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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what type of “official corruption” might concern a local DA in 2005
& could have reared its head again in 2013? 2 Commissioners are the same.
a week after his disappearance, the investigation was F…ed.
http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail-pf.php?n=144563
One wonders how Mie Smith, Acting, & AG sat on this?
fwiw
https://sites.google.com/site/raygricar/timeline
ok I paid .99 for a month & will cancel on day 29. so many ads.
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/01/30/4579907/sources-say-centre-county-officials.html
OAG subpoena list missed the prkme movers who are
in actuality Glantz the Town Solicitor (no. 1 co-conspirator imo), Cantorna his office space sharer (who gave you the affidavit & asked you to represent the public?), and Masorti who drafted the affidavit witnessed by his Notary. I believe Glantz steered the Commissioners in part forthe coverup of Sunshine Act violations.
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/duane-dixon/79/4ab/138
2005 Chief
@Blink. Would the subpoenas be to a State Grand Jury?
risk = perjury.
Not sure I understand your question Rose
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In my opinion since the BoComm’s 1999 comments in their public minutes about Glantz’ job performance, it was likely Glantz’ legal advice would someday lead the Town into hot water. Perhaps Exarchos’ eyes were clouded as Glantz repped him, at least in 2009, in a development project before the Planning Commission, & hired his son. Imo the BoComm in this transaction relied in good faith on Glantz’ counsel. Nevertheless their actions imo should lead to obstruction of justice charges. They’ve had a good run; time for something else. And Pipes just needs to find a training job beyond burger flipping, likely not in politics now.
One might generously saythis about the Commissioners-3, tho not about others involved:
“was enacted with the best intentions and prompted by sincere motives,” W. Douglas Baird wrote in his ruling. He then quoted Daniel Webster, a lawyer and senator, who died in 1852: “It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/jeb-bush-terri-schiavo-114730_Page3.html#ixzz3QLpFg2kZ“
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/rugby-players-sentenced-in-arson-case-avoid-jail,1462651/
Hmmm. Message Cantorna wrt PS rugby coaching culture
Ferrell is gone.
I just looked at media minutes of last BoComm mtg because the amended written minutes still are not there.
Glantz, throughout the mtg, and as they execute a legal outside counsel contract with Kukulakis, is nowhere to be seen.
Where’s that fine?
Talking to myself is not fun, but it is clear dating to the 1990s anyway this County is beyond apathy, leading to
Sandusky, Lee, developer-builder cronyism, nonprofit county services cronyism, failures big time on the Bench (ie Grine Sr feeding Sandusky kids), and so on.
Commissioners got subpoenaed to something by OAG.
To what entity?
I would say has to be Miller’s office. It does not sit well with me that AG Kane and Parks Miller have neither seen each other nor spoken to each other in 2 years and Castor now says he letter served to announce the investigation by the other LE county. Unless I am reading that wrong, what it really looks like is that PM hand picked an agency over Bellefonte as opposed to forwarding to the AG directly. If true, that is a clear backpedal on stance and I would seek to know exactly what his client told him and the prima facie for same. What is going on in that jurisdiction with the AG and the Centre County DA both under separate criminal investigations is pretty rare.
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@JJinPhila. Is Rickard, now running for Sheriff, still with the PD? I noticed they hired a part-timer shortly at tge turn of the year. Where did Weaver, a local, come from in 2006? Was he already on the “force?” The first Gricar officer was eased out to work as a school resource officer paid by the school Board.
We saw what it took to recover a woman from a desert mine shaft in Calif last year. Experienced SAR with professional tiny camera ooerators, then rapelling down. I don’t recall a systematic search of mines of that nature for Gricar. If any PhD understood local underground topology, it would be Exarchos.
Miller made the statement that the publically known
facts about the Gricar investigation were only the tip
of the iceberg and homicide was the least likely explanation.
Where are you seeing that Rose- I saw that in JJ comment or somewhere else, but never any verification.
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I’m listening. I just haven’t had the time lately to follow it all much less contribute, so I’ve just been trying to keep up. Don’t stop, keep going, you’re on a roll. I plan to set some time aside to review and follow every link. Can’t wait! Two things I have noticed about these threads, is when the big news breaks, hoards of posters will be back here, and you’ll have an in depth knowledge to share. The other thing is the information you discover on the net now might be a dead link by then. It’s worth it Rose.
Rose says:
January 30, 2015 at 10:33 pm
Talking to myself is not fun…
a $45 statement. Every time Abom answers a single press question, that’s 15 minutes of a billable hour to the Town.
“I can neither confirm nor deny that subpoenas have been served on any one or all of the commissioners,” says Jay Abom of the Abom and Kutulakis lawfirm, which serves as special counsel to the commissioners for this topic.”
http://www.statecollege.com/mobile/news/local-news/centre-county-commissioners-reportedly-served-subpoenas-by-attorney-general,1462656/
What’s a family law firm doing defending a potentially criminal enterprise?
more details in Friday’s petition for prelim injunction
http://www.wearecentralpa.com/media/lib/189/e/9/b/e9b495dc-79c9-4ddc-b3f6-f24836e65b8c/PA_Supreme_Court_Petition.pdf
For anyone who can get Comments to show
(for me they often don’t),
Buehner the DA of Montour Cty & friend of
Gricar has a comment:
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/01/29/4579108/solicitor-stands-by-centre-county.html#
Bruce Castor is exactly right about the law in this matter….I hope that Solicitor Glantz has paid his current premiums for his professional liability insurance…….Apparently, knowing all sections of the County Code is not necessarily a prerequisite to be appointed a county solicitor in some PA counties. Both he and the Bellefonte Police Department should read the definition of forgery in the PA Crimes Code—for those keeping score at home–it is found at 18 PA C.S. section 4101….
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@ Rose, Yes, Rickard is running for sheriff as a Democrat.
The “tip of the iceberg” comment referred to the police did to investigate, not some scandal involving RFG. They did a lot that was nt reported.
The subpoenas are from the PA AG’s Office.
wrt Miller on the file, Maybe that was from a comment by JJ,
I don’t know where to refind & doubtless you are right.
Here is where Miller said that in quotations:
http://www.centredaily.com/2010/04/01/1888171/review-board-lends-new-eyes.html
wrt “Castor now says the letter served to announce the investigation by the other LE county.”
What Castor statement?
SPM “writing through Counsel” is referred to in Pt 18 of petition:
http://www.wearecentralpa.com/media/lib/189/e/9/b/e9b495dc-79c9-4ddc-b3f6-f24836e65b8c/PA_Supreme_Court_Petition.pdf
let me see,
Cantorna can defend Glantz;
Masorti, Exarchos;
McGraw, Shutt;
Marshall, Pipes;
but need one more for
Dedham, and one for Bellefonte PD,
and maybe one for Ruest; then there’s C Miller.
plus the appellette lawyers familiar with State & muni codes.
The BoC-3 should have just built the prison
expansion when it became necessary in 1993, and not
relied on $67 per head from other Counties to prevent tax increases.
Let’s remember Ruest is on the Board of Prisons with BoC-3
and there is an ongoing potential criminal investigation there
run by State Police.
I’ve gone thru Nov & Dec 2014 BoComm minutes & Soliciter Glantz appeared at none of them.
One interesting tidbit was Hoyde gave “background” & a vote was taken on a Jan 2014 – Dec 2014 (thus retroactive)
contract with Lycoming Cty to house inmates at 65/day. This followed an Exec Session on “Legal Issues” the day before. In Dec, the 67/day 2015 contracts were let to several jurisdictions.
A real story, that should enrage locals, is Sr Judge Kistler meeting with local District judges asking them to set lower bail to alleviate jail overcrowding. Overcrowding is the construct of BoComm contracts & an unwillingness throughout Exarchose & Dedham’s tenure to address an inadequate physical plant.
I have reviewed Sept -Dec 2014 and the Solicitor attended none per Minutes. In Sept I noticed (but in Oct did not look for) there was generally a 9 am Solicitor Mtg prior to the BoComm mtg.
http://centrecountypa.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/10072014-251
8. tabled a contract for Glantz’ review.
Agenda refers to a Solicitor mtg at 9 am separate from BoComm, which he did not attend
http://centrecountypa.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/09232014-249
ditto for 9 am Solicitor mtg prior to BoComm
http://centrecountypa.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/09162014-248
maybe this separate “Solicitor meeting”
just prior to the BoComm mtg was happening all along
imo if not public, violates Sunshine Act unless labelled Exec Session.
http://centrecountypa.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/09022014-246
no separate Solicitor session
Maybe the Solicitor Mtgs were the Sunshine Act violation, it was called to his attention by the DA, those those Exec Sessions on legal issues reared their head in Dec & Jan.
Showing up at a BoComm mtg in Jan was sure out of Glantz’ behavioral pattern
for months of hundreds of thousands of $ of contracts before the BoComm
Weaver was with another department, one of the townships I think, in 2005. I think Rickard is still with the department.
Zaccagni was the original investigator, but he retire in 2007, but he had been with the department for 28 years at that point.
There are not any mines, with shafts in the immediate are of either Lewisburg or Bellefonte; there are things like quarries.
let’s point out BOC scooped both the CDT and JMJ.
Credit where due. on “January 31, 2015 at 10:42 am”
CC BoComm minutes are clearly unreliable.
On Jan 20, Cantorna is listed as the only public in attendance, get Liz Grove is in the minutes with a public statement.
http://centrecountypa.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/01202015-273
Solicitor is not in attendance in Jan, so how on the 20th did he do all that grandstanding speech?
There are 9 am Solicitor’s meetings in Han. Are they closed? In my Town the outside attorney attends Council meetings (often 2 of them, big cheese & jr attorney who takes notes). Was he in attendance on the 20th & minutes omit his presence?
TY for info @ JJ in Philan
@Rose, yes I found out about the petition here.
Masorti’s Miller case feed publicity on his
website works well, tho other parts of his
new website don’t–ie link to his twitter.
http://www.masortilawgroup.com/media/
The articles you mentioned about the DA, etc do not populate for me.
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Jokes on me. I thot Game Comm had to do with gambling. It has to do with hunting regs. A perfect fit for now ALJ Kukulakis.
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While some States prosecute official oppression as a criminal complaint often, in PA it has seemed the darling of the gun toting crowd. This chatroom anecdotally discusses changes in recent House legislation (ie changes knowingly to recklessly or knowingly).
http://forum.pafoa.org/pennsylvania-10/134847-hb-1436-more-about-official-oppression.html Chatroom Makes the point that appointing a special prosecutor is rooted in common law.
those amendments to Title 18 wrt official oppression died.
https://legiscan.com/PA/research/HB1436/2013
Expect Toohil to try again, given her District.
Off Opp is Sect 5301 of Title 18.
OO is just a misdemeanor anyway, and the goods taken don’t amount in value to over $1500 do they?
Bellefonte PD is off the hook as their investigation responds to a criminal complaint lodged by the BoComm. However, the BoComm did not really lodge a criminal complaint; they’re leaving it up to Abom.
imo JJ in Phila, you are correct OO is what the OAG is investigating. I hope there is more.
acting “knowing his conduct is illegal” wrt BoComm will be hard to prove. After all, they relied on legal advice from the Town Solicitor.
“Enactment. Chapter 53 was added December 6, 1972, P.L.1482, No.334, effective in six months.
Cross References. Chapter 53 is referred to in section 5508.3 of Title 53 (Municipalities Generally); section 6017 of Title 64 (Public Authorities and Quasi-Public Corporations).
§ 5301. Official oppression.
A person acting or purporting to act in an official capacity or taking advantage of such actual or purported capacity commits a misdemeanor of the second degree if, knowing that his conduct is illegal, he:
(1) subjects another to arrest, detention, search, seizure, mistreatment, dispossession, assessment, lien or other infringement of personal or property rights; or
(2) denies or impedes another in the exercise or enjoyment of any right, privilege, power or immunity”
maybe someone else can explain this.
I clicked on the first two articles on Masorti law furm’s media feed, both attributed to CIOC. Broken link; nothing there.
So I googled CIOC which appears to be “crisisinourcourtrooms.com”. Google spat this out:
“Crisis in our Courthouse: Home
crisisinourcourthouse.com/
Mobile-friendly – Crisis In Our Courthouse was started as a way to call attention to growing concerns about the lack of confidence and …
CIOC, Author at Crisis in our Courthouse
crisisinourcourthouse.com/author/eag409/
Mobile-friendly – by CIOC | Jan 26, 2015 | Uncategorized. The Centre County Board of Commissioners meeting held on January 20, …
BREAKING – Items Seized from DA’s Office – Crisis in our Courthouse
crisisinourcourthouse.com/…/breaking-ite…
Mobile-friendly – 6 days ago – BELLEFONTE — District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller made an appearance at the Centre County …”
As far as I can tell, crisisinourcourtrooms.com was set up just for these Miller accusations by Masorti.
A devoted website which masks its origin, with feed of “articles” from said site, set up in advance, lends credence to a personally-targeted orchestration tgeiry.
partial copy of Masorti’s media reprints
philip@masortilawgroup.com
Media
You are here: Home » Media
County Solicitor Glantz Explains A Critical Point
by CIOC | Jan 26, 2015
BREAKING – Items Seized from DA’s Office
by CIOC | Jan 26, 2015
He left tracks. Didn’t erase CIOC article from here.
https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=424583014357118&story_fbid=427261200755966
I don’t sign into facebook.
Can anyone determine the Admin/owner of this FB?
I see Shutt publically posted. Where is McGraw on
instructing this client? Tho since she was a DA paralegal,
maybe his radar is weak.
I suppose State police it can determine if Masorti’s website feeder, CIOC, was set up by him. Shutt found it quickly enough to comment on. Looks like malicious use of social media, & maybe stalking, to me.
https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=424583014357118&__tn__=%7E
declared “War” or says SPM’s attorney has.
Seems to have been set up about the same time as Masorti’s new website which declared his firm is new last Nov & listed his new personnel, incl Shutts.
If I were OAG, I”d get & subpoena his IT guy and determine if new firm website & FB were set up in concert. Tho as a virtual para, maybe Shutt set the FB up for him or his Office Mgr Ruthann Long the notary.
Has a couple hundred likes, but up to 15 commenters, of those Ellen Black being 1 of the most vociferous. Claims 37 have left DA due to a hostile work environment. It’s certainly not Madeiraland where one can toke & churn out plea bargains. From ages 20-35, I loved hostile work environment female employers, as I told my dau when she met one, they taught me the most & challenged me to my highest. I took a perverse pride in succeeding under them where others failed. So, if she’s doing the job, who cares?
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Blink, the texting from bench as I read about Lunsford, is not TO Miller. It seems it occurs with any ADA in his criminal Courtroom, meaning during any case he tries, irrespective of who is present. whatever ada is repping the govt also texts. appears to be just a general lack of decorum & rudeness to the public from both his Bench and whatever ADA is present. Probably not talking to each other, but how is a defendant to know? To me this is a Sr Judge Kistler problem in failing to regulate cell phone useage during Court sessions by all present.
You are correct in part:
“Trial in this case began on September 8, 2014 and ended on September 11, 2014. Verizon phone records reveal that 152 text messages and 1 media message were sent or received by the court and Assistant District Attorney Lindsay Foster,” one court filing reads. “Of those 152 text messages, 100 texts were sent or received between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. (Many of those at times when the court was on the bench and trial in session.)”
snipped from: http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/concerns-raised-over-reports-of-centre-county-judge-removing-documents-from-public-files,1462492/
I did not realize previously that Lunsford only removed files from cases he was asked to recuse. Additionally, in some cases, it appears Immel is saying that originals were not returned, but obvious copies. Don’t these folks know what an original file stamp in that jurisdiction looks like? And, under PA law, there are a minimum of 2 copies per respondent ( or file)
In my view, the only reason nobody has not (argued) suggested ex parte communication is because they only have the text records indicating what was sent back and forth to whom- not the actual message content. This is short sighted by design or perhaps time elapsed, but it is foundational to a proper subpoena for them. What are Lunsford’s decorum and procedure rules? In most criminal courts I am involved with- cell phones are must be turned off when court is in session. Many Judge’s remove staff or public if they breach- and usually very publicly. Did Cantorna think he had just enough to impart bias- or does he know more?
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@Blink. the Lunsford – Miller “closeness” storyline seems to have in the first instance been developed ‘& disseminated by Masorti:
http://www.wearecentralpa.com/story/d/story/centre-county-judge-reassigned/41688/DGoPLnPWnkG_PQDFw6PSCQ
imo this is a 2-pronged parallel attack on bench & da from “crisis in our courtrooms.”
I am beginning to guess there are multiple
Sr J Kistler problems, including being an old friend of Lee.
Did he suggest 2005 ARD to Madeira?
a vociferous Masorti social media responder against SPM, is–from multiple sites–a Boalsburg denizen:
https://m.facebook.com/ADarrahBullBullyRescue/posts/480556405412246
Do these county judges even have clerks? All I can find in a cursory glance is a 9 month extern: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/courtney-ulery/55/31/322
Cantorna named 3: Miller, Boob, and Foster. Presumeably all 3 were on his crim court detail. I agree Cantorna did not have texts themselves. Might reveal only scheduling issuees in the absent of a clerk system.
They do have assigned JA’s- and to my knowledge they do not use a Judge’s private cell or email- which in my experience, direct contact with attorneys with a Judge without the JA is not allowed.
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the person Lunsford significantly texted with got her first attorney job in 9/13, & it happened to be as an ADA.
Just in time for Cantorna to eat her alive on a child abuse case. One of them referred to Miller as co-counsel handling
the objections in a case.
oops, the link
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/lindsay-foster/11/5/78
@Blink. You know those 3 cross postings of media articles on Masorti’s firm’s web site that also “don’t populate”?
A “rothrocks” uploaded them.
http://www.masortilawgroup.com/media/
Name for a bike trail ride in Boalsburg.
Now which of this gang and their
firm partners, living in Boalsburg,
mountain bikes?
I know you’re looking for who posted the articles, but here are the articles in case you wanted to see what the poster was posting:
County Solicitor Glantz Explains A Critical Point
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ihjiT1cMIroJ:crisisinourcourthouse.com/2015/01/26/county-solicitor-glantz-explains-critical-point/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
BREAKING – Items Seized from DA’s Office
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dGUTOzYEYRcJ:crisisinourcourthouse.com/2015/01/26/breaking-items-seized-das-office/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Centre County DA Parks Miller accused of forgery
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:n5yUPusdKf8J:crisisinourcourthouse.com/2015/01/22/centre-county-da-parks-miller-accused-forgery/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Commissioners Approve Investigation into District Attorney.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-vZp9PwsGYkJ:crisisinourcourthouse.com/2015/01/21/commissioners-approve-investigation-district-attorney/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Centre County District Attorney Accused of Forging Judge’s Signature
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OUwcXrLD3gkJ:crisisinourcourthouse.com/2015/01/20/centre-county-district-attorney-accused-forging-judges-signature/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
So are we all agreeing that these articles were pulled from the Masorti site, but originally posted there and now only available in cache? Even if they are just pulled from news links to populate, I have to say that does land on the potential for ethics/rules/regs breach from the Attorney vs. Attorney model, imo.
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random irrelevant human interest: Glantz’ son, who is doing quite well working with Pete B, and engineering for the likes of Exarchos & so much more, and teaching a PSU class, and seems quite able, had a nice Fellowship at PSU. I notice he was followed in the Fellowship by what appears to be Pete B’s son who now has a spiffy job with the private corp who is the contractor for PENNDOT & the Turnpike.
http://www.engr.psu.edu/ce/divisions/residential/Glunt_Fellows_where_are_they.html
imoortant drug arrest last October imo
a near-term Miller drug dealor trial
PSU Sr out of Jersey City (latter suggests organized crime connection)
http://onwardstate.com/2014/10/02/alleged-state-college-drug-dealer-arrested-after-molly-cocaine-seized/
Public complains about low bail
https://m.facebook.com/wtajtv/posts/10152374360502742
must’ve been after Judge Kistler’s exhortation to peers.
I am looking for cases that fired off the flurry of Shutt/Masorti joint activities in Nov-Dec.
He’s got her being paid for uploading forms in Nov. Perhaps that was to publically verify she has a firm
work product.
I am wondering what attorney began repping him in early Oct, & if there have been any attorney changes.
Obviously this is one Miller won’t plead and will go for max sentence. And his attorney would know that by Nov 1. Defamation is easier than disappearing a DA again.
I am wondering if bail was posted.