Nittany Nightmare Continues Past Sandusky: Former President Spanier Charged- NEW Charges for Curley and Schultz Filed
Happy Valley- PA On the heels of convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky’s transfer to his new home, what most predicted would follow- has.
Former Penn State President Graham Spanier, fired by the Penn State Board of Trust the same day as legendary late-Nittany Lions Coach Joe Paterno, is facing serious charges today filed by Sandusky’s prosecutors.
Spanier is facing counts of obstruction of justice, perjury, conspiracy, endangering the welfare of children and failure to report allegations of child abuse.
Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, who were facing perjury and charges based on “non-reporting”, are now facing all five similar charges as Spanier- additional filings occurred simultaneously.
Linda L. Kelly stated the men “used their positions to conceal and cover up for years the activities of a known child predator,” on Thursday following the announcement.
Please check back to www.blinkoncrime for this developing story.
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Fir those like me who didn’t remember this is a page going into the
ARD–and much more kinkiness in Madiera’s office after he took over
post someone’s “Gricar solution.”
http://blinkoncrime.com/2012/01/02/the-nittany-nightmare-continues-more-financial-incest-at-psu-accused-perjuror-gary-schultz-head-of-nittany-insurance-pays-first-victim-payout-and-his-lawyers/comment-page-10/
Blink, home depot?
Penn State put him on the payroll.
With a Freehly creative title.
https://touch.www.linkedin.com/?sessionid=4833068717287535&as=false&rs=false&can=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Elinkedin%2Ecom%2Fpub%2Fmichael-madeira%2F7%2F4b8%2F71a#public-profile/http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Elinkedin%2Ecom%2Fpub%2Fmichael-madeira%2F7%2F4b8%2F71a
Yes- he was facing suspension.
http://www.centredaily.com/2013/12/11/3937865_former-centre-county-district.html?rh=1
http://www.centredaily.com/2013/12/11/3937865/former-centre-county-district.html
this is a ridiculous article. A 10 hr ceu lag and going Inactive means nothing.
I’ve been suspended for years due to ceus, accrussed when my kids were in high school
and I had to drive too much for them to go to seminars.
Probably owe them 90.
If I’m not disbarred by now, maybe I should tidy up.
Being inactive means you can just elect to be active again.
I’d like to know who created that Penn State job for him?
Where is Sarah G?
…realizing there was a lot of evidence to start sorting through from a search warrant of his house”….
“Four search warrants were executed June 30, King said. After consulting with the District Attorney’s Office, it was decided to move the investigation to a higher jurisdiction.
Based on that analysis, as well as at least one international victim, police realized they would also like to make use of FBI resources to see if any other forensics could be done, King said.”
http://www.centredaily.com/2014/10/02/4384564/harris-supervisor-and-boal-mansion.html#storylink=cpy
While the search warrants were executed in June, the Oct 2 arrest seems exquisitely timed to take media focus off State level PornGate, including R Feather, former State College AG narcotics investigator.
http://m.collegian.psu.edu/archives/article_9ec75cff-3ecf-5371-b79f-b10dc8ff9c4a.html?mode=jqm
Amendola’s 2005 tactics when Mike was DA
State College Theator moves on for iron clad objective reasons imo
http://voicesweb.org/community-theatre-group-leaves-boal-barn-9507
Chris, in response, starts a new summer group–notice the in-charge is a prof of SECONDARY ed at PS
http://www.statecollege.com/mobile/news/Whats-New/about-town-an-exit-and-an-entrance-at-boal-barn-playhouse,1458539/
and then Chris sued the locals whom he’d housed shoddily for decades for barn repair money
http://www.centredaily.com/2014/07/21/4274033/state-college-community-theatre.html
This man is a piece of work and I hope the SC Commty Theatre gets its $750.
BTW from articles, it appears he went after newly arriving Int’l students to whom he gave housing.
After his conviction, watch for civil suits against the placing organization.
far more detail
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/10/boal_mansion_museum_director_j.html#comments
and hats off to JJ-PA for comments (tho it was boys)
My criticism of the Amendola choice whom you say is a leading State defense attorney is he lacks credibility on the reprise wrt plea negotiations, as he client not only repeated, he offended more
severely with better evidence.
I doubt Lee will defeat on the foensics this time.
Wrt to your comment on the paternal lineage, yes, Blair Lee
held elective office, and had a pervasively known name;
but, to many Marylanders, he was a political, idk how to say it, –joke.
ps I love it that Lee’s dna is on boy’s pjs.
Smart aunt & uncle. Good police work wrt evidence.
Chris and his town patrons are missing a critical money making ball, for
which he had sole responsibility,
and he will miss a local festival, in a week
https://sites.google.com/site/boalsburgvillageconservancy/
imo cutting off money flow could have been an impetus behind
arrest timing.
Just to be clear. The natural brother of the wife of the former DA, MTM, was adopted by Sandusky. The wife was adopted by another family.
I think MTM used good judgment in sending that case to Attorney General’s Office. That has been the ONE action for which I have said anything nice about MTM.
I am a well known critic of MTM, to the point of contributing to his opponent in 2009.
I would also add that MTM was not with the Centre County DA’s Office in 1998.
http://m.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2014/10/02/freeh-replaced-as-pepper-hamilton-chairman.html?page=all&r=full
Freeh merged a 12 attorney firm into a 500 member firm and within 6 months was made Chairman.
Must have had some real mojo with the firm deep pocket clients in my opinion.
He does/did. I have a few sources that said that had he not just been in the car accident- the NFL would have hired his firm for the Ray Rice probe, but chose Mueller instead. I do not handle it, not my bailiwick, but among my law student colleagues there is a major push for white collar crime experienced attorneys but overall criminal investigative analysts like myself but that specialize in corporate crime and corruption.
Underwriters, stockholders and the SCC pay big to head such issues off at the pass, and to keep any improprieties from crashing the model.
The conversation always steers (via media) to conflicts of interest- but I have never found any substantive merit to it.
B
B
Blink wrt “facing suspension,” one could wipe out a 10 hour deficit
in 2 days with back to back seminars.
by then in my State you could do
it by phone seminars. That reason is a red herring.
I totally agree. I have pre-banked my CLE’s with ABA and in PA very frequently one can attain those online live, proctored as well as live attendance. I could rack 10 hours in the car for some of the committees I sit on.
B
local reaction
https://mobile.twitter.com/Jack_Burden324/status/517848442937565184
(note Scott P)
A Riley is on BoT
(note, imo unsubstantiated rumor)
source
http://www.nittanynet.com/news/special/sandusky_scandal
history of Freeh merger
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dealbook/2012/08/28/pepper-hamilton-to-acquire-louis-freehs-law-firm-and-investigative-group/
Interestingly, Freeh’s firm came in to do White Collar Defense, but Gallager’s
bio says he had founded that firm practice. So it looks
like a Freeh “takeover” of Pepper’s white collar defense dept
just got figuratively re-taken with Gallager being the one to
replace him as Chair. I can’t resist saying maybe Freeh was
reading email from Noonan when he drove off the road. .
Something is fishy as this was an “effective immediately” action,
and I doubt it’s an oil spill.
Lee’s arrest is a huge relief for me. It has been impossible to avoid him, and difficult to confront him while shielding my own children. He has publicly declared the earlier charges to be “refuted,” which is entirely untrue. His local roles are not just with the museum, but he has “infiltrated” schools, churches, farmers’ markets, music organizations, the local Democratic party, historical societies, etc, etc.
I could provide dozens of links showing his pervasiveness and persuasiveness. While he has always made my skin crawl, most seem to find him entirely non-threatening.
What I haven’t been able to decide is if he is an international player in a child/youth trading/pornography ring, or if he just fancies himself so along with his other delusions of grandiosity. I hope for the latter.
I’ll give you just this one link for now–take it only for what it is–I imply nothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gietav2_WLg
And, finally, to the international teenager who finally peeled back the facade. While I am so sorry this needlessly happened to you, when Lee should have been banned as a host to children/youth, I am so grateful to you for handling it in the most mature way possible. You should be so proud of yourself, and I hope that is what you are able to carry forward from this.
http://www.boalmuseum.com/student-volunteers.html
See point 4
Hopefully French police will interview those 2 French “Counts”
—–
Randy on a Board with a Sheetz (Joe,not Richard)
http://www.operationourtown.org/randy-feathers-joins-operation-our-town-board-directors
——-
Feathers taking the fall for AG Corbett wrt investigation’s pace
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/11/former_tom_corbett_agent_defen.html
——
on State Supr Ct Judge sending porn
http://www.politicspa.com/first-judge-identified-in-porn-email-scandal/60789/
See comment on Oct 2 @ 2:22
sounds like it was to Feather (investigator, State AG)
http://m.thelegalintelligencer.com/module/alm/app/pa.do#!/article/1719294465
——
I see JJ-PA comments succintly & lucidly in several spots wrt
Judge’s decision on litigation of ncaa consent decree.
nothing like a falling out among cronies.
moving on from State legal circles,
I wonder who if any Lee’s
cronies have been.
Are there those he could
turn in and testify against whilst
bargaining? Being locked up should
impress him.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/10/pennsylvania_judge_orders_ncaa.html#comments
consent decree validity to be litigated
good comments JJ-PA
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/christopher-lee/2a/779/906
Bet 189 people are delinking….
What I remembered him for was the Musicians Assn.
http://www.afm.org/locals/info/number/660
President
p2 How many French cousins can one man have?
http://www.afm660.org/Newsletters/2009/June2009AFM660Newsletter.pdf
In my lay opinion, Freeh accident was not “Asleep At The Wheel
(apologies to fave TX group), in which speed would have slowed.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/09/witness-freeh-forced-3-drivers-off-road-before-wreck/15362235/
imo it is something to do with pharmaceuticals, or cognitive issues related to illness.
I bet he has a med workup somewhere indicating mgmt is not now in his stars.
Lee is still at 189, and I have it impossible to delink (I am NOT linked to him).
Rose, on Amedola, I mean that he is generally very good at what he does, defending people who, in reality, are probably guilty of crimes. If I were charged with a crime in Centre County, could afford anyone, he would be 1st or 2nd on my list. He was an ADA in Phila under then DA Rendell; Rendell has spoken highly of his skills.
Lee’s grandfather and great-grandfather both married French women. His grandmother was from a noble family. I would suspect he has dozens of first and second cousins in France, and that they have children. Not a pleasant thought.
JJ- I certainly might have agreed with you in Lee’s first go at bat with Amendola. I am on record that I have never heard of such an agreement subject to ARD- in fact, regardless of whatever brand Madeira is selling for PSU- I am adamant that is at issue with this surrendered license.
He was a big and well connected fish in a little pond at the time- I invite you to research what interests Rendell had at the time in terms of the general PSU area and business ventures. He was also very aggressive in terms of legal boundaries criminal and civil as I recall.
That said- where he effed up royally, and is now the subject of Sandusky’s habeas citing ineffectiveness of counsel (denied) in my view is that he sat there during an interview given at the Sandusky home where his client, and subsequent interview with Bob Costas- proceeded to convince reasonable people who may or might be subject to vior dire in this case that he was a pedophile. I mean, admittedly, I have an advanced degree in part on the profile specifically- but I am talking about what lawyer who has interviewed the discovery et al in this case allows that man to speak publicly in the first place and then NOT CALL HIM as a witness to boot?
Some people say folks get spooked when they see their own shadow- in my view- Amendola got spooked when he saw his own reflection and it cost his client dearly. Lee is nuts to put his life in Amendola’s hands- in that jurisdiction ( which is VERY VERY conjoined and aware) and with the essence of prosecutions of Larry Moe and Curley looming- I am thrilled he is representing him. He will not be getting out of prison, in my view.
I have had extremely positive experiences with Federal prosecutors- and there is a reason Ms. Parks Miller got this one right.
B
@Lizzy. That Paris “performance” was a yearly event described in his Newsletter article above.
While I expect he satisfied his lusts with strangers in Paris, I expect any collaborative porn or
child sharing (and he doesn’t seem the type to “share” the latter)
was limited to cronies in PA…men with similar interests met online or
in his activities of daily living and routines from Princeton years on.
One wonders if his brother settled in San Fran in the early 70s and committed suicide there
was due in part to sexual identity or a history of molestation. One wonders if Lee himself was
molested as a teen within the Catholic Church of his Catholic prep school?
I trust LE will identify his PA cronies from any porn traded. I hope others come forward
to support the 17 year old. To the extent he knows the French cousins,” I expect there’s family
pressure from some of those youth to keep quiet about “the American rock star.”
shoukd read (wrt brother)
sexual identity
**confusion**
@JJ in Phil. Thank you for the Rendell background. My feeling, leaving the Sandusky rep out,
is that he is not the best person in my opinion to argue, when the time comes in trial, for a more lenient
sentence having done so once to what will be judicial regret.
I see there are several active Court Sandusky/Penn State fallout cases which I am sure you
have mastered, ie consent decree as the basis for ncaa penalties which is an element StateSen ?’s case
seeking to enforce his “law”; Corbett seeking to stop Bagwell obtaining PS emails wrt Sandusky investigation, and do on. Then there’s the PS 3′s charges. Can you briefly list these actions for those like me who’ve not kept up with their status? I thought your comment elsewhere Jay P might like an alum BoT seat in 2017 (was it you?) interesting.
I think Lee has milked and figuratively seduced the residents of State College for years to fund his lifestyle && feed his fancies and wonder what any of them have gotten out of it apart from a few musical evenings at the “manse”
and a bite at being known in the local town’s society as a “volunteer” at a site of faded glory. He
seems, primarily, a “con” more than a pedophile.
named retiree, friend of Chris, volunteers side by side with him on 5th grade tours
http://theoldmuseumsite.weebly.com/activetour.html
Madeira, the former DA, asked to have his law license placed on inactive status in December 2013. http://www.centredaily.com/2013/12/11/3937865_former-centre-county-district.html?rh=1
The incident for which Lee is charged did not occur until January 2014.
There could not be relationship between the Lee charges and Madeira’s inactive status.
JJ- respectfully, you are incorrect. Madeira negotiated and agreed to ARD for Lee’s offenses occurring April 1, 2005.
Lee has been under Federal investigation during a substantively similar time frame to Madeira’s Bar woes.
They may not be related, but Lee received ARD on a REDUCTION of charge plea of sexual offenses and that is utterly BS. I said it then, I say it now, and that is precisely why the Feds are running the show now.
B
Okay on the cases.
CP (county courts) CW (Commonwealth), F (federal)
Criminal:
State vs. PSU 3, CP Dauphin: Criminal trial pre-trial motions
Spanier vs. State, F dismissed (Spanier’s attempt to get the case dismissed on federal grounds)
Civil:
Corbett vs. NCAA F (federal): Dismissed
Paterno 4 vs. NCAA/PSU CP (County), partly dismissed, partly on hold waiting for Paterno 4 to provide greater information.
Corman/McCord vs. NCAA/PSU CW and CP (Centre) originally to keep the state law in place, now may go into the CD in CP.
NCAA vs. Corbett/McCord, F constitutionality of the state law.
[These two were to be withdrawn, but the judge blocked it.]
Jay Paterno/Kenney vs. PSU, F, back pay, conspiracy.
Spanier vs. Freeh, CP (Centre) and F, on hold to the criminal trial; Freeh is trying to get it moved to F.
There are also suits on hold by McQueary vs. PSU, whistle blower, Schultz vs. Baldwin, her conduct in representing him. Both are CP (Centre).
That is the summary.
@JJ in Phil. Thank you for a succinct summary. My suggesion looking it over
is the Paterno clan is unfortunately litigious, McQueary’s whistle didn’t really toot,
Schultz’s Baldwin issue is really a Bar complaint,
and all this will likely melt away without any
real world impact except perhaps the PSU-3 trial.
and, the ncaa will leave the money in PA to
put this behind. The real issue is PSU’s management going
forward in the reorganization and repopulation of the BoT, and
the effectiveness of U’s Presidency & Admin in routine management
matters.
Blink, respectfully, I am speaking of when Madeira requested that his law license become inactive. Yes, he was the DA who came up with that ARD agreement in 2005, but that didn’t have any thing to do with him being placed on inactive status in 2013.
I respectfully disagree that anyone can know that has no bearing when a complaint is filed, a Federal investigation ensues- it is investigative 101 to discuss why an offender charged or investigated similarly was given ARD. How would you know if he was called before the gj, questioned by the Federal prosecutor once they learned without consultation or permission he cut a plea deal in exchange for ARD or both?
Prosecutors do have what is called absolute immunity- but not outside the bounds of their duty or office.
Maybe it is not relative- or maybe facts have come to light we are unaware of from the Second Mile/Sandusky hot mess we don’t know about yet.
I stand by my assertion, on the record here, that Lee would re-offend, and lo and behold.
B
According to the article, the incidents for which Lee is charged began in 2014; it was first reported to the local police, who decided to call in the feds.
While I would disagree with Madeira’s decision, he does have discretion in prosecuting and seeking ARD.
Well it depends on the argument for “serious offenses”. The Mother of the boys in the 2005 incident, according to her, was never consulted- which would be a violation of PA victims rights statute in the first place.
It should be noted that within the Federal Docket, his prior 2005 and overall criminal history is sealed.
B
The “Interim” job at Penn State appears to be connected to “global engagement,”
Freeh’s alleged forte, and more importantly to the PSU Office of General Counsel.
Based on his work product, I doubt he got the job without the
endorsement of, if not at the suggestion of, the OGC.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-madeira/7/4b8/71a
Now calling the workproduct which he orepares and he reviews “collaborative
agreements” rather than “contractual agreements” is creative.
And I suppose he can claim drafting same is not the practice of
law because a licensed atty in OGC reviews his work. But, this
doesn’t make sense to me when by merely remaining active & paying dues
& earning minimal ceus yearly he coukd for the same pay save his
employer that step and just call his work product what it is.
It seems to me signing a chit of paper he wants to be inactive, given
his Linkin claims wrt job duties was likely based on a behind the scenes
quid pro quo to avert a sanction of some kind.
I didn’t read the Linkedin before posting url above.
Did do same type work for PSU while in his
capacity as an active attorney
”
Policy Consultant
Penn State University
October 2012 – January 2013 (4 months)State College, Pennsylvania
Comprehensive review of global operations policies and compliance. Preparation of reports subsequent to review with change recommendations. Legal analysis and review of international agreements/MOUs. Preparation of substantive policy and updates.”
So what changed between Jan 2013 & Dec 2013
that he no longer wanted his license to effectively do the same work?
I wonder if any of those 3rd party international collaboration
agreements included say
French students on summer exchange programs?
I think it was “Unlawful Contact.” Lee managed to get his criminal record expunged.
My comments deal with Madeira’s license. Four years after leaving the DA position, after not having a particularly large private law practice (he had a job a Home Depot), and after getting a position (at PSU) that does not require him to practice law, he decided to have his license placed on inactive status. I’m not seeing anything unusual in that.
As to being tied to something related to Chris Lee, the timing isn’t right. The incident for which he is charge occurred in 1/14, after Madeira decided not to practice law which was 12/12.
That is not defending Madeira’s decision to give Lee ARD in 2006. It is suggesting that Madeira did nothing illegal or unethical regarding that decision that cost him his law license.
No, it was 2 counts of indecent liberty/assault with a child under the age of 13. It should be noted there were 5 counts initially and 3 victims.
We may have to agree to disagree or agree to something else- but Madeira was an AG prosecutor and special prosecutor who enjoyed proseutorial success- Have you researched whether or not Madeira was facing a bar complaint?
B
When he left the DA position in Jan 2010,
his Linkedin states he undertook a private law practice
whose focus was:
“General Practice of Law w/ expertise in
criminal prosecution/defense, litigation, trial practice.”
Apparently PSU hired him as contacted exterior counsel
to review certain materials. Nothing on his CV
related to the consulting subject matter, internation agreements
and global operations policies.
Who will ask the PSU President & BoT who hired his
legal practice for a noncompete contact in an area outside of his legal
expertise for 4 months ? Gotta be someone connected to
PSU’s OCG, or someone with power on the BoT, AND someone
local who knew him, because the Office of President was weak at that point.
OR it could be akin to the high level AG employee who was given a
part-time job in Lancaster County DA’s & just resigned
So maybe the person who engineered this “consultancy”
and “interim” legal but inactive job was none
other than Corbett calling in favors. Someone get Ganim on this…..
Jan2006
http://www.yardbird.com/corbett_sandusky_psu_timeline.htm
on a superficial reading, it seems
Corbett placed Mike in that DA job,
on his drug prosecution rep
why is a former Deputy AG (Madiera) surrendering active
practice only a few years later, while taking a PSU job?
yardbird review
http://www.yardbird.com/Silent_No_More_Inside_The_Glass_Palace.htm
@Rose
On your second point, I don’t think that Madeira had a successful law practice. He ended up working in retail. He had, except for about a year, been a prosecutor all his professional life. I am NOT sure that he really wanted to be a defense attorney, after that; that is usually what prosecutors do after leaving office.
PSU was a better job, and he was hired after Sandusky was charged.
On your first point, Madeira was the local Deputy State Attorney General prior to running for DA in 2005. He would handle MOST intercounty drug cases. It was ongoing. Corbett became AG less than 100 day before the press conference and some of the defendants may have been arrested before he took office.
CORRECTION: Madeira requested his law licensed to be placed on inactive status in 12/13, NOT 12/13.
Iirc Madiera was retained as an outside consultant while an active attorney in 10/12 to review specific types
of PSU contracts, policies, & procedures which were related to a
particular PSU office function (international education programs–some type of 3rd party
entities to PSU & the student). Iirc Jerry was convicted a few months earlier in 06/12 and report
was early 07/12. Perhaps tightening up this programmatic area was among Freeh’s recommendations.
I do not recall when Baldwin left OGC, but if she was still there perhaps she gave him work. I can see, though,
a BoT member in political party leadership saying to his friend Cynthia, can you help out our
former DA who is foundering in private practice.
current inhouse OGC at PSU:
“The current staff includes the general counsel, ten associate general counsels, one assistant general counsel, one law fellow, two paralegals, two administrative assistants and one financial assistant. The General Counsel reports directly to the President and the Board of Trustees.” http://ogc.psu.edu
Goodsized inhouse Office, so not clear why Madiera is still reviewing “collaborative international agreements”
Baldwin’s replacement was ratified in 07/12.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/05/penn_state_names_new_general_c.html
Looking at the PSU OGC directory new GC hired several male Assoc GCs. There is a female who did int’l litigation in NY. So, I do question why Madiera was given “international agreements” consulting work in 10/12, and was later hired for same, with Brittany on board in OGC, and why he was not just flat out hired in the OGC in 2012, as a number of new attorneys were being brought on. As far as I can tell, Baldwin was still on the BoT in late 2013 when Madiera was brought on permanently, well, as “Interim.”
My own guess is “the reason” MM went inactive had surfaced by late 2012 and was the reason he ceased that consultancy work in Jan 2012 after only 4 months. Then a non-attorney, non-OGC position was carved out for him to continue essentially the same work inhouse.
MM is buried down the list in Operations:
https://global.psu.edu/info/campus-community/university-office-global-programs/global-penn-state-staff-directory
kind of insulting professionally in my opinion to still be
labelled interim on the website after almost a year.
I hope they find him a permanent job.
@Rose, Thanks for the invite, I am late to the party and trying to catch up. I caught this in JJ’s first link. Of course we cannot be sure it’s really the “first” mom, as she calls herself. I note some denial after all these years, so I think it could be her.
Rach Dempsey
I must also acknowledge that not only were the two detectives assigned to our case superb but also our counselor. She was SUPERB. Unraveled everything and made things crystal clear for me. Cant remember her name at the moment but I will… I know I have kept the little light blue post-it note with her contact details somewhere… My kids didn’t get passed the “grooming” stage. So my boys were very lucky, in a sense. She understood that sick mind. He even did some of what he did in my presence and I had no clue! I felt terribly guilty and ashamed. Of course I wanted to hide this because I believed I was a good and vigilant mother. I could lose my kids too. She made me see that some of these guys are audacious and so cunning that they are “invisible” even to the best moms. THANK YOU! I have so many people to thank for this moment… my neighbor, my boss, the guy that sold me me my volvo, the unitarian fellowship, the kids’school (the forced me to report, or they would.. yikes!), a friend Tom…
Rach Dempsey
I am the mom of the boys in ’05 and I am elated! Sickened it was knowingly allowed to go on! It was the new DA that cancelled our hearing just as the jury was being selected. Nine years ago last month he said, as a father, he wouldn’t allow my kids to go thru the stress of trial… Never consulted with us, spoke to us. I found out about it in the newspaper. And look at the long line of suffering of kids and parents that could have been prevented. In fact we had a pre-trial hearing to determine whether my kids could hack it; they were stellar. That judge knew that Chris was in the bag. Everybody in that courtroom knew – several hundred. So someone should cough this up cuz too many kids have had to pay for this inexcusable mis-use of office. (My boys are 17 and 19 now, pretending to be cool and chilled at the news, but the music has changed and one in pacing… it must be their version of – yes!)
http://www.centredaily.com/2014/10/02/4384564_harris-supervisor-and-boal-mansion.html?sp=/99/264/&rh=1
It is her. She has every right to be angry and if I were her, I would be on the horn to the Federal prosecutor.
B
Article on the 2005 charges.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archives/article_9ec75cff-3ecf-5371-b79f-b10dc8ff9c4a.html
Lee’s Godson.
snips>
The investigation into Lee began after police obtained information his godson from the United Arab Emirates allegedly had been sexually molested in the living quarters of the museum, Taylor said.
The boy sent a text message to a cousin and aunt in the Boston area asking to be removed from the house and he finally walked away waiting for them to arrive, she said.
Lee’s DNA was found on the pajamas the boy was wearing when allegedly fondled in the bedroom, Taylor told Arbuckle.
Amendola claimed he has evidence the boy who made the complaint had alcohol and drug problems and argued scores of individuals had access to the computer.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/10/boal_mansion_museum_director_j.html
Please can someone tell me this victim is still stateside. Deja pedophile right now.
Amendola better brush up on his TOR knowledge.
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10/09/14
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Anne Ard, executive director of the Centre County Women’s Resource Center, says she expressed her opinion in 2005 that enrolling Lee in the ARD program was “inappropriate” to then-Centre County District Attorney Michael Madeira.
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/christopher-lee-sex-crimes-indictment-raises-concerns-over-similar-2005-charges,1461176/
Ard stresses that she is not a law enforcement professional, but says she is not familiar with any case dealing with alleged assault or sexual abuse other than Lee’s being recommended to the ARD program in Centre County.
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/christopher-lee-sex-crimes-indictment-raises-concerns-over-similar-2005-charges,1461176/
And the DA in ’05 knew of the docent program. So the elephant in the room has to be if MM got the PSU job for being a team player?
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Consider this, though: ARD, according to the Pennsylvania Code, allows first offenders facing charges that are considered “relatively minor” to perform community service and then have the charges dismissed.
Does indecent assault sound “relatively minor” to you when children are involved? How about when the accused runs a student docent program that the D.A.’s office surely knew about?
http://www.statecollege.com/news/columns/you-got-to-carry-that-weight,1461167/
You know, erose, this is what gets me completely. As part of his ARD completion – he was ordered to undergo a psych evaluation. What was preformed and what did it show? Was it reviewed independently?
I am tempted to insult former DA Madeira and ask him if he understands the context of the word “minor” as different than an actual minor ( meaning underage child). Oh and I will not allow the names of the victims on here, but I can tell you their Mother is a former PSU research assistant.
Oh and it should be noted this all went down pre-DA campaign to replace Gricar.
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