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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Well, dla is certainly the world-wide gaming go to:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&q=dla+piper+gaming&oq=dla+piper+gaming&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.12…4785l7766l0l9100l7l7l0l0l0l0l146l853l0j7l7l0.frgbld.&mvs=0
so PA hiring isn’t political imo but expertise.
so disappointed in global co-.
@beejay. no conspiracy theorist I, but no more on this topic (your dla bone I’ve been worrying) as the water’s clearly too hot. because now I wonder if gaming (gambling) hasn’t been the new Ollie North/Contra style of funding for god knows what govt agencies/operations in the last Admin, because:
hot diggety, Phil Perry went to DLA (the legal global gaming advisors stretching from London to Hong Kong, not to mention PA)
http://www.yatedo.fr/p/Philip+Perry/famous/f68e1d74f60e68447cb23b070e367df8
Phil, the husband of Liz Cheney, went under Bush from GC @ OMB to GC @ Homeland Security/Ridge.
Then after Obama elected, to DLA. Liz and DLA Global Co- wife were good friends & elder daughters best friends in nursery/el ed.
PS Chertoff was at same private as dla co chair, Perry/Cheney.
wouldn’t be surprised if it wasnt his private security business that hired Spanier (look up Chertoff group)
Ray Gricar mystery: DA’s privacy adds to intrigue surrounding his disappearance
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/04/ray_gricar_mystery.html
I don’t know where to begin either, but “hearing” Blink “say” it is unsettling. First, the reason for the background check was news to me and that was way back in ’86. Second, have we just been given another tin hat theory for busy work??? because this information could take me in a completely different direction than Sandusky. (WTH, I’m going to cringe and hit submit.) Somebody set me straight.
Anyway, I just had to find out what became of Victor. IDK if the name Victor Nikityuk is the Ukraine equivalent to John Smith, but this could be him.
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On 20 October [2010] political dialogue meeting on OSCE issues between Ukraine and the EU took place in Brussels. During the meeting the preparation to the OSCE Astana Summit, priorities of Ukraine and the EU at the highest level event as well as cooperation with the OSCE institutions were discussed. The delegation of Ukraine was headed by Ambassador at Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Victor Nikityuk. Both sides acknowledged similarity in the approaches of Ukraine and the EU in course of preparation to the OSCE Astana Summit. During the meeting the delegation of Ukraine confirmed Ukraine
link
http://www.mfa.gov.ua/vienna/en/publication/content/48377.htm
self correction
I clicked a google link saying dla & I thought up came Perry. . But, he’s NOT with that firm.
A different PP.
Anyway, I thought this formerly sleepy local firm, now the PA gambling legal advisor, was uncanny for growth.
Now I think global firms & investors (London etc) actually chose them, maybe to open US states as new gambling markets.
Did anyone see anything new in today’s Ganim article?
This is just the oddest comment. That Sporadic Gricar columnist at CDT joined the Justice Quest forum in Feb, 2012. He was posting in the wee hours this morning there, responding to a poster who referenced Ganim’s article of today.
As we recall, from his history of posts elsewhere re Luna, he became quiet on another forum after the details were finally released about the condition of Luna’s body, indicating wounds unlikely to be self-inflicted. Or, is that just me? Lol
So, today, on this new forum (where he’s making sure posters know who he is wrt his CDT column), he said, in part:
“I think Luna might have been staging an attack and just cut too deeply.
I don’t think he set out to kill himself that night.”
I’m waiting to see if he addresses the subsequent poster who brought up the wounds inconsistent with a self-staged attack. Maybe I can learn something.
http://www.justicequest.net/forums/showthread.php?p=1425606
I am not buying self- scrotal mutilation whatsoever.
I am also not understanding where he is posting phone references and then odds based on the smidge of info that is available, but he certainly knows the case well.
B
Special Attorney – Cross Designated
Special Assistant United States Attorney (SAUSA) designation comes from the Attorney General. Does anyone know if this means state (Zimmerman)or federal (Edwin Meese) AG?
page 27
http://deadspin.com/5890077/what-is-the-cia-hiding-about-the-missing-da-who-didnt-prosecute-jerry-sandusky-in-1998-probably-nothing?tag=jerry-sandusky-child-abuse
page 9
http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/gvp_cross_designation_monograph_2003.pdf
Quick SAUSA study.
http://www.temple.edu/law/tlawrev/content/issues/82.3/82.3_Killion.pdf
@Rose
Madeira works at a home improvement store. (lol)
This is a 1986 Report to Congress on Public Integrity
Use search word Pennsylvania inside of document to see examples of the corruption. RG would not have prosecuted these as a special agent, to my thinking, but this was the landscape in PA when he applied.
Does anyone else find it interesting that it was in 1985 when Robert Mix chose not to run for re-election and Gricar became Centre County DA. By 1986 he was applying for SAUSA. IDK, maybe all county DA’s in PA were cleared for the position “just in case.”
Grine brought Gricar in (early ’80′s) and in 1981-1989 Zimmerman was state AG.
One of MANY examples reported:
(btw, didn’t Yardbird have a different spin on this information?)
pg.42
Pennsylvania, M.D. – The elected Treasurer of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State Chairman of
the Republican Committee for the Commonwealth were convicted
in the culmination of a two-year investigation known
as the “CTA” case which has resulted in the conviction of
seven individuals including two corporation executives, the
corporation’s counsel, •the Dauphin County Republican
Chairman, and the State Director of Social Security for
public employees in Pennsylvania. The recent convictions
of the State Treasurer and the State Chairman arise out of
their agreement to accept a $300,000 bribe from the corporation
in order to influence the awarding of a contract to
recover $40 million in payments to the Social Security
Trust Fund. Unfortunately, the Treasurer of Pennsylvania
committed suicide the day before his scheduled sentencing.
http://www.justice.gov/criminal/pin/docs/arpt-1986.pdf
I am reading you guys’ posts, but did I miss something? erose: I get the drift of the SAUSA study, but are you looking at someone in particular who was–or applied to become–a SAUSA?
@erose: I know about the SAUSA app by Gricar that Deadspin got the response on to their FOIA. I just thought you were looking at someone else?? If not, that’d be good to know, too! TY
Yes, Gricar. My prior comment is in moderation.
beejay says:
April 15, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Blink: the scrotum wounds to Luna are apparently just a “rumor”, based on someone who is very familiar with the case. I’ll stop now.
“The scrotum cut was a false rumor. He had no defensive woulds and some of the stab wounds were described as “pin pricks.”"
link:
http://www.justicequest.net/forums/showthread.php?p=1425606
On an unrelated note, I’ve been thinking about all the problems that come up with confidential informants. I’ve read a lot about Madeira’s use of them on PSU campus to net drug distributors. I’ve read that in Luna’s case the FBI had problems with their CIs. Now I’ve read (a rumor) that there was a CI in the extended family situation of Jordan Brown–not at the federal level, but locally and rumored at the state AG level.
In part, it would explain both the business and personal vested interest of someone involved in a case. Sometimes “business” just doesn’t adequately account for all of the activities of a person. Just thoughts.
I don’t want to bring rumors over here–and I’m pretty sure Blink doesn’t want it either! However, if anyone wants to read about the politicization of the Jordan Brown case, complete with local rumors, it’s available. Google: jordan brown case Corbett. Or, Blink allowing, go to this link for a starter:
http://justice4juveniles.com/index.php?topic=521.0
While we’re waiting for Blink to spill the beans (!) here’s a starting place on one question:
In addition to testifying to Grand Jury, I can confirm Tom Bradley & Fran Ganter
have met w/ investigators about Sandusky. 11:37 AM Nov 16th, 2011 via …
scribe.twitter.com/SPORTSbyBROOKS/status/136890658106507264
_____________
@erose: TY
Penn State president Rodney Erickson subpoenaed by grand jury
April 16, 2012 3:12 pm
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/state/penn-state-president-subpoenaed-by-grand-jury-631662/
No more guessing, she got one!
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/170392/sara-ganim-24-wins-pulitzer-for-coverage-of-penn-state-sex-abuse-scandal/
celebration!
well deserved
Is it possible that Luna, working as an assistant federal prosecutor and Gricar, working as a SAUSA (essentially the same position) were working on the same case, or at least the same people? And is it possible that Sassano’s drug investigation that lead him to Sandusky is part of the same organization?
snip (old article)>
Luna had mysteriously vanished from his desk in the federal courthouse in Baltimore, Maryland, the night before. AUSA Luna had been working late on a troubled plea agreement involving violent, inter-state drug trafficking.
Some sixteen months later, on April 17, 2005, Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar vanished without a trace under equally mysterious circumstances outside of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Shortly before his death, DA Gricar had announced the biggest inter-state drug investigation in the history of his county.
http://www.yardbird.com/midnight_ride_mark_cohen_letter_12505.htm
Game Over is being released today. Which one of us is doing the book report?
If I’ve got this right, and I just reread it at the link I’ll give at the end:
Bill Keisling had sent a FOIA to Lancaster County District Attorney asking to review public autopsy records and forensic reports on Luna’s death. Keisling later said that his request was denied, purportedly because of an open federal grand jury investigation. So, new to me is this, from the link:
“Last year, City Paper unearthed court documents from 2002 in which Luna labelled politically connected Baltimore bailbondsman Milton Tillman a “violent drug dealer,” though Tillman’s criminal record includes no such convictions.”
http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2009/05/federal-grand-jury-investigating-death-of-jonathan-luna/
(the author also gives a link, at the end, to the complete response letter Luna got.)
So, Milton Tillman??? And, I don’t dare say it. But, didn’t some federal agency try several times to have Luna’s death ruled a suicide, when the coroner has, to this day, stuck to the position that it was a homicide? I’m not sure what all levels of govt we need to be looking at.
If anybody sees where Keisling is updating the status of that federal judicial review/committee he got someone to initiate, please post for us.
Keisling got Arlan Specter to look into Luna’s death, right? There was a 2006 judicial oversight review done by Specter. The report mentioned the FBI’s own investigation into its staff’s behavior wrt Luna. But it’s just part of a larger part of the larger review. (Word-search the doc for Luna. If I can get it to link. It’s a cached pdf). I hope that Specter has since then asked questions more specific about Luna’s death and its investigation. Here’s part of the letter to Specter from James H. Clinger, Acting Assistant Attorney General (that’s federal level, for newbies). The entire document with the enclosures Clinger sent to Specter is in the report.
“The Honorable Arlen Specter
Chairman
Committee on the Judiciary
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Mr. Chairman:
Enclosed please find responses to questions posed to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller 111, following Director Mueller’s appearance before the Committee on May 2,2006. The subject of the Committee’s hearing was “Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” The FBI submitted these responses for clearance on July 10,2006. We hope this information is helpful to the Committee….”
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&gbv=2&gs_l=hp.12…3440l31375l0l33882l72l48l6l26l0l13l149l1211l15j1l16l0.&q=cache:57smZalPMvYJ:http://www.ala.org/advocacy/files/advleg/federallegislation/theusapatriotact/Muellerresponses050206.pdf+U.S.+Sen.+Arlen+Specter+Jonathan+Luna&ct=clnk
OK, there’s hope that Keisling got Patrick Leahy (who is now Chairman of The Senate Judiciary Committee) to continue whatever work Specter was doing wrt Luna’s death/investigation into it. Leahy was copied on that cover letter from Clinger to Specter (cited in my earlier post). One can hope. Both are democrats, as is Keisling. I just have some reservations about Specter. Hope Keisling has eggs in other baskets.
@beejay. Leahy’s over tge hill & will slide out. this is a MD man.
Dem on the upswing, with most informal power, is Chris Van Hollen of MD.
Luna supporters should put eggs in that Congressional basket long term.
Yahoo! Congrats to Sara Gamin for leading the charge.
I hope she keeps up the good work and lets this award fuel both her dedication and her humility.
Way to go, Sara!
Now back to work.
The little smilie didn’t stick ^^^
Old ground, but it the victimology smacks of Luna and Gricar going after drugs and running into the FBI, FWIW.
snip>
At trial, Luna found himself prosecuting a case involving FBI negligence. A paid informant, Warren Grace, was allowed to continue dealing heroin while under FBI supervision, the court record shows. His FBI handler, Special Agent Steve Skinner, working with the “Safe Streets Task Force,” didn’t seem to care that Grace jumped home confinement and shot up his neighborhood. Neighbors’ repeated calls of concern and outrage were ignored, Luna saw. When the Dawsons’ house finally burned down, killing all seven in the family, Skinner’s “Safe Streets Task Force” was no where in sight. Instead, Skinner’s informant was found with heroin on the day the Dawsons’ house burned. Over the months before their deaths, the Dawsons had called 911 thirty-six times for help. No help came from the “Safe Streets Task Force.” Meanwhile, the record shows, Skinner’s drug task force informant was himself dealing heroin.
“Joey couldn’t have liked that,” his friend says. “These guys were out of control. That’s not what Joey was about. He really wanted to help people. He came from the Bronx, from a neighborhood like that himself.” Victimology . By making obvious blunders in the case, his friend suggests, Luna forced the judge to hold an inquiry, to make Skinner and his drug task force accountable. Could this have led to his murder?
http://www.yardbird.com/midnight_ride_another_missing_PA_prosecutor_3.htm
Again old ground, but the “inter state” status made this a federal crime as well. Was Gricar to try the federal crime, like Luna? Also, the timeline of the investigation seems to piggy back Luna’s case, fwiw.
snip>
Corbett said narcotics investigators began probing Lee’s activities in 2003.
http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/press.aspx?id=86
Do we have a concensus among Blinksters and Blink in thinking both Luna’s and Gricar’s deaths were related to the prosecution of drug crimes?
In my not-too-informed opinion, it seems like that could be a root cause. Yet, one of you three cited the investigator’s belief that homicide is unlikely in either case? Excuse my lazy butt for not seeking out your post. Maybe it was only in Gricar’s case that they didn’t believe c.o.d was homicide.
Word Girl- I only have cursory knowledge of Luna’s case and the statistical improbability knowledge that he did himself in in that manner. I believe he was targeted by either a CI or contact based on his caseload, yes.
Gricar: I have not written specifically on it, but we have been studying it at length for months.
There are pending RTKL requests for public info from my office- depending upon that outcome, I may.
I definitely believe Ray went missing as a result of a connection to his work and I believe he was murdered. I am apparently in the minority from an LE perspective.
Zaccagni= thinks he committed suicide via jumping off the bridge.
Rickard= thinks he walked off.
Blink= his victimology profile strongly conflicts with anything other than a homicide, imo.
B
How Jerry Sandusky’s Book, Touched, Led Investigators To Other Possible Victims
Excerpted from Game Over:
“I had a personal law—Jer’s law—that I stuck to when I was growing up and I still abide by that law today. I allowed myself to be mischievous, but I didn’t let it get to the point that someone would be intentionally hurt . . . and I swore I would tell the truth if I was ever caught doing something wrong. That law has certainly been tested through the years, and just because it is a law doesn’t mean it has kept me out of trouble.”
http://deadspin.com/5902677/how-jerry-sanduskys-book-touched-led-investigators-to-other-possible-victims?tag=penn-state-scandal
Priceless pic IMO. I am her fan for several reasons, but the two that come to mind is that we need more truth seekers, such as she is, investigative reporters that pre-date the Internet style of journalism, and I want to support the accomplishments of the educated people of Penn State who’s participation in that institution had nothing to do with the cover up of a crime, in fact, produced the greatest seeker of truth. Go Sara. A reason to say, “We Are Penn State.” She has done more than Erikson, Freeh, the BOT, et. al, to retore my faith. Save your 7.5M guys, and give us more young people like this. And, and, and, IMO it is no coincidence that she was picked to write the 7th annual WTH happened to Gricar article.
http://deadspin.com/5902445/24+year+old-sara-ganim-won-the-pulitzer-prize-for-her-coverage-of-the-penn-state-scandal?tag=penn-state-scandal
Ahem, when I say “Internet style of journalism,” y’all KWIM.
It was a world that Joe Paterno knew and knew well, according to the authors. Moushey said it’s hard to believe that he didn’t know what was going on at the university.
“It’s a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions in the sense that Joe was told something, but the assistant he made sure he knew exactly what he was talking about and he knew, so it just boggles the mind on how deep it goes.”
Dvorchak said it’s “almost impossible” that Paterno didn’t know what was happening at the university. He said, “If he did not know that there was an investigation by the campus police in 1998 and that Jerry Sandusky was gone a year later. And there was another incident in 2002 that he was told about at his kitchen table. If you don’t connect the dots there, I think you’re just trying to avoid a situation.”
Writing the book wasn’t without its difficulties, however. The authors said they had many people hang up on them during the 10 weeks in which they wrote it. But Moushey said, “We found a hundred people who told us stories about what was going on and I think we got the story straight.”
http://www.khou.com/news/national/Penn-State-sex-abuse-scandal-tackled-in-new-book-147768255.html
The authors said McQueary’s house is currently for sale and he is being viewed negatively by people in State College.
“A lot of people in State College have put the bad guy label on Mike McQueary because of the long period of time that went from when he saw this event in 2002, to when he actually came forward,” Moushey said. “But I watched his testimony in the preliminary hearing against the two other guys who were charged in this matter and he was very certain, very emphatic, and was not beat up at all.”
“Very believable as a witness,” Dvorchak said.
Moushey added, “Even if he waited eight years to report.”
http://www.khou.com/news/national/Penn-State-sex-abuse-scandal-tackled-in-new-book-147768255.html
Don’t have my copy yet, but got this off the preview.
Game Over (my paraphrasing)
info from page 35
States that re:1998 incident, Centre County Department of Children Youth Services held a counseling contract with TSM, so it deferred the case to PA Dept. of Public Welfare in Harrisburg which assigned agent Jerry Lauro.
info from page 45
McQ said that Sandusky and the child did not see him, but he describe that he saw Sandusky’s body envelope that of a small child, in more detail, that lead him to believe it was a sexual. He slammed his locker door which he believed would alert Sandusky that someone else was in the area. When he checked back, Sandusky and the child were no longer in the shower. All three of them exchanged uncomfortable eye contact. McQ did not look down to see if Sandusky was aroused. It all happened in under a minute. In such a state of shock by a man he revered, he simply left. He thought what ever happened was over and the child was safe.
page 65
Central Mt High wanted the mother of a Sandusky victim to go home and think about her options even though they had an obligation to report the assualts to the police. She wanted them to call the police. Instead, she contacted a friend who was a social worker and the report eventually ended up with the Clinton County DA.
page 81-82
33rd GJ prosecutors were also charged with getting to the bottom of why Penn State did not do more to stop Sandusky.
page 83
None of the 20 or so Penn State employees interviewed thought they would need immunity. Cynthia Baldwin represented almost all of the Penn State witnesses. She is a Penn grad.
Paterno did not want to be involved in explaining what he knew about Sandusky as it could impact Schultz and Curley. His testimony took 14 minutes.
http://www.harpercollins.com/browseinside/index.aspx?isbn13=9780062201133
Preliminary review, Beejay, is that most of the information is what we already know, but there are some nuiances that help clear things up. This book says, matter of factly, that Cynthia Baldwin represented some Penn State employees. It also clears up what McQ did directly after he witnesses the event. To their credit, the authors dedicated the book to the victims and their advocates, and from what I can tell have not used their names which seems sincere. OTOH, they do not seem to dig below the visible part of the iceberg.
I bought the audio book, just getting into some of the highlights you are posting, and preliminarily I think it is a safe bet that it is mostly information we know that is put in book form.
What is necessary, is that we learn what happened to Sandusky and by whom, to create his own abuse cycle.
B
correction page 45, Sandusky and the child might have still been in the shower, though no longer in an embrace.
IDK if Gricar and Luna had specific common enemies. I am pretty sure that both died related to their jobs. And that their deaths were covered up by, if not caused by, law enforcement–in conjunction with private citizens (probably organized crime). I spent last night in the depths of all the names on both sides of the law–and at their intersection.
Short of someone trying to save their own butt in the Sandusky matter, particularly IF/when we get to the drug portion of what Agent Sassano ran into, I doubt we’ll ever know it all. It’s too big for me and personal commitments are calling me away.
People like Blink and Bill Keisling might be contacted privately by some of the parties who have knowledge. My hopes are on that. It bothers me a lot that Madeira relied so heavily on confidential informants at the PSU campus to further his drug case conviction rate. Just because so much can go wrong with that.
Just want to post one nice snip from Keisling. If you read enough of his work, you see that he had “bad guys/gals” contacting him through the years and that has been helpful. Hoping they continue.
“”Cops historically in Pennsylvania have floated suicide theories in cases they’re unwilling or unable to crack. Particularly a case involving internal agency corruption,” I point out in The Midnight Ride of Jonathan Luna. “Suicide offers a convenient explanation that allows an expensive and embarrassed investigatory team to be broken up and sent home. Case closed. It also seeks to reassure people living around the death scene that a murderer isn’t on the loose…. There are other benefits, sometimes involving cover-up of mob infiltration (or is that informant misbehavior?).”"
http://www.yardbird.com/midnight_ride_another_missing_PA_prosecutor_1.htm
Seems we are never going to get past this part of the story.
Jerry Sandusky book ‘Game Over’ angers Joe Paterno’s family
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/04/jerry_sandusky_book_game_over.html
With much respect to coach and the Paterno family, I sincerely wish they might think things through before such a response. There is a grand jury meeting as we speak, a federal investigation and we now know that Ray Gricar and Steve SLoane had a meeting with Fran Ganter in Oct 1998.
Had they been my clients and I would have advised them not to say a word.
B
Game Over pg 23
My money is on the bachelor judge, James Brownson, the one that turned the corporate offices of the pipe supply building into the community rec center. For all I know he could have been dead before the Sanduky’s moved in. To me, he seems the one Sandusky emulated most with TSM, although it’s obvious he followed in his Dad’s footsteps, too.
The place was vandalized the first 15 years of operation. Did the judge hire Art Sandusky, or was there a board in place after the judge donated the place to the community? If I could, I would contact Bob Riggle, the guy that went to high school with Sandusky that ended up at Penn State with him. Maybe he would know who groomed and assualted Jerry.
What bothers me about this whole thing, is it seems it is going to start and stop with Sandusky. The rest have folded their tents and moved on.
snip>
What is necessary, is that we learn what happened to Sandusky and by whom, to create his own abuse cycle.
B
I know you are soooo busy (800+ pages in Spokane plus everything else, great podcast, btw), but I have been wondering what you think of Sloane’s memory loss. If Nittany Football is the be all end all people say, then who could forget such a meeting?
erose says:
April 18, 2012 at 3:32 pm
Seems we are never going to get past this part of the story.
Jerry Sandusky book ‘Game Over’ angers Joe Paterno’s family
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/04/jerry_sandusky_book_game_over.html
With much respect to coach and the Paterno family, I sincerely wish they might think things through before such a response. There is a grand jury meeting as we speak, a federal investigation and we now know that Ray Gricar and Steve SLoane had a meeting with Fran Ganter in Oct 1998.
Had they been my clients and I would have advised them not to say a word.
B
IIRC Sloane was in a near fatal car accident a few months before Gricar disappeared.
Thanks for the kind words, I am glad it was not an interview tonight- between Dick Clark’s death, and the Secret Service arrogance, I think I might have a hissy.
B
Well, that car wreck takes on a whole new meaning.
Wheels down, no hookers or booze, guys and can’t they wait ’til they get stateside? SS, GSA, there is so much arrogance run amuck, blaming both parties. We are turning in to an international joke, I fear.
Dick Clark, for me was “We’re going Rockin’…at the Bandstand” starting pre-teen as a wannabe, Saturday morning transition from cartoons to music. I knew something was up a couple of days ago when his “Flintstone house went on the market. It’s worth a google if you haven’t seen it.
And BTW, WA CPS just effed up another 6 year old who ended up being taken from his neglegent mother and stepdad and put in the custody of his homicidal father in Idaho. They have learned zilch. IMO.
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IIRC Sloane was in a near fatal car accident a few months before Gricar disappeared.
Thanks for the kind words, I am glad it was not an interview tonight- between Dick Clark
OT, but interesting.
2009 – Steve Sloane case, his rape witness shot and killed in hunting accident.
http://www.vindy.com/news/2009/oct/27/pa-woman-shot-while-hunting-was-witness-in-case/
Am I the only person with an eye twitch at this point, ?
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@Blink. My bet on a JS abuser would be a coach and one whose home had a basement.
Because that is the adult role JS most identified with (coach) & became and because a team gym & a basement are his primary acting out sites. I wonder if he had a wrestling coach in HS? Water (showers, pools) also seems to stimulate him.
“Centre County District Attorney Michael Madeira said Troy Tierney, who university officials said is registered as a Penn State student, was Racheal Lynn Perryman’s boyfriend at the time she was found dead.
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“The case is still under investigation by the Pennsylvania State Police,” Madeira said.
He also said there will not be any criminal charges filed in connection with Perryman’s death today.”"
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2009/10/29/police_man_accidentally_shot_g.aspx
Poor Mike. His name got associated with all these shenanigans. Local press, so far as I’ve gone, said there was a history of domestic violence between the victim and her boyfriend, who accidentally shot her in the chest, after dark, when they’d finished hunting.
He was ultimately convicted of manslaughter, which is astonishing considering there were pending charges against the kid and he was on drugs. It took a year to arrest him.
http://www.fox8tv.com/News/NewsDetails.asp?NewsID=4152
Notice how Madeira said there would be no charges filed before the investigation was even complete?
I really do not question why this guy is working at a home improvement store – but I am really shocked at the leniency going on in this area.
http://www.centredaily.com/2011/07/08/2823472/man-sentenced-to-two-years-in.html
What is the flipping deal already?
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Troy Tierney didn’t get off scot-free. SPM had a comment at the link.
“Troy Tierney (pic), 25, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in May. Judge Pamela Ruest handed out the maximum sentence for the crime — two-and-a-half to five years in state prison. Tierney also must pay a $1,000 fine for game law violations.”
http://badlawyernyc.blogspot.com/2011/07/guns-are-great-for-night-time-hunting.html
Tierney appealed his sentence, but it was affirmed, just this month. Justice moves slowly. Here’s the dude who was accused of Perryman’s rape:
“In January 2009, Perryman told police she was raped by Kyle Lingle , of Milesburg. Perryman testified at a preliminary hearing after Lingle was charged with the rape and sexual assault.”
So, after her beau accidentally shot her, the judge ruled that her testimony was not admissible in Lingle’s trial. The rape charges were nolle prossed, or prosecutors decided not to proceed with the case.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2012/04/03/superior_court_affirmed_involuntary_manslaughter_sentencing.aspx
Case still pending trial, as far as I can find out, for another accused with connections to PSU: Balazs Tarnai, a Hungarian national, who was a grad asst in special ed at Penn State, where he got his PhD. (You can find his PhD dissertation online and see his dissertation committee members). He was later arrested at his home; he had secured a teaching position at Seton Hill in 2008. They suspended him indefinitely after his arrest. Oh, and he studies and works with autism kids. Another “alledged” predator of the defenseless.
He was watching an incriminating video when authorities knocked on his door. He alledgedly made videos of neighborhood kids—had installed cameras in his home; purchased videos; had child porn images on his computer—the works. New hobby?? My summary; here are some links:
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/leadertimes/news/s_765729.html
Snipping from the link to follow immediately below:
Before that[Seton Hill], he taught courses at Eötvös University of Budapest , or ELTE, a Hungarian university. He taught students with severe disabilities while working as a graduate assistant at Penn State University, where he received his doctorate.
Read more: Seton Hill plans counseling because of child pornography charges – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_767503.html#ixzz1sUyhgw2X
“This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice….” From:
http://www.justice.gov/usao/paw/news/2011/2011_november/2011_11_04_01.html
I’ve got a full-body twitch goin’ on.
Well, Lingle’s trial was going to be SPM’s first one after she took office. And a precedent-setting one, where a trial was being held despite the unavailability of the prosecution’s prime witness (Perryman, shot subsequent to her taped statement but prior to trial).
So, the DA wanted to try this–SPM did. In August the judge slapped a gag order on attorneys and police.
Snips [interspersed, in brackets, with my own paraphrasing] in order to meet any copyright restrictions:
[Shortly before the Sept trial was to begin, SPM wrote the judge saying she thought that Lingle's attorney, Patrick Klena, wanted to introduce some witness reports supportive of the theory that Perryman was shot intentionally after admitting to her boyfriend that she was never raped.]
“But Parks Miller says the theory is “baseless,” and would be just as bad as police alleging that Lingle convinced Tierney to kill Perryman “as a favor to make the rape case go away,” she wrote. “Neither theory has any evidentiary support, yet both advance the cause of each side.”
[you can read SPM's analysis of the merits of both of those arguments at the link. But, why do judges have to keep issuing gag orders to the police?]
If I post this with the link, a news service that picked up sara ganim’s Sep 2, 2011 article at the CDT, it won’t post at BOC. Ganim’s article was titled , “• Prosecution says defense theory is ‘baseless’ in rape case
Thursday Sep 2, 2010
BELLEFONTE One week before the trial of the man accused of raping 21-year-old Rachael Perryman who was shot and killed months later prosecutors … read entire article
Read more here: http://pd.centredaily.com/sp?aff=1100&sortBy=score&keywords=%22sara+ganim%22&start=106#storylink=cpy
Article is now archived; I can’t pull it up in its entirety; only the portion by istockanalyst. Here’s the CDT page with the article title and first line. Is this adequate linkage??