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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Kane would have been hired by Zimmerman when he was AG.
From 1986 to 1991, Kane was a Commonwealth Deputy Attorney General in the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office.
http://judgepedia.org/index.php/Yvette_Kane
Why was Steelers $$$ buying a federal judge in 2010?
Obituary: John R. ‘Jack’ McGinley / Steelers officer, boxing promoter, beer wholesaler
“The players used to wonder who everybody on the plane was. For a while, they thought he was the groundskeeper,” his oldest son, John R. McGinley Jr., recalled yesterday. “I don’t think the word pretentious was in his vocabulary.”
Mr. McGinley, of Point Breeze, whose family has owned part of the Steelers for more than 60 years….
In what was a lifelong family and business relationship, Mr. McGinley also partnered with the Rooneys in promoting professional boxing matches. He was also a partner in Wilson-McGinley Inc., the Strip District wholesaler for Miller and Heineken beers.
The elder McGinley’s four children, including Jack, each inherited 10.5 percent of the club. Upon the deaths of two of Jack’s siblings, the Rooneys bought their shares, with Jack and Rita keeping theirs.
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/obituaries/obituary-john-r-jack-mcginley-steelers-officer-boxing-promoter-beer-wholesaler-457123/
McGinley, Jr. is given this letter and Kane is on the cc list, but look at the reference to Sandusky just under the seal and to the right. [1959 - McGinley, Smith, Tyrrell, Sandusky, Legal, Notebook] Confusing as this is about dentistry.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:g56d1Lfax68J:www.irrc.state.pa.us/view_doc.ashx?file%3DFile-22187.pdf%26mod%3DTue%252C%2B12%2BApr%2B2011%2B18%253A24%253A57%2BGMT%26IRRCNo%3D1959+John+R.+McGinley,+Jr+%2B+yvette+kane&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiU7C9ndLC4bFtfcjel6TMEACgd8BH434v5L0vMj84n-tSznRlkKaAoFKKxokltn01lqg7YOyUdOj-TKYuQI-ivGQsGyHWgP61mWoAXGyjvihdEquTVnjUSlree5OgGhmlR_NYa&sig=AHIEtbTdbe_bvxKuCFCceH5DFeIV5-A5yw
Now another document to McGinley, cc to Judge Kane, and notice the copies under the seal have been removed? Also, the content of the psychology questions in 1998 are interesting.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Qr-6hriT3SUJ:www.irrc.state.pa.us/view_doc.ashx?file%3DFile-22078.pdf%26mod%3DTue%252C%2B12%2BApr%2B2011%2B18%253A24%253A20%2BGMT%26IRRCNo%3D1931+John+R.+McGinley,+Jr+%2B+yvette+kane&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESg1KofWrKwzrK4JmupMLY1QJ2TMmqr7TrdLnXU0qrKdqly9zPri0uhOwGNgBeyPttGVHHHbcCFatcKDdDzw2FGldqNE6XuQMj6582WHXdHnlfc77ZgYi9968ZK7RkvTjVa3qY7I&sig=AHIEtbSVK0zeLz4LruElC1bFubs8cbkJxQ
One more then I quit. Who the heck is this Sandusky? Are they involved in government business? Is s[he] related to Art or Jerry Sandusky? They seem somewhat important in 1998 to receive a copy of a seemingly innocuous yet official letter on regulations.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:2O3V3boctX8J:www.irrc.state.pa.us/view_doc.ashx?file%3DFile-22176.pdf%26mod%3DTue%252C%2B12%2BApr%2B2011%2B18%253A24%253A54%2BGMT%26IRRCNo%3D1958+John+R.+McGinley,+Jr+%2B+yvette+kane&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgO4450rIG-i5ZXY573CTR4lZQGj5sNL5UGQKDEf-d7vZx1KdwT_Op0n-S-mNzd-HSolhfwozEdRpb8NsPo072U1wfz2RWjbLc_1caafDOdW0H4YQlhR7Sw1QU5-dxV0nsecPDq&sig=AHIEtbRZqItBhnodFUHkk_6kqvcUGsuU2g
erose- I have no flipping clue at this juncture. Sandusky does not hold any professional licenses in PA.
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Without looking up the regs, this could have been a game changer for McQ’s dad, the doc and Sandusky. Was this the regs that started in the letters in 1998, that were drafted in 2001 and finally approved here in 2003. What, if anything, generated the need? And why is an athletic trainer included in an otherwise medical regulation?
Public Meeting held
November 20, 2003
Commissioners Voting: John R. McGinley, Jr., Esq., Chairperson; Alvin C. Bush, Vice Chairperson, by phone; Daniel F. Clark, Esq.; Arthur Coccodrilli; Murray Ufberg, Esq.
State Board of Medicine–Sexual Misconduct; Regulation No. 16A-497
On November 7, 2001, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission (Commission) received this proposed regulation from the State Board of Medicine. This rulemaking amends 49 Pa. Code Chapter 16. The proposed regulation was published in the November 24, 2001, Pennsylvania Bulletin with a 30-day public comment period. The final-form regulation was submitted to the Commission on October 8, 2003.
This regulation provides guidance to practitioners and the public regarding sexual misconduct. Regulated practitioners include:
****medical doctors;
midwives;
****physician assistants;
drugless therapists;
****athletic trainers;
acupuncturists;
and applicants for a license or certificate that the Board may issue.
We have determined this regulation is consistent with the statutory authority of the State Board of Medicine (63 P. S. §§ 422.8 and 422.41(8)) and the intention of the General Assembly. Having considered all of the other criteria of the Regulatory Review Act, we find promulgation of this regulation is in the public interest.
By Order of the Commission:
This regulation is approved.
@Beejay, I know you were into the gambling aspect of this awhile ago, I apologize in advance if you have already posted this. Great compliation of family of the man that is keeping the presiding federal judge in jewels, and his cousins.
For me, there are two realities. One, forged during childhood, is of a team that has demonstrated a relentless commitment to winning. The other, through the eyes of an adult who has been a cynic a time or two, is of real flesh and blood men who do things at night that do not always mesh with what men say during the day. Only children, geniuses, and idiots continue to believe that things are exactly as they seem. I stand here as the father of twins, aspiring to reach my 42nd birthday, knowing that I am neither child, genius or idiot. I know that things are not as they seem.
For the second generation of Rooneys — a clan that included in Pittsburgh their first cousins, the McGinleys — ownership didn’t mean entitlement. They and the McGinleys started at the bottom. They worked.
“Everyone who has an ownership in sports worked there as a teenager,” said attorney John R. McGinley Jr. “It was probably everyone’s first job. I did it. I lined fields and did laundry, and picked up players and drove them to the airport and got to know them. We’re all football nuts. At least in our family, football was the thread that tied everybody together. It was kind of like the Sunday family gathering. Going to games was our version of that.”
Even though they’re successful in other professions today, the Rooneys and the McGinleys re-enact a family ritual inside Heinz Field before each home game. They meet and greet inside a luxury box, then make their ways into the stands to be closer to the fans.
For centuries, this nation masqueraded as a slave-holding democracy…and very few people believed the contradiction was sufficient to end compulsory servitude. Even today, our schools systems continue this delusion by masking, ignoring and falsifying the history of those enslaved Africans. So, it should come as no surprise that a group of Irish Catholics (two groups known the world over for story-telling) should have concocted a grand fable of moral superiority all while presiding over a billion dollar gambling empire that feeds addiction and crime. That this fable entangles two sports in which performance enhancing drugs are essential; where wagers rule the day; and criminal networks are always circulating like so many vultures simply should not be a revelation. Nonetheless, in America, it comes not as mere news, but as a shockwave.
http://temple3.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/a-challenge-to-the-pittsburgh-steelers/
@erose. Piece on the trial itself: “End Zone Clutch”
Guess that title has to go in Vanity Fair though.
Too bad the “trial writer” Dunne is gone.
I am gobsmacked. However erose finds this stuff, I don’t know but I’m forever grateful.
The eloquence and research of Temple3 could win a Pulitzer (with a little editing and a few more dirty deeds–with a potential link to some federal judges). Dom Donne could tie for second, Rose–too bad he’s gone.
I’m sure Put a Ring On It was a prerequiste for Ms. Kane. Maybe she could dance better than Beyonce? Wuh uh oh uh uh oh oh uh oh uh uh oh
“All the single ladies/Now put your hands up”
And the licensure stuff! Good eye on the erased ‘copy to:’ and the questions about sexual/romantic interests, erose. It refers to athletic trainers, as well. Perhaps one named Sandusky?
Gobsmacked all day long.
Isn’t part of Blink’s title “Financial Incest”? Ahem.
I figured it was a wingnut behind the impeach Judge K. website, but the more I read, it seems like sour grapes. (I’m working on my cliche collection.)
Judge K’s record should be analyzed carefully, considering the extent of $80,000 in gifts between 2003 and 2008. Maybe we could get Temple3 to do it?
All is not fresh in Denmark (any better?).
@erose: I can’t get any of your links to those letters to open. But there was/is a John R. McGinley, Jr. who is with the firm
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC. Was also at one time Chairman of the Independent Regulatory Review Commission in Harrisburg. I pulled up a pdf of a 2001 letter from some other atty to him on behalf of an insurance trade assn. That letter was cc’d to, among others, a:
Richard M. Sandusky, Deputy Director for Regulatory Analysis
Can’t see your other links, so this might be totally unrelated. Don’t know what you’re looking for here.
Also, out of Duquesne U. earlier this month:
“Dougherty received an honorary doctorate of humane letters, as did Sr. Mary Jean Ryan, F.S.M., chair of the board of SSM Health Care in St. Louis, Mo., and John R. McGinley Jr., an attorney with Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC in Pittsburgh, Pa., and outgoing chair of St. Bonaventure’s Board of Trustees.
McGinley had already served 10 years during the 1990s as a trustee when he returned in 2004 as chair to help the university recover from an academic and athletic scandal.”
at:
http://www.sbu.edu/About_News.aspx?id=38560
i’m still stuck on that darn Penn State wrestling jacket Sandusky paraded off to jail in. And why–if other than all his other jackets were in the laundry at the time.
Can anyone buy one like it? Did someone at Penn State Wrestling team or club give it to him? Why?
If he was sending a msg I wonder if it was to remind someone with wrestling ties that they have an obligation to him. Or, that he can rat them out.
I loved reading Dunne. I still get the mag, but no longer look forward to it.
Rose says:
May 24, 2012 at 11:03 am
@erose
a BS or Masters in Athletic Training degree
is normally in colleges’ Health Depts,
whatever College that Health is assigned to as schools vary.
In many ways they function like physical therapists.
Idk how/if PA licenses athletic trainers though.
American College of Emergency Physicans
[Jewett, Tyrrell, Sandusky, Legal]
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=McGinley%2C+Smith%2C+Tyrrell%2C+Sandusky%2C+Legal%2C+Notebook&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CEwQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irrc.state.pa.us%2Fview_doc.ashx%3Ffile%3DFile-22609.pdf%26mod%3DTue%252C%2B12%2BApr%2B2011%2B19%253A21%253A46%2BGMT%26IRRCNo%3D2020&ei=BJu-T7PMH6qliQLt0tX0Bw&usg=AFQjCNFuL6BclLctMVFi5OMKodXbfxDIeA
@word girl
Lol.
Beejay, I think you hit on the right Sandusky. Don’t know why you can’t open letters. Doesn’t matter, unless Richard and Jerry Sandusky are related, they are irrelevant.
beejay says:
May 24, 2012 at 3:05 pm
Richard M Sandusky currently on Gaming Review Board. Memo: file to the back of my brain.
http://gamingcontrolboard.pa.gov/files/regulations/Temporary_Rulemakings_125-116_Gemaco_Public_Comment.pdf
@WordGirl – No need to work on your cliche’s. I am a decent researcher, but that is where my skill set ends. Ever see me try and put 2 + 2 together? That’s where I get whacked down, lol, but I’m a learnin’. Here’s my try at “words” girl. What a difference a hyphen makes.
She said: Wuh uh oh uh uh oh oh uh oh uh uh oh
He said: Uh-oh.
Yep. That’s what I always say. What a difference a hyphen makes.
Def.
erose, what type of profession do you work, or once worked, in? and beej? same? Just wondering how you two got these skill sets.
We know Rose has got the CPS, Social, Political world down and is an excellent researcher, too.
Beejay asked about the PS U Wrestling jacket. I think the warmups must have been ordered by the team, including some extras, but one to include Sandusky.
You can buy those things customized online and at shops where they do the imprinting, embroiderey, but I think that Jer may have been close enough to the program to get one.
Why he was wearing it on arrest day, we don’t know…Maybe was enjoying a little memory lane time, thinking about all those times in the Lasch building, teaching young boys how grapple.
Have y’all seen this photo compilation of 1969-70 wrestlers? I tracked a few of them down–they seem pretty successful.
http://tinyurl.com/cgl2bf9
There’s also a page of quotes from former players–maybe you’ve already posted it, but just in case:
http://nittanyliongrappling.org/pennstatewrestling.html
@WordGirl.
Wife, mother, grandmother, first a foremost, and professionally a CFO and contract administrator. I read lots of boring documents, that’s my talent, but about a week ago I found out I could Goggle while laying on the floor.
ROTFL, so needed that. Googling on the floor should translate, googling from the floor as a acronym response, so congrats erose, you made up a new one
GFTFL= see above.
Make no mistake, reading boring docs is an absolute skill. I am thankful for it.
B
Sandusky 1983 – Knights of Columbus Coach of the Year
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=19830425&id=qapdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Vl0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1967,3816880
@Word Girl: “You can buy those things customized online and at shops where they do the imprinting, embroiderey, but I think that Jer may have been close enough to the program to get one.”
I tell ya, I’m almost sure that someone gave it to him. The design is distinctive. I’ve seen that particular design presented to student-athletes as an award. I’ve seen coaches wearing that particular design. Jer was wearing it in 2011 and it looked in good shape. Like he probably had gotten it after his retirement from PSU.
He has/had friends at all levels of wrestling, in the university and in junior wrestling. My guess is he chose it on purpose; if not, that it was simply what he customarily wore. Either way, it’s the athletic discipline he was identifying with in 2011.
Hesitating to name innocent folks here. Just because he might have tried to play a card, doesn’t mean it worked. His historical connections are all out there; people still connected with PSU in high places.
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WG: to answer your question, I just google, think, and follow what I find. Never been trained to do any of this. Not my line of work and I never read the book I bought on advanced googling or some-such. Lol. If I can find stuff, anybody can, with persistence.
I don’t understand football. So, I’ve been speed-reading a little about the various positions. Then I ran across something that explains how football and wrestling intersect (which probably the rest of the world already knew).
“The thing that made it appealing for me was the thing that makes it unappealing for others — anonymity,” Joyner said. “It is a one-on-one battle with a defensive lineman. It was like a wrestling match all day long. I sort of liked that.”
http://www.collegian.psu.edu:8080/archive/1994/11/11-26-94cm/11-26-94cm-1.asp
(At State College High School Joyner had played on both the offensive and defensive line. He wasn’t sure which he’d end up playing at PSU. That’s the context for the quote above.)
Just shaking my head at this news. Oh, dear God.
TSM has asked the court for approval to cease operations, transferring its primary programs to a new organization.
snip
“Arrow, whose national headquarters are in Spring, Texas, a Houston suburb, was founded in 1992 by Mark Tennant, who grew up in Washington, Pa., and was himself severely abused as a child. The charity expanded into Pennsylvania in 2004 and now serves 300 children in seven counties from its base in Altoona. If a judge approves The Second Mile’s petition, Arrow plans to open additional offices in State College and in the Harrisburg and Philadelphia areas.
“I grew up not far from Penn State and the hurt created by these shocking circumstances affected me personally,” Tennant, who earned a divinity degree from Oral Roberts University, said in a statement Friday. “I felt the need to turn my heart home and be a part of the healing process.”"
http://news.bostonherald.com/sports/college/football/view/20120525jerry_sandusky_charity_to_shut_down_transfer_programs/
Does the liability transfer? PFFFTTTT.
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Arrow. Ya’ll will want to read up on it. Their operation down in TX was supposed to open a new safehouse for victims of sex trafficking at the end of 2011–Freedom Place. Didn’t check to see if it’s open yet. That’s related to the wing of Arrow that’s under the Michael Reagan programming, I think.
Anywho, not only is Tennant, its founder, himself a victim of child sexual and physical abuse, but Reagan has his own abuse story.
Snip:
“I know firsthand the pain of sexual exploitation. As a child, I was sexually abused for a year by a trusted summer camp counselor. I was molested and I was the victim of child pornography.
I often tell people that If it can happen to Ronald Reagan’s son, it can happen to anyone.”
http://www.freedomplaceus.org/site/freedom/message-from-michael-reagan.html
I’m sure this is all wonderful. I personally have serious reservations about victims getting into this line of work. I’d need to learn ALL about the psychological treatment they’ve received. And with this history, they need ongoing followup. Psychologists do that sort of thing all the time, usually called “Professional Supervision”. Which differs from psychotherapy (which might be needed, too). It helps them deal with their own baggage, in an ongoing way, as it gets triggered by instances in their work. And it does, and it will.
I’m just. flabbergasted. I’d need to know much, much more before I’d feel comfortable making a referral. Arrow already has a program in Blair County, PA. Baltimore. Maybe more in that geog area. I need a xanax.
@beejay. TY for your last two posts. I’m with you. Imo nope to professional supervision cause they aren’t socialized to a professional mindset in the first place (witness Founder’s wierd emotional statements: “turn my heart home” “affected personally”
Arrow is in expansion mode. They found a business opportunity. We’ve seen do many of these for profit parasitic businesses haven’t we, if we work with damaged children in the system. Even if labeled non-profit.
Imo by purchase contract, liabilities won’t transfer.
Somebody liberate TSM kids (placed in their foster care custody or required to attend their programs) from the corrupt juvie courts of this County.
So what Wash County fine citizens will Arrow be adding to its Board and receiving as donors?
Let’s watch those Annual Reports roll outs.
omg: already in PA at 300 kids in 7 counties.
points of light ?
put gov’t programs & supervision and professional standards out of business by
contracting programs into a laxly audited private sector owned by Friends of Politicians…
surely govt program $ are part of Co’s income, and the CEO is expanding
into receptive States (TX, PA).
Beejay. I grew up in Dallas when the Cowboys were in the Cotton Bowl. Girls had no sports but cheerleading.
Football was all. No one ever heard of wrestling. It wasnt a sport. If it was, it was for sissies. Only baseball and basketball existed besides football (60s). I was the only female (taken because I was an episodic employee on college breaks, with the Dallas Seminary students Tom Landry farmed Cowboy’s program selling out to then) to sell Cowboy programs at the Stadium to make money and get in to see games free. Imo in JS’ era (my era) football had nothing whatsoever to do with wrestling. Someone just wanted Touch.
@bedjay.
just read back far enough.
Don’t you think the wrestling jacket was his habitual comfort object,
like a binkie or blankie. an easier explanation than a message.
also have read now the wrestling stuff. Idk about PA, but in God’s football country in the 60s,
AAAA Hi Sch (I was band and always there), Longhorns and C’boys, to which I was devoted
and for which a friend wrote sports for Dallas News,
I can never remember any football player wrestling or it being spoken of.
Would’ve been seen as something for wimps.
Again, I think it Touch preferences as relates to Jer.
Partially, how Y Kane got on the bench?
http://articles.mcall.com/1998-08-14/news/3212839_1_sen-santorum-federal-judges-sen-specter
Clinton weak.
Deference historically to home state Senators in judicial appointments.
Repub PA Sen Spector was Chair of Judiciary.
PA Sen Santorum acting out, blocking all Federal judicial nominees until he got a Republican (read also Catholic right to life in)
Imo Santorum had his cap set for this Catholic, Republican right to life female.
Also, with her background in LA, there was probably support from Sen John Breaux, the Dem Whip, whose vote Clinton knew he’d need shortly in impeachment trial: http://www.australianpolitics.com/usa/clinton/trial/statements/breaux.shtml
Rooneys look like a real piece of work.
Too bad a gambling family system married the NFL.
I don’t think Rooneys would wipe their shoes on JS though.
“G-Span” needs an F5 (refresh function key).
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-crime-pennstatebre84p02n-20120525,0,6888189.story
GFTFL!
Seems appropriate to re-post re: hockey talk. I suppose it would be easy jor Sandusky to get his hands on any of the sports memrobilia at Penn State, but it is interesting he’s using hockey, fwiw,
beejay says:
December 31, 2011 at 8:14 am
I’m confused. Is this a new accusation, or just more details on one we already know about? There are interesting details. Civil suit only; no criminal complaint filed it says, yet Atty Gen is investigating.
If true, it’s disgusting. Giving his alledged victim memorabilia after he rapes him.
Per the boy’s lawyer: “Schmidt said Sandusky gave the boy a football championship commemorative bottle and a hockey puck, and that both items have recently been turned over to police.”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/30/teen-accuses-ex-penn-state-coach-sandusky-raping-him-on-campus/
Not sure how I just mixed up hockey and wrestling, but I did.
@Rose: Um. Reread my quote about the link between wrestling and football and their intersection. Anonymity and body contact. (I had to search really hard to find that particular item.)
I won’t have anything further to say about it onscreen.
Quote attributed to Dave Joyner:
“Joyner: My best memories from Penn State are: the wonderful fans and the crowds at Rec Hall where we wrestled, my friendships with my coaches and teammates, and my continued friendship with Coach Rich Lorenzo in the years past. Ira Lubert and I have remained great friends even with our competitiveness on the mat at Penn State.”
http://www.blackshoediaries.com/2011/12/22/2655874/breaking-penn-state-confirms-it-is-slowly-looking-for-a-head-coach
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Remember the criticism that Joyner and Ira Lubert (Lubert a TSM director) were working to control the selection of the replacement coach for JoePa?
“‘I didn’t need this job’
Joyner confronts the criticism with a candor that belies the argument.
Yes, he has had financial problems. He confronted them and they are in the past.
Yes, he has experience relevant to the job. And no, his buddies did not arrange a job for him.
In the wake of the scandal and the firing of Paterno, who died of lung cancer Jan. 22, Joyner said he read a story out of Philadelphia speculating that he was being considered to fill in for Curley. Joyner said he went to newly appointed university President Rodney Erickson about the story, and Erickson asked Joyner if he’d be willing to take the job. So Joyner agreed.
Joyner did not deny that his longtime friend, Ira Lubert, the $12 billion Philadelphia real estate fund manager and fellow Penn State board member, also talked with Erickson about the prospect. But he denied they went fishing for the job.
“That is absolutely untrue,” Joyner said.”
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/05/penn_state_acting_athetic_dire.html
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@Rose: Joyner and Lubert might just beat your butt for that “wrestling is for sissies” comment! Lol. PA is probably the major state for U.S. wrestling. They developed a whole feeder system for club wrestling and college-to-pro wrestling. It’s all the way down to kindergarten now, via summer wrestling camps. There’s private companies running training camps, and some of their owners wrestled at PSU. But I think you’ll be more interested in the Lubert-Joyner connections explored in that pennlive article above; I suspect you’re already aware of them. Comments there are interesting.
How in the world did Jer get away with repeated assaults of Victim 9 in the Hilton Garden Inn? How was the hotel registration handled? Did the staff never witness anything? I’ll betcha that someone with power or even indirect influence, who wanted to find that out, or needed to know at the time, could have learned some things. Hotel management, management company it was under contract with, stockholder, owner–somebody.
Victim 9:
The alleged offenses occurred at Sandusky’s home and at the pool and fitness center of the Hilton Garden Inn on East College Avenue between summer 2005 and 2009. The age of the alleged victim spans ages 13 to 15 or 16.
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/prosecution-8-alleged-sandusky-victims-suffered-abuse-on-psu-campus-1016328/
http://hiltongardeninn3.hilton.com/en/hotels/pennsylvania/hilton-garden-inn-state-college-SCESTGI/index.html
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I think that the small office in the East Area of Rec Hall, which Jer was given after his retirement, is where intercollegiate wrestling (and other sports) was located. After football moved out to the new Lasch bldg. If I’ve got that right, he was physically close to the wrestling facilities during his retirement yrs.
“Penn State alumni Ira and Karen Lubert of Moorestown, N.J., have committed $1 million to a variety of programs and projects that will benefit students at University Park campus, Penn State Great Valley and Penn State Abington.
From the total gift, $200,000 will support planned renovations of the Recreation Building (Rec Hall) at University Park, home to the Intercollegiate Athletics wrestling squad and the men’s and women’s gymnastics and volleyball teams, among others. Ira Lubert is a former Penn State wrestler.”
http://www.psu.edu/ur/archives/intercom_1998/Oct1/giving.html
Wait a minute. Victim 9′s “alleged offenses occurred at Sandusky’s home and at the pool and fitness center of the Hilton Garden Inn.”
Maybe JS wasn’t a hotel guest at all. Maybe he just used the pool and fitness center facilities without being a guest.
In the recent ammendment it says hotel room at the HGI, so I presume he rented a room a mile from Beaver Stadium and nobody thought that was odd?
B
Well, in late 2009 one of the restaurants at that Hilton Inn was doing a fundraiser for the Penn State Wrestling Club, as announced on PSWC’s website:
“Harrison’s Wine and Grill Fundraiser
In the last Update I announced that anytime you dine at or take out from Harrison’s Wine and Grill (Located in the Hilton Garden Inn on East College Avenue in State College) on any Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, between now and February 12, 2010 they will contribute 20% of your total bill (less taxes and gratuity) to the PSWC. All you need to do is tell the cashier that you are associated with the PSWC when you pay. Glenda and I have dined there several times and encourage you to do so as well. The food is very good and your dining pleasure benefits the PSWC.”
http://www.pennstatewrestlingclub.org/content/read_news.php?id=538
TSM on a grand scale. run by non-professionals imo
http://www.reaganlegacyfoundation.org/luncheon-blind-side-family-and-michael-reagan-raises-over-320000
Reminds me of Amway only the product is children in the “system” who lack choice and parental safeguards.
http://www.arrow.org/church/communityrelations/Community-Relations.html
http://www.arrow.org/church/churchrelations/Churches-Partnering-With-Us.html I bet this org is Fellowship Foundation connected & that’s it’s in when political connections are needed. Next you’ll see it as a military contract service provider in States with bases like Fla, the Carolinas.
Church Mortgage Solutions:
http://www.churchmortgagesolutions.com/testimonials_The%20Arrow%20Project.html
Arrow borrowed money to expand, weak controls, “believer” financed.
this may have potential for a ponzi scheme on the backs of foster children.
PA State AG where are you?
I had not realized church & state had so firmly married on the social services end:
http://www.freethecaptiveshouston.com/houston-anti-human-trafficking-conference.php
In the 70s, becoming a professional social worker was seen as secular betrayal in the community of these particular churches.
In MD provides Residential “treatment” for iep’d children and not even an ED classification:
http://www.arrow.org/family/Special-Education.html
Baltimore/Bel Air: imo Catholic areas informally
With Md way out there on “inclusion”, htf did this happen?
@Beejay. Thanks for pointers in the direction of a special interest sport as developed in PA by “real men.”
I could only comment on what Texans growing up in Gerry’s era thought (or never thought) of wrestling.
Very interesting Arrow was founded 1992 and Tennsnt was from the County
http://news.bostonherald.com/sports/college/football/view/20120525jerry_sandusky_charity_to_shut_down_transfer_programs/
Makes me wonder if there had been a plan for some time, before JS was outed and sacrificed, by some locals to work out this very takeover. Pity there’s not some sort of court case where the parties could be deposed as to when the idea was first discussed.
The couple running TSM were very expensive and perhaps were no longer team players.
Watch to see who the local donors to Arrow will be, what churches pick up supporting their programs, and eho’s a Trustee in those churches.
@beejay re
http://mobile.pennlive.com/advpenn/pm_111039/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=nSklsSTt
My reaction is J-L can have close personal ties yet function independently re PS.
They are clearly Board allies though and the Board has chosen to keepthe AD of PS and the football/wrestling etal programs all in the family.
J has all the qualifications for the job imo, although it seems most of his pure business decisions havd been poor.
The money in his life was that first string of Sports Institutes. Wasn’t the outfit he sold them too connected to another
county father in this saga? That sold property should have been his cash cow.
Being an orthopedic surgeon takes more than full-time in a surgical job and a whole focus. He lost that imo when he went Olympics Dr. We’ve seen a lot of a sports med orthopedic surgeon in the last 2 years (and the OR). Yes, absolutely they decide and think and prescribe like a V coach (erring on the side of “keep playing” “take risks.”
What else can he do in life now but be an AD or personal trainer? This job was tailor made for him (meaning suitable). Curley never had a chance, not that he should have. Who out there thinks Erickson had independent hiring power btw?
@beejay. Yes, I got the inference on wrestling/football.
My intended response was that this may be a State (PA) or more modern
phenomenon which “grew up” because some men of yore promoted both sports jointly.
Obviously it was promoted jointly at PS.
Last night I thought:
Look at the PS sports athletic training bldg.
The one with the pool, the wrestling mats, the locker rooms.
Who paid for that bldg (major donor), who had design control vis a vis space
and prominence of individual areas, ie wrestling?
What was the percent of sq footage of the wrestling training room in proportion to the bldg?
Was wrestling SF in the athletic trg bldg in line with schools with other major football teams (Mich, TX, etc)?
back to the donors for that bldg.
Didn’t a lot of PS-associated Conferences,
and medical conferences (and probably the local Bar Assn too)
take place at HGI?
You know if I were those two former TSM married administrators, I’d go turn State’s witnesses for immunity.
@beejay. many local food businesses do exactly that sort of percent of sales
nite for every obscure high school and college sports team.
Means nothing really imo
@beejay. just read your new posts.
You already got to who funded
the wrestling facilities.
So far behind your shining light…
So do we infer Sandusky and Lubert
retained a friendship
after the latter’s graduation such that after JS retired his home
base and the wrestling team were made
comfortable?