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?

-Record Scratch-

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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  1. Rose says:

    I was looking around for where JKA plays the organ these days. You don’t get a BM from JMU & an MM from
    Cincinnati and sit on your hands. I found this; maybe it’s been here:
    http://voicesweb.org/archive/november05/Page_3.pdf
    running as a Dem in western PA in Bush’s 2nd term election year was suicidal politically. How did she miss that?
    And Madiera, who seems to the right of Santorum & equally vacuous (sorry), ran his campaign out of fundamentalist churches it says. my first college, it was free, has become since a fundamentalist college. But Bob Jones U was anathema there…and everywhere. I have to ask with all his weaknesses, what political king
    makers fielded Madiera as candidate?

  2. Rose says:

    ran again in 2009: http://arnoldforda.org/2.html
    worst written letter to the public announcing her candidacy & qualifications I’ve ever seen.
    no pr help.
    at least she got her pension after waiting a year
    and an organ in a Bellafonte church to play.

  3. erose says:

    This link doesn’t seem to work, but the implications of this blogger may be of interest.

    Monday, November 7, 2011

    Nebraska VS Penn State……Is It Irony Or Disgrace?

    We are speaking of the Penn State child molestations by Coach Sanduski. It seems these things turn up wherever current Penn State chancellor, Graham Spanier works.

    In our years of chasing pedophiles Graham Spaniers name has turned up time and again. When he was the Chancellor at Nebraska University one of his underlings, Ronald Roskens, was fired from NU because he was repeatedly caught with young boys in his home.Victims swore out affidavits to myself and Investigators Gary Caradori and Karen Hughes in 1989. Hughesnet111 and Caracorp did in fact produce 4 surveillance photos that led to Rosken’s termination after they were presented to the N.U. Board Of Regents and the Lincoln Police Department.

    Spanier and Roskens are both “closeted” gay men who are sexually aroused by young boys.They are “classic” pedophiles. Spanier has ties to former Franklin Credit Union President and convicted felon / child molester Larry King as well as a long list of known pedophiles throughout the United States. Several of Spaniers “military friends” were recently charged in an international pedophile scandal at the Department of Defense. Spanier was also a close friend and longtime “associate” of convicted child molester and former Gladiator official, Dr. Daniel Schrien. Yes, Graham Spanier, former Cornhusker hack and current Nittany Lion hack.

    You can taste the wicked irony as the Cornhuskers and Nittany lions meet this weekend. It is very bizarre and former Nebraska Cornhusker official / university Chancellor Graham Spanier is right smack in the middle of it. The whole story drips with disgrace and pure evil. Both universities have alot of blood on their hands when it comes to pedophilia and “conspiracies of denial”.

    Guard your children folks. There is an evil force slithering through youth, college, amateur and pro sports today that can reach out and touch your family anywhere, anytime in any town. Pay attention or the devil will.

    Sincerely,
    Brent Goodwin / US Naval Intelligence / former CIA field officer / homicide detective / and current member of The Hughesnet111 Staff.

    http://eyeonomahahockeyclub.blogspot.com/

  4. erose says:

    State refuses Sandusky defense evidence request

    snip>
    In addition, prosecutors said they don’t have any documents from then-District Attorney Ray Gricar about the 1998 investigation into Sandusky showering with a young boy.

    Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/03/06/3115124/state-refuses-evidence-request.html#storylink=cpy

  5. erose says:

    Not her, lol.

    But you know I spoke to her months ago thinking the same thing. Very nice woman, gets those calls constantly and was more than pleasant.
    B

  6. erose says:

    I was afraid of that, but figured it was worth a try. It was the connection to the senator that made me think it possible.

    Not her, lol.

    But you know I spoke to her months ago thinking the same thing. Very nice woman, gets those calls constantly and was more than pleasant.
    B

  7. Word Girl says:

    I feel sorry for that Arnold woman. What a lame run for DA. It sounds like she has tons of experience and is a lovely person.

    And how arrogant is the guy who fired her?

    Thanks, Rose, et al for the links.

  8. erose says:

    Sandusky will get 580+ pages of GJ testimony 10 days before trial.

    http://www.co.centre.pa.us/media/upload/SANDUSKY%20ORDER%20FOR%20EARLY%20RELEASE%20OF%20GRAND%20JURY%20TESTIMONY%20FROM%20JUDGE%20FEUDALE.pdf

    Mr. Rominger may not tweet it though.
    B

  9. erose says:

    Corbett talks about Paterno firing
    http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/politics&id=8574176

    I want to know about Gricar.
    Coach Paterno admitted himself he should have done more- I respect that admission and so should others.

    B

  10. erose says:

    Judge John Cleland indicated during the hearing that there is precedent for cases being dismissed when the time frames provided by alleged victims is too broad. But prosecutor Joseph E. McGettigan III argued that because many of the alleged victims said they were abused so often over such an extended period of time—and with Sandusky encouraging them to forget what happened—that it’s often difficult to pin down specific dates. Amendola then tried to argue that not providing that information is “unfair to Mr. Sandusky’s right to a fair defense” before making the point again outside the courthouse. McGettigan countered by saying Amendola had the opportunity to cross examine the alleged victims at December’s preliminary hearing, but instead he chose to waive that right and make his case that day in front of the media. Judge Cleland did not make a ruling today.

    http://deadspin.com/5892682/jerry-sanduskys-lawyer-wants-even-more-specifics-from-prosecutors?tag=penn-state-scandal

    And so the cracks in the cement I fear are deepening. I think McGettigan gets this round, however.
    B

  11. erose says:

    You know, Blink, between Rominger, with no real client and Baldwin showing up at the GJ with Schultz and Curley but a rep for Penn State, I have to wonder why they are on the inside track of this case and who they are representing/protecting.

    snip>
    •Amendola said that Harrisburg attorney Karl Rominger, who was to be co-counsel for Sandusky, hasn’t entered a formal appearance in the case, and so isn’t officially Sandusky’s attorney and can’t be included in any confidential conversations. Rominger was recently scolded by the grand jury judge after he tweeted about a secret grand jury meeting. His office has said they have no comment.

    http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/03/jerry_sanduskys_lawyer_asks_fo.html

    I have to guess someone filed a bar complaint against Rominger. If they have not, they should.
    GJ proceedings are sacrisant. He did that for one reason- to get the press down there to see who was coming in and out. The judge brought that up in the hearing specifically for it to be on the record.

    B

  12. erose says:

    So excited Part 2 is out, posting link before I read.
    http://newslanc.com/category/penn-statesanduskycorbett/

  13. erose says:

    Court papers, suicide notes, and FBI transcripts. Oh My.

    snip>
    Since 1980, when the elected AG’s office was first filled, there have been four elected state attorneys general: LeRoy S. Zimmerman (1980 to 1987); Ernie Preate (1988 to his indictment in 1995); Mike Fisher (1997 to December 2003); and Tom Corbett (2005 to 2011).

    Each of these AGs was caught up in partisan elective politics, and a chase for political cash. Each was also mired in severe criminal, ethical or moral scandals of their own. They each, in their own way, have been disasters for Pennsylvania.

    Now, instead of reading about Pennsylvania attorneys general in history texts, the best place to read about them would be in court papers, suicide notes, and FBI transcripts.
    ——————————————-
    Gosh, I have to wonder if the FBI’s hands have been tied with Gricar’s disappearance, as well.

    FBI agents obviously had leaked them. They were unhappy with the political machinations and cover-ups in both of these cases. By leaking the documents, these investigators were sending a message to the public: Look, there’s more to these cases than these political prosecutors are telling you. Look, the prosecutors themselves are involved in crimes. Look, we in the FBI can’t do anything about it.

    http://newslanc.com/six-decades-part-two.html

  14. erose says:

    Kiesling alledges just as we suspected.

    more snips same link>
    Jerry Sandusky would not be seriously investigated by the state attorney general’s office for alleged pedophile activities because, in this mentality, even a hint of an investigation would ruin Sandusky, sink the Second Mile gravy train, and likely as not destroy the Penn State athletic department in the bargain. And the resulting blow-up would damage the attorney general’s chances of being elected governor, and collecting contributions.

    The reputations of these insiders, and their associates, become more important than any law, or crime they may have committed, no matter how heinous.

    As well, underlings in the justice system naturally fear their careers will be destroyed if they dare investigate their higher-ups and patrons. You don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
    So they aren’t investigated. In recent state history, this category of uninvestigated offenders includes state judges, and a supporting cast of go-alongs who’ve committed terrible crimes against children.

    Their untested integrity and reputations are more important than laws, reporting rules, children, or any one child.

    In other words, when the top dog in a prosecutor’s office doesn’t want to actively pursue a case, the investigators working for him damn well know it. The investigation, for all intents and purposes, stops.

    In the case of Jerry Sandusky, Penn State, and the Second Mile, investigators knew AG Tom Corbett was impeding an investigation. So the investigation stopped. Later, Gov. Corbett would falsely and desperately blame the investigators, the grand jury(s), and Coach Joe Paterno.

    Let me restate this: organized crime figures, aka the Mafia, were now controlling the elected office of Pennsylvania Attorney General. They controlled it at least for several years. Perhaps they’re still controlling it.

    Further, and perhaps just as important when we consider the mysteries of the long-running Sandusky grand jury(s), the Crime Commission explained that AG Preate had easily manipulated his staff in the AG’s office and the grand jury process to those same ends:

    The Crime Commission report sheds more light on the attorney general’s ability to manipulate, stall or otherwise terminate a statewide grand jury.

    As for AG Corbett’s phony 2009-to-2011 Sandusky grand jury investigation(s): lots of people in the office knew what was, and what wasn’t going on, and why. It was hardly a state secret in the AG’s office that Tom Corbett was protecting alleged pedophile Jerry Sandusky.

    And so Tom Corbett would protect Jerry Sandusky, and his Second Mile Charity.

    Then Gov. Tom Corbett would be forced to protect himself.

    Left unprotected would be an unknown number of victimized children.

    It would always be a matter of priorities.

  15. Rose says:

    hopefully the feds are giving J Cleland enough rope to….
    these victims’ justice will be up to the DOH (feds) depending on which political party leads the Exec Branch come Jan 2013. I do not think Jerry has anything to worry about in PA State Court

  16. lizzy says:

    Sigh. But rural PA is such a pretty place. Sigh.

    That it is lizzy.
    B

  17. Rose says:

    thats DOJ
    aargh

  18. erose says:

    Question Corbett’s role in PSU scandal

    snip>

    Something is rotten to the core about how this whole affair has been investigated. It’s time for the Feds to take the lead role in uncovering the whole truth, and that includes possibly looking into the attorney general’s investigation.

    It’s clear the board of trustees cannot be counted upon to conduct an unbiased investigation, nor can the local police, and, sadly, even the attorney general’s office. And nothing emanating from the governor’s office on this issue can be taken at face value.

    http://www.phillytrib.com/commentaryarticles/item/1683-question-corbett%C3%A2s-role-in-psu-scandal.html

  19. erose says:

    “Penn State would rather go private than be transparent,” said Eric Epstein, co-founder of Rock the Capitol, a government watchdog. “That’s the bottom line. You have a culture that operates in the dark and is allergic to sunlight.”

    Epstein has long lobbied for open-records laws, and said his biggest opponent in higher education was Spanier.

    http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/03/penn_state_explores_going_priv.html

    I find this to be an easy one. Federal and State asisstance and grants to an institution make them subject to FOIA laws of the state, period. Those transactions occur within the functioning government activities which are subject to them.
    B

  20. erose says:

    Freeh’s report seems supercilious, as expected, if this teaser is an indication of what we can expect. I thought it was suppose to be an investigation not a recommendation. These subtle evolutions are how they get away with things. Funny he didn’t recommend it be called the Sandusky Scandal instead of the Penn State Scandal, FCOL.
    ————————————————
    Rodney Erickson, who replaced Spanier, is also expected to give an update at Friday’s meeting on the progress in implementing preliminary recommendations by former FBI Director Louis Freeh. He is heading the trustees’ internal investigation into the Sandusky case and related issues.

    Freeh’s recommendations included strengthening policies for programs involving minors; and the prompt reporting of incidents of alleged abuse or sexual misconduct.

    Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/03/16/3128405/penn-st-trustees-could-weigh-board.html#storylink=cpy

  21. erose says:

    Cynthia Baldwin, Penn State’s general counsel, issued a statement confirming that state prosecutors have served subpoenas on “a number of other university employees.”

    Ms. Baldwin, in a statement posted today on the Penn State’s website, said that it would be up to the employees and their lawyers to say who received them.

    Ms. Baldwin didn’t say what the attorney general’s office was investigating, or how many subpoenas were issued.

    http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/state/penn-state-trustees-eye-changes-to-board-structure-390362/

  22. Rose says:

    TY erose for the Freeh recommendations url.
    I looked at the first & only comment, ending in “They stand for nothing”
    I wanted to say Oh no Freeh at least stands for Opus Dei.
    I looked at commenters Freeh link…a new report!

    http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/16/10710422-ex-us-officials-investigated-over-speeches-to-iranian-dissident-group-on-terror-list

    Read this! Of interest to me is someone on the investigatory team at Treasury (civil servant Republican?) gave Freeh a high sign of the nature of investigation and the targets, who
    Freeh immediately began calling to warn!!! He & Mukasy have launched a leadership war on behalf of investigation subjects.

    The legal question will be do huge amounts of fees for service, in the millions, going to these men from 3rd party supporters of removing MEK as a terrorist org, violate the law if it’s not the org itself making direct payments? Didnt Nixon have a lobbying group called CREEP? Freeh was born too late; he’d be a great CREEP in Chief, and probably is a CEP for a fellow Opus Dei member who could make this all go away if appointing the Treasury Secr next year. Watch for huge quantities of $ start to flow to that candidate from these guys and the purchasers of their services to MEK.

    Anyway, you can’t believe with a terrorist org to stick up for, and save himself & many others from felony charges, Freeh’s gonna be the one actually writing those recommendations? A newly minted MBA would do.

    I wonder if PSU’s Board Chair, a banker, will be tapped by Freeh for CEP political donations if the report reads right?

  23. Rose says:

    http://www.northstarwriters.com/2012/01/27/fantastic-obama-would-like-to-replicate-detroit’s-foibles-elsewhere/
    The comment following the article above tells me why the Washington Times, owned by Moon, got the scoop & published first on Freeh & associates’ subpoenas. A recipient of subpoenas, PA Speakers Access owner Lourdes Swats, is apparently a Moon adherent ( as is the author of the url’d piece)

  24. erose says:

    I guess I can quit waiting for them to get upset over the child molestations. Maybe they are on some level, but it is never the first thing out of their mouths, ever (and I realize these loud mouths don’t represent the entire community.) When we rank the injustices that came out of the PENN STATE Scandal, first and foremost should be the victims, then the school, then the football program, but that is JMO.
    ———————————
    The dissidents say they are upset over the abrupt firing of Paterno and, more broadly, how the university is run.

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-crime-pennstatebre82f1dk-20120316,0,305860.story

  25. erose says:

    On a re-read of JKA’s site re:Gricar. Could it be this simple? Was Gricar refusing an ARD for someone? And since an ARD is expunged, how will we ever find out?

    snips>

    Significant changes occurred at the office fairly quickly following Ray’s disappearance in terms of previously-established policies and guidelines for case dispositions, as well as what was or was not appropriate for ARD disposition.

    Ray was also firm about what was/was not appropriate for ARD disposition because completion of the program eliminates all record that the offense ever occurred.

    http://sites.google.com/site/gricardisappearance/gricardisappearance

  26. erose says:

    Continuing my reread, and if my assumption is true that a victim came to the court either on their own accord through LE, or through CYS, then this victim would have initially gone to the second advocate prior to the DA filing charges, but once charges were brought, he victim would have been turned over to Ray’s signif-other, PF. There has been speculations as to why she would “move down” the ladder. What if a high profile person (Sandusky, Lee, et al.) was accused of a sex crime? Someone like PF would be one of the first people in the county to know. She might also know how Ray planned proceed. Do we know if Sandusky was ever given an ARD? How much risk is involved in being a VA? Enough to have them change jobs?

    snip>
    Ray’s paramour was hired to fill the position of Victim Advocate in the DA Office. The position entailed services to victims from the time formal criminal charges were filed against an offender throughout the pendency of all appeals in the case. She remained in the position until sometime in late January of 2005. The position carried with it a private office, equipment and a personal secretary/assistant who shared the office. The Office at the time had a second and separate victim advocate who had contact with victims following a criminal incident occurring but prior to filing of charges and who served as an advocate in juvenile cases.

    Around the end of January, 2005, Ray announced to the staff that she was leaving the position to take a clerical position which had been vacated at the end of the previous year by another employee. Staff were asked by Ray to make suggestions for persons who might be interested in the Victim Advocate position so that it could be quickly filled without a backlog of work occurring. The position remained vacant for 3-4 weeks and was ultimately filled by a neighbor of Ray’s who had a domestic violence counseling background.

  27. erose says:

    I missed this the first time reading, wow, the book was turned to the pages about how to get rid of a 18+ year ADA aka JKA, not how to replace a dead DA.

    snip>
    The foregoing is the objective portion of what I can recall about the Gricar situation from the week that he disappeared until 9 AM on January 3, 2006, when I was called into Mr. Smith’s office by DA Madeira, to be told that I was being discharged. The provision relied upon was part of the same chapter of County Code as that providing replacement procedures for a missing DA.

    Yep. You recall I opined that book appeared via Madeira?
    B

  28. erose says:

    This statement compares to a technique that could be used in Kyron’s case as well. Give the family some “inside info” that the public cannot vett, that the family might want to hold on to, and the public out cry diminishes, based on respect for the family. Wow.

    snip>
    I am not offering criticism or condemnation, as I have no idea what the thought processes were which have led to family decision-making. But I believe that at the least it is fair to observe that it has had the unintended effect of tamping down what might otherwise be stronger public challenge by ordinary Centre Countians, those who did not necessarily know Ray but know at a visceral level that something is seriously amiss in how his disappearance has been handled, who are understandably hesitant to step up to openly challenge it when those more intimately impacted have not done so.

    http://sites.google.com/site/gricardisappearance/partii:somecorequestions

  29. Rose says:

    TY erose for your analysis. It is amazing in the internet age what a west coast mind can bring to east coast victims.

    I gather JKA tied & highlighted use of the two code provisions as a significant high sign she believes replacing Ray (ergo his disappearance) and terminating her were part not only of the same Code but of the same premeditated plan. While we know know Madeira can crack a (Code) book, the complex (criminal enterprise) plan is more likely his mentors’. This complex plan, perhaps tied to criminal activities, cries out for high level DOJ investigators

    So maybe these days Pennsylvania political and financial associates’ activities can be unraveled through terrorism defense of our USA. In the old days it would have been financial laws alone, but terrorism makes a nice touch. The question remains how does the Second Mile & Penn State cover up
    of possible charges against Jerry relate to the political/financial interests behind the DA’s Office?

    I think PF was moved becauses ADAs prosecuting criminal cases (you said she picked up when charges were filed) reported to him she was completely incompetent. To me a Vic Advo in the trial prep stage needs both domestic violence counseling experience and legal experience as a prosecutor to prepare victim for what’s ahead, ie on witness stand. PF had neither.

  30. erose says:

    snip>
    “The position remained vacant for 3-4 weeks and was ultimately filled by a neighbor of Ray’s who had a domestic violence counseling background.” – JKA

    Victim Advocate:
    Faith E. Burger

    http://www.co.centre.pa.us/da/vic-wit.asp

    Faith E Burger aka Summers aka Cribbs?
    http://www.veromi.com/Search.aspx?sType=name&db=&fn=faith&mn=e&ln=burger&city=&state=PA&dobmm=&dobdd=&doby=

    Is this Ray’s neighbor? Does she live close enough to see him coming and going? Would she know the Centre County vic’s who’s perps were given ARD’s since Feb. 2005 or would that fall on Nolan?

    Early Outreach Victim Advocate:

    Sherry Nolan

    http://www.co.centre.pa.us/da/vic-wit.asp

  31. erose says:

    I agree, Madeira’s mentors got two birds with one stone.

    I have no answers, but really good questions. My guess is there must be a pedophile somewhere in the mix.

    PF was not qualified for the task, but RG did choose her for both the job and as his signif-other, making me ask why in Jan. 2005 did things change?

    Rose says:
    March 17, 2012 at 9:55 am

  32. Rose says:

    Jan 2005 has to be due to complaints from her coworkers (attorneys) that her case behaviors with vics (or lack thereof) were jeopardizing successful prosecutions that he agreed with. Otherwise I don’t think he’d eat crow in front of colleagues especially near retirement as the DA who put his mistress in the job & had to take away her duties, or risk angering her. Unless he learned she was a stoolie to bad guys and wanted to string that out, but he bought her the mini.

    Personally, I think Madiera’s change agent was in a drug scheme, not pedophilia. Then it’s a 3-fer, Madiera distracted from narc prosecutions & more hesitant to bring weak cases in an election

    I am stuck on his early casework and how he ended up replacing SMith in the first place.
    B

  33. A Texas Grandfather says:

    erose

    Your link about the exploration of Penn. State going private like Cornell made me do some research on the orgins of Cornell and its present day status.

    There were some trade-offs in the New York legislature to get Cornell some of the status and considerations of a land grant college. The two guys pushing the deal were in the legislature and were the founders of the school.

    If I am correct, Penn. State operates mostly on private donations and little state monies. This is the way that Cornell has operated most of its existance. I am not suprised that the BOT and leading adminstrators have contacted Cornell for some specific information.

    They are looking for anything that will remove them from the realm of having to comply with an FOIA requirement.

  34. erose says:

    The Chicago-based host asked Santorum to compare his criticism of President Obama for “favoring pornographers over children” for allegedly not targeting child pornography with his lack of criticism of Penn State icon Joe Paterno in that school’s child sex abuse scandal or the Catholic church’s child sex abuse scandal.

    Santorum, a Penn State alum and a Catholic, said he found the questions “insulting.”

    http://www.suntimes.com/news/11385694-418/dumont-santorum-spar-over-child-porn-penn-state-catholic-church.html

    Frankly, that was a brilliant question and a missed opportunity.
    B

  35. Rose says:

    A fine research project, to cross ref his major donors, including mostly thru 3rd part pacs, and thru Corps they control, with major PS donors connected to TSM. Best way to make investigations go away is thru elections atState & Fed level.

  36. Rose says:

    Should have had JKA at his elbow & prosecuting these rape cases: http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2009/02/02/district_attorney_to_run_despi.aspx

    1st Asst DA Mark Smith, still with Office so MM didn’t dump his actual predecessor)  serves for 8 months post Gricar:
    http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/former_centre_county_da_ray_g.html?mobRedir=false

    learning more about the early casework. and the transition of the Office from Smith’s coverage.
    Verbal Lee State case, link below.  Centre Cty task force investigates, turns it over to State AG who conducts a grand jury. Charges announced 3/31/05. Gricar poofs 2 weeks later. MM was State prosecutor.  My question is how did MM move Verbal Lee’s prosecution forward during the 8 months he campaigned for Gricar’s job?   
    Apparently Gricar had Lee in jail in CentreCty on local drug charges at the time State charges were filed!  What happened to the local charges when MM took over? 
    http://www.yardbird.com/midnight_ride_another_missing_PA_prosecutor_1.htm

    is Lee’s the local drug case Gricar was to appear at 930 am the following Monday? http://www.forumforfree.com/forums/a/district-attorney-ray-f-gricarpa_post147-assistall.html?mforum=assistall

    oh, Blink, what a tangled web! Immediately after his election as DA, just before leaving the State job, MM takes 4 negligible  pleas in this governor corbett -announced (3/31/05) biggest drug case ever!  And a defense attornet is Stacey M MM’s DA successor. 
    Examine MM’s donors in the 2005 campaign please. And hers. 
    http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/335777/four_plead_guilty_to_aiding_drug_distribution/

    So who made the preexisting local case on Lee (jailed awaiting trial in Jan 2005) go away? 

    bio mark smith http://www.co.centre.pa.us/da/profiles.asp
    former Grine clerk.  
    Grine was the DA who hired Gricar. 
    Smith was promoted by Gricar when elected after his first year on the job.  they’d been working together as assts. 

  37. Rose says:

    I don’t understand .  I thought there were concurrent Lee cases: a local one in Centre Cty resulting in jailing in Jan 2005 there and a State one managed by MM who plead out four codedendants in Dec 2005 who later testified against VL in 2006.  What happened to Gricar’s local case if 
    any?

    Lee & State offers (he says State offered him plea he rejected): 
    http://www.ethicsinpolicing.com/article.asp?

    Lee, serving 30-60 years, has appeal denied
    http://www.statecollege.com/mobile/news/local-news/taji-lees-appeal-denied-85259/

    http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2008/12/29/lees_appeal_denied.aspx

    I missed this first time: Whatever happened to grand jury’s recommendation of a homicide charge? went poof? looks good to make frim the press if could prove VL was his supplier.  Homicide would’ve been the more secure sentencing vehicle. 
    http://www.yardbird.com/midnight_ride_another_missing_PA_prosecutor_1.htm

  38. Rose says:

    WOW
    Gricar’s criticisms (rising to level of MM obstructing investigation?) made public:
    http://saraganim.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/da-alleges-wrongdoing-in-pa-missing-prosecutor-case.pdf

    no doubt been here with beejay or erose but this centre county socio-political mob is so complex in its reach and effects ranging from pedophilia to drugs (and probably intermingled in a criminal enterprise buying off all sorts) that I can’t follow in web-bites part-time.

  39. erose says:

    @ Rose, JJinPhila says this about that -

    One author (please don’t link to him) referred to drug cases and tried to connect the two together.4 At the time Mr. Luna disappeared, he was prosecuting one. However, Mr. Gricar was not prosecuting one; the major case, of Taj “Verbal” Lee, was being handled by the State Attorney General’s Office. Mr. Madeira, the outgoing District Attorney, was the Deputy State Attorney General that was prosecuting the case; while his political career might have vanished (but not inexplicably), he has not.

    Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2009/12/06/2396337/the-other-prosecutor-part-2-parallels.html#storylink=cpy

  40. erose says:

    Always the bridesmaid…

    Mark Smith

    Mark S. Smith, Esquire serves as the First Assistant District Attorney in the Centre County District Attorney’s Office. The First Assistant District Attorney is second in command and acts as the District Attorney in her absence. As supervisor of the legal staff, he oversees the daily operation of the District Attorney’s Office, including policy and personnel matters, case assignments, and budget administration.

    Attorney Smith also maintains a full caseload of misdemeanor and felony level criminal cases that he prosecutes personally. He is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeals, the United States District Court, and all state courts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In addition, he coordinates the interstate movement of fugitives and prisoners pursuant to the Interstate Agreement on Detainers and the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act. As a part of his administrative duties, Attorney Smith prepares and executes the office’s $1.5 million budget, and is the Project Director of the STOP Violence Against Women Grant, the Rights and Services Act Grant, and the Victims of Juvenile Offenders Grant.

    Attorney Smith grew up in Indiana, Pennsylvania and obtained his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He earned a Juris Doctor Degree from Claude W. Pettit College of Law at Ohio Northern University in 1983. While in law school, he was temporarily certified by the Ohio Supreme Court to practice law and served as an assistant district attorney in the Hardin County Prosecutor’s Office. Following graduation, Attorney Smith served as law clerk to the Honorable David E. Grine of the Centre County Court of Common Pleas.

    Attorney Smith joined the District Attorney’s Office in 1985 as an assistant district attorney under District Attorney Robert Mix. In 1986, he was appointed First Assistant District Attorney by newly elected District Attorney Ray Gricar. Attorney Smith remained as Gricar’s First Assistant until Gricar’s disappearance in April 2005 when he was sworn in as Acting District Attorney. He has served as First Assistant District Attorney to District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller since 2010.

    http://www.co.centre.pa.us/da/profiles.asp

    Not running against your opponents is one way to look at job security, lol
    B

  41. erose says:

    Well, I guess he got to the altar for a short time.

    First Assistant District Attorney Mark Smith, who is still with that office, took over Gricar’s position for eight months following the disappearance until an election was held. Smith said he doesn’t recall anything being brought to his attention about allegations against Sandusky.

    http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/former_centre_county_da_ray_g.html

  42. erose says:

    I guess Smith never wanted to be the bride…

    Mr. Smith, who chose not to run for District Attorney, could not even talk to his likely successor, because there was no likely successor. On 4/19/05, there were three strong candidates that could have been the next District Attorney, Karen Arnold, Robert Bascom, and the eventual winner, Mr. Madeira. About a month after that, Mr. Bascom was eliminated. It would not have been possible until after the November election that Mr. Smith to coordinate activities with his actual successor.

    Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2010/07/26/2397477/mark-smith-and-the-gricar-disappearance.html#storylink=cpy

  43. erose says:

    It seems as though in 2005, murder was considered. Who and what got things off track?

    WTHeck, this story was modified almost 3 yrs later.

    Corbett says hope fading for Gricar

    By Mike Joseph

    Posted: 12:00am on May 13, 2005; Modified: 9:10am on Feb 26, 2008

    STATE COLLEGE — State Attorney General Tom Corbett said Thursday he has concluded that, because Ray Gricar’s keys have not been recovered, the missing Centre County district attorney intended to return to his car.

    Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2005/05/13/3777/corbett-says-hope-fading-for-gricar.html#storylink=cpy

    He’d like to see a bigger focus on the possibility that his uncle was killed, especially since the discovery on July 30 of Ray Gricar’s missing laptop in the Susquehanna River.

    “Law enforcement is still saying that nothing supports foul play, but I don’t know what that means,” Tony Gricar said. “I think (homicide) definitely needs to be looked at.”

    Zaccagni said that as time goes on, homicide becomes a more viable explanation for Ray Gricar’s disappearance, especially because of how and where the laptop was found.

    Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2005/09/04/3794/gricar-family-seeking-answers.html#storylink=cpy

  44. erose says:

    A state representative has sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice asking it to look into Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar’s disappearance and the slaying of Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Luna, found stabbed to death outside of Lancaster in 2003.

    State Rep. Mark Cohen, D-Philadelphia, sent the five-page letter to Inspector General Glenn A. Fine, whose office is handling the investigation into Luna’s December 2003 death, on Dec. 2. The letter requests that Fine and his office look into cases each man had prosecuted.

    Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2005/12/08/3797/lawmaker-wants-closer-gricar-probe.html#storylink=cpy

  45. erose says:

    This was dismissed early on, but maybe this man’s suicide was Zimmerman assisted.

    The suicide of a man whom Gricar recently prosecuted is not thought to be related to the district attorney’s disappearance, Dixon said Monday. The man was found dead in his vehicle April 17, according to troopers who investigated the death.

    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1391340/posts

  46. erose says:

    And what of the fresh flowers that were found in an orange-juice container near the riverbank where his car was found – a detail so strange that it reminds some locals of the 1967 suicide-mystery “Ode to Billy Joe.”

    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1402467/posts

  47. erose says:

    How does anyone know that RG took his laptop with him? This bugs me because following the story, PF was already at work so how would she know if he took the laptop? No one who claims to have seen RG that day says he had a laptop, so how would they know? LE found his car with no laptop. How can Zaccagni make this statement? I would understand if he said the laptop was missing and it is presumed RG took it with him, or something to that effect.

    snip>
    It was Gricar’s laptop, which he’d taken with him the day he disappeared, something he almost never did.

    http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/12756052/ns/today/t/missing-district-attorney/

    I hope the case was recovered, but I am with you, if they are sure he had it, there has to be a confirmation. Would not surprise me at all that is an assumption.
    B

  48. erose says:

    P.S. Especially when it is added that taking the laptop with him is something he almost never did.

  49. erose says:

    Centre County District Attorney Michael Madeira has repeatedly said that the only way the state could take over the investigation is if a grand jury became necessary, or if Madeira could argue he does not have the resources to investigate the disappearance. Neither is the case, Madeira has said.

    Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2006/05/13/3802/missed-leads.html#storylink=cpy

    Well he certainly does know his “when a DA goes missing” protocols, doesn’t he?
    B

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