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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@Erose, yes, the earliest reports of Gricar acting unusually were the second week of March. It continued and possibly got worse.
As I have indicated, I heard some suggestions that people noticed it in late February as well, but I am not able to confirm that.
Lee Prob Cause unsealed.
An old lecher of a certain kind imo.
Re “the documents” Freeh reviewed & relied on that the Alumni Board members & others are trying to review.
Imo the Board majority would not fight so hard to prevent Biard review, on advice of PSU Counsel, if there were not
Smoking Gun docs that woukd lead to OSU, or Board liability (and individual members’
liability, in the matter of the PSU Admin-3, or other litigation, OR might establish a conflict betwewn 1or more
victims’ Sandusky trial testimony and historical recorded interviews which might suffice to allow Sandusky to overturn his conviction, say if there was exculpatory evidence with 1 or more Vics the prosecutors did not
disclose to Defense. The Majority’s vote was fear-based imo, and they will never change.
I looked up Casey–a DC Bushie, appointive history prior to her current Republican lobbyist enclave.
She’s making big bucks & can be cocky as she pleases.
Lee has a new attorney, Kyle Rude.
http://www.centredaily.com/2014/10/31/4434067/boal-mansion-ceo-christopher-lee.html?sp=/99/264/&ihp=1
http://www.centredaily.com/2014/10/31/4434067_boal-mansion-ceo-christopher-lee.html
Suppose he didn’t like the best plea bargain Amendola could work out,
and couldn’t pay his retainer for trial?
This is a joint Federal investigation whereby in my view, once they cracked the encrypted files on Lee’s computer the Feds took jurisdiction because the law is solidly on their side wrt to child porn at a minimum.
I would be willing to bet Amendola was fired when he lost the bid to get his client out on bond.
Lee’s ensuing decision was do I retain him with whatever cash at his rate or roll the dice and use it to post bond if he does not think I can cop a plea? In this jurisdiction and post Sandusky climate, dealing with a previous conviction that resulted in ARD ( which to date nobody can find a similar outcome in a case with a victim in Centre County) the only way I see him getting a deal is if he has “associates” with the same pervs he can deal info on, or some other current investigative information of need.
As the alleged victim is a family member- the Fed prosecutor should fight the request on grounds of witness intimidation and ID, and because he used his business as a lure for victims. Technically that might be subject to seizure in Fed court if it can be tied to an instrument of the crime and/or financing it.
I am all about due process as you know, but as far as I am concerned, once a pedophile acts out- they will never stop offending until their environment is such they cannot- as in jail.
B
on the other hand, might be Amendola has a conflict; a witness wrt the ARD.
OR, forum shopping in Williamsport
–new Judge with limited criminal experience
http://wnep.com/2013/02/25/federal-judge-officially-presiding-in-williamsport/
no-bail Judge Arbuckle worked out of State College
“… it’s the judge’s job to establish whether or not he’s likely to appear [for future hearings],” Arbuckle said.”
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/district_judge_in_jerry_sandus.html
“William “Skip” Arbuckle III, a State College-based attorney and federal judge who formerly sat on the state judicial conduct board…”
Speaking of BoT member Casey, of her own “K Street”
lobbying firm led by former Bush era SEC Commissioners who dismantled regulation & enforcement in their era, she was clearly a Bush appointed-anointee.
So I found this new article on Corbett’s PA start-up fascinating, as it depicts a Bush org (tightly connected to) political Kingmaker in PA, out of Pittsburgh, who was responsible for launching Corbett’s political track in PA from scratch, as well as many others, named Elsie Hillman.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/10/the_big_break_corbetts_politic.html#incart_river?hootPostID=55c1c644847dd3a7345d814ea36a523b
as she is Pittsburgh-based, yet a Statewide kingmaker, I googled her name with Cynthia Baldwin.
They cross paths often.
Girl Scouts Western PA Hon Comm
http://www.gswpa.org/newsroom/newsroom-article/?article_id=582
Chatham U Ctr for Women & Politics Advisory Board (Hillman founded it)
https://www.chatham.edu/pcwp/about/advisoryboard.cfm
Award dinners http://www.post-gazette.com/life/seen/2013/04/23/History-Makers-Award-Dinner-held-at-the-Fairmont-Pittsburgh/stories/201304230172
or p5 of 8
http://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/images/Summer2013Newsletter.pdf
various political forums, this one Gov Rendell connected
http://triblive.com/mobile/1275312-96/strong-font-table-pittsburgh-women-003868-align-arial-bgcolor-border
Pittsburgh YWCA
http://www.ywcapgh.org/uploads/media/PDFs/CR-HISTORY-FIN/YWCA_Greater_Pittsburgh_Community_Report.pdf
This is just P 1 of the google hits.
Imo it would be inevitable as an active A-A Republican in Elsie’s penumbra (Elsie supports many irgs like Urban League) to be both appointed to the Supr Court, and to the PSU Board. And, Baldwin’s political ties to Republican Govs & Corbett are long & deep it seems.
I can see where 2.8 billion would yield political influence
http://www.pittsburgh-legends.com/henry-elsie-hillman/
@Blink. You have brilliant ideas, esp with
witness intimidation risk of his godson. I
don’t remember that argument in Bail Hrg 1.
wrt ” Technically that might be subject to seizure in Fed court if it can be tied to an instrument of the crime and/or financing it.” That sounds pretty easy to prove as he
arrived for a summer museum internship.
Two things going on is it appears to be shopping for a
new Judge, and if I’d been a Fed Judge in a sma town for
only a year, I’d defer to my Senior’s prior judgment; and, secondly,
this is likely a fishing expedition to see if prosecutor will reveal
other victims have come forward in the corse of argument.
If she sticks with your argument, she wouldn’t need to reveal that.
Lee’s downfall will be his arrogance.
@ As far as I know, Baldwin is a registered Democrat who was appointed to the State Supreme Court by Rendell (D).
It is not unusual for people at the upper echelons (or even lower) to have these kind of connections.
Thank you JJ in Phila for clarification.
According to the articke I referenced Corbett was neither
upper nor lower echelon but a dime a dozen or several hundred
lawyer when he wanted to get a foothold at entry level county
politics and went to volunteer in Pittsburgh under Hillman. That moved
him forward pretty quickly. Baldwin yet, started up via lical County family Court,
but imo it is the husband behind the woman who led to more.
http://science.psu.edu/news-and-events/2011-news/Baldwin7-2011
You have to have the funds, more than a family Court Judge has,
to donate politically where needed & go to all those galas. He imo was the mid-tier
echelon. She seemed to move on with ease from Rendell to Ridge and
Corbett, and I doubt it was social ties from
mutual dinners, but Pittsburgh ties, to Hillman and her circle. Imo
He was also one credential & connection to the PSU Board appointment.
a fan with hurt feelings:
http://blog.cleveland.com/letters/2014/11/livingston_letter_to_the_edito.html
based on
http://www.cleveland.com/livingston/index.ssf/2014/10/things_i_think_about_the_ohio_1.html#comments
I found this comment interesting:
“Duquesne University law professor Wes Oliver said the report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh reads like a prosecution case for a child endangerment charge against Paterno, then-President Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and now-retired vice president Gary Schultz. Oliver noted that a former top official in the Philadelphia Archdiocese was convicted of that charge in June for allowing a suspected pedophile priest to be around children. ”
OT the writer was my childhood neighbor & close friend, although when we outflanked a mean
newspaper boy, I got the split lip while he watched. With a deceased father,
he got a high school internship, a scholarship to Vanderbilt, and worked himself into the best sports analyst I read.
However I too resent his PSU dust comment. Overdramatic and gratuitous.
finally, introducing the idea of organized crime nibbling here & there in PA
http://notpsu.blogspot.com/2014/11/eckels-protest-backfires-reveals-he-may.html?m=1
JayP has a fine thesis, illustrations, & writing style.
http://www.statecollege.com/mobile/news/columns/the-sleep-of-reason-the-media-and-the-politics-of-fear,1461592/
I suspect, however, it is irrelevant to his father’s fate.
Two questions to pose to JayP are:
1) If Joe P knew or suspected Sandusky molested young boys,
would he have disclosed that to his sons or wife knowing he was dying?
2) if he knew or suspected Sandusky molested young boys, isn’t that
the time quick decision & decisive action are warranted rather than saying
I don’t have all the facts, or he’s not my employee any more?
—
I believe Paterno knew he was dying of lung cancer (or another cancer that had metasticized)
when he announced his retirement, and when he said he’d leave PSU on his own timetable. That
imo was cancer speaking. Had he disclosed his illness to the BoT,
perhaps they would have waited & let him go gracefully. Maintaining silence about
significant personal matters probably also factored in to silence on
Sandusky.
I agree with you Rose, but I am just not so sure that JoePa knew his cancer has metastized- he was a staunch mind over matter guy and about to gear up for a huge season at the time- the biggest in years. It would not surprise me to hear that he ignored the health signs that his cancer had returned that way in favor of pushing forward. He was very Lomabardi-esque in that way. I don’t think he did enough. I never will, but I can also firmly say that I believe he thought he did.
It reminds me a bit of Ken Lanning if I try to put it into context. In my view- Ken Lanning (FBI ret) was the single greatest influence of federal law depicting child porn and overall understanding pedophiles from every spectrum. If you can believe it when he was pioneering the field for BAU- there were some professionals looking at him sideways wondering what his interest was in such matters. That stunned me.
B
http://triblive.com/mobile/7112138-96/office-kane-emails
public servants, using public property, during work hours
in the State’s highest prosecutor’s office. a bent culture.
if involved attorneys were susceptible to this addiction,
what other addictions
could be used by organized crime to control them?
Rose says:
November 3, 2014 at 12:12 pm
A short synopsis about Corbett’s start in politics. http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/10/the_big_break_corbetts_politic.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/sports/ncaafootball/joe-paterno-got-richer-contract-amid-jerry-sandusky-inquiry.html?_r=3&hp&pagewanted=all&
“Mr. Paterno was to be paid $3 million at the end of the 2011 season if he agreed it would be his last. Interest-free loans totaling $350,000 that the university had made to Mr. Paterno over the years would be forgiven as part of the retirement package. He would also have the use of the university’s private plane and a luxury box at Beaver Stadium for him and his family to use over the next 25 years.”
Maybe this was, at least in part, because he was aware he was only going to live for another year anyway.
Gettin’ out while the getti’s good.
I don’t think I remembered that the loans were forgiven as part of his 2011 package- for some reason I was under the impression that occurred posthumously. Thanks for posting Steve.
B
It occurs to me Amendola did not make the arguments
Rude is making for bail because in Lee’s best interests Amendola’s
defense litigation strategy included keeping him out of harms way prior to trial (not
reoffending or engaging in witness contact):
http://www.statecollege.com/mobile/news/local-news/hearing-scheduled-for-monday-to-determine-possible-bail-conditions-for-boal-mansion-ceo,1461618/
—
@ Steve. I had forgotten someone with the power to authorize the carrot
of loan forgiveness and plane rides wanted Paterno
out mighty badly prior to this scandal breaking and likely
was the person who coalesced the Board to finalize & ensure it.
I don’t understand why the son didn’t realize his PSU coaching career
was done when a new coach came anyway. His son’s job needs
might in part be why JP was motivated to stay on. (I know you
would argue it was JP’s ethise Blink, but I bet son’s job was
right up there & JP was a realist.)
how can spell check make “ethos” into “ethise”?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1_6upFCMAEGpIF.jpg
I wondered, why did Ira Lubert direct his email to Myers, who was not the BoT Board Chair, cc to R Erickson, when Ira clearly in the first sentence directed his comments to Erickson, and the gap between what Erickson told the BoT in a Conf call the preceding day and E Ray/NCAA’s apposite fact presentation in interview.
Who was J Myers? Was he an outside attorney then advising PSU BoT in NCAA alleged rules violations? It turns out, I wish he’d been an independent attorney.
I found out he was 33 year BoT member, elected by Alumni.
(aside, PSU, Start with putting term limits in the bylaws for all Board members.) Even most CEOs are moved on by their Boards in less than 33 years. Unless one is Jack Welch. Microsoft went public about 1986, and Bill Gates was smart enough to retire himself in less than 33 years.
Apparently this trustee recently campaigned & worked hard to continue into years 34-35 or more.
http://www.centredaily.com/2014/05/13/4176030/joel-myers-thanks-for-33-years.html
I bet he was 1 of the 2-3 BoT cronys S Garban alerted the Sandusky indictment was imminent.
http://www.statecollege.com/mobile/news/local-news/trustee-joel-myers-explains-vote-to-oust-paterno-as-head-football-coach,1458730/
reminescent of Dottie–an insular nuclear family feedback system keeping a man estranged from reality.
http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2014/04/re-elect_penn_state_trustee_jo.html
sad after 33 years
Did these psu Board positions come with much yearly remuneration?
looking at my own linkabove Myers said, “and Paterno’s plan to retire at the end of the season circumvented the authority of the board.”
How did JP’s contract to retire
(whether or not written, it was an agreement with consideration), with the retirement pkg specified circumvent any PSU-related authority? PSU offered the retirement pkg? I thought that was Peetz line.
—-
Myers further said there was “no practical way Joe Paterno could have run the football program that Saturday” with all of the news media attention that would be on the football program – including coaches and players.”
That’s what college & pro coaches do every weekend, sometimes with problems thornier than a non-U employee pedophile. All JP need do
was say “Haven’t seen him in years.”
Imo the most reactive BoT members had the biggest baggage.
One wonders why child molestation with hints of more severe pedophilia
rang the bells of & rattled BoT members so badly that they abandoned ordinary fiduciary
behaviors familiar to them in their corporate settings?
Perhaps they feared being tarred by association (which JP clearly did not fear).
My best guess is in their Corps they had inside & outside attorneys to rely on.
But for decades the PSU BoT did not have either inside or outside competent Counsel,
& Spanier ran things so soothly administratively, they didn’t realize they needed it.
Good example of a Board not being told what they don’t want to hear.
Did I link the Consent Degree Acceptance?
http://progress.psu.edu/assets/content/120803_NCAA_Sanctions_Fact_Sheet_FINAL.pdf
See under that heading.
Imo this was a contract the U Pres was authorized & expected to sign.
In Defense (those who wish to void the contract) must oil up
fraud in the inducement. All the BoT needs is a good contract attorney,
and evidence like the internal ncaa emails.
Imo this is a garden variety contracts case.
Peetz has nothing professionally on Barbara Doran,
who moreover places a top female athlete on the Board.
I hope the elderly white males on the BoT are as willingly
led by her.
http://www.fox8tv.com/News/NewsDetails.asp?NewsID=15692
“An Elected Official in Centre County is now awaiting….. Lee … last week filed a request for a bail hearing. Along with listing his titles of Boal Mansion CEO and Harris Township Supervisor Lee also says he is the President of the Central Pennsylvania Musician Association. He is due to stand trial on December 1st.”
Arrogant to the end he cannot stop tossing his “titles” about….as if he were nobility.
If bail is granted imo Rude will move to change the trial date as he needs time to prepare. I imagine Lee’s first activity will be to find his address book so he can remind overnight guests what happens in Boalsburg stays in Boalsburg.
I can honestly say that Lee has skeeved me out with the full knowledge he was intent on re-offending- and it seemed nobody gave a rats ass. Tours ensued- the Docent conveyor belt kept on.
I am at a loss in that community in particular the blatant resistance to know when something wicked that way comes.
B
http://www.statecollege.com/mobile/news/local-news/boal-mansion-ceo-denied-bail-in-alleged-child-sex-abuse-case,1461644/
the ARD did him an immense disservice.
Trial & SO status would’ve meant the sentence was served by now &
he’d have had no access to sleepover interns.
Now his outcome will have the same end result but
be far more severe wrt incarceration time.
Family should’ve hired a residential keepe”?[-p0r for him.
@Rose. that would be Joel Myers, then a longtime BoT member.
There was a new release of NCAA e-mails tonight. They show that there was no contact with Freeh. The also show that the NCAA was considering a harsher option and that PSU had the ability to accept or reject the agreement. Had they rejected, they might of gone to the Committee on Infractions, or some other route.
Yes that was a rhetorcal question designed to comment on his obscurity
despite being on the Board 33 years. He also, delusionally imo, with his family giving cheerleader press interviews, ran again for year 34+ when he had probably already served past his usefulness for say 25 years.
I fancied him a Board buddy of Steve Garban. The emails are entertaining imo, but do
not impact the adjudication of the validity of the Consent Agreement unless Penn State (the party concerned) could
prove fraud in the inducement, and PSU is not litigating the CA.
Imo the only cure to Lee’s delusional thinking about his having an ongoing role in Boalsburg society
and continuing a lifestyle that allowed for importing & molesting minor males, will be to strip him of
his Boalsburg assets–the house & museum–that feed his persona. So I see there can be a $1 Million
fine to achieve that end. http://m.fbi.gov/#http://www.fbi.gov/philadelphia/press-releases/2014/centre-county-museum-official-indicted-federally-and-arrested-on-child-exploitation-and-child-pornography-charges
Whatever family entity holds title to the “Museum” and house should sell it promptly
perhaps to the Village Conservancy by taking back an interest free loan, and distributing
the proceeds if any before the Fed govt seizes or puts a lien on it after sentencing.
Agreed. I want to say that I posted on his candidacy FB last year-ish. His narcissism is particularly perplexing considering the climate following PSU- but to be completely honest as I keep several contacts that live and work in the area- you would not believe the amount of people who believe Sandusky was railroaded and that the NCAA sought to beat down PSU’s chances of taking the bowls to the East and out of the South. Not kidding.
B
I wonder what will happen in regards to PSU if Jake Corman becomes the majority leader.
http://triblive.com/state/pennsylvania/7104976-74/story#axzz3II80GcUm
“The caucus is scheduled to hold leadership votes Wednesday, and a loss by Pileggi would shift influence at the top of caucus leadership away from Philadelphia’s politically moderate suburbs and to the more conservative central Pennsylvania.”
The coordination and intertwining of investigative avenues & conclusions content between Freeh & Emmertt/ncaa at the outset & thruout the investigation is stunning, tho no more than to be expected of Freeh ethically. That issue imo is not PSU’s nor Erickson’s. It is imo the
http://m.espn.go.com/general/story?storyId=11863293&src=desktop&rand=ref~%7B%22ref%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F%22%7D
It is the BoT’s and its Counsel’s, for whom apparently Baldwin continued
to function on this issue although she was inhouse Counsel
& therefore in a role conflict with advising BoT imo. One would not
expect her to proactively educate the Board nor supervise Freeh nor be
independent from NCAA. Her interest was to be sure Freeh exhonerated her.
Wrt this NCAA’s direction, use & control of Freeh employees’ work tasks & work product,
the only cure it seems to me is for minority Board members to sue
those BoT members who failed in their fiduciary duties in failing to supervise Freeh or Erickson or Baldwin.
A hard to make case if the BoT members could demonstrate a bit of
discussion and some business judgment in a bit of deliberation about hiring Freeh and reviewing his work
methods & product, and a modium of business judgment & deliberation in negotiating with ncaa & signing the CA.
But it doesn’t seem like the Board created a written record reflecting ordinary business
deliberations & decisions.
http://www.centredaily.com/2014/11/12/4454061_penn-state-denies-ncaa-emails.html
BoT members, and some PSU employees, begin to sound very Nixonian (coverup) to defend their own
duty of care & duty to supervise Freeh’s investigation
methods & work product apparent derelictions. Which leads me to
realize for the first time Baldwin & others had to fire and
more than that disable Spanier & the other 2, who were
knowledgeable & would have disputed and worse
might have publically disclosed aspects of the investigation.
goes to Freeh’s job performance and the culture if his Federal agency–kind of like Corbett’s AG agency culture
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-plans-to-fire-whistleblower/
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/whistleblower/interview-whistleblower-lawyer-rights-19966.html#.VGR6R9m9Kc0
minneapolis jury found for her $500,000 plus lawyers paid $1 Mil
http://whistleblowersupporter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/01/st-paul-pioneer.html
http://www.citypages.com/2004-10-06/news/special-agent-jane-turner-vs-the-fbi/2/
While involved PSU Alum & intersted parties, such as
Paterno progeny, seek to reform governance, I’m
seeing these movers & shakers as the Crimson Tide,
tho maybe they’ll ebb, post litigation outcomes.
posted wrt today’s links
http://www.nittanynet.com/news/special/sandusky_scandal
Lordy Mercy, as we Southerners say
haven’t perused yet, but brief headline
glimpse suggests a runaway Board.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DefendAChild/status/533408076968501248
Idk if this url will come out, Peetz pic & all.
I did not realize Plastic Peetz was still on the Board.
I am all for women pioneers; she had a good career.
But she was from an era of plasticity, from appearance derivatives,
to behavioral malleability, to shape shifting, & conformity.
She chose to be a good ol boy, imo.
pretty shocking this man is head of Governance Comm at Penn State
http://m.thetimes-tribune.com/news/penn-state-board-member-eckel-talks-about-the-child-abuse-scandal-1.1234097
it is grueling & exhausting to sit on a Board of anything this dysfunctional. Jan 15 the Legislature & Gov need to scrap
the structure entirely, requiring resignations from all. Alum can always vote em in again. And a 2 man Report review (Barron, inhouse lawyer) is ridiculous; needs a 5 man Task Force of the competent Board members.
JJ in Phila, who is North Phila?
Both are labeled Jon.
were I BoT god, my Board revamp
would be shrinkage.
ie
Gov appted, 2
Legislature appointed, 2
Alum elected 2
Product of a Bot Nominating Comm, 6 (half of Board)
Nom Com composed of 1 Gov appted member,
1 Legis appted member, & 1 alum elected member.
@Blink. remember this?
http://myemail.constantcontact.com/PHC-Seeks-Department-of-Justice-Action.html?soid=1101392950182&aid=vyJ5eXIavNI
Lots of writing on the problems there a couple years ago, maybe by beejay.
I went looking back for copious postings here re Hershey by beejay or erose or both
(Iirc a dr or lawyer from the lical PSU incrowd was on the Biard, busy buying a golf course
& having good ol boy fun), and found thus, presciently,
” Local says:
October 7, 2014 at 3:12 pm
I found your site after a friend told me to check the news about the current ongoing Chris Lee investigation.
Your site is very informative, even though there is a lot I don’t understand. I’ve been acquainted with Mr Lee for a while, and I wish I’d known about the things you’re mentioning 15 years ago. I was oblivious to the 2005 charges.
Just thought I’d drop this link here in case you’re interested in it:http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/10/boal_mansion_museum_director_j.html
I am not surprised, he received ARD after a plea deal, and one of the children refused to testify- he later petitioned to expunge his record. He could not. I had nearly forgotten until a colleague reminded me- I posted on Mr. Lee’s campaign facebook. There was no doubt in my mind he would re-offend.
He is a serial criminal pedophile- and there is no known successful therapeutic outcome for treatment.
I am still flummoxed at the community still having school tours, still allowing his request for student volunteers, etc. Oh- and did I mention that his former victims were “The Second Mile” children?”
http://blinkoncrime.com/2012/07/12/freeh-report-on-sandusky-and-psu-bombshell-what-they-missed/#comments
one page back on
http://blinkoncrime.com/2012/07/12/freeh-report-on-sandusky-and-psu-bombshell-what-they-missed/comment-page-21/#comments
and so much was there…Lubert, Joyner, etc
I can’t bear to keep reading back
& see today’s Penn Live or Bagwell
story was BOC’s 2012 story.
Can you just summarize from memory the erose/beejay Hershey Trust & Home story,
which we found a scandal here in 2012?
Not without researching on here which I don’t have the time to do this week- unfortunately- that may be an erose request. She is freakishly recall-centric.
B
@Blink. not worth your time now or later, but I’ll hope erose
recalls her research without new labor.
I don’t really understand the group targeting Holder (& he’s history anyway).
Trusts are reformed by State Courts, and now there is a favorable PA political environment to
do so. They need a handful of Board members to file suit to
reform the Trust. IIRC, assets were being misused.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/06/hershey_trust_co_board_members.html
iirc it was zimmerman who drew erose’s eye.
substantive conversations during Kane campaign? were donor $ also directed? http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/05/for_some_the_attorney_generals.html
Zimmerman (former Republican AG)
http://thelibertyblog.org/2011/12/19/hack-alert-dave-freed-not-the-guy-republican-candidate-attorney-general/
prior to Kane closing the investigation,
Hershey hired Dem fixer as attorney
http://mobile.philly.com/business/?wss=/philly/business&id=125178764
Wish my memory was that good, Blink, but thanks. I refreshed on your link Rose, at the bottom of the page I clicked on the exhibits and it took a quick skim, no labor (though I plan to read thoroughly as it was so thoughtfully put together) to remind me. I want to cry for the Project Hershey Children, the alumni group, who hasn’t given up and hope that they get their federal investigation.
Simple answer, it was the same people. Same people who turned a blind eye at Sandusky. Namely the OAG’s and Gov’s who as trustees controlled the 8 billion dollar trust and compensated themselves quite well for their “charitable” work. There was a pedophile and in a separate incident a pornography scandal and the investigations moved as timely as the Sandusky investigation, over decades by the GOP OAG’s.
Of course it was the Hershey Trust that built the Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center. It was a group of trustees and doctors who benefitted from the golf course deal where a once failing investment netted profits when it was sold to Hersheys. We can only assume where those doctors practice. There was a plan (and maybe it happened) to build additional student housing (not the standard house parent setup) near the golf course and I think we learned a private air strip was in the works.
The school has really not been expanded in all these years, but the assets have gone to fund not only campaigns sometimes by way of favors if not actual cash, trustee compensation exceeding CEO salaries, and a country club with lodging affectionately known as Zimm’s Place. I theorized Zimm’s Place ala North Fox Island.
Correction, forgot Rendell. It was perpetrated by both parties, but majority GOP.
PSU doctors seemed relevant as to McQ’s dad and dad’s doc friend. There was no reasonable explanation why these two men did not follow through on Sandusky’s shower incident that McQ witnessed.
If you google, it’s Zimm’s Palace (not Place), $70,000,000 in upgrades to be exact.
I see you’re on to the whole sorted mess. So are these people operating independently of each other? Sandusky, Lee, Koons, Cash for Kids Savitz and the like? If they are, how ironic that it is the same government that allowed or made excuses. It just smells like it will all tie together which was somewhat alleged by the sportscaster Mark Madden who reported there was more to the story. Was also alleged by a former abused child Greg Bucceroni who was pimped out or at least paraded at TSM banquets.
As questioning turned to other individuals at these get-togethers, Bucceroni remarked, “They were obviously wealthy—like doctors, attorneys, politicians and businessmen—and I could tell some were married from their wedding rings. But their body language gave away their intentions. On my second trip to TSM, I went with Savitz, another pedophile, and a boy my age. Savitz mingled with the other adults, discreetly showing them child porn pictures that he’d brought along. These are the kinds of places where guys from New York, Jersey and Pa. interact. Plus, with all the Penn State hoopla, TSM promoted itself as an alternative to jail or juvenile hall. They said it was the best thing since peanut butter and jelly. But Sandusky is just one in a handful of them. I hope you shine a light on this society of pedophiles.” – See more at: http://americanfreepress.net/?p=5116#sthash.9xcZeQbD.dpuf