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.
Related Posts
Related Posts:
1,929 Comments
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI
@Rose
Great point on “Ginny” and I agree with your take that she seems a dedicated civil servant. In May ’10 she gets a promotion (after 24 years). Later that year she is gone. Maybe, like you say, the anticipated work load.
P.S. Beejay,
I tried your link and got error #404 (page removed). Maybe they are making some changes and will put it back up. I always wonder when this happens, if it’s paranoia, or we’re on to something.
http://www.advokid.org/pdf/2010-11
Penn State hires new PR firms
http://www.centredaily.com/2012/04/25/3174953/penn-state-hires-new-pr-firm.html#disqus_thread
from the comments:
BalphEubanks
wait a tick, you can get a communications degree there but, they can’t do it?
I know they are finally, finally taking Blink’s advice, but I couldn’t resist what irony reflected in this comment.
I hope they fired the one that scheduled Erickson on the road, sheesh.
LOl at the comment, but that is really PR 101- Never do your own.
@erose: try this link; you’ll go in on their pg with Press Releases. Click on the first one; that’ll be the 2010-2011 ann report, released in early 2012. I guess Ginny would show up in earlier ones.
IDK why she left public service. But I’m considering more why RE selected her. Maybe somebody directed him to her, given her contacts here and there, perhaps within SCCA.
http://www.advokid.org/newsroom_detail.asp?newsCode=630H34B27M47
I’m off on a new trail, but yielding no fruit. Anybody know how louis e lasch became so interested in football as to donate funds toward building not one but two football bldgs? He died Oct 24, 1995, so it’s hard to get much about him. Was he ever on PSU Board? Who was bending his ear–other than JoePa, who was his friend, back before 1st bldg.? Was he involved in hiring Graham Spanier? Just looking for context.
This guy doesn’t just go after the team, but the campus police.
THE SPEECH NOT GIVEN: GOODBYE PENN STATE FOOTBALL
http://www.american-reporter.com/4,448/67.html
American Reporter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Reporter
well if you are that close to fed retirement, once promoted you stay for a high 3 years pre-retirement, you don’t leave the same year.
2 possible scenarios: 1) kids in college, so able to put in more hours, plus need more dough, 2) the need of private firm for an insiders view on a fed unit with health fraud litigation cranking up in new Admin & a $ offer that couldn’t be refused.
@Beejay, TY for link.
snip>
“Penn State’s football team was my grandmother’s favorite,” said grandson Kenneth Smuk-ler. “My grandparents were good friends of Joe Paterno and his wife Sue.
http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/3288/Benefactor_Mildred_Lasch_Dies_at/
I’m sure it took awhile to design and build, but interesting timing non the less.
snips>
As he took a visitor on an early-summer tour of the new $13.8 million Louis E. Lasch Football Building, Penn State’s venerable 72-year-old coach, Joe Paterno, played the dual roles of proud papa and disdainful curmudgeon. He beamed as he passed through the palatial entrance….
The defense will get a small slice of extra motivation in playing for Paterno’s longtime defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, who has announced that he will retire from coaching at the end of the season, his 32nd in Happy Valley.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/1999/preview/si_top25/pennstate/
snips>
Rabbi David Ostrich, who leads the lone congregation in State College, Pa., couldn’t bring himself to sermonize last Shabbat on the scandal that’s on everyone’s mind.
Then there’s the fact that one of his congregants happens to be Graham Spanier, whose 16-year tenure at the helm of Penn State University came to an unceremonious end last week when the university trustees fired him.
One example is Constance Smukler, a Philadelphia philanthropist and major donor to Jewish groups, whose father was a Penn State alum and supporter. The campus’ state-of-the-art facility — the Louis and Mildred Lasch Football Building, where at least one of the incidents of abuse allegedly took place — is named for her parents.
http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/24772/Reeling_From_the_Penn_State_Scandal/
1997
snip>
A lightning strike could not stop University President Graham Spanier when the transmission of WPSU-FM call-in show, “To the Best of My Knowledge,” was interrupted Tuesday night.
However, the broadcast was audible on campus, said Mark Smukler, director of programming and production at WPSX-TV.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu:8080/archive/1997/07/07-17-97tdc/07-17-97d01-003.htm
Mark Smukler:
TitleSenior Director of Content at ideastreamDemographic info Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area | Broadcast Media Current: Senior Director of Content at ideastream Past: Director of Programming and Production at Penn State Public Broadcasting
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Mark/Smukler
125 Years of Nittany Football (2011)
http://www.huskermax.com/games/2011/files/10pennstate_mediaguide11.pdf
Joseph Smukler – Fox Rothschild
http://www.foxrothschild.com/attorneys/joseph-smukler.html
Harvard Law
married to Constance (Lasch) Smukler
has a U S Supreme Court Admission
as with so many of the names assocaited, a link to Mellon and United Way, FWIW.
I’m not speechless; just biting my tongue. That local PR firm that’s working under the direction of the international PR firm (Edelman) that PSU just hired?
“Mr. La Torre also handles public relations for Valley Forge Casino Resort, where Penn State board member Ira Lubert is chairman. He said Edelman tapped him to team up on the bid and that to his knowledge his involvement in the casino did not influence his ability to secure the university job.”
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/state/penn-state-hires-pr-firms-to-address-scandal-633080/
(story by Taryn Luna. I wonder…)
O they better have an open bid on that one, I dunno what classification PR firms fall under in that regard. These people.
B
OF COURSE there was an open bid; 4 firms (or firm-combo-packages which is how La Torre made his joint venture with Edelman sound). Lanny Davis remains on PSU’s “legal team”.
Erickson’s statement is on the PSU transparency webpage at:
http://live.psu.edu/story/59408
David La Torre is a Corbett fan! Or was in Jan, 2011 when he wrote a letter to the editor published at pennlive. IIRC, he was in private practice then; his gig as press sec to the PA Gov’s offc ended in 2002. Intro snippet about how rapidly TC had put together his transition team:
“…some might be a bit impatient when it comes to the assemblage of a gubernatorial team during transition… the Corbett transition has moved more rapidly to put a Cabinet together than the Rendell transition despite what Laura Vecsey suggests in her Jan. 3 column.”
http://pennlive.123productpages.com/letters/index.ssf/2011/01/corbett_is_doing_well_with_tra.html
And, yes, I see the other folks La Torre’s firm has represented. Some LEO organizations. Good hire by PSU; familiar with the territory.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/penn-state-to-spend-25m-on-pr-firms-in-wake-of-sandusky-scandal/2012/04/25/gIQAt4tEhT_story.html
So are these profligate spenders going to raise tuition or lower faculty salaries,
because as parent of college students I’ll say faculty & tuition are the deciders.
snip> from the transparency site:
The decision was made following a competitive bid presented earlier this month. The firm will report to the university administration and will work in concert with Penn State’s Office of University Relations and public information officers. The engagement runs for 12 months at $208,000/month.
http://live.psu.edu/story/59408
Because of the structure of the PSU BOT, it is my understanding that there are seven seats to be filled:
three seats voted by the alumna
two seats voted by faculty
two seats appointed by Corbett
Will be interesting to see who Corbett appoints.
There is despicable conduct on the part of Sandusky’s attorneys it would seem in an effort to reveal the names of the victims. What I found additionally interesting is the reclassification of the ’98 Sandusky file.
—————————————————————–
The defense lawyer also subpoenaed Steve Shelow, director of Penn State University Police Services, for various records pertaining to eight of Sandusky’s 10 alleged victims.
He also asked Shelow for audio and video recordings made during a 1998 investigation that began when a mother complained that her son had showered with Sandusky. Amendola’s letter to Shelow said the ’98 investigation had been reclassified from an “incident investigation” to an “administrative file,” and the defense wants to know who made that decision.
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/04/27/3177773/pa-ag-objects-to-sandusky-
defenses.html#storylink=cpy
Well it worked for him the Lee case, right.
Is it too much to ask for an attorney to be sanctioned, ever?
B
I just don’t think going after eight victims and trying to discredit them ALL is going to work for the defense. I know it is a common strategy, but in this case, I think it will backfire. These were kids that were already challenged for one reason or another. To prove that they have a criminal record, or were somehow manipulative, or lied in certain areas of their life is no surprise. General consensus is an awareness that emotionally scarred victims act out as adults.
You know jurors are said to have a high expectation in the Anthony case for proof positive aka “CSI” forensics that is said to have helped lose the case? Well, I submit that these jurors are also going to be more educated on the psychology of child sexual abuse aka amateur SVU armchair psychologists and this case could work in favor of the prosecution. Of course these will be primarily adults testifying, not children anymore, which may be less sympathetic, still I believe the jurors will see the truth. I have to. MOO.
It will, and here is why- I don’t care if they all turned out to be crackheads and criminals- if the state can show the patterned and long term sexual abuse I believe they are prepared to, it only bolsters the well known statistic that suffer such victims.
In layman’s terms- one would say it supports the allegations in the first place.
B
Subpoenas stir the pot in Sandusky case
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/04/27/3177706/prosecutors-in-sandusky-case-file.html#storylink=omni_popular#wgt=pop#storylink=cpy
I guess it’s the Ag seats, not the faculty seats that are up for grabs.
snip>
According to the university, in counties where there are multiple agricultural organizations, the groups are encouraged to hold caucuses. But, the caucuses are nonbinding, and delegates who show up Thursday will decide how their respective counties’ votes will be cast. Each county gets up to three votes.
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/04/28/3178332/farming-industry-a-strong-voice.html#storylink=cpy
Here is someone that gets it straight, (as I did not) see the comment section, and she’s on the ballot. She’s thinking like me on this, there are ten seats to fill on the BOT. Seems the paper would write an article on all of them, not just the alumni spots.
snip>
Well, ironically, while 86 candidates are running for three alumni spots, and the media focuses on those candidates and how they might effect change, there are actually TEN seats in total that will potentially turnover: two ag seats that are up for election; three appointed state seats; and two appointed business/industry slots. There will be time to vet Governor Corbett’s picks if the three current members don’t care to continue serving (let’s face it, death threats and the like are no fun), as the Senate must confirm them. So time’s a-wastin’! Let’s find out who they are and vet the candidates and proposed appointees.
(Barbara Doran, #52 on the balllot.)
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/04/26/3176665/record-number-of-penn-state-alumni.html#storylink=cpy
Pretty blatant if you ask me.
In at least three of the subpoenas, Amendola provided the alleged victims’ names directly to the agencies – attaching a list in a sealed envelope in one case and printing one accusers’ name directly in another. In the third, the attorney asked on one page that someone at the agency contact him directly for the purported victims’ names, while listing them anyway on another page.
http://articles.philly.com/2012-04-27/news/31419841_1_subpoena-power-judge-john-m-cleland-court-filings/2
Glad to “hear” *you* say that. And you said it so well.
snip>
In layman’s terms- one would say it supports the allegations in the first place.
B
Simply another example of poor taste, lack of thought, or something.
snip>
I was one of about 70 trustee candidates who wasted their time last Saturday at the meet and greet for potential trustees.
It was scheduled at a competing time with the Nittany Lion Club program at the Bryce Jordan Center.
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/04/28/3178415/board-continues-to-embarrass.html#storylink=omni_popular#wgt=pop#storylink=cpy
WTH on the $300K loan forgiveness? July 2011 maybe?
B
Just wondering if this could have tied in to Sassano’s investigation. Obviously not the pot, but something about football + drugs might still be an active investigation. Sorry to say, the screen on a house is like the tail light on a car when it comes to probable cause, IMO and have been told.
snips>
Penn State senior wide receiver Devon Smith was charged Saturday with possession of a small amount of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, Penn State Police records show.
The citations stem from a March 14 police search and seizure of Smith’s on-campus apartment.
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/penn-state-football-devon-smith-charged-with-marijuana-possession-1053045/
Guess LE thought the place had been burgled.
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/penn-state-football-crawford-smith-apartment-searched-1033330/
The statement reads:
“On March 14, 2012, Penn State Police searched 1102 Nittany Apartments in the Nittany Apartment Complex in University Park, PA. To ensure accuracy and truthfulness, it is important to explain to the public the facts surrounding the names associated with this event, specifically, that of former Penn State Defensive Lineman, Jack Crawford.
From December, 2011 forward, Mr. Crawford did not reside at the apartment in question at any time. Mr. Crawford was assigned one of the rooms in that four person apartment in August, 2011 as part of his football scholarship and was given permission by the University to reside in that apartment as he chose. Mr. Crawford lived in that apartment during the fall semester of what was his senior year. That semester ended in December, 2011.
That same month, Mr. Crawford and his Penn State teammates left for the Ticket City Bowl in Dallas, Texas. From that point forward, Mr. Crawford never again resided at the apartment in question. After the Ticket City Bowl, Mr. Crawford played in college all-star games, attended several camps, participated in the NFL Combine in Indianapolis and was living with family outside of the State of Pennsylvania, where he continues to reside and will remain until after the NFL Draft.
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/penn-state-football-crawford-hopes-to-clear-air-on-apartment-search-1036642/
Major setbacks for Shultz and Curley and Sandusky according to this report.
Recently-fired PSU official connected to perjury case
http://www.wjactv.com/videos/news/recently-fired-psu-official-connected-to-perjury/vG2rq/
Has to be.
snip>
WTH on the $300K loan forgiveness? July 2011 maybe?
B
It is one thing to say you did not comprehend. While I find that more like an osritch strategy, having met Coach, I could see that. I mean that sincerely and with affection of the man I believed him to be.
It is another thing entirely to wave to each other, attend fundraisers, pass it each other in the tunnel and/or the VIP booth and ignore the fact he was traveling with young boys.
What did he think he was doing- atoning?
It will come out, and it will be bad, and they will still make gravy in PA with celery in it.
B
@ erose–TY for all these urls to work thru.
As pictured, Jer & Joe look well matched.
http://www.centredaily.com/2012/04/27/3177706/prosecutors-in-sandusky-case-file.html#storylink=omni_popular#wgt=pop#storylink=cpy
Blink, in many States attorneys are aggressively sanctioned.
PA is not among them imo.
I grew up with football legends Darrell Royal (UT) & Tom Landry
and both beat Paterno’s history imo.
They would have taken a very different approach to Jerry before,
not to mention after, any 1998 report imo. This has nothing to
do with an extraordinary football coach who was shy & reticent.
It is a character failure. And I think it has to do with money for the
football program, and those big professionally negotiated employment
contract packages. Avarice is one of those deadly sins common to us all,
right? Royal & Landry would have have fired Jerry’s a–
& called the police.
TY for urls to read on a prom all niter.
@erose. Crawford protests too much. I empathize however with the lousy roommates one can draw in college problem. But, the operative question is not where Crawford was in January, but where Devon was in Fall 2011. And whether drug-look-the-other-way (or even worse, access) was part of JP’s culture of recruitment. I say this with a public school girls lax coach who played girls high on marijuana because they scored. (everyone knew, no one confronted)
http://www.centredaily.com/2012/04/28/3178415/board-continues-to-embarrass.html#storylink=omni_popular#wgt=pop#storylink=cpy
Korsak is right. Not a dime should have been paid without a full release.
Otherwise let Paternos litigate contract payout with the rest of family grievances
& have all on the settlement table.
This is a Baldwin/Lanny problem.
They continue to think in political/PR terms rather thsn purely legal protection of
the Univ terms, which is their job.
The Board needs an ept GC yesterday.
This board is too big with too many factions & politicians.
A Mellon Bank Board Pres can be a
political Pres. By political I mean profession/social
group self-interested, not Repub or Dem.
http://articles.philly.com/2012-04-27/news/31419841_1_subpoena-power-judge-john-m-cleland-court-filings/2
amendola is right on one thing. Anything given to Freeh in his investigation should come in.
The Board’s cover your ass big money investigation commissioned to Freeh is the biggest screw job to the victims & the prosecution imo.
Agreed on that point, absolutely.
This is simply a matter of a highly seasoned criminal defense attorney pushing the boundary of the PA rules of criminal procedure.
B
Thinking on. Board presented Freeh’s firm as an outside arms length independent investigator, not an inside contractor/agent of Univ. There are enough lawyers & business leaders on Board that the Board majority shoukd have known hiring Freeh was tantamount to giving Joe a discovery store including victim’s names & all data Penn State & it’s security force had on them imo & wanted to do that back then.
Does anyone know if the play-by-play commentary, or the color guy, or on the radio call-in talk shows ever made reference to coaches other than the head coach?
I’m trying to find out if other coaches (assistants) were generally–or ever–discussed by the PSU commentators.
And, if so, was Sandusky referenced? And, if so, by whom?
Any help from you guys is much appreciated, as always.
It’s odd to me that Billy Joe Leathers shot his wife thru the back of the head and apparently did little damage. Yet he managed to fatally wound himself with a gun in what state police classified as a suicide, on April 17, 2005.
He was said to be a career criminal. So, was that little Sept 2004 “domestic violence” incident, in which his wife was airlifted to the hospital, just one of his minor offenses? Was he such a gnat on the arm of the law that he was allowed to plead that down from attempted murder to reckless endangerment? Or were the prosecutors too unsure of their case to pursue the greater offense?
I know “the police” cleared him from involvement with Gricar’s disappearance, based on his timeline.
Willing to help, but need you to clarify. Do you mean in relationship to this scandal, or in general?
beejay says:
April 29, 2012 at 11:39 am
Yikes! Prom night… Congrats you made it through.
Rose says:
April 29, 2012 at 4:20 am
S-l-o-w on the uptake. Are we saying Sandusky might have had an ARD, thus the reclassification of the files?
erose says:
April 28, 2012 at 2:18 am
Well it worked for him the Lee case, right.
Is it too much to ask for an attorney to be sanctioned, ever?
Worthy of consideration if there is a sealed file out there or 2- dunno.
B
B
Exactly. And I want to know about Sassano’s investigation. I mean that GJ report kinda tipped his hand.
Rose says:
April 29, 2012 at 4:42 am
Alright, is it crazy talk to think that it is better to throw a pedophile (and part of a Big-Ten U) under the bus, to save the drug biz in Happy Valley and PA? In other words, if Sassano had not been dragged in to the Sanduky GJ, would anyone really know about his investigation? Meaning, it is better to expose a cover up to cover up the other criminal enterprise?
@erose. are u saying the Sandusky GJ could’ve finally been convened & progressed (after being stonewalled and or protected so long) in part if not in whole to expose the undercover drug investigation & protect it? Sounds good to me. What does Sassano think?
By “protect it” I meant protect the regional and/or State drug trade, Kingpens, participants, and consumers (some of whom were The Team & hangers-on it seems.
If Sandusky had an ARD, will they be able to profer that in Trial?
that would be nifty.
Unless it was an offense connected to a currently “complaining witness” no way prior bad acts are coming in and even if it was, it would have to directly relate in some way to the instant matter and instant charges.
B
@Beejay. Can’t really read on handheld but I gather BJL was a Fla football lad?
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1964&dat=19521220&id=BPgiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=680FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1230,6637927
Cursory skim with google suggests he plead a domestic, then sometime after Gricar’s demise shot himself.
Anything to suggest this was more than a mood disorder and/or domestic situation?
well one would hope it related to the victims.
Jerry is nothing if not consistent.
you are right. I forgot the prior bad acts thing.
The Serial Killers Apprentice
The River’s Edge (pages 62-63)
Billy Joe Leathers was once prosecuted by Ray Gricar. Doesn’t say what for. Also says detectives ruled him out. Would be interesting to know which detectives “ruled him out.”
http://books.google.com/books?id=LcLBGdkLI0EC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=billy+joe+leathers&source=bl&ots=7-hI23SByO&sig=nVyA5fPxyH3-Wo-PBuCwPs8TJzU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cSOeT5TxJoXniALlrfGSAQ&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=billy%20joe%20leathers&f=false
Considering the use of criminal ci’s by investigators and prosecutors, absolutely.
B
Oh, case closed. (How about releasing that timeline and who provided the alibi.)
Likewise, releasing what was checked, and ruled out, would be very helpful. I can think of the situation regarding Billy Joe Leathers. Mr. Leathers timeline was checked and he was ruled out. It ended a chapter in the investigation.
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2009/11/10/2396514_some-probably-unneeded-advice.html#storylink=cpy
@Beejay, This article addresses some of your previous question, not sure if you saw it. I am trying to refrain from writing this, but I cannot. What about how the victims have been affected? Can we think about that for more than a nanosecond? I’m sure having a building named for your parents associated with a scandal is terrible, but not as bad as being molested. These are people of great wealth and privilege, where is the grace and compassion? Even if they found a way to speak about their problem in the context of the children that were molested, like I hope they put away Sandusky for life, but they don’t. It’s as if they hope he will be found innocent so their image and their buildings can remain pristine. Those poor kids! The only perspective I ever seem to see is – Look at how I/We have been harmed, our coach got fired (right or wrong) and now our building is no longer pristine. Will the dialogue ever change?
Lasch family ‘heartbroken’ that scandal has tarnished PSU legacy
April 29, 2012
http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/560376/Lasch-family–heartbroken–that-scandal-
as-tarnished-PSU-legacy.html?nav=742
It is as if they treat the mess like a chicken pox scar.
B
Game Over Review (excerpt)
… As the mother of six children, I have been devastated by these accusations. I am also angry about these false accusations that such a terrible incident ever occurred in my home.’ ”
But soon a transformation came over her. “Dottie had to sign over the deed to their house and put up as collateral a $50,000 cashier’s check to secure her husband’s release,” the authors explain. “She and her husband were also seen, surrounded by several members of their family, when they arrived at the Centre County Courthouse in early December 2011 for Mr. Sandusky’s preliminary hearing. Dottie’s full head of red hair had faded to gray, and the vibrant smile present when cameras caught her in good times had turned into a stoic frown. She followed her husband into court peering straight ahead. She did not utter a word, as if there were nothing more she could say.”
Easily the most shocking and repugnant element of the entire scandal is the culture of denial. Repeated reports of Mr. Sandusky’s bizarre carrying on with boys led to no meaningful follow-up action. This is unconscionable.
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/book-reviews/game-over-penn-states-sordid-saga-633558/