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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I am reviewing events at Penn State in 1998. I wonder who on the football team organized protests such as this?
Feb. 1998
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — He was sweating, as usual, and finishing another cigarette when his bodyguard told him the Penn State football team was picketing outside his new abortion clinic.
http://articles.latimes.com/1998/feb/15/news/mn-19294
11/08/98
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And between July and last month, the State College-area man posted messages suggesting that the health-care giant he once worked for was starting to collapse, that its managers lacked ethics, that its chairman was bilking Medicare and that he was having sex with the chairman’s wife.
Penn State police are planning to charge Krum with harassment, said Ron Schreffler, a detective with University Police Services.
Eleven months ago, Krum officially bade HealthSouth goodbye, quitting as food services supervisor at the company’s Nittany Valley Rehabilitation Hospital near State College to work at Penn State, HealthSouth attorney Donn Dutton said.
So, the university suspended Krum without pay from his job as food and beverage controller at the university’s Nittany Lion Inn and Penn Stater Hotel, Rambeau said.
http://old.post-gazette.com/regionstate/19981108cyber5.asp
Chambers letter to Schreffler May 1998
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:o8qzTYZJKVwJ:msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/Chambers_Sandusky_Report_Redacted1.pdf+penn+state&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiA3uEJ2sL7WDcrZk5bNb5JYwXYbBckhfiZJKbJq6FvltdZ4dQzNklNJFzpC5tzqfK2AeXWmC-fHg0zl16FHthez4Dmw_Qq-jEGlFE8oW7A9s7Qh0c0KAq36aON9ptzxWz8FD9I&sig=AHIEtbQr74YlGQaKZ8LfpyucIPCVo1t21A
Riot rocks State College
July 1998
http://old.post-gazette.com/regionstate/19980713bstate3.asp
If Gricar first believed and then said this about the rape of a woman and the prosecution, I can only imagine how he thought about the rape and prosecution of a child. There is no doubt in my mind the man that made this statement still had the books open on Sandusky.
July 16, 1998
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“It is important to note that in the state of Pennsylvania a person can be convicted (for rape) based on the testimony of the victims,” Gricar said.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu:8080/archive/1998/07/07-16-98tdc/07-16-98d01-005.asp
Of course I meant the prosecution of a child rapist.
U N B E L I E V A B L E, I want to cry.
Prosecutors in the Jerry Sandusky case are now saying the infamous incident when Mike McQueary walked in on Jerry Sandusky in a shower with a boy — the one that ultimately led to Joe Paterno’s firing and criminal charges against two university administrators — happened in 2001, not 2002.
That revelation, sure to please the defense in its quest to discredit McQueary at trial, was written in a motion filed Monday in Centre County Court.
The date change also has the defense attorneys for Penn State administrators Tim Curley and Gary Schultz saying that means the statute of limitations expired and their case should be dismissed.
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/05/07/3188751/children-and-youth-services-files.html#storylink=cpy
Got no words.
B
Commonwealth’s Motion to Amend Bill of Particulars
http://www.co.centre.pa.us/media/upload/SANDUSKY%20COMMONWEALTHS%20MOTION%20TO%20AMEND%20THE%20BILL%20OF%20PARTICULARS.pdf
Un-oh. I didn’t go to look at this yesterday before it was removed. Anybody got it?? I’m more interested in the removed info than in whether or not McQueary got the date wrong.
“In a separate filing Monday, the prosecution outlined more discovery materials that were provided to the defense. But it was taken off the county’s website early Monday evening.”
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/05/07/3188751/children-and-youth-services-files.html#storylink=cpy
This is what got pulled off the county’s website yesterday:
“…40-page response to the defendant’s second motion to compel discovery…outlining the prosecutors’ response to the defense team’s request for more pretrial information, including more physical evidence that was handed over.”
http://www.wjactv.com/news/news/ag-changes-timeline-victim-2-shower-room-sex-alleg/nNyX8/
That 40 pg doc is what I’m interested in. It was replaced last night with a three-page motion to amend the bill of particulars from the commonwealth. Has anybody seen what was in it? And what “physical evidence”?
Don’t cry yet. Curley/Schultz failure to report is the lesser of the 2 crimes they’re charged with; it’s a summary offense (you know, like a parking ticket as some fool said early on).
Aren’t they still on the hook for the perjury charge? Where’s our PA lawyer? They perjured themselves more recently and it’s the more serious crime.
Prosecutors are NOT unprepared for this. Amendola rattled on about the year being wrong months ago. I’m betting prosecutors got the correct date fairly recently from somebody at PSU’s records. Which, to me, is the good news.
So, Amendola will try to discredit McQueary saying if he got the year wrong, then what else did he get wrong? Jer will likely never take the stand, but I hope the prosecution has somebody else to talk about that date.
Because if Jer tells his current story about how he remembered it so clearly, it goes like this [with beejay's comments in brackets]:
I remember the date so clearly because (1)I so rarely go to the showers that late at night [but my victim at the time was allowed to stay out late, and we had no other place to go, so we went there]; (2)it was shortly after my interviews, in Dec 2000 for that coaching job at U of VA [and I remember discussing the coaching opportunity with my victim at the time, being as he was my confidant]; and (3)there’s no other particular reason to remember it [except that I thought I'd been caught at it again and worried a long time if this was the time I'd get shut down].
It’ll be a smaller problem than we think for Jer. I’d rather see the charge hold, if it does, for perjury wrt Curley/Schultz.
Keep the faith.
Honestly, those offenses were shaky at best, and I agree.
I am not thrilled it will undermine a shitload of other things in this case though.
As an example, through Amendola, Jer remembered it better than the witness. Not thrilling.
B
oh, and in mm’s early statements he said it was in “2001 or 2002–2002 i think”.
I know, Blink; I’m just hoping the prosecutors can regroup.
So far, this is all I’ve found from Curley/Schultz attys, and it makes me believe that the perjury charges will hold; and that “count two” was the failure to report charge:
““It is clear that Mike McQueary was wrong in so adamantly insisting that the incident happened the Friday before Spring Break in 2002,” lawyers Caroline Roberto and Tom Farrell said in an e-mailed statement. “Whether or not Mr. McQueary’s insistence was the result of faulty memory, or questionable credibility, there is no dispute that the statute of limitations has expired on count two and it will be dismissed.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-07/sandusky-s-alleged-abuse-took-place-year-earlier-state-says-1-.html
“Curley and Schultz are each charged with one count of perjury, a third-degree felony punishable by up to seven years in prison, and a $15,000 fine, and one count of failure to report.”
link:
http://onwardstate.com/2011/11/07/tim-curley-charged-with-perjury/
Let’s look at the changed date from another point of view. Several people testified about their role in the events subsequent to that night. Did all of them “misremember” the date also? IIRC, a couple of them have a lot riding on getting that date correct.
Prosecutors can work with things like that. Otherwise, courtroom drama will sway gullible jurors.
Here’s a pretty readable explanation of PA’s whistleblower’s law, along with the statute citation so we can familiarize ourselves with it now that McQueary’s suing PSU:
http://www.jdsupra.com/post/documentViewer.aspx?fid=5023647e-6f60-4dd9-8e3c-d96e4955a651
I guess he’s gonna try to prevent them from taking adverse action against him, employment-wise. I hope it means he’s got more to reveal and will do so.
Me, I’d like to sue the whole bunch of them for failure to protect children who needed protection more than usual; for being self-serving, arrogant, greedy elitists (Blink’s earlier word). And for just generally for being abysmal a-holes. What’s the statute for that?
I have no problem with MM being off a year. I’m off a year or more about almost every important milestone in my family & children’s life & my own history. It’s human. Jurors will understand if he talks humbly. An easier to err in emotionally fraught curcumstances. And maybe he’s dyslexic too. It was up to JPaterno, his Supv, however old, Curley, et al and not to mention PSU police to profer the right date as they should’ve been aware when it was reported and had a written record, all of them: memo to file. And the real screw ups were the prosecutors & their paras who didn’t fact check prior to filings. the bigger time screwups for MM were his Dad and that honcho Dad-friend (a doctor?) at his home when he came home from the gym who gave him bad advice which should’ve been call the cops.
There seems to be something much deeper at play here. I can’t figure out what forces brought this out in to the public arena to begin with, because clearly this was a well known secret among many for a long time, but there are equal, if not stronger forces working against a successful prosecution of any kind (and any one) and that force seems to come from within the government, itself. I can only hope the corruption stops at the state level. Right now I see moves being made that will affect Sandusky, Schultz and Curley in a positive way. Even McQ will most likely get a settlement. The prosecutors knew they were supposed to color within the lines, Amendola alerted them months ago and yet just before trial they choose to address their error? This was no accident, IMO.
So you think this is a prosecutorial suicide mission of some kind?
B
@Beejay,
I did not get a look at the 30-40 pages posted yesterday either and I’m not buying it was an accident. Remember, somehow, though we never learned who or how, the original presentment was posted by accident.
What I find so damaging about the change of date, besides lack of faith in the AG’s office, is that Amendola has interviewed a male who Sandusky claims in that person in the shower with him in 2001. That male is perhaps in denial about what happened (or may not even be that person), but Amendola believes this male will testify in favor of Sandusky. If “nothing happened” then McQ had nothing to tell Paterno, who had nothing to tell Curley, who had nothing to tell Schultz. Even if McQ thinks he had something to tell, the person that will be presented as victim #2, the one the prosecutors could not find, will dispute McQ’s testimony. Yes, there are other victims, but are there any other witnesses?
Yep, just posted that as well before I got to yours.
McQueary filed the whistleblower suit we all opined early on.
B
And while I’m thinking about it, the gag order doesn’t come out until we are more than aware of Sandusky admitting to a shower episode with a child. Now why would a defense lawyer let a client admit to this? Well now we know. I HATE the smell of this.
From a defense perspective, with a witness, and with the knowledge he had been accused of “inappropriate shower taking” in 1998, Amendola had no choice but to make it seem innocent- I mean, it worked before.
I would like to know the date in June that Jerr’s house was searched.
B
Pulitzer-winning reporter Sara Ganim Q&A on the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse case – chat transcript
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/05/pulitizer-winning_reporter_sar.html
Unless I am mistaken, didn’t Amendola say he had been in contact with victim 2 and that he had a different story?
B
Can’t post from the trutv site either, but Serendipitous1 makes an excellent point on a May 8 post. The day before the new date of the shower incident (02-09-01), Fran Ganter’s son (Chris Ganter) had just signed with Penn State to play football(02-08-01). Now who involved would not use that event as a frame of reference to the Sandusky event? The defense is going to say that this just proves how insignificant they (Paterno-Curley-Spainer) thought it was.
Judge seals prosecution filing that identified Sandusky alleged victims
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Along with the names of some alleged victims, the materials that were mistakenly posted include school records for some of the alleged victims; travel records to Penn State bowl games; transcriptions of telephone calls; an interview with former head football coach Joe Paterno on Oct. 24, 2011; copies of posts made to websites about rumors regarding the alleged abuse; various phone numbers; Second Mile travel records; Mike McQueary’s handwritten statement; and copies of items seized from Sandusky’s home when it was searched last June.
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/05/08/3189697/judge-in-jerry-sandusky-case-allows.html#storylink=cpy
Also Tuesday, the judge approved the prosecution’s request to change the date of the allegation involving alleged victim No. 2 from March 1, 2002, to Feb. 9, 2001. The prosecution said the ongoing investigation revealed that date. The list of now-sealed discovery materials indicates 19 pages of emails from Feb. 12, 2001, to June 5, 2001, were turned over to the defense. Feb. 12, 2001, was the Monday after Feb. 9, 2001, a Friday.
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/05/08/3189697/judge-in-jerry-sandusky-case-allows.html#storylink=cpy
If we are to assume this was a legit accident, as explained by the discovery of the emails, then I have to ask if the defense made such a blunder, would we find it legit as well?
Right and fair question.
B
@Beejay, Here is someone that got their eyes on the document:
You are jumping to an incorrect conclusion. I read the filing that was removed in its entirety. The attachment was a complete listing of all the discovery information that has been provided to Amendola to date in order to show the judge that the State has been complying with his order. It was a long, long list, but there was much protected information included inadvertently, so the State is asking that the filing be sealed in order to comply with the judge’s previous order to protect the names of the victims. Amendola has gotten mountains of discovery, and still whines that he is unable to prepare a defense. There was a lot else included in the listing that I am not going to disclose. Suffice it to say that I think the public still knows very little about the strength of the case that the State has.
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/05/08/3189697/judge-in-jerry-sandusky-case-allows.html#storylink=cpy
It sure is a coincidence that the date discrepancy bounces before and after the statute of limitations, especially given how long this investigation was going on. Only way to prove the statute of limitations was in play was to come up with evidence such as the e-mails. Wonder how McQ went from 2001-2002 to convinced it was 2002; maybe some misleading memory jogging went on?
I agree the ammendment comes on the heels of the most recent “HR firing”. If it is connected, are we going to see the next whistleblower suit?
Oye.
B
So…McQueary was in the dark about the existence of those emails until recently. They are irrefutable substantiation of his side of the story. And after he became aware of them only then was the writ issued of his intention to file the whistleblower lawsuit?
“The list of now-sealed discovery materials indicates 19 pages of emails from Feb. 12, 2001, to June 5, 2001, were turned over to the defense. Feb. 12, 2001, was the Monday after Feb. 9, 2001, a Friday.”
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/05/08/3189697/judge-in-jerry-sandusky-case-allows.html#storylink=cpy
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And, it wasn’t only victim names that were “inadvertently” made public in the prosecution’s attachment. There was other info, and other NAMES. Everyone involved in the failure/coverup is on notice now of what is known to date. Maybe that was the intention. Or else, it was just a human mistake in a busy prosecutor’s office.
So I got the emails right. I hope to Christ they did not can him for having those emails in his desk or whatever. This is not the time for email protocol semantics.
Believe it or not, mistakes on redaction and the like, sadly are VERY COMMON when meeting deadlines.
I have seen it nearly bungle cases.
B
OK, i found the March 25 AP story that all the media keep referring to. Here’s part of what Amendola had to say. And the possible victim was wise to take his mom and bro with him.
Key question in Penn State case: Who is Victim 2?
By MARK SCOLFOROBy MARK SCOLFORO, Associated Press THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STATEMENT OF NEWS VALUES AND PRINCIPLES
“a young man contacted him after Sandusky’s November arrest to say he believed he might be the person referred to as Victim 2. After meeting with him, along with his mother and adult brother, Amendola was left with doubts.
“I wasn’t sure he was,” Amendola said. “I’m still not sure. I haven’t been able to verify it. Jerry’s very sure.”
Amendola said that the young man told him Sandusky had not abused him, but that he later obtained a lawyer and cut off contact. Amendola does not plan to subpoena the young man and declined to identify him or his lawyer.
“I don’t want to put someone on the stand who might say something completely different,” Amendola said. “And quite honestly, now that he’s got a lawyer, he might say something different.”"
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rgeuq9qov5EJ:http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/localnews/Article_2012-03-25-Penn%2520State-Abuse/id-8dcfc6bf415b45ffb7773654f5983acb%2Bassociated%2Bpress%2BMarch%2B25,%2B2012%2Bjerry%2Bsandusky&hl=en&gbv=2&gs_l=serp.12…6037.19508.0.21527.74.29.0.27.27.8.173.2000.27j1.29.0…0.0.b5B6W0lT7OQ&ct=clnk
It appears that way to me. This was Corbett’s case, and these are still Corbett’s people. Past performance, future indicators. That’s all I have.
erose says:
May 8, 2012 at 11:35 pm
So you think this is a prosecutorial suicide mission of some kind?
B
You are rarely, if ever mistaken.
Joe Amendola, the attorney for accused child molester Jerry Sandusky, told NBC’s Bob Costas Monday night that he has been in contact with the alleged victim two — the boy that prosecutors say assistant coach Mike McQueary witnessed being sexually assaulted in a shower in 2002.
Attorney General Linda Kelly said last week that police haven’t identified the boy.
“So you found him, the Commonwealth has not?” Costas asked.
“Yeah. Interesting, isn’t it?” Amendola replied.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/sanduskys_attorney_says_he_fou.html
Sandusky defense attorney Joe Amendola has previously maintained the 2002 date was incorrect.
In a March 25 story, Amendola told The Associated Press that a young man had come forward to him to say he believed he might be the person described as Victim 2 and that Sandusky had not abused him. Amendola said the young man later obtained a lawyer and cut off contact.
Amendola said Sandusky has told him he knew the young man in question but was convinced the date was in 2001, and at that time he had offered to help Curley locate the boy.
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/18167687/ag-changes-sandusky-shower-allegation-date-to-01
erose says:
May 9, 2012 at 5:54 am
Unless I am mistaken, didn’t Amendola say he had been in contact with victim 2 and that he had a different story?
B
I can see addessing the showering in general, but Amendola got specific on March 25. The gag order was placed April 9. Now, why does that date in June mean something?
erose says:
May 9, 2012 at 2:06 am
From a defense perspective, with a witness, and with the knowledge he had been accused of “inappropriate shower taking” in 1998, Amendola had no choice but to make it seem innocent- I mean, it worked before.
I would like to know the date in June that Jerr’s house was searched.
B
Just a reminder, Coach’s home was transferred to the Mrs in July.
One reason I can think of for an “oops” in the discovery is that there might be something in there that might conflict with accounts involving Joepa. Let me just say if that is the case, I will be the first to admit I will be one heartbroken gal.
Isn’t Amendola throwing Curley under the bus with this statement:
and at that time he had offered to help Curley locate the boy.
Isn’t that Sandusky saying he had a conversation with Curley about it whereby Curley says he never did?
WTH these people.
Finally erose, I am still reeling from the non-action in the Gricar/Sandusky interfaces post-disappearance by Corbetts office to this day. Nothing is going to surprise me.
B
Here’s a snip from another account of what was included in that now-removed prosecutors’ attachment. More items were listed; snipping for copyright reasons:
“It shows that a “contract” between Victim Four and Sandusky was obtained….
…adoption records…videos from local television stations, videos of the coach’s locker room in the Penn State Lasch Building…emails, and documents regarding Sandusky’s retirement from Penn State were also collected by investigators, the court records show.”
http://www.blackshoediaries.com/2012/5/8/3008457/jerry-sandusky-mike-mcqueary-joe-amendola-
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In reading back over the GJ presentment, NO ONE corrects McQueary’s date. It appears that Spanier, Curley, & Schultz testified to that being the time of the event.
So, do we suppose that none of them had written records of that date? Could be. Could be only computerized records, on the PSU server, which they couldn’t at that time request info from.
OTOH, do we think one or more of those 3, and/or JoePa, actually knew the date was wrong and failed to correct it in their grand jury testimony? If Curley or Schultz knew, were they advised to sit tight and they’d have their failure to report charges go away before their own trials. Why do that?
I’m still thinking about what Corbett’s plan might have been.
I’m afraid that I’m engaging in real conspiracy thinking on this date issue. If you’ve altered/deleted e-mail archives/records for a time period, that wouldn’t be hard to detect. But if the dates missing aren’t the dates in question . . . And do we think that Schultz and Curley would actually have e-mailed anything substantive about this, or just superficially?
Also, which years records were missing and then some later “found” for SM?
It is giving me a solid headache what people think they can get away with.
Because they have, for a very long time.
B
a righteous outcome would be Edwards & Sandusky sharing a cell for a couple decades.
Maybe their urges would be like offsetting and come out at the 50 yd line.
as Administrators S, C, & S MUST have known the report was Feb 2001; they can’t collectively be that stupid.
But imo they had no duty to correct the prosecutors if not asked the date directly in GJ.
In fact, in defense prep, undoubtedly their attorneys realized the error and deliberately sat on it rather than aide the Court by correcting the prosecutor’s pleadings. I’d like to see a Bar investigation but imo defense attorneys are not obligated to supervise the prosecution when inept or incorrect anc it would be detrimental to their clients.
Why is the prosecutor establishing the year and why (as I have asked before) does the prosecutor ask Paterno not to go into graphic detail. Court/GJ is the time and place for graphic detail.
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previous glitch – here the rest of the post
Q: I’d like to direct your attention to what I believe would be a spring break of 2002, around that time. Do you recall Michael McQueary calling you and asking to have a discussion with you about something that he observed?
Mr. Paterno: I’m not sure of the date, but he did call me on a Saturday morning. He said he had something that he wanted to discuss. I said, come on over to the house.
He came over to the house.
And as I said, I’m not sure what year it was, but I know it was a Saturday morning and we discussed something he had seen.
Q: Without getting into any graphic detail, what did Mr. McQueary tell you he had seen and where?
http://sportsbybrooks.com/transcript-joe-paterno-grand-jury-testimony-29933
McQ never came forward, he was “found.”
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Working off the brief mention on an Internet forum where people chatted about Penn State athletics, according to the two people with knowledge of the case, investigators narrowed their list of coaches likely to have seen something to Mike McQueary, then an assistant coach and the football program’s recruiting coordinator.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/sports/ncaafootball/internet-posting-helped-sandusky-investigators.html?pagewanted=all
I could not find the in NYT article the citing of specific years of the missing records.
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The New York Times reported last week that some The Second Mile board members were alarmed to learn that Sandusky’s travel and expense records for the years 2000 and 2003 were missing from an off-site storage facility. The material had been subpoenaed by prosecutors in an effort to piece together which children in The Second Mile programs may have attracted Sandusky’s attention and received gifts or been taken on trips by him, the paper reported. The Times said that the expense reports for one of those years had apparently been misfiled and were later located, but that the rest of material was still missing — a development that one unnamed investigator was quoted as calling “suspicious.”
http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/21/8939650-sandusky-charity-faced-contempt-motion-over-missing-records?lite
Huh?
The Second Mile also must provide Sandusky with a list of the people he was allowed to invite to his retirement party, but not their addresses or financial information.
Read more: http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2012-05-10/jerry-sandusky-abuse-scandal-trial-penn-state-defense-decision-subpoenas#ixzz1uVu3creQ
Dec. 2000
Sometimes, he would go to their football or soccer games. Other times, Second Mile children would join the Sandusky family for dinner or go to their house to watch television or play video games. *****Also, if he could get someone to sponsor them, a child would accompany Sandusky to a bowl game.*****
Since his retirement, Sandusky has been able to have children join him at nearly every Penn State home game.
Rather than sit in the press box with his wife, he uses *****the alumni seats***** they purchased when his children were young for Second Mile kids.
“On a game day, he’ll go get six, seven, eight kids and take them to the game,” Mrs. Sandusky said. “And they come and tailgate with us, and then he sits out in the stands with them. Then, they’ll all come back over and have dinner and play a touch football game or something.”
Sandusky also took Second Mile kids to training camp for the Washington Redskins this summer and later to the Redskins – Philadelphia Eagles game at Veterans Stadium.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu:8080/archive/2000/12/12-06-00tdc/12-06-00dsports-1.asp
Penn State community celebrates
Homecoming 2000
Jerry Sandusky, retired defensive coordinator for the Penn State football team, led the parade as its grand marshal.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu:8080/archive/2000/10/10-23-00tdc/10-23-00dnews-12.asp
These must be the guys that sponsored Sandusky’s retirement party. The one whose guest list is being subpoenaed from TSM. The ones where they told him whom he could invite.
Six degrees? Sandusky – Penn State (Struthers)/TSM (Struthers) – MBNA (Struthers) – Bush?/Biden?. I might be missing a degree or two. (BTW, Freeh is now an Italian citizen. Since October 2009. Was that about the time the GJ convened?) OMG, all roads do lead to Rome, I’m afraid.
And you have to ask yourself why the guy that’s working on the MF Global Bankruptcy case (Nov. 2011) has time to spend at Penn State straightening out Jerry Sandusky’s mess. Because he’s a good guy, or to get his old boss out of a jam?
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MBNA’s management team is studded with retired F.B.I. officials, including Louis J. Freeh, its former director.
(Mr. Freeh said Mr. Cawley reimbursed the company $35,000 for the use of the planes, much less than a charter would have cost.) Among the vacationers were four students from St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, which Mr. Cawley attended and later adopted as a pet project. MBNA is now the school’s biggest benefactor, according to the Rev. Edwin D. Leahy, the headmaster. The school declined to provide figures.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/07/business/expired-credit-king-was-cut-off-founder-mbna-meets-anxious-board-loses.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
He [Freeh] acquired Italian citizenship on October 23, 2009.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Freeh
Freeh came under scrutiny shortly after the announcement for his years working at MBNA, once one of the nation’s largest credit card companies, which held a $30 million contract with Penn State to obtain names and addresses of alumni and students, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Freeh worked from 2001 to 2006 as MBNA’s general counsel [and corporate ethics officer] until the company was acquired by Bank of America.
ABCNews.com has also determined that Freeh’s boss, MBNA’s chief executive Ric Struthers, sat on the Smeal Business School Board of Visitors at Penn State and now sits on the Board of Trustees for the Second Mile, Jerry Sandusky’s charity.
*****Struthers helped coordinate the “MBNA Jerry Sandusky Testimonial Dinner and Roast,” held by Penn State’s athletics department to benefit the Second Mile, in 2000.***** (Bold emphasis is added.)
http://ferblog.net/
Here is a link to the entire ABC article, with snips:
Frazier noted that Freeh has no connection to the university, or to Pennsylvania, and so would be an impartial investigator.
Tom Davies, a manager at the public relations firm Kekst & Co., hired by Penn State in the wake of the scandal, maintained that Freeh has no meaningful ties to Penn State.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/penn-state-hires-fbi-director-louis-freeh-investigate/story?id=14999351&page=2
For hundreds of inner-city boys who attended St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark during the past dozen years, credit-card giant MBNA has been nothing less than a surrogate parent.
Scholarships from MBNA — which has contributed about $27 million to the school — “have made it possible for many of these kids to come here. The bank has affected hundreds of lives,” Rev. Edwin Leahy,
headmaster, said yesterday. The donations also paid for a substantial renovation of the school’s brick building on Martin Luther King Boulevard.
MBNA founder and former Chief Executive Charles Cawley is a St. Benedict’s alumnus, and “a friend of mine and of the students,” Leahy said. “He is always here, and he contributes in many ways, with his time as well as his money.”
http://www.bankersacademy.com/pdf/StarLedgerBankofAmericaMBNA7012005.pdf
@erose
Freeh has a connection to Raycovick.
MBNA’s Charlie’s Dad – Judge Cawley’s Obit
…graduated from St. Benedict’s Prep and Seton Hall College.
He was a former Commander of American Legion Post 228; past president of Kiwanis International Club; past officer of Rotary International; past officer in the Union County Boys Scouts of America; and past officer of the St. James Knights of Columbus.
For his long time devotion and committment to the Catholic Church, Judge Cawley received appointment from Pope John Paul II and investiture from Cardinal O’Conner into the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre and the Knights of Malta.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/app/obituary.aspx?n=james-m-cawley&pid=154756216
I just fell on the floor, but I can still Google.
Blink says:
May 11, 2012 at 8:40 am
@erose
Freeh has a connection to Raykovitz
Lol. I will help you up. You would not find it unless you went a very specific direction and then you would need to drill down from “there”.
The only connection I could find, and this was some months back, is that “John” Jack Raykovitz and Louis Freeh were on campus at Rutgers together for 4 years. Freeh class of 71′ and then NB Law 74′
Interestingly, Raykovitz did not and does not appear in the very detailed Rutgers notable alumni annals, although Freeh does, and there would certainly be space for same, you can look here:
http://www.alumni.rutgers.edu/s/896/index.aspx?sid=896&gid=1&pgid=430
It is my opinion we will learn who wrote the infamous letter Jerry refers to in his book “Touched” ( I gag every time I have to write that title) was Raykovitz.
Can you say conflict?
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How do you pull this off? (and why?)
Skull and Bones
Honorary Member 2003
Jack Raykovitz
page 10
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:5MoQ4JrJ8-cJ:www.skullandbones.org/Members/nwsltrarchives/03-04.pdf+jack+raykovitz&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESikrkplmPWvztqfHuFoqLjIAY-S6hbnFPx-fOPWcbjTHN_3HUuhqwY6naVWJXu6aeRBW0gjh4ELDpZICudVuHyOzDyDWtG1McGoBN_m68LYXpiI-NtJakNLa1ydsfoaaT88v7mZ&sig=AHIEtbQQg732J3Fdu8bY94D2lhLTQmAlmw
John Hook is a Yardley dude, I will not have time to ferrit it out this morning, but I recall a person from Yardley somewhere quoted when this scandal broke and Jack resigned, that he had not seen or spoken to him in years or words to that effect.
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Rutgers?
Freeh ’71 & Law ’74
Raykovitz ’70 – ’74 A.B. Psychology
lol, yes, I outlined it in my response to you with some further detail of interest.
Your really good at the floor google, lol.
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TSM records under subpoena, that led to the contempt of court order (subsequently withdrawn) were for time period 2000 to 2003. Those for 2002 were found, misfiled, fairly quickly. Acc to Amendola, Jer has been adamant that the “non-incident” in the shower was in 2001. Not 2002.
So, if the media report that those records were “either missing or stolen” was implying that Jer was responsible for their unavailable status, that seems off the mark. If it were Jer, unless there were also incriminating 2002 records, it seems that he would’ve arranged for the 2001 records to be missing. Amendola had to know that before this goes to trial, prosecutors will find enough records to correct that date to 2001. He’s known all along.
This is a VERY long commentary, but so worth a read. It needs to be fact-checked, and bear in mind that it was from early in the case. But it’s well thought out. I don’t agree with the author’s conclusions exactly, but he is correct about the reporting law that was in effect in both 2001 and 2002. Raykovitz should be under the gun to such an extent that it indicts Corbett that he is not.
I almost wish Jer’s trial were delayed till the voters elect a new AG.
” The 2002 law required that the abused child come directly in contact with a person in his or her professional capacity in order for that person to be considered a mandatory reporter.
Neither Schultz, Curley or Joe Paterno fit the mandatory reporter description only people who are part of The Second Mile so that means one individual who was told of the 2002 incident. That person is Jack Raykovitz who’s professional capacity involved children exclusively. So why isn’t Raykovitz charged by Attorney General Kelly for the failure to report suspicious contact with a minor child?
Raykovitz already knows about the Second Mile mother who complained in 1998 and likely heard Sandusky’s. “I’m so sorry I wish I was dead” remark. Now he is faced with a second complaint from the institution that supports his charity. Raykovitz is the expert on underprivileged children. He has the access to counselors and programs for the kids. His awareness of the potential evils of child abuse should be a clear part of his box of tools. And he likely has close contacts in the Child Services agency from his charity work. So why isn’t Raykovitz all over this. It threatens his livelihood, his reputation, and the very existence of the charity he directs and even more it threatens his kids.
Now add the following into the pot and stir.
Why isn’t The Second Mile central to the Grand Jury Investigation since The Second Mile is the organization founded by Jerry Sandusky and the place were he stalked his prey?”
link:
http://notpsu.blogspot.com/2012/01/dueling-conspiracy-theories.html
@erose: You asked:
How do you pull this off? (and why?)
Skull and Bones
Honorary Member 2003
Jack Raykovitz
page 10
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I don’t understand your question. How do you pull WHAT off? When we talked about this earlier (or was that somewhere else I remember?), I (or my posting partner, if at another site) asked WHY give Raykovitz honorary membership? Because it was just a goodie that could be tossed his way?
Skull & Bones at PSU has given Honorary membership to others besides Raykovitz, and NOT just PSU faculty, starting in 1967. Were you asking how you pull off an honorary membership in that sense?
This, a snip from 2005 publication:
“…Honorary membership was given only to University faculty, staff, and administrators until 1967, when Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer was presented for membership….”
link:
http://www.skullandbones.org/About/history.html
___________________
Spanier and David Joyner both spoke that evening at the annual event at what I think you were linking to (couldn’t get your link to open, but found another). Also noticing that in the newsletter I’m linking below (same as yours?) an announcement that Spanier, and past PSU Presidents Bryce Jordan and Joab Thomas had together donated $50K to create a Trustee scholarship (bottom, pg 6).
Joe Battista also listed as member at that time. Maybe honored Raykovitz to further cement the PSU-TSM relationship, $-wise??
http://www.skullandbones.org/Members/nwsltrarchives/03-04.pdf
What are we looking for here, exactly? Was it Hook who nominated Raykovitz?