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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Repeating from my earlier post. Here’s how to go read all the motions filed in the Sandusky matter:
http://www.co.centre.pa.us/media/#postings
The listing is most current first. Scroll way down the page, where the ink color on screen changes–those will be the links that bring up each legal filing.
I don’t think you can actually access a linked .pdf file file, can you? Here’s some info from yesterday’s Bald Eagle motion to quash:
Amendola’s subpoena (of around April 9, 2012) was for info about Victims 3, 4 , 7, and 10.
That schl district has 4 elementary schls, 1 middle schl and 1 h.s.
The schl district requested an Emerg Motion to Quash, or, in the alternative a Protective Order.
Somebody has surely already done the legwork on JS’ fellow special retirement option retirees. It’s well beyond my abilities to do. I think–think–I recall another female employee who took advantage of that, but don’t quote me.
So, what I’m finding so far is:
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania records also show that Sandusky entered the State Employees’ Retirement System (SERS) March 15, 1969. As explained by Deputy Open-Records Officer Pamela J. Hile,
“Act 41 of 1998 amended the Retirement Code (§5308.2) to provide a limited early retirement period (July 1, 1998 – June 30, 1999) in which qualifying members could receive a retirement benefit unreduced by the Early Retirement Reduction Factor. To qualify, a SERS member had to have at least 30 years of Credited Service and he/she had to terminate employment and file his/her application for annuity with SERS by July 1, 1999.”
from the Margie Burns’ article, “Penn State Retirement: When the golden parachute becomes a golden athletic supporter”.
…The bill’s primary sponsor was Republican Rep. Bob Allen (Pennsylvania General Assembly 1989-2006). It was referred to the Education Committee in February 1997. Final passage March 31, 1998; vote: unanimous minus one. The final deadline for the governor’s approval was Apr. 11, 1998; the governor signed it into law Apr. 2. The bill had an enormous number of co-sponsors, more than sufficient to make sponsorship politically safe.*
This was while the law enforcement investigation regarding Victim 6 was heating up. (Indictment pp. 18-19)”
http://www.margieburns.com/2011/12/penn-state-retirement-when-the-golden-parachute-becomes-a-golden-athletic-supporter/
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Very interesting timing. Just how many people knew about JS???
Here’s someone to look at: Mary Jo Haverford
She took early retirement from Penn State in December, 1999, where she was the editor of the athletic department web site.
I have a link, but no monkeying around will let me post it. If you google her name and some identifying info it should come up.
To qualify for that enhanced retirement deal, a SERS member had to have at least 30 years of Credited Service and had to terminate employment and file his/her application for annuity with SERS by July 1, 1999.
So, could Mary Jo Haverford have qualified? Not that she couldn’t have simply taken “early retirement” without getting the enhanced deal that JS got.
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@Blink: yeah, Rominger plays by his own rules doesn’t he?
Mary Jo Haverford may have taken early retirement, but she was still getting published as of 2011, in Blue White Illustrated (dedicated to Penn State athletics coverage). I’d give ya’ll ALL the links to her resume, writing samples, etc, but I can never link (or even do a work-around) anything that resides on penn state’s personnel-type files.
Here’s the title of a 2011 article:
Senior Julie Trogele ended her Penn State career with class
by Mary Jo haverbeck
Published in Blue White Illustrated, March 22, 2011
Could be freelance or 1099 employee
B
Blink: this is so frustrating. I can read a lot of her articles and all, but can’t get you there. This is like a screen image, i think. Let’s see if it’ll post. It’s on the personnel pgs at PSU:
Mary Jo Haverbeck
Haverbeck is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America and is the first woman to be inducted into the organization’s Hall of Fame. In 1999, she also became the profession’s first woman recognized for 25 years of service. In 2000 she was the first woman to win CoSIDA’s Arch Ward Award which is the Heisman Trophy of sports information. She won CoSIDA’s first Trailblazer Award in 2001. Before taking early retirement from Penn State in December, 1999, she was the editor of the athletic department web site. Her 1998 web site on Penn State football coach Joe Paterno’s 300th career victory was judged “Best In The Nation” By CoSIDA.
Haverbeck’s e-mail address is mjh11@psu.edu
Haverbeck’s media coverage in Town and Gown
Blink: I’m so sorry. I think my fingers originally typed ‘Haverford’. Her name is Mary Jo Haverbeck. Not that that’s helping me get ya’ll access to PSU’s website.
lol, no problem beejay, I do that sort of thing constantly.
B
MJ Haverbeck would not have qualified for the early-out retirement that JS took. It required you to be a SERS member, with at least 30 years of Credited Service.
If this article is correct, she only had 23-24 yrs or so:
“Haverbeck came to Penn State in 1974 by then-Sports Information Director John Morris for coverage of the university’s then-nine sport women’s athletic program.”
http://www.collegian.psu.edu:8080/archive/2000/06/06-30-00tdc/06-30-00dsports-6.asp
BUT, she might be a good person to Lunch with. Same article says she worked in
“…promotion of Penn State’s women’s teams, while working with several men’s sports, including working at both of the Nittany Lions’ national championship football games in the 1980′s.”
Other than Lunch, unless something too coincidental to be ignored is hiding, it looks okay to me. She has continued as a contributing editor to Blue White.
Regarding SERS retirement . . . for at least some purposes, military service and out-of-state educational service can count or be purchased. Combining MJH’s PSU years with Delaware teaching years might just get to 30.
A colleague of mine took advantage of this window and the provisions that I mentioned.
@Beejay – I am not sure if you already posted this article, but I see your interest, and understand why you question Felus motives.
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So, word on the street is that Jerry Sandusky helped coach the Juniata College football team, alongside former head coach Carmen Felus. Mind you, this was after Sandusky FAILED a background check and after three “distinct orders” from senior officials that Sandusky not be permitted around the team.
Let me back up. Sandusky applied for a volunteer coaching position at Juniata College in May 2010 (he worked there briefly before joining the staff at Penn State, in 1967). He did not disclose that he was under investigation for child molestation and was rejected for the position. That didn’t stop him from showing up at practices, coaches meetings, and games, however. When he was spotted in a coaches’ press box at a road game, Juniata’s athletic director reportedly confronted him and stressed the college’s position on Sandusky’s involvement in their football program.
Two Juniata football players recently told CBS-21 reporters that Sandusky was actively coaching the team in 2010, in spite of his application being rejected. Players have also said they found it odd that Sandusky would sit in the parking lot prior to practices. “He would sit out in front of the child development center and we wound wonder, “Why is he sitting right there (in his car)?” Two players also recalled seeing Sandusky holding the hand of a young boy. ”I’m thinking that (at the time) it might be his grandson or another Second Mile kid; I’m not sure,” one of the players said. “When I think about it, it was very strange because (Sandusky) wasn’t on the practice field the first day he showed up.”
http://keenlykristin.com/2011/12/18/penn-state-success-with-honor-not-likely/
We do not know and will not speculate on the relationship between Sandusky and the former head coach, nor do we know or wish to speculate on the reasons Felus had for continuing to enable Sandusky to be present.
http://www.juniata.edu/takingaction.html
Summary of erose’ info: Felus was an enabler in 2010 at Juaniata.
Though he was not informed of the investigation, Felus went against his AD.
Felus was fired. Give that AD a hand.
Question is:who informed the AD of JS track record?
@Beejay, This might be the original Sandusky – Felus link. I notice he has a brother, Joseph, who son I am thinking is Joseph (fireman)that is the father of Brandon Felus, cousin of Coach Carmen. Before Johnny died, seems he lived with his sister. Perhaps the bachelor great uncle of Carmen and Brandon’s parents, IDK. Additionally, I would guess a Paterno and Sandusky peer and foursome fav on the links. All JMO.
Former professional golfer Felus dies at 77
February 11, 2012
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He later graduated from Penn State University, where he was a three-time letterman on the school’s golf team.
Felus was hired to be the first head pro at Iron Master’s Country Club in 1962 before embarking on a career on the PGA Tour.
http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/558083/Former-professional-golfer-Felus-dies-at-77.html?nav=751
After a successful run as a star on the Nittany Lion golf team, Felus received his degree from Penn State in 1958. He tried his hand in the business world as a loan manager for a finance company, but was drawn back to golf when he was hired in 1962 to become Iron Masters Country Club’s first head professional.
http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/530910.html?nav=751
@beejay. offhand do you know what district Bob Allen represented?
Was this a special retirement offer just for PS employees? (or govt wide?)
If inky PS, I say it was targeted & for a reason to solve a problem.
@beejay. TY yes subpoenaed event detail’s must be TSM’s host roast–after all, a good excuse for Jer to have all those current wee as well as historically fave boys there. Keeping to his comfort zone.
But the retirement program drmonstrates how intertwined with PSU football TSM was as a social institution. They seem one in practice. And of course by 2000 TSM was a cancer growing on PSU. So Q1 is how did it ever get that intertwined. One defensive coach alone could not do that! Q2 is why wasn’t the cancer cut off (inpractice & function)’by 2000?
and my speculative answer to those 2 questions has to be money. flowing not just to TSM Execs but yo PSU. Somehow associating with TSM/Jer brought money into PS football
I don’t see how Jer can get at “uncharged conduct evidence” unless these vics are on prosecutor’s witness list or there is some indicia this evidence will be introduced–then he can challenge.
@rose: this’ll just kill ya. (His training, pre-politics) Wikipedia says Bob Allen:
Bob Allen is a former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He represented the 125th legislative district from 1989 through 2006.[3]
Allen attended Pottsville High School and earned a degree in business administration from Lycoming College in 1968.[3] He graduated from the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science in 1969.[3]
link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Allen_(Pennsylvania_politician)
The law would apply statewide to those state employees who belonged to the SERS retirement system. I was on PSU’s website today and there are several diff retirement plans employees can belong to. IDK, of course, which one MJHaverbeck belonged to.
Lizzy made a good point, though, about MJH. She was a elem ed tchr in Delaware early on. And the requirement is 30 elibility points–not 30 yrs service.
Here’s the link to the special provision in the statute:
http://law.justia.com/codes/pennsylvania/2010/title-71/chapter-53/5308-2/
@erose: IDR if i posted that article, but i read it. And all that stalking/lurking around the child center is freaking me out. I’m so afraid that as it looks more and more like Jer might actually go to trial, he might escalate and go bonkers.
The only question about that article’s facts is whether the AD who confronted JS about being at the game or not. Juniata’s official statement seemed relatively open. They said some published info by the media was incorrect and to call them with any questions. All that is in this link to the official statement (IF they were telling the truth). Here’s how the Pres of Juniata said Jer’s sighting in that game was handled:
“Our athletic director at the time, Larry Bock, and provost, Jim Lakso, instructed Felus twice in June 2010 that Sandusky was not to be associated with the program. When Sandusky was spotted in the press box at the Franklin & Marshall game on Sept. 25, 2010, Larry Bock again informed Felus that Sandusky was not to be part of the program.” [note: the AD did NOT confront Jer; everyone left it up to Felus to handle his friend Jer]
It’s really worth reading the entire article, at:
http://www.juniata.edu/takingaction.html
@Rose, Two of your questions (great btw) on seperate posts:
Question is:who informed the AD of JS track record?
When vetting, they must do criminal background checks as well as go after personal recommendations. If I am understanding this correctly, Greg Curley was is now AD, was, at the time, BB coach (at the helm for 10 years). I’m going to venture a guess Curley told Curley, but that’s JMO.
http://www.juniata.edu/services/news/index.html?action=SHOWARTICLE&id=5200
http://juniatasports.net/sports/mbkb/coaches/Greg_Curley
Was this a special retirement offer just for PS employees? (or govt wide?)
From the article I posted it said “state employees.”
From the research I did, all PSU employees are state employees with the exception of some of the ag employees which are federal employees. Rendell signed a lot of acts on June 22, 1999. June 22, 1999, P.L.75, No.12, amended the state employees retirement. I am not going to pretend to understand it. Beejay did a great job with her post. Bottom line, as you and Beejay have said, was the act designed to help Sandusky?
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/71/71.HTM
In 2011, the Paterno’s were said to have given over four million dollars in donations to PSU. (Of course, they fund raised many, many millions more.) My question is why was 3.5m, almost all, get donated in 1998? Not trying to pick the Paterno “scab” but this bugs me.
In addition, there is a lot of conflicting Paterno quotes and stories about Sandusky’s retirement. I get that he had to put on a game face, but sometimes he went above and beyond the call of duty. Other times he seemed “appropriate” under the circumstances, if there is such a thing as cover up etiquette. Just trying to understand what all was going on.
Page 130 see Paterno timeline
http://www.huskermax.com/games/2011/files/10pennstate_mediaguide11.pdf
We all jumped on the “1999″ retirement plan, but it occurred to me you may have meant the “box seats keys to the vault” retirement plan.
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That’s interesting erose- let’s find out who else was entitled to the Jerry plan- under that auspice of course.
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Re: Your Q1 & Q2.
I don’t think this is just about covering the reputation of a football program that had a pedophile. The Catholic Church info was out there in ’98 and people would have accepted and applauded the public firing of him under the circumstances, IMO. I can find article after article that say that nothing at Penn State gets by Spainer and Paterno. I think Sandusky has dirt.
Rose says:
May 5, 2012 at 7:26 pm
For real, 1998 case closed April 15, 2005? Sure would like to if Sloane’s car accident was an accident.
erose says:
May 4, 2012 at 11:04 pm
Sure would love to know when the 1998 case was closed for real- not just as on the way to the fieldhouse with Sloane and Gricar.
B
True Dat. I mean, I could whip out the foil it is so “wide”.
B
EMERITUS RANK
http://guru.psu.edu/policies/OHR/hr25.html#B
Nothing at Penn State escapes his [Spainer] attention (pg 2.)
I did not know that Spainer visited preschools as “Graham the Clown” or that he was in radio (pg 5) or that he bunks in the dorms and eats in the dining hall at the beginning of the year (pg 8).
http://www.jeffselingo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Penn-States-President-Juggles-National-Issues-and-Tiny-Campus-Details-Archives-The-Chronicle-of-Higher-Education.pdf
Breaking up post (technical problem):
Gordon Mincer 55, of Jersey Shore, highly decorated, long-time agent for Bureau of Narcotics Investigation in State College died unexpectedly…
Served on AG’s Drug Strike Force
2007 PA OAG Excellence Award
Founding Member of Clinton County Drug Task Force
Incidentally, the coroner (Clinton County) is investigating because there were no witnesses.
BTW, Regional Director Randy ***Feathers*** is quoted as saying, “He is a legend.”
Google: June 12, 2008 l o c k h a v e n . c o m
That site always gives me trouble when I try to post.
Wish *l o c k h a v e n . c o m* would let me post, as it seems to be the only news source with info I am seeking. Gordon Mincer was a narcotics agent in AG Corbett’s Operation Flat Tire & Flat Tire II. I’m sure you are all familiar with the big Clinton and Centre County cocaine and heroin busts where they netted 10 and then 3 suspects. It was all going on in 2008, when he died prematurely.
This is his foster-father’s obit
THE EXPRESS – Lock Haven, PA – Monday July 25, 2005
Joseph E. Swope
Joseph E. SWOPE, 84 formerly of 793 Farrandsville Road, Lock Haven, died July 22, 2005 at SusqueView Home Inc.
Born Jan. 8, 1921 in Lock Haven, he was the son of the late Edward and Mary WENKER SWOPE.
Mr. SWOPE was a graduate of Lock Haven High School and a member of the First Church of Christ in Lock Haven.
He was a member of the Foster Parents Association, and had
************33 foster children.****************************
foster children, Gordon MINCER and Brenda GUNLACH and 18 grandchildren.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=85110905
Gordon Z. Mincer, 55,
of 1006 Dutch Hollow Rd., Jersey Shore, entered into the Lord’s house on Wednesday, June 11, 2008.
Born April 7, 1953 in Lock Haven, he was a son of the late Joseph and Evelyn Swope.
Gordie was a 1971 graduate of Lock Haven High School.
On June 25, 1977, he married Jeanne Stevenson.
Gordie worked for Haven Homes and Woodward Township Police Force, and was the Chief of Police of Pine Creek Township for many years. The past 18 years, he was a narcotics agent with the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General, Bureau of Narcotics Investigation, assigned to the Region IV State College Field Office.
During his career, he received numerous commendations and citations, just recently earning the Office of the Attorney General’s Award for Excellence as a result of a multi-county investigation, Operation Spare Tire.
He was a member of First Church of Christ, Lock Haven.
http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.mincer/8/mb.ashx
Correction: Operation Spare Tire, not Flat Tire. What was I thinking?
Okay, It is Flat Tire, the obit is incorrect.
Ah, June 12, 2008, same date as the original story another paper reports no foul play in Minzer’s death. Nothing to see here, move along.
LOCK HAVEN — Investigators believe that a 55-year-old man found dead along Farrandsville Road in Woodward Township about 7:50 a.m. Wednesday likely died of natural causes.
Gordon Z. Mincer of Jersey Shore “suffered an apparent cardiac episode,” an investigator said in a news release that was issued Wednesday night.
Firefighters and emergency medical technicians were dispatched to the scene after passersby came upon Mincer’s body.
He was alone, unloading brush from a utility trailer, police said.
http://culogin.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/511610.html?nav=5012
So glad this legend didn’t “commit suicide.”
@Beejay, Could Billy Joe have a relative in the AG’s office?
Reacting to the problems presented by Blizzard, a brand name for a now-illegal form of bath salts, was Operation Our Town’s greatest accomplishment during the year, Regional Director Randy Feathers of the state Attorney General’s Bureau of Narcotics Investigation said.
http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/558032/Operation-Our-Town-reports-great-2011.html?nav=725
If Margie Burns is correct, the bill that gave Jer his golden parachute was referred to the Education Committee in February 1997. That was BEFORE the 1998 Sandusky crime.
If we’re trying to find out if Spanier signed off on Jer’s Emeritus rank, we’ll have to make sure which policy was in effect when he retired. Erose, I saw the one you linked; IDK how to search for any interim ones between its 1964 start and the effective-2006 one you linked.
If we think the PA legislature unanimously passed (excepting for 1 vote) a law for Joe to get rid of Jer, well, maybe so. Not knowing why, I presume. (Let’s hope the entire legislature didn’t know about Jer.) If so, I’m not concerned about what geographical area the bill’s primary sponsor came from. If I were up to those shenanigans, I’d get someone distant from me to play Allen’s role. You know, to make it less obvious.
Jer qualified for the golden parachute. And so did others spread across PA, should they choose to get out early with a sweet deal. It is a cost-saving across time to a state, or corporation. Lots of downsizing has gone on thru the years with these policies.
Clarification please. Do we know this for sure?
For real, 1998 case closed April 15, 2005? Sure would like to if Sloane’s car accident was an accident. (per erose post)
We do not.
B
Someone intentionally arranged a car wreck for Steve Sloane in the year 2000? Related to the 1998 Sandusky “alleged” crime? If so, we’ve got to look back to 2000. And, if so, why didn’t they also disappear Ray in 2000? Or, did they try and not succeed til 2005?
“In 2000, Sloane broke his back in a car crash and nearly died. He was hospitalized for weeks. Every night after work, Gricar would drive to the hospital, sit by Sloane’s bedside and read to him.”
link to Sara Ganim’s story:
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/04/ray_gricar_mystery.html
And, so, those extended medical leaves between 2000 and 2005 were perhaps for corrective surgeries?
Yes, beejay, I found it was statewide employees, therefore imo not Jer targeted.
But, don’t you think he was just as pedo active prior to 1998, and it was well known by rumor, even by JP?
Imo , action (retirement) only taken in 98-99 because it got to police/DA level.
Imo Well known (just like drinking, gambling or any vice would be) before.
TY erose/beejay for answers & more.
Yes, I agree erose ’99 was doubtless a pirouette retirement
leaving the dance floor behind laden with dirt on others.
which Gricar was privy to & cogitating on.
@ erose says:
May 6, 2012 at 3:25 am
@Beejay, Could Billy Joe have a relative in the AG’s office?
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Billy Jo Leathers, with an L.
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@Blink: TY for clarifying about the 98 case closing. Thought I fell asleep briefly!
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@Rose: ITA. And a lot of people knew/suspected Jer was active, except for his victims and their parents. And those are just throwaway kids, anyhow, right? Had he messed with any “important” people’s kids he’d have had his butt locked up long ago. He knew the parameters. You’re right, altho maybe he had an earlier ARD or several (law got bent for him). But in ’98 it looked like he was becoming an accident waiting to happen.
I’m digesting other posts here. Have bambinos underfoot, so I’m not so nimble today.
Did we ever learn exactly how that gricar letter to corbett surfaced?
No and great point. Was the entire letter available or just an image of it?
B
maybe it was never closed in the DA’s office.
something he could’ve filed on with new info?
Officially closed the case June 2, 1998. Meeting at Penn State October 13, 1998. Sloane can’t remember why he was at the meeting. I was just stating my opinion that the case was never closed while Gricar was alive.
Thanks Beejay for the Leathers/Feathers clarification. I was getting no where, now I know why.
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When Gricar was told about the conversation, he said he’d be in touch. He closed the case a few days later, on June 2, 1998.
Steve Sloane, who is considered to be one of Gricar’s only close friends in Centre County, said he kept Gricar’s Dictaphone on his own desk for years after the disappearance. Gricar used it to take notes about cases, which he would later ask a secretary to type into memos, Sloane said.
Sloane told The Patriot-News he had thrown the tape and Dictaphone into a desk with other stuff and forgotten about it until he began to clean for a move.
The hour-long recording is mostly inaudible. However, Sloane’s own voice says this on the tape:
“Oct. 13, 1998. Schreffler, Ralston, Sloane, Gricar. Investigation going to Penn State meeting. Ray. Fran Ganter. Ron Schreffler is taking us to the football building and I will finish this memo, Sue, and either Ray will type something, handwrite something or he’ll tell me to dictate this and I’ll give you the tape when we get back. Thanks.”
Schreffler was the lead investigator in the May 1998 Sandusky complaint. Ralston was a police officer who assisted in the case.
When contacted, Sloane said he could not remember or explain why Gricar would have a meeting at the football building in October — months after the case was closed.
He also wasn’t sure if it was related to Sandusky or another case.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/04/ray_gricar_mystery.html
This article refers to subpoenas we have been made aware of. A good summary of all of the ongoing investigations and possible outcomes.
Penn State University-related probes churn quietly
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The subpoena asks for, among other things: records of payments made by university trustees to the school or to third parties on the school’s behalf; all records of complaints, interviews or out-of-court settlements regarding Sandusky; computer hard drives, histories and emails; correspondence with Sandusky’s youth charity, The Second Mile.
Prosecutors will not comment.
But three former federal prosecutors asked by The Patriot-News to independently review the subpoena surmised that this probe could be focusing on the possibility of a broader coverup of Sandusky’s alleged crimes at Penn State, as well as possible bribes, fraud or misuse of federal money.
Other potential federal crimes could include interstate trafficking of children for sexual purposes. Sandusky, some say, could have exposed himself to such charges by taking his alleged victims out of state on Penn State bowl game trips.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/05/penn_state_university-related.html
I believe that Gary Sinderson is the one who broke the news on wjactv and showed the old interviews of gricar on video, which accompanied the article. The case no., if complete, is 1513HBG98. Wolfson was Corbett’s client.
It’d be interesting to check out the date of that fall, 1998 Gricar-Sloane appointment on PSU campus with their police, to see if it coincides with the Wolfson case.
I keep thinking that Barbara Pettito is in the background of this. She did public info work for Corbett. But also worked with Sinderson at wjactv for some years.
There’s an internet rumor that gricar wrote a similar letter to tom ridge, or perhaps copied him on that letter to corbett.
Wolfson is the son of monied parents. Transferred, I think, to Ohio State to finish his degree after this event. Ethnic discrimination equals hate crime in PA law. Apparently W (caucasian) was accused of beating up on a black person. IIRC, there were other whites involved, but don’t quote me on that. From memory. I looked at this a long time ago.
OK, I found my own document. From posters at trutv in Dec, 2011. As ya’ll know, I can’t post a link to that url.
On trutv the thread Possible Sandusky case/Gricar Disappearance Connections
From pg 14. Post #541 by Serendipitous:
Snip:
“A tv reporter recently dug up an old letter from Gricar to Corbett alleging an ethical breach. So far, the reporter has not explained where he is going with this. It had to do with a straightforward case where some (white) icers got drunk and beat up on a (black) guy. But one of them came from a wealthy family with E[e]rie connections.
Still not published is the companion letter Gricar supposedly sent to then Governor Ridge. Hopefully, Sinderson will come with this letter also.
Corbett went on to be elected AG. Ridge went on to be appointed Director of Homeland Security. Wolfson went on, transferring to Ohio State and then working for daddy. Gricar went on to disappear or be disappeared.”
If you scroll on down that same trutv page (at my post of 9:38am today) you’ll find where a poster tried to reconstruct that gricar-to-corbett letter. At least the portion visible on the TV screen.
Poster gives this as the appellate case cite:
Commonwealth v. Jordan Wolfson Criminal Action, 1998-802. Superior Court
Docket No. 1513HBG98
Preliminary Hearing
April 30, 1998
http://www.collegian.psu.edu:8080/archive/1998/04/04-30-98tdc/04-30-98d01-002.asp
Student charged with assault
April 8, 1998
http://www.collegian.psu.edu:8080/archive/1998/04/04-08-98tdc/04-08-98d01-002.asp
Student assaulted; charges to be filed
April 7, 1998
http://www.collegian.psu.edu:8080/archive/1998/04/04-07-98tdc/04-07-98d01-011.asp
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Jordan Wolfson was also on the ’98 squad but transferred to Ohio State the following year.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu:8080/archive/2001/03/03-14-01tdc/03-14-01dsports-8.asp
TY, TY, erose. I found him. I think the poster at trutv had an incorrect erie, PA connection. His dad is an entrepreneur out of NY.
Fran Ganter was at that fall mtg at PSU with Gricar and Sloane. Of course, anyone could be there for any reason. Unless he was, unknown to me, the hockey coach in 1998, then Ganter doesn’t have an obvious link to JJ Wolfson.
Ganter was still with the football program when JJW was at PSU. He didn’t switch over to that football admin position till 2004. Here’s more on that:
http://www.gopsusports.com/genrel/ganter_fran00.html
TY for the Ganter link. If I am reading correctly, he would have been the offensive coordinator in ’98. Paterno head coach, and Ganter (offense) and Sandusky (defense) were his right hand men.
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sara Ganim will host a live chat this Tuesday, May 8, at 11 a.m. to talk about the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal and answer reader questions.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/05/live_chat_with_sara_ganim_what.html
Having no clear successor to the throne is being used against the Lions as well. Offensive coordinator Fran Ganter was long thought to be the logical replacement, but he was bumped into an assistant athletic director’s post in an off-season shuffle. His replacement, Galen Hall, is 63.
http://www.athlonsports.com/college-football/joe-paternos-last-stand
See letter on page 4.
http://www.senate.psu.edu/agenda/10271998agn.pdf