Freeh Report on Sandusky and PSU BOMBSHELL: What They Missed
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@erose says:
July 13, 2012 at 12:07 am
See, this is what I mean. Why would they be buying Sandusky’s silence to begin with?
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My take: they still needed his ability to bring in $$ to PSU (we’ve seen lots of those events subsequent to 2001). And, they’d already covered up for him for the 1998 event. That happened early on, when JKA told Schreffler to hold off on another psych eval on JS (after the one by victim’s psychologist). BUT, Schreffler ignored JKA–the AD’s office–and went ahead and had Mr. Seasock make his little comments re JS. Without any background info. Seasock has been an occasional “consultant” for PSU subsequent to that. IDK if he was before. I only know he did work for CYS.
This was a hot potato also because of the value of TSM (with JS as its face much more than Raykovitz) to PSU and to a number of PSU staff and Trustees in their individual financial interests. One of those individuals was Paterno, who offered JS the opportunity to continue in his asst coach position as long as JP remained head coach. That says a lot, doesn’t it?
We don’t know what JS suspected these people had previously covered up for him on. We know that he flagrantly pranced around PSU facilities for years with these kids. And I will bet you that JS thought (or knew, but we don’t) that he’d been witnessed assaulting kids before 1998 and no one said anything. So he’s gonna react real badly if they piss him off now. There may be more.
Here’s another place for those who want to take on some research into the courts, esp the federal courts in PA. Or to just read. Short snip from long article:
“A McQuaide partner, and prolific litigator, James Horne, is the current president of the Middle District Federal Bar Association, a position that requires close work with President Judge Kane, and Conner and Jones as well. He was nominated and installed as president between 2009 and 2011. The investigation under Tom Corbett is believed to have begun in 2009, then there was a hiatus until after Corbett was elected governor, and the investigative grand jury resumed in 2011.”
AT:
http://pennsylvaniacivilrightslawnetwork.com/2011/11/16/penn-state-lawyers-and-federal-courts-the-good-old-boys-network-have-role-in-sandusky-scandal/
Word Girl,
I think the definition intended for “forge” was “To give form or shape to, especially by means of careful effort,” as in to “forge a treaty.” Or perhaps it was to “to advance gradually or carefully,” as in to “forge ahead.” But I don’t think the counterfeit definition was intended.
@A Texas Grandfather says:
July 12, 2012 at 11:44 pm
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The coincidence between the two sums of money, $168,000 and $168,500, is remarkable indeed.
It was reported that Sandusky initially wanted an additional $20,000 per year to make up the difference for taking early retirement (30 instead of 35 years). Apparently, even with the early-out incentive, he still thought he should be compensated for retiring. Seems to indicate that the desire to get out wasn’t coming from him.
$20,000 at 10 percent for 15 years (beginning of year payments) comes out to a present value of just under $168,000. I had tried some quick and dirty calculations to see how they may have gone from the $20k annuity to the $168k lump sum.
Prayers to you and your Mom blink.
WordGirl — I think it is pretty clear that the word “forged” there intends the traditional meaning of the word (to make), and is not a reference to forgery.
Beejay — no doubt in my mind that schultz is going to be convicted in part because of the info about concealing evidence. They may well bring new charges against him.
Prayers Blink.
Great first post Laila.
I shouldn’t speak for the group, but in this case I think not one of us would want you to apologize or feel torn in anyway. Not to get too personal, but just be a full time daughter, and when your Mom feels better, you can get us back on track.
Ty kindly friend.
B
So sorry to hear about your mom Blink. Sending prayers today for you and yours.
Blink
Your mom and family come first over anything else. My daily prayers always include her. Give her a big hug from each of us.
This can be a difficult time. This blog can survive while you give her the daily care she needs.
Thank you all.
Thank you much erose. I know you all can do just fine without me and I am very grateful.
Many prayers going up for your mother, Blink.
@Blink. sorry you’ve entered that season of sole focus, a precious gift to your parent. blessings.
@Beejay. wrt State AG vs Freeh Group wrt differential comments on JP. It seems to me either course of action could be called warranted by the Board in terms of his termination date. Freeh pointed out the sloppy execution of
immediate termination.
When the AG filed charges, PS had not provided the emails as subpoenaed, later located by Freeh who was permitted by PS to search the system.
Additionally, Schultz had not provided his notes as subpoenaed but secreted them until Apr 2012.
It was on these materials that Freeh hangs his co-conspirators’ hat and was enabled to speak strongly. Had they been found when Escbach made her Facebook posting?
If PS didn’t supply them in response to subpoena, what could AG do but get a warrant for an on site search? But Schultz had removed his file. I think the AG did the best she could in charging Schultz/Curley with perjury, expecting them to give up co- conspirators in plea bargaining. And maybe that was how she learned of Schultz’ file. Anyway, until the emails surfaced there was no evidence against JP, and by then he was dead.
@beejay. I thought it was Lauro who brought in his regular contractor, Seasock. Because Lauro was in Harrisburg due to a conflict of interest by local CYS, I think there was just a communication failure in relating JKA messages. Not easy to get ahold of CPS workers/supervisors. Weak secretarial infrastructure and often in the field.
Prayers and hugs Blink. I feel your sorrow. My dad is terminal with secondary bone cancer. Just a matter of time and all consuming of my sanity and strength. One day at a time and God grant me the serenity…
@rose: “Had they been found when Escbach made her Facebook posting?”
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No; that was much earlier. My real beef with her is wth is a prosecutor posting that kind of thing on her freakin Facebook for? A little professional distance, please.
I think someone tipped off Freeh that Schultz had a file. Then Freeh contacts AG, they got a warrant, and go search the rafters for it. However it happened, glad it did.
RICO opens up to civil litigants as well.
Wrt Seasock: I know he was doing work for CYS then. Maybe he worked for PA-DPW, too. I didn’t try to find out. And I’ve forgotten that confusing mess.
To me, importantly, once he was brought in, after JKA said to hold off, suddenly 10 pages of that PSU 100-pg report got withheld from our view. And case was closed. And subsequently PSU paid him some “consulting” fees; that’s what he got on the record. I ‘spose cause he does such fine work. It stinks; sounds like PSU trying to get it over and “behind us” as Schultz said.
IDK copyright law wrt comments under a published article. Can I bring an entire comment here and post it?
Yes with the link @beejay
May the force be with you Blink – we are all behind you
Never!, but we will manage.
Christina Stoy says:
July 13, 2012 at 3:09 pm
TY, Blink. Here it is:
jka
Before this is over, if it be allowed to run an honest course (and that of course is
the major question, as to which the incessant leaking geared to slanting
public opinion is obviously not a positive sign), the public may find there are many others in addition to Corbett who seek to benefit from the ‘fades into the background’ syndrome. Paterno’s larger-than-life persona has already been used once as a convenient means of causing troubling things to ‘fade away’. And I refer to the choice to fire him in such degrading a manner as to insure to move all
media attention to the resulting firestorm and avoid exploration of why GS was
fired. Which it did.
Now the public is to be ‘whipped up into a frenzy’ again via suggestion that
the now-deceased Paterno was somehow the primary responsible party in the “PSU coverup”. Certainly Corbett and his unseemly delay in moving the situation along benefit from it. But I doubt it ends there, and for two reasons – the Twin Red Flags over Happy Valley.
One is the parade of politicians local, state and national wearing sackcloth and falling over themselves in the first several days after the Sandusky arrest trying to get to the nearest microphone to make a statement about how awful that this awful and tragic this situation was. And why was that – because if they didn’t
the public would instantly assume that they must ‘approve’ of child abuse?
ALL child sexual abuse is a tragedy for the child and the familyand local child abuse cases have not infrequently involved multiple victims, repetitive conduct spanning many years. As they have also involved threats of outright violence, acts of violence to child and others, sexual sadism, procurement of victims not just locally but via internet, generational repetition of abuse and sexual abuse by those in positions of trust. WHY, THEN SACKCLOTH WEARERS, IS THIS THE FIRST CASE IN 20 YEARS WHICH HAS EVER STRUCK YOU AS WORTHYOF COMMENT?
The second red marker is the immediate reaction of the University – LONG BEFORE facts were advanced to support a ‘PSU coverup’ theory or any
any fortuitously-discovered emails – basically throwing apologies, money without limit and anything else at hand up in the air as ‘proof’ of PSU’s institutional
remorse for sexual acts committed by a non-PSU employee which physically occurred on their property.
07/02/2012 12:10 PM
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/06/30/3247864/paterno-family-says-coach-cooperated.html#comment-574330853#storylink=cpy
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Later in the comments there, jka’s post is reposted with this at the end:
07/02/2012 12:10 PM in reply to asn1975
Here is asn1975 post that jka was responding to:
asn1975
It is very interesting that when environment surrounding Governor’s actions in the Sandusky Case, starts getting hot; someone, again, from the AGs office leaks information. It seems someone in the AGs office did not officially release the e-mail documents but the read the documents to someone at CNN. So now the media can come down on the media attention getting name, Joe Paterno, and Corbett’s action of putting the Sandusky investigation on hold while he ran for governor, fades into the background. Everyone needs to e-mail their local state representative to support Rep. Brandon Neuman’s bill, which requests the federal governmnet to investigation the AG’s office during Corbett’s tenure.
07/02/2012 10:16 AM
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/06/30/3247864/paterno-family-says-coach-cooperated.html#comment-574330853#storylink=cpy
@osu, Big Hug.
Hi Blink,
I’m a huge fan of your work and I have followed it for a long time without the courage to make a comment. I found your site by chance, looking for coverage of the Jennifer Kesse disappearance. I just wanted to let you know that your site is one of the reasons I am going to graduate school – I start at Northeastern University in Boston in the fall for a Masters degree in Criminology. I understand you are in classes as well – I read the FBI’s report on child molesters per the link you provided. I hope you will further share your findings from class as it relates to your cases.
We have several cases in Massachusetts that could use your eye. (I understand you must be contacted by the families of the victims before pursuing however). Maura Murray’s disappearance in New Hampshire (she was coming from Mass.) in particular has been bungled by the New Hampshire authorities, and her father has gotten nowhere with them. I’m also interested to hear your thoughts on the Molly Bish and Holly Pirrainen cases, now that Bish’s case is being looked at by the FBI and there is a possible link between the two. Other disappearances you should look at here are the serial killings of prostitutes in New Bedford, MA that have never been solved, and the kidnapping and murder of Sarah Pryor, which haunted me as a child.
I know this is off-topic for the thread and does not need to be on it, but I wasn’t sure how else to contact you and I am fine with receiving a private reply.
Thanks,
Lyndsay
My take on Sandusky’s retirement is that he had something on someone. Think about the disregard for children there had to be for them to consider making him the middle school activities director as part of the deal. It’s one bad thing to not say anything, but what do you call it when they try to give him the kids on a silver platter?
Blink–good thoughts for your mom and whole family during this difficult time.
tango says:
July 13, 2012 at 12:20 pm
Great first post Laila.
Wow Tango – I’m surprised someone read my post. Maybe that’s a normal reaction for a first timer.
I still think a look at anything one can read about the RC Catholic church’s dealings with a centuries old problem – endemic born and bred pedophilia – is a must study in this study of deplorable human deviance. It is an essential study for several cases on Blink’s crime site. It is the ground layer way before Sandusky. The Catholic church has already spent TWO BILLION USD in victim settlements. And that is only after the first exposure. There must be more to come.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/roman_catholic_church_sex_abuse_cases/index.html
The lead pedophile in the Berg documentary Deliver Us from Evil -(contrary to Sandusky who had the cuffs put on him for life only weeks ago) – was released after a brief incarceration of several years in California but the DEPORTED along with all his unfixable predilections back to the EU; And can you imagine – Oliver O’ Grady set his sites on by living in Rotterdam Holland, he was back in Ireland and busted AGAIN for child pornography end of 2010 after more than at least 40 years of grooming sodomizing and raping in the US all in the name of AFFECTION for very young people. Sound familiar? So familiar it’s mind blowing.
http://www.lodinews.com/news/article_b5377df5-cb06-5c5b-93a4-c4a4af74a8ae.html
This was after a cosmic number of both male and female victims ranging from NINE MONTHS of age on up. How does this compare to Sandusky and Penn State? I am just realizing it is part of a deep cravass of human hideousness.
I am an American but I live in Belgium. This issue has only just started to unroll in Europe.
Take the time and look at the film. I hate the idea of a Hollywood windfall at the cost of victims.
However Amy Berg – like Blink has used unique talents to spotlight and interpret and REVOLUTIONIZE really tough issues. And you will see how Penn State is cream puff in comparison to an institution like the Holy See.
Blink has a life’s work cut out for her. Blink gets it but many of the rest cannot even imagine – not yet.
and ps ATG , in this documentary there is an expert Dr. O’Dea who discusses homosexuality vs heterosexuality pedophilia and O’Dea is dead wrong – according to Blink’s previous notations. All part of the learning process. Will everyone ever get on the same page?
Ms Blink – sorry to hear about your mom. Prayers your way.
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Blink please know that your Mother is in my prayers. I pray for comfort and peace for both her and her family. Your Mother has a special daughter so I know she must be a special person. You can not raise a daughter who cares so much for those who can not speak for themselves without being a loving and caring Mother. I am sure she has made the world a better place in her own right.
Ode
Ty Kindly. Indeed she has. I do not take that for granted for a minute, I know lots of gals were not that lucky.
B
@Word Girl. “forged” likely came ftom an oral Freeh interview, not the written word (report), and as you know means “put together by agreement” (my def.). What Fredh simply means, in legal tetms, is they were Co-conspirators! The key word in a conspiracy is not forged, but “agreement.” Do I think the emails, notes prove a conspiracy? No. With JKA I think Freeh et al (Board Chair) are deflecting focus.
Prayers @ Blink & fam!
Blink my first post is still in moderation. Normal for the moment?
Laila
Thanks for a great post and for the reference to the documentary. If current thinking with evidence is that there really is a difference with regards to homosexual vs pedophilia, I am not stuck on any position where good information is available. One is never too old to learn something new.
In my school years there were two people that I was around that were in fact homosexuals. During that era, homosexuals were very much in the closet and were difficult to determine. One was a school teacher and the other was the older brother of one of my schoolmates. Both had “boyfriends” of their age. They also in the parlance of the times were interested in younger boys. The older brother of my schoolmate managed to get himself a voluntary job as an assistant scout master in the boy scouts. After he made advances to several of the scouts, the boys parents got involved and he was removed. It was not known if he was successful in his advances. It was quickly hushed up and he disappeared from the area. We, as teenagers, never knew if any criminal charges were involved or if he spent time in prison.
This is the main reason that I think that homosexual activity begins first and some then slip into pedophelia. I am open to any other information that might clarify this concept.
When I can, if you will remind me, I promise to give you just that. Pedophilia is a behavior of a sexual deviant- or a paraphilic disorder. No relation to homosexuality. Thank you for continuing to be open to learn. I so respect that.
B
My dear Blink,
So sorry to hear about your mom. Prayers and hugs to you
your family. Hang in there and keep the faith! I know from your
DNA that she is a fighter-God Bless and lots of love.
Ty Kindly. She has fought most valiantly.
B
erose
I don’t know if you are old enough to remember LBJ’s assistant Bobby Baker and his little black book. Baker had information on a lot of activities by people in Washington and outside that was kept in this book. LBJ used that as a hammer to control situations.
Your post made me think of this. Could it be that JS had a similar black book that he used to help him control situations? We don’t know.
While the Freeh report has revealed some behaviors that were not previously known, IMO there is much more to come. I believe that JS concieved of the Second Mile as a means to provide himself with a large number of boys to satisfy his pedophelia. It would provide him a worthwhile project to get at boys that were in homes that would not have a father and needed help. A noble cause with a hidden evil agenda. We also do not have information about JS’s total behavior. Does he have a mean streak that is concealed from the public?
JoPa is probably lucky that he had the very fast acting lung cancer strain and did not survive to be in the middle of this.
@ATG,
I was alive for LBJ’s administration, but too young to know much. My Dad was a CWO4 with the USAF (he came out of the Army Air Corps WW2) and he (+ family) was stationed in Lybia during the Cuban Missile Crisis thru some of Johnson’s Administration. I kids you not, at that time, I lived on base, but my friends lived in cardboard houses. (Somethings stay with you.) After that, I got plopped down at Tinker AFB and visited your fine state many times, ’til we moved again.
I think there is a black book of sorts. I go back to Madden’s story. I don’t think this is just about the cover up of protecting the image of a university, I think this is also the cover up of protecting other pedophiles. I think there are layers and layers and layers. Those involved each had their own motivations, for some it was football, for others it was the kids.
I think Sandusky thought he would be protected, that he had friends in high places, and he would never see the inside of a jail cell. He had that attitude before and during his trial. His change in demeanor was noticeable.
I agree with Ganim’s assessment, that the focus is being deflected, and her reasoning. I do not think that this is a mutually exclusive situation. I think some of the players, were played. All JMO.
Priorities still aren’t straight in this situation, IMO. Change the child care center name, take a name off of a library, tear down a statue, impose sanctions on a football program, all seem like superficial band aids to me.
Why aren’t the MSM asking questions like how we go about finding victim #2, to ensure further crimes were not committed against this then child. I need another story about Ray Gricar, in light of what we have learned. Where are the headlines about how TSM attorney knew, because he was the PSU attorney, too.
Is it just me, or are things still skewed? In other words, will we ever get off of the sports page?
And therein lies the problem.
B
I guess I complained too soon. Now, I am not saying we won’t end up back at PSU, as the BOT was never really addressed, but it’s time took look in to the place where Sandusky got his victims.
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It’s time for the state of Pennsylvania and other authorities to take a long look at the Second Mile program, its board and all its staff, including Sandusky’s wife. After all the covering up around this case, it is not unreasonable to think Sandusky’s pedophile playground extended well beyond the walls of Penn State.
If that means finding more boys who were abuse victims of Sandusky or any other staffers there, then that must be done. The cover-up must end. The families who seek support from the Second Mile program deserve justice.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/13/opinion/jones-penn-state/index.html
Last November, Raykovitz resigned from the Second Mile, though the organization maintains it was not aware of sexual abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky until 2008. That squares with what Curley told the Grand Jury, although he’s been indicted for perjury for his testimony. But it’s a lot to believe, especially considering Wendell Courtney, Penn State’s outside general counsel who reviewed both the 1998 and 2001 incidents, was also counsel for the Second Mile, and his wife sat on the Second Mile board. There are two interpretations here. One has Raykovitz and the Second Mile lying about what they knew to protect themselves from prosecution. The other has Penn State executives so committed to keeping their own noses clean that they kept what they knew from the charity that supplied Jerry Sandusky children to groom and abuse.
http://deadspin.com/second-mile/
Blink,
Prayers and peace be with you and your mom in this difficult
time. Many of you have done such great research into the background
of this case and the people involved. I can’t offer much to match
your information and leads. Just this –
My first exposure to organized child abuse began 20 years ago
with a client who was abused by her parents and a group of local
politicians and prominent people in a small southern town in the
1960′s. My work with this client eventually overlapped with the
Jon Benet case in 1996, which brought the issue (although limited)
to the public eye.
My point being, that until that time, my knowledge of the abuse
issue was confined to the “Chester the molester” scenario of the guy
in the schoolyard. I had no context by which to understand why an
adult would get any gratification from a child sexually. It didn’t
make any sense to me, thus it seemed unreal and not true.
Once my eyes were opened, my world changed forever. And like Blink now doing her grad work, I started doing my own research into
organized child abuse. I now know things that I wish I did not know.
I would suggest that there are two categories of those who cover
up or deny sexual abuse within an institution like PSU –
1. Those who are directly involved in the abuse or are getting some
type of payback.
2. Those not directly involved but seem to be covering up simply because their uneducated world view-paradigm doesn’t allow for
child abuse of this level to exist – thus it doesn’t exist in their
world because it’s too unbelievable. This is the prevailing attitude
(unfortunately) of much of the American public at this point. It is with this second group that is often hard to discern their level of guilt. We all block out brutal truth which challenges our current belief system. We all want to believe in the basic goodness and decency of our fellow man. That a sociopathic predator who seems to be doing so much good for children could be so evil – well, then if that’s true – what other of our core beliefs about humanity could also
be false?? So it’s a big leap for many people to get to the clear but horrible truth of this issue. Many of JoPa’s generation just can’t wrap their minds around this kind of issue, they have no real exposure or information about it. Thankfully, now that is changing.
I have no doubt, knowing the political milieu of Fredh’s past, that he may be a “fixer” for what is called “limited hangout” in the
intelligence community. Steering the investigation only towards PSU
and avoiding any local or state administrative involvement. Locking it down from going any higher in the food chain. Because if indeed
Sandusky had the goods on others to secure his cover up, then those
“others” may have been very high up. Question – if Sandusky’s abuse
began in 1977, how many political connections and hush agreements could he have made in 30 years??? Answer – plenty.
Again, I would suggest two books which can give you lots of
perspective and background – with more than a few parallels – to this
current case. Right down to the local DA, governor and state officials and also including a “children’s charity” from which young
boys and girls were obtained for sexual abuse by powerful politicians.
That is the Franklin case in Omaha, NE. Both are are Amazon and well worth your time. The Bryant book is better and more recent.
The Franklin Cover Up – John DeCamp
The Franklin Scandal – Nick Bryant
thanks to all for your time and dedication,
Sherlock
A Texas Grandfather says:
July 13, 2012 at 11:21 pm
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Our experiences frame our impressions and understanding of various ways of being, cultures, and disorders. Until Blink gets back with a fuller understanding, remember that little girls are victims of pedophiles as well. We need to place the same revulsion on an adult man with female victims of the same ages as Sandusky’s male victims.
Pedophile as lectured /defined by Roy Hazelwood (SA (R) and Ken Lanning SA (R) BSU- Federal Bureau of Investigation: An Adult That is sexually attracted to a pre-pubescent child- usually under the age of 13.
No gender differentiation whatsoever, and not every pedophile offends or acts out.
B
The written words of Lubert are on Huff Post this morning.
http://videos.pennlive.com/patriot-news/2012/07/board_member_ira_lubert_discus_1.html (I havent seem video & am going by print article.)
Someone in charge of PS crisis mgmt: Please bring in one of your stipend PR firms to muzzle this Board Committee Vice Chairman. Why? (1) McQ has a fine wblower suit. (2) civil plaintiffs will think if Lubert disses McQ, he’ll diss me (3) PS whaddaya mean announcing months ago you wanted to settle suits & you haven’t even contacted Plaintiff’s attorneys yet? But this man says you’ll get around to it.
(4) what plaintiff wants to be part of factory-like arbitration at PS’s convenience? (5) he’s looks like the prototypical older Corp white good ol boy–bad visual image for PS. It’s putting PS’s legal position out on a Sandusky-demographic face.
Now you can find a spiffy new resume for Board Spokesman Lubert under Lubert Adler Real Estate Funds, but I like this one:
http://www.alumni.psu.edu/awards/individual/daa/docs/2006-distinguished/Lubert.pdf
of note: wrestling while at PS (see years) and an active interest in PS wrestling as an alum
this firm (the iteration on this resume) is said to depend in part on investments by universities as institutional investors. (how’s that commercial real estate investment return been lately for universities in the buy low, fix up, & resell pond?) Note his prior years on the Board, ending in 1999? When did he come back? My guestimate: a year or so after economic bad times hit and U might want to shift its investment assets & shed some. Who at PS supervised the asset investments? Schultz? Did they use an outside asset mgmt firm or handlr in house?
Has anyone here bern following PS investments? Do you think the new Board Chair’s firm handles any institutional investments of PS? Are there financial conflicts of interest on this Board? From Freeh report We know in one context the Board blew off their Duty of Card (a very low standard really) entirely. Now we kniw Ganim’s writing a book…does her paper have any financial investigative reporters? to look at financial investments & mgmt of the University and conflicts of interest on the BOT and the impact if any on the cover for Jerry and others.
imo could be another Pulitzer.
Duty of Care, sorry.
But, per Freeh, they might as well have been playing bridge
at the Board meetings for all the documentation of duty of care
exercised in JS-associated pedophilia activities.
A snip here which gives a link to David Jones’ live chat. I don’t currently have audio access, so didn’t listen to it to verify or hear more.
“Today David Jones of the Patriot-News had this in his chat:
Comment From James
What year did you first hear rumors of this and what year is the earliest any of your media colleagues say they heard rumors of Sandusky?
2:55 David Jones:
I first heard a RUMOR sometime around 2005 (?) that Sandusky had been fired because he was a pedophile. We checked Lexus-Nexus for any police reports or complaints and found nothing. I chalked it up to a wild rumor. I mean, if there is no police report of any kind on file, no charges of any kind, how could it be true? Then, in August 2010, I heard a very graphic account of the Victim 2 shower scene. That’s when we started our quest to find out what was going on. Meanwhile, Sara was at the Centre Daily Times and got a similar tip around the same time. I believe some other reporters heard rumors but i don’t know of what depth.”
http://www.yardbarker.com/college_football/articles/on_second_glance/11209675.
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Also, this a.m. an interesting article at the nytimes. Whether the info from “sources” is true or not, IDK. If yes, then it looks like Paterno and some of the Big-3 worked out a retirement package for him starting in Jan 2011, the month he testified before G.J. And withheld that info from Trustees. If untrue, shows how angry some Trustees are, to make such statements to widely-read MSM:
Paterno Won Sweeter Deal Even as Scandal Played Out
By JO BECKER
Published: July 14, 2012
link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/sports/ncaafootball/joe-paterno-got-richer-contract-amid-jerry-sandusky-inquiry.html?_r=1
Blink has been able to post some lingering things; scroll back to yesterday to read. Because this is supposedly JKA’s words, I think it’s worth a read. Snipping part of my post here, to address erose’s thoughts:
“…PSU could not have provided Sandusky the level of access and the contacts required to have done what he has now been convicted of doing even if they had consciously set out to do so. Its a college, not a day care center. Reality is that S. and his organizations were heavily involved with half of Centre County, the courts, many agencies and senior administration thereof, over a very long period of time and well prior to the first official complaint in 1998. Many of those folks had legal and leverage options in terms of eliminating S’s unfettered access to kids, not placing kids in his programs, following up vague allegations of inappropriate conduct, etc. that went well beyond any PSU had, and also dealt with him more frequently, knew the kids who became involved with him and their backgrounds, etc….”
Snipped from my now-posted entry at:
beejay says:
July 12, 2012 at 11:19 pm
Thank you beejay and I invite you or anyone else to do this or repeat posts that you guys feel needs more time in the “first 50″.
B
Long time reader, but rare poster. Just adding my thoughts and prayers to Blink – difficult times, but precious as well. I treasure the time I had before my Mother’s death…nothing has ever been more real to me, nor have I ever realized the importance of the connection between a parent and child until those times. God bless you and your family Blink.
Joan, thank you kindly.
Two brief comments:
Regarding pedophilia that is allowed to run rampant…IMHO, it is always about the money. I grew up in a very small community here in Alabama. The Methodist church in my small town had a pedophile roaming for years and years. Wealthy man who gave much to the high school, and to the church. Unknown amount of victims at this point, and no one has done much research into the matter as far as I know. He eventually was convicted and sent to prison. Now a very old man, he still lives in this community and is seen every so often. Again and again we find actions that are overlooked or excused due to the amount of money given, or not wanting to “tarnish” the reputation of a church or a community. Many people in this community are guilty of allowing this behavior to continue for decades.
Same thing except on a much bigger scale at Penn State. Living in Alabama, nothing, and I repeat, nothing is bigger than college football here. Could it happen here as well? Absolutely! Many trustees from both Alabama and Auburn are appointed to the position via the governor, simply because of their allegience and payments to the football programs. No other reason. And they RULE the boards…don’t believe it when anyone tells you otherwise. The football programs fund all the other sports programs on the campuses. THe football programs here, like Penn State, run the Universities. It is my belief that when all is said and done, if penn State does not willingly shut down their football program for some period of time, and the NCAA (notoriously political) does not give the program the death penalty, we will see more of these type cases throughout the US.
BTW, the big news last night on my radio – and I may have missed further updates, was that Penn State was going to re-do the showers…Huh? That’s their solution? Hopefully I misunderstood. Redecorating is not going to be enough to cut the evil out of this institution. Do they just not realize that yet?
Always enjoy reading the comments, and am learning much.
Just going to spout off here. As of now, I don’t think that JKA has any evidence of what she is hinting about wrt the social service agencies, courts, etc. I think what was sought from her was anything she might know about Gricar’s Sandusky-related casework. And not sure she knows much about that.
If she has anything that can develop into evidence, I sure hope she’s turned it over to somebody trustworthy. Because people tend to disappear under those circumstances. Esp when they keep saying things to make the guilty that they might “know”.
It is time to focus on how JS got access in the first place. We’ve already covered some of the scenes of his crimes.
Right.
B
Backtracking a few days, will bring this over from comments at CDT by, supposedly, JKA. So you guys can draw your own conclusions:
jka
Its disturbing to see the results of this ‘independent investigation’ put into the same category
as the work of a Centre County jury. There’s absolutely no comparison. A jury represents a cross-section of the local COMMUNITY, committed to working hard to insure fairness
and OBJECTIVITY, given factual information by both sides in a BALANCED process, arriving at conclusions using THEIR OWN intelligence and in consultation with others on the jury and for their efforts PAID $25 or less a day and meal reimbursement. Police who provide the interviews, evidence and legwork are sworn only to the public interest, are paid whatever their salary happens to be.
The POLAR OPPOSITE is a semi-private entity choosing to pay millions of dollars to another entirely private entity, particularly one headed by an individual who has trailed controversy for two decades, for the expressed purpose of telling it what it ‘did wrong’. Its chilling to see
the public being set up through articles such as this to passively consume whatever is to be
put out on the premise that it is a law enforcement endeavor. Its not and it is immaterial
to the issue of OBJECTIVITY of the process whether every individual it employed was once a public law enforcement employee or was not.
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Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/07/10/3256573/there-may-be-a-smoking-gun.html#storylink=cpy
Sorry I can’t do better than this. There are over 600 comments at this 3-month-old MSNBC article where a “JKA” posted a reply that begins with”
Forgive me for missing this stuff (don’t know how I did) but JKA hasn’t been as quiet as we thought.
“JKA”
NBC News: Psychologist warned Penn State police about Sandusky in 1998 3 months ago
“This whole situation is more disgusting by the day. The games mock
what the entire criminal justice process is supposed to stand for. So
here goes…..”
The entire post is at the trutv forum Possible Sandusky case Gricar Disappearance Connections, on pg 42. SuperSmith’s post on 7-10-12 at 12:29pm. Post #1664. (Which I am unable to link to; chronic problem of mine w. trutv) It’s quite long; IDK if Blink wants it all posted, so I didn’t.
On Gricar:
http://www.centredaily.com/2005/05/13/3777/corbett-says-hope-fading-for-gricar.html#comment-582315479
If this is genuinely her, I am absolutely repeating my respectfully submitted Hypocrite designation to Ms. Arnold. If she were interested in tying up some loose ends she would not refuse to comment or discuss the many legitimate queries for same.
Me thinks the call to action is more like a call to attention already. This is really not a game or pulpit.
B