Gill, became the legal Advisor. For a number of years he guided the organization through establishment of its articles of incorporation, formation of by-laws, securing of tax-exempt status, property acquisition, and other matters.
During the September 28th meeting, a Board of Directors was chosen, including Ron Coder,…
Chris Lee was named to represent the Harris Township Supervisors.
http://www.boalsburgheritagemuseum.org/about_us.shtml
June 1992
…they teed off from the Blue Course Friday, and from Toftrees Resort Saturday to return to their alma mater and help The Second Mile — an organization founded and headed by Defensive Coordinator Jerry Sandusky.
“Well, I hit some and I missed some,” said former walk-on and All-American Defensive Tackle Ron Coder, regarding his play during the weekend.
Coder, who was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1976 after attending Penn State, said he always enjoys playing despite his score because he is so fond of returning to the campus and seeing old friends.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu:8080/archive/1992/06/06-29-92tdc/06-29-92dsports-1.asp
1981
The board approved the hiring of Leslie Stever Lucy Lake and Anna Huff who have Continued on Hurry Still Harry Sickler has been trying hard to help Penn States Jerry Sandusky and his Second Mile program for youngsters But things havent been easy The Maynard Ferguson concert held in the spring failed to raise much money though everyone worked real hard More successful was the Celebrity Amateur Golf Tournament held May 3 to benefit the Second Mile Sandusky said was raised Everything was looking UD with Sicklers latest idea until disaster struck A huge glass jar was placed in the Bullpen Restaurant to be filled with quarters only Up until last week it contained an estimated in quarters Then someone Borough police didnt report the theft to the Daily Herald but Sickler said the restaurant was entered and the jar of charity money taken He said he feels somewhat responsible for the theft and would like to make it up to the Second Mile if he can The jar was to be presented to the charity on the day of the Notre Dame Penn State game Nov 21 That is why much of the proceeds from the Bullpens current Eighth Anniversary Celebration will go to the Second Mile As advertised in the Daily Herald there will be a week of specials and entertainment Linda Sickler Suda will sing and a program will be presented by Jerry Sandusky himself on Thursday night Second Mile director Ronald Coder will appear Friday night Sandusky is expected to offer some insight on upcoming Penn State football games to kick off Sicklers effort to get back on the ball for the Second Mile Another surprise Fred Waring Tyrone s favorite son who is performing in State in the TWO FOR THE SECOND MILE This photograph taken in 1965 at the Jaffa Mosque shows then Tyrone Boro Councilman Harry Sickler and Fred Waring at the Anniversary Celebration for the singer Both men are in in the Second Mile program for youngsters a project that will help boys mature and develop into full human beings when otherwise they may not have had the chance Penn State football players act as big brothers to the boys money is being raised to build them a permanent home Waring will attend the eighth anniversary of the Bullpen Restaurant this week
http://www.newspaperarchive.com/tyrone-daily-herald/1981-08-12/page-1/
1981
PSU Coach Sandusky Wants To Help Kids PLAN Mile representatives met this week with the four Tyrone Area High School organizations which have joined in spon soring a Maynard Ferguson concert to benefit Jerry planned home for troubled children Left to right seated Sandusky Larry Kubin and Ron Coder standing Kevin Layton Student Council president Patty Rodgers Key Club president Doug Fleming Varsity Club president Don Wilson president of the Golden Eagle Band by PEG KURD Penn State linebacker coach Jerry San dusky is a man who wants to help kids and some Tyrone kids have joined together in an effort to help him do it organizations the Varsity Club Key Club Student Council and Golden Eagle Band will sponsor a concert by famed musician Maynard Ferguson If the concert set for Monday April 13 from 8 to 10 pm in the TAHS auditorium is a sellout the four organizations will net approximately to donate to planned home for troubled kids The Second Mile CAME TO TYRONE Sandusky came to Tyrone this week to explain his dream now nearing realization to approximately 200 of the four organizations With him were Second Miles executive director Ron Cooler and Larry Kubin one of 20 Penn State football players involved in the friends phase of the program which is already underway Sandusky grew up in the Pittsburgh area spent much of his time in a recreation center directed by his father There he saw first hand that the world is full of youngsters with potential who dont have a chance They lacked love guidance and discipline They had no one to talk to or admire HELPING YOUNGSTERS After attending Penn State where he was a threeyear football letterman and an out standing student he became a football coach and started toward his goal of helping as many youngsters as he could Jerry and his wife the former Dorothy Gross of Chattanooga Tenn had five children of their own and wanted to share their warm home life so they began to take in foster children They have had five of those and two of them have become permanent members of their family Every summer several freshair children join the Sandusky When we ran out of room and patience at home says Sandusky I knew it was time to set started on the Second Mile NEAR PENN STATE The Second Mile home will be built in Patton Township two miles from the Penn State football stadium on Bernal Road on 20 acres of ground The goal is to make the final payment on the plot of ground by March 10 This will give the Second Mile a equity Con struction should begin sometime this sum mer and the first group of six boys may move in by next fall As the facility grows 24 boys to start out with boys between the ages of 10 and 18 for Sandusky explained but some day we hope to have a home for girls too The boys will live with house parents whose objective will be to provide the love and command the respect present in any other
http://www.newspaperarchive.com/tyrone-daily-herald/1981-02-21/page-1/
So there is no confusion, there are two Ron Coders associated with Penn State, father and son. What ever happened to…lists jr in sports ministry. He is head coach for Pitts Passion Womans League according to Wiki.
http://www.lostlettermen.com/ron_coder-penn_state-football-big_10-p246542/
Ron Coder was a U.S. soccer goalkeeper who was a member of the U.S. team at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
He entered Penn State University in 1947.
Coder continued to serve in the Air Force, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. His son, Ron Coder later played football at Penn State and with the Seattle Seahawks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Coder
Ronald William Coder (born May 24, 1954 in Savannah, Georgia) is a former professional American football player who played in 5 NFL seasons from 1976-1980 for the Seattle Seahawks and the St. Louis Cardinals. He is currently head coach of the Pittsburgh Passion of the Independent Women’s Football League.[1] Coder graduated in 1972 from Yamato High School in Japan, where his father Ronald Coder, also an athlete, was then stationed as an Air Force pilot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Coder
Ron Jr & wife Kathleen’s Beaver council election site.
http://www.coder4council.com/AboutKathleen.html
11-10-11
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For former offensive guard Ron Coder, Paterno changed his life for the better, as well.
He belonged to a military family – his father was stationed in Japan during his high school days.
Coder’s grandfather sent some Penn State assistant coaches, with whom he was close, a Christmas card. And since Coder was so much bigger than his brothers at the time, Penn State said he could walk on and try to earn a scholarship.
And he did.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2011/11/10/Paterno_former_players_reactions.aspx
Recent appearance of Ron, Sr & wife Hope.
EAA Chapter 1327
April 7, 2011, UNV
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Ron Bowman presiding. Ron and Hope Coder, guests
Malcolm Morrison is working on our annual project with PSU to hold Airport Appreciation Day at UNV on August 13.
For almost 7 years Ron flew the KC-97 four prop tanker, then the KC-135 (better, faster, all jet fuel) out of Tampa, Savannah, and Grand Forks. He was sent to George Washington University for his degree, then assigned to the Pentagon for 3 years.
http://www.eaa1327.org/Minutes/2011-04_Apr.htm
[and guess where they live(d) in 2005]
The roars could be heard up the hill in The Village at Penn State where Ron Coder, a retired Air Force pilot, lives with his wife, Hope.
“There’s quite a few people eating crow out there,” said Coder, a 1951 graduate of Penn State whose four sons played for Paterno and who considers him a friend. “I’ve always been on Joe’s bandwagon,” Coder continued. “I argue with these people who say he can’t recruit, he’s past his prime. I’m nominating him for coach of the year.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/14/sports/ncaafootball/14paterno1.html?pagewanted=all
On page 185 of “Touched” by Jerry Sandusky, he states that Ron Coder was executive director of TSM. On pages 190 & 191, Sandusky says he would rather not mention the executive director’s name, but they had to replace him. I am confused. Is he talking about Coder? In ’81 Coder was director and this seemed to occur before the incorporation in ’77.
http://books.google.com/books?id=DhURgPDxVhgC&pg=PA185&lpg=PA185&dq=ron+coder+director+second+mile&source=bl&ots=DcI-fsCNPZ&sig=7oP7__qPK70G7VmTO_j6XPbVq4k&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ovUpT8nlHPDJiQLG1KXCCg&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=ron%20coder%20director%20second%20mile&f=false
Another case of CRS strikes PSU. So much more to this than just these snips. It can safely be said that approximately 50% of the people are not telling the truth,
• December 2010: Baldwin tells Curley and Schultz she “represents the university” and they can get their own attorneys.
• January 2011: Baldwin drives them to the grand jury. On the trip, the three apparently do not discuss the investigation or who will represent the two men.
• In the judge’s chambers: After Baldwin announces she is representing Penn State, she is simply allowed to walk into the grand jury room to listen to the testimony of Curley and Schultz even though she has not said she represents them.
• In the grand jury room: Baldwin doesn’t remember hearing Curley and Schultz identify her as counsel. Baldwin skips Paterno’s testimony.
• On the drive home: The subject of representation doesn’t come up.
Spanier, who was forced to resign by the trustees after the scandal broke, testified before the grand jury in April. As before, Davis said Baldwin traveled with Spanier to Harrisburg and sat in on his grand jury testimony as a representative of the university.
Davis said that Baldwin specifically cited the March article in The Patriot-News during her May briefing to the trustees. The article detailed the alleged 1998 assault in the Penn State football locker room showers that was part of the investigation.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/02/penn_state_legal_counsel_cynth.html
According to a complaint seeking declaratory judgment filed by the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association Insurance Co. in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Tuesday, the insurer pointed to an “abuse or molestation exclusion” in the second of three consecutive general liability policies that the company said would excuse it from paying for the school’s legal costs.
One of Doe A’s attorneys said he is the only alleged victim she knew of claiming abuse before 1993.
According to Anderson, during one of the alleged incidents in Philadelphia, the plaintiff told Sandusky he was going to go to the authorities and Sandusky threatened to harm him and his family if he did.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202540985500&slreturn=1
Freeh is a busy guy these days.
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For Louis Freeh, the trustee controlling the assets of MF Global Holdings Ltd in bankruptcy: Brett Miller and Lorenzo Marinuzzi of Morrison & Foerster.
http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Legal/News/2012/02_-_February/MF_Global_judge__No_Chapter_7_liquidation/
Such a blog hog today, I apologize. Feeling better, nettie pot and all. Even my own family has had it with my extra energy. Enough already. Sorry all. I’ll try and “shuttie”
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Erose! Please keep going.
So, have I got this straight?! Late 1970s-early 1980s there was a loose coalition of folks around Boalsburg and State College who were helping each other found some historical, charitable, non-profit organizations.
Chris Lee (convicted child sex criminal, who got off with merely an ARD) was getting his Boalsburg Museum going. (Where George Washington–or somebody–slept)
Neighbor, and unofficial Boalsburg historian, Mrs. Ruth H Corter, was busily recording everything while serving as local elem school teacher & principal. Wife of Lee E Corter, who has been slighted in the historical records. I can find no children of the Corters. The Mrs died in 1997, leaving the bulk of her estate, including land, to Chris Lee’s Boalsburg Museum.
Oh–IDK why, but for some reason, towards the end of his final term as U.S. Representative from PA, William F. Clinger, Jr. found it necessary to read into the Congressional Record a recognition of Mrs. Ruth Corter. Snipped:
“HON. WILLIAM F. CLINGER, JR.
of pennsylvania
in the house of representatives
Wednesday, May 22, 1996
Mr. CLINGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Ruth Corter
of Boalsburg, PA.
On Sunday, May 26, the citizens of Boalsburg will gather to recognize
Ruth Corter as the guiding spirit of the community….”
Continuing to recognize her for her role in founding the
Boalsburg Village Conservancy in 1973 and the Boalsburg Heritage Museum in 1983.
link:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&gbv=2&nfpr=1&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=11154l26368l0l28514l39l33l0l0l0l8l225l4754l9.20.4l33l0&q=cache:ryGQj1EG05IJ:http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1996-05-22/html/CREC-1996-05-22-pt1-PgE867.htm+Mrs+Ruth+Corter+Boalsburg+PA&ct=clnk
Clinger is from Clinton County, PA. A lot of his work in US Congress had to do with govt oversight.
A possible link back to Chris Lee might be thru the PA Restaurant Assn, whose current CEO is Patrick Conway (but only since 2001). Conway was a 7 yr long staffer for Rep. Clinger. It might be thru his earlier activities in the hospitality industry that there would be links back to Lee and/or Mrs. Ruth Corter, or others. (He was in Tom Ridge admin; appointed to some hospitality posts by Ed Rendell; oh, and is a PSU grad).
This is like 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Anywho, two known/alleged pedophiles, Chris Lee and Jerry Sandusky, had at the same time period, and in the same locale, enlisted the help of some upright citizen locals to help found organizations they would later use to find their victims. Interesting.
Oops! Here’s the link to Pat Conway’s Linked-In bio:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/pat-conway/12/63a/6a9
Which shows his education as:
Penn State University
BA, Political Science
1983 – 1987
Activities and Societies: Alpha Chi Sigma, Omicron Delta Kappa, Skull & Bones, Interfraternity Council (President), Undergraduate Student Government (Senate)
Reminder: It was Michael Madeira who gave Chris Lee that ARD.
“Did you know Madeira also gave Lee ARD for the charges involving juveniles?
As usual, you hit on a topic worthy of exploration, imo.
B”
link:
http://blinkoncrime.com/2011/11/12/ending-the-nittany-nightmare-penn-state-pre-game-plea-an-open-letter-to-president-rodney-erickson/
And, of course, it was Madeira who streamlined the ARD process. He later would say it is frequently used in cases such as possession of small amounts of marijuana, and other minor things. And not just with PSU football players:
“In ARD, the defendant’s charges are usually expunged from their criminal record upon completion of the program, according to state code.
“This is a fairly standard offer that we make in small amount of marijuana cases,” Madeira said. “It doesn’t matter who they are.”
Because ARD is a typical arrangement, it was not difficult for an agreement to be reached, Madeira said.
The players…Koroma…[and] Evans….”
link:
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2009/02/03/lions_enter_rehab_program.aspx
erose–you’re on a roll, not on a trough! Keep it up.
The NY Times article was good, I thought, and I didn’t notice the “spin” you mention. It was published shortly after the Nov. 5 arrest of Sandusky and was thorough, with some sources I hadn’t seen others using.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/sports/ncaafootball/internet-posting-helped-sandusky-investigators.html?pagewanted=all
“You have to understand those statements in context — there is nothing that happens at State College that Joe Paterno doesn’t know, or that Graham Spanier doesn’t know,” one person involved in the investigation said. “Whether or not a criminal case went forward, there were ample grounds for an administrative inquiry into this matter. I have no evidence that was ever done. And if indeed that report was never passed up, it makes you wonder why not.”
Coder, RW, had to know. If he knew, his family–extended–also knew.
By the way, imoo, I think W. Courtney is lying when he says he knew nothing about any of the Sandusky investigations. Flat out.
O yeah, he was researching public policy and right to know law because he was considering making everyone wear a blue tie.
Mr. Courtney and the truth are strangers.
B
Baldwin, too!
Off with they haids!
(Sry Blink…I’m just so mad about all this CYA activity.)
In all fairness to Christopher Lee, it’s entirely possible that the sex offense against the 2 juveniles never even happened and he just took the ARD for simplicity’s sake.
Or, that it was a one-time impulse never before acted upon.
Or, that the ARD program he went through is so spectacularly successful in reducing recidivism among these folks that it should become a model for the world to follow.
Unfortunately, I’ve never been able to find any details as to just what that ARD program consists of. Would love to, though.
Apollies. I meant to indicate that Coder Sr. would have seen Sandusky with boys many times and places.
His son and three brothers were steeped in the Penn State bullchit, as well.
Was it a case of hiding in plain sight?
How can molestation be going on under our noses?
Let’s give the victims the support they need to bring “justice”–and hopefully take one more criminal off the streets.
I already know my POV is not popular, but…
The spin I see is that when Sandusky was first arrested, and people read McQ’s story, they believed that Paterno should have done more. A lot of people were outraged at the student riots. I now see the sympathy shifting to Paterno, which is emotionally confusing because his illness and death deserves our sympathy, as does his family in those circumstances.
Somehow those feelings have shifted into sympathy for his handling of the 2002 shower incident. It’s reminiscent of a deathbed forgiveness between parent and child. The problem is that we are still deciphering who knew what when, and the legal and moral culpability of Penn State, The Second Mile and the people that ran them.
Paterno is the face of Penn State. The history he built is vital to it’s revenue flow. What better than rallying alumni and donors in his defense. People who already want this not to be true. Rehabilitating his image goes a long way in selling the place. This *has* to stay the house that JoePa built, even if every rush-to-judgement trustee is replaced. If his legacy survives, then the institution will survive.
WordGirl, I am probably not explaining this correctly, but to me it is a phenomenon that has us wanting to minimize in order to preserve the reputation of a national treasure, instead of admitting and forgiving his flaws. Spainer is gone, and if Curley and Schultz go to jail (not likely), PSU will overcome, as long as their beloved coaches legacy remains in tact, even more now as a martyr, and this past couple of weeks have gone a long way to restore all of that and the university benefits.
It’s just like the changes made to the mural. Wishful thinking, fantasy, IDK, but Sandusky was painted out of it and JoePa has a halo. The truth is, Sandusky is still here and JoePa has, as I believe, been forgiven all of his sins by God, but like all of us, he’s a sinner.
I just temporarily put myself in the position of being mother to victims 1-10. If my son is staying at the pregame hotel with Sandusky, paraded around like his date, I want to know WTH the other coaches were thinking. If someone waits to tell their “superiors” as to not interrupt their weekend, I want to know WTH they were thinking. If someone won’t even admit they have ever heard of pedophilia or even homosexuality, well, as the ‘mother’ of those victims I have to say WTH?
Now, out of respect to the legacy and all the people who love him, I feel compelled to apologize for speaking ill of the coach, but as the ‘mother’ of victims 1-10, I think we should be apologizing to them. It’s gut wrenching and a wee bit manipulative. MOO.
Word Girl says:
February 2, 2012 at 12:54 pm
here in Ann Arbor– to find on local newspaper’s front page, taking up the top half of the Thurs 2/2 Ann Arbor.com newspaper, an expose of the pediatric resident & the porn.
Interestingly, this 2/2 story, titled “six month time lapse in U-M Child Porn Case” is not among the other stories on the online site.
open to public: http://annarbor.com/news/university-of-michigan-faculty-to-discuss-lapse-in-reporting-child-porn/
http://www.annarbor.com/news/crime/police-resident-physician-stephen-jenson-had-child-porn-in-work-bag/
Hard to believe that Gricar did not commission at least one of these prior GJ’s.
The grand jury investigation that led to charges being filed against former Penn St. Nittany Lions assistant coach Jerry Sandusky wasn’t the first one, according to the Centre Daily Times. Indeed, three other grand juries investigated Sandusky for child sex crimes, trustee Mark Dambly told the times. He said university counsel Cythia Baldwin informed the trustees of that information “during a quick briefing” in May 2011.
http://pittsburgh.sbnation.com/penn-st-nittany-lions/2012/1/19/2719179/penn-state-scandal-jerry-sandusky-investigation-grand-juries/in/2304122
@Beejay
From my skimming of these docs, it seems ARD is mostly used in DUI, though not exclusive. Looks like a way to get first timers to agree to divert to some sort of rehab before court costs and time are consumed. JMO.
ARD
http://www.timgeorge.us/files/accelerated_rehabilitative_disposition.pdf
http://www.pacode.com/secure/data/234/chapter3/chap3toc.html
Until the Lee case, I have NEVER heard of ARD as an acceptable punishment for a sex crime of any kind, ever. ARD is expungable in many cases. Makes it very difficult to track repeat conduct, especially in different states. It reminds of when I was a kid and got to pick my punishment which was always a bunch of chores vs. being grounded.
B
You all have to read this (especially the first and last paragraph of my post). Marshalls wife did the training. OMG.
Feb 2009
BELLEFONTE — Two women have told the Centre Daily Times that former Assistant District Attorney Lance Marshall made sexual advances to ward them in a hotel room when they were 17-year-old students at Bellefonte Area High School. And a third woman, a former Centre County probation officer, recently told the CDT that she
complained to the county’s Human Resources Department in 2006 of unwanted sexual remarks Marshall made to her at work.
The allegations by the three women were made after they learned the state Attorney General’s Office is investigating allegations that Marshall sent more than 140 text messages, some sexually explicit, to the victim of a domestic violence case he was
prosecuting.
Marshall resigned Dec. 30 after 10 years in the District Attorney’s Office. District At torney Michael Madeira at the time said only that the resignation came after he and Marshall discussed Marshall’s handling of “several cases.”
Last week, Madeira said he encourages anyone with concerns to contact him.
“We have been at the forefront of protecting victims of crime, particularly domestic violence, sex assault and stalking,” Madeira said. “I take allegations of this nature seriously and while no one has yet contacted me, I will review any case in which someone comes to me with a credible allegation of inappropriate conduct on the part of Mr. Marshall.”
A copy of the county’s sexual harassment policy is given to each employee, and training on the issue is done each year, Hendrickson said. Last year, Marshall’s wife, attorney Amy Marshall, did the training for the county, Hendrickson said.
http://saraganim.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/women-recount-marshall-behavior1.pdf
The police, being the police, wanted to know why. Why, Stanley? Why masturbate in the library? Why, that was merely how he “chills”, according to Pringle.
As part of his acceptance into the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition (ARD), Pringle will receive one year of probation and be required to complete the program before he can request that his record be expunged, Centre County District Attorney Michael Madeira said. Pringle’s acceptance into the program does not constitute a guilty plea, Madeira said. However, he described it as “punishment without a verdict.” “I view ARD as accepting a responsibility for something,” he said. “There needs to be a willingness to change your actions.”
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Stanley-Pringle-library-masturbator-re-enters-?urn=ncaab,100205
How does that not constitute a guilty plea?
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2009
Camp Penn sexual assault on minor by Christ United Methodist Chruch Pastor. (DA Madeira)
http://saraganim.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/man-accused-of-sex-crimes-has-history.pdf
BELLEFONTE — The county, District Attorney Michael Madeira and his former assistant Lance Marshall are being sued by a victim of domestic violence who says she was sexually harassed by Marshall as part of a pattern of behavior that went unpunished for years.
The suit, filed Friday in Centre County Court, claims the woman
was one of many toward whom Marshall made sexual advances, comments or acted in some way inappropriately. It states that Madeira was warned by local law enforcement and some county officials of such behavior by Marshall.
Madeira, the lawsuit alleges, “failed to take appropriate action to limit, remedy or protect members of the public, victims in the system, or employees of the Centre County Courthouse.”
http://saraganim.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/county-marshall-facing-lawsuit.pdf
If you read my last post, this is the mother Marshall was hitting on. Then he prosecuted, under Madeira’s administration without a primary witness to the injuries of his child. Gee..I wonder if Shawley put out for Marshall?
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The first gut-wrenching hit came for Adam Shawley when his ex-wife got into a drunken driving crash with their two kids in the back seat.
Spending weeks at the hospital bedside of his 1-year-old daughter, who suffered a broken neck in the crash, was supposed to be the hardest part.
So when it came time to testify in court against the children’s mother, Shawley did it to get justice for his kids. But he feels that hardly any justice came.
Samantha Shawley was acquitted of the most serious charge she was facing-felony aggravated assault by vehicle while DUI-after no doctor was subpoenaed to testify to the baby’s injuries.
“My whole point was that you don’t go to trial without all the stuff you need,” said Adam Shawley. He said he’s now losing sleep, worried a judge will force him to give up some of his custody of his now 2- and 4-year-old kids to their mother because she was acquitted. That would be the worst hit for him. “I’m terrified that they’re going to take them from me eventually,” Shawley said. “I’m sorry, if a jury would have known what happened to my kids, I think that things would have been way different.” I could have been different, several jurors said. “As a father myself, I can’t imagine the situation he was in,” one juror said. “But I can imagine the frustration because as a juror I was very frustrated that we couldn’t get at the truth. I’m really disturbed to hear that is the kind of excuses that were given to this father.”
http://saraganim.wordpress.com/author/saraganim/page/13/
Joe Paterno served on the board of the Centre County Columbus Celebration when the Columbus Chapel was recognized internationally for the Columbus 500th in 1992. In this photo, he is shown with Museum CEO Christopher Lee in the ballroom of the Boal Mansion for Mrs. Ridge Riley’s 80th birthday in the 1980s. We remember Joe Paterno for his devotion to his community and particularly like this phrase issued by his family yesterday: “His ambitions were far reaching, but he never believed he had to leave this Happy Valley to achieve them.”
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Columbus-Chapel-and-Boal-Mansion-Museum/127547680589308?v=wall&viewas=0
On Sunday mornings, Ridge Riley — who wrote The Football Letter for the Penn State Alumni Association — would come over to talk with Joe about the previous day’s game. He’d also work on the book he was writing, “The Road To Number One,” a book that is also in my office.
http://jaypaterno.blogspot.com/2009/06/penn-state-pride-its-about-people.html
Father: Ridge Riley ’32, Executive Secretary, Penn State Alumni Association, 1947 – 1970; creator and author of The Penn State Football Letter for 38 years; author of Road to Number One: A Personal Chronicle of Penn State Football (Doubleday, 1977); Penn State Trustee, 1971-1976
http://annerileytrustee.com/daughter.html
The Football Letter
The Penn State Alumni Association’s Football Letter is the oldest continually–produced publication of its kind. Since Ridge Riley ’32 originated The Football Letter in 1938, Penn Staters have enjoyed receiving first–hand alum–to–alum accounts of each Nittany Lion football game
http://alumni.psu.edu/publications/the-football-letter
Dec 2011
Drew Astorino for the Ridge Riley award to a senior for sportsmanship, scholarship, leadership and friendship.
http://blogs.mcall.com/nittany_lines/2011/12/lion-players-name-team-mvp.html
Anne Riley BOT
http://www.psu.edu/trustees/members/riley.html
O/T: What a wicked cool name- “Ridge Riley”.
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Interesting history…
Knights of Columbus 50 Year Anniversary in State College
page 9 – mass @ the Columbus Chapel, Boalsburg
page 11 – concessions @ Beaver Stadium
http://www.statecollegeknights.com/kofc/AnnBook.pdf
History
Growth of the Knights of Columbus
On Oct. 2, 1881, a group of men met in the basement of St. Mary’s Church on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven. Called together by their 29-year-old parish priest, Father Michael J. McGivney, these men formed a fraternal society that would one day become the world’s largest Catholic family fraternal service organization.
They sought strength in solidarity, and security through unity of purpose and devotion to a holy cause: they vowed to be defenders of their country, their families and their faith.
These men were bound together by the ideal of Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of the Americas, the one whose hand brought Christianity to the New World. Their efforts came to fruition with the incorporation of the Knights of Columbus on March 29, 1882.
They were Knights of Columbus.
The Order has been called “the strong right arm of the Church,” and has been praised by popes, presidents and other world leaders, for support of the Church, programs of evangelization and Catholic education, civic involvement and aid to those in need.
Year after year, the Knights of Columbus has earned the highest possible quality ratings for financial soundness from outside ratings agencies. The Order provides the highest quality insurance, annuity and long-term care products to its members, along with many other fraternal benefits.
http://www.kofc.org/un/en/about/history/index.html
the UM porn thing reminds me of McQueady report in how things can get buried,in this case an inexperienced female new hire attorney. . Ped resident who came upon the thumb drive reported her findings, filed a report & was interviewed by hospital security guard. She was told clase closed a couple days later. a neophyte attorney, at the U only briefly,, decided there wasnt enough evidence & directed security not to call campus police. the reporting ped resident thought when she was interviewed it was by the real police. she didnt knowhospital security wasnt the police. This came to light Nov 21 (imo due to Sandusky publicity) when the security guard decided to call campus police anyway. that was the gist of the 2/2 article in hard copy not on line.
From my reading yesterday, it is my understanding that in PA the particular offenses eligible for ARD vary with the county. So long as the offense does not require registration as a sex offender. (And, of course after it’s been reduced as low as your friends in the DAs office can possibly reduce it).
Furthermore, that within what the law allows, eligibility is at the discretion of the District Atty. Only first offenses are eligible. Supposedly. With an ARD your plea is NOT considered a guilty plea. (It sounded to me more like what I’d call ‘no contest’).
Anybody want to check with a few Centre County defense attys? Although, I believe Mr. Lee’s record has been expunged. Totally wiped out.
Here’s an interesting/revolting case:
* Beaver County Times Home
* News
* Local News
Registered sex offenders still may work with children
“Wendell Dean is active in the First Reformed Presbyterian Church in Patterson Township.
He’s also a convicted sex offender.
And despite being required to register under Megan’s Law, Dean, a former youth group leader at the church, is not necessarily legally prohibited from working with children.”
link, for all the outrageous detail:
http://www.timesonline.com/news/local_news/registered-sex-offenders-still-may-work-with-children/article_8aae3c0d-1634-5237-8653-74296fcaeaf7.html
Chris Lee + Penn State
The family’s patriarch, David Boal, settled in the area in 1789 and what was his log cabin is now the kitchen of the mansion. Generations of Boals achieved prominence in the region—as well as abroad. Born in Ireland, but the first member of the family to grow up in America, George Boal (1796–1867) was intensely interested in education and in 1855 served as president of the Centre County Agricultural Society, which proposed the founding of an agricultural high school in the county. Four years later the Farmer’s High School opened. The school is now The Pennsylvania State University.
http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/trails_of_history/4287/pennsylvania_military_museum_(ph)/473251
Lee can rattle off names and important dates related to any member of the nine generations of Boals who have lived on his family’s estate.
I
n 1789, David Boal, a Scottish-Irish Revolutionary War captain, settled in Centre County. Boal’s son, David, who owned a tavern, was the original settler of Boalsburg, a picturesque community best known for its claim as the birthplace of Memorial Day.
The younger David Boal’s son, George, was instrumental in the founding of Penn State University and served a term in state House of Representatives. He raised a daughter, Elizabeth, and three sons — David, John and George Jack Boal, a successful lawyer and investor.
George Jack Boal’s son, Theodore Davis Boal, an international traveler who lived on the family’s fortune, gave the family its link to Christopher Columbus in 1894, when he married a French-Spanish aristocrat, Mathilde Denis de Lagarde.
Her great-grandfather was Napoleon Bonaparte’s stepson, Lee said. Her aunt, Victoria, was the widow of Diego Columbus, a direct descendant of the explorer.
When Victoria Columbus died, she willed the interior of the family chapel from the Columbus Castle in Spain to Mathilde Boal. In 1909, the chapel’s contents, as well as the explorer’s papers and other heirlooms, were shipped to Boalsburg, where the couple erected a small structure of Pennsylvania stone to house them in 1912.
Read more: Waiting to be discovered – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/multimedia/s_472364.html#ixzz1lOlEsUJx
OK, so far all we’ve got tying 2 known child sex abusers with other figures involved (professionally–everyone deserves a defense and all that) is this, right?
Joe Amendola represented both Christopher G. Lee and Jerry Sandusky in their sex offenses against minors cases. Mike Madeira, within his legal discretion, gave Lee an ARD. But Madeira will not be handling Sandusky’s case, so that’s only a tie-in to one of these 2 accuseds.
Recalling:
“The Sandusky case won’t be Amendola’s first time defending a client from allegations of child sexual abuse. Christopher G. Lee, a Harris Township supervisor and Boal Mansion CEO, was represented by Amendola after he was charged with three counts of indecent assault on 8-and 10- year-old boys. Lee entered an accelerated rehabilitative disposition program in which he did not enter either a guilty or not-guilty plea.”
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/11/16/130460/sanduskys-lawyer-amendola-is-now.html#storylink=cpy
Jonathan M. Jacobs, in his sporadic comments on ray gricar articles at the centredailytimes.com, was apparently taken to task by some readers for not having mentioned that Jerry Lauro, then an investigator with the Department of Public Welfare, also closed his own Sandusky case.
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/01/3005573/where-the-buck-stopped.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpydiscussed the role of Lauro in the 1998 Sandusky misbehavior. He responded to those readers here:
Where the Buck Stopped
State College – Centre Daily Times
Posted: 12:35pm on Dec 1, 2011
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/01/3005573/where-the-buck-stopped.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy
Snipping a small portion, including JM Jacobs own earlier employment with Public Welfare (albeit in a diff county from Lauro’s):
“The main reason is that Mr. Lauro does not prosecute cases; that is not his job. That decision was Mr. Gricar’s, not Mr. Lauro’s. Any decision of any district attorney is not based on what someone else thinks of the case….
JM Jacobs (a/k/a JJ in Phila posting elsewhere on the internet) continued to say that according to Mr. Lauro, Mr. Gricar made his decision to close his own case before Lauro closed his; that Lauro was NOT told about the PSU/Gricar recording of the victim’s mother’s convo with Sandusky [which, he shouldn't have been]; etc.
Jacobs (JJ in Phila) continued to describe a parallel situation in which he, himself, testified in court wrt a Public Welfare case:
“In my experience, that is standard procedure for the police. I was, after retirement, called in to testify to a case of welfare fraud. The police subpoenaed four or five other people to testify to the same thing I would; the investigators never told me this and I didn’t know this until I went into court. I can easily understand why Mr. Lauro did not know these other details.”
[Jacobs' point seemingly that Lauro was operating with incomplete evidence when he made his own evaluation. Which is the way it's supposed to be done. Independently.]
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/01/3005573/where-the-buck-stopped.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy
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As posted earlier, here’s J.M. Jacobs’ Linked-In bio:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jonathan-m-jacobs-prp-cp/20/696/41b
Where you can see the employment which seems to relate to Jacobs’ court appearance (as well as his PSU education and PSU Alumni Assn membership). On an unrelated note JJ in Phila has said he is “still single” and I can find no relatives other than his father:
Income Maintenance Caseworker
Philadelphia County Assistance Office
September 1992 – January 1998 (5 years 5 months)
Caseworker for the Department of Public Welfare
beejay-
Your post has me wanting to ask that person if they ever met Gricar.
Here is my issue- How does he know Gricar closed his case first if he (Lauro) was unaware of it in the first place? How would he know if it ever went to a GJ?
Whole thing floats around me like a cloud. Anyone count how many cases Gricar tried where arrests were made prior to presentment?
So on an unrelated food for thought, I was studying a case request last evening where a court clerk was actually prosecuted for scheduling cases separately with 3 separate judges in the hopes they would not piece together other activities between the defendants.
It worked.
Again, unrelated, but I am learning that master criminals cover the inside as well.
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Maderia might tie into Sandusky by way of the THREE other GJ investigation.
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Indeed, three other grand juries investigated Sandusky for child sex crimes, trustee Mark Dambly told the times. He said university counsel Cythia Baldwin informed the trustees of that information
“during a quick briefing” in May 2011.
http://pittsburgh.sbnation.com/penn-st-nittany-lions/2012/1/19/2719179/penn-state-scandal-jerry-sandusky-investigation-grand-juries/in/2304122
beejay says:
February 4, 2012 at 10:06 am
As Rose and erose have pointed out, the coverup, deflection, ‘forgiveness’ and lack of action underscores how much more education is needed. Pedophilia is alive and well, leaving victims with a lifetime of emotional and physical issues.
Molestation is illegal as well as immoral. Doing nothing about it should be considered the same.
The tricky part is where there is a lack of clarity about the wrongdoing. If our hinky meters are merely buzzing, that is a sign to be alert and vigilant. We pay attention and stay present. We don’t allow those people near children. Not just our children–all children (and any of the vulnerable population.)
As for the house that Joe-pa built, the myth of his complete innocence would do a lot to keep the recruiting as strong as it has been. The truth is that there are victims of this myth.
From all who knew his power, they report that there was nothing going on that he didn’t know about. I feel he was disingenuous when he claimed he didn’t know the word “rape” could be associated with male victims. Joe Paterno perhaps never chuckled over Big Buster at the local prison making brides of the other, weaker men?
Not even after a few glasses of Old Granddad? (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3718508)
It seems to me that Paterno-pa could function in his carefully controlled world only if he dismissed, passed the buck, “backed away” from all that would take his focus off building an image for Penn State.
So what if he was about football and image? People love football and they love a legend (a myth) because it is a whole lot easier to deal with than the ugly truth of a child’s (many children, multiple times) tiny rectums being penetrated by a the malignant, pernicious threat of a grown man’s erect penis, under the guise of charitable acts.
How much does it take for people to wake up? Joe Paterno was not perfect; none of us are. His halo is a myth. One this one, he dropped the ball. That was a game-changer to tarnish his legend forever, if only his fans have the courage to accept it.
Missed a link to Joe Paterno’s statement he “backed away” in 2002:
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7462065/penn-state-nittany-lions-joe-paterno-says-know-how-handle-jerry-sandusky-abuse-report
@erose: Play with me here? So, um, why would Madeira allow himself to be involved in previous legal situation wrt Sandusky IF the reason for tossing the hot potato in this most recent one is his in-law status?
Wouldn’t the same conflict/potential for a perceived conflict have existed in the past as now? He’s been married to Lisa a long time.
I know, right? Four GJ cases, the last one handed off to the state, meaning three were Centre County. Gricar (1985-2005) and after Gricar, Madeira (2005-2009). Either Madeira handled at least one of them, or Gricar had all three, and then Madeira passed in 2009, before he lost the election.
So, just playing around, say Gricar had one in 1998, then in 2002, and then 2005. Madeira would have inherited that case, right? Didn’t this recent case go 18 months – 2 years? Of course there were a lot of victims, but if we used that time frame times four , it is almost as if there was a GJ investigating Sandusky more than there was not.
Madeira and Marshall, didn’t use witnesses if they didn’t want a prosecution. Who better to have as a DA, then the guy that doesn’t convict. Didn’t Arnold say the GJ didn’t even address all of the issues? Madeira might have passed on to Corbett for other reasons, like they owe the same people, IDK. Four GJ’s rocked me. All JMO.
beejay says:
February 4, 2012 at 5:55 pm
Penn State’s licensing arrangement with its former head coach has ended. All school-related merchandise featuring Paterno’s name, likeness or image must be cleared out within 60 days.
Through the longstanding Penn State/Paterno Licensing Program, Joe Paterno receives a cut of any PSU merchandise that includes his name, likeness and/or image. But his portion goes directly to charity.
In fact, in the letter, the Office of Licensing Programs asked vendors to make their final royalty payments for any Penn State-Paterno mechandise to the Catholic Campus Ministries Fund.
http://pennstate.scout.com/2/1137436.html
@ Blink, speaking of the inside, I’ve wondered if TSM received foster care group home placements in any volume from Allegheney County back in the Baldwin day,
And, I’m not as interested in Amendola representing Lee as in who referred Lee (and Sandusky) to Amendola. Who are Amendola’s upward & outer connections as it were.
Good Question, and agreed.
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