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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Iirc Shutt claimed it was backdated & typed around the time it was filed on 9/9
note Brown.
Reminds me of Charlottesville’s police chief.
http://onwardstate.com/2015/02/10/meet-the-six-penn-staters-appointed-to-tom-wolfs-cabinet/
Should be quite a cleanup over time.
I had no idea Dr. Levine was transgender. What a background with such a traumatic backstory.
I’m just a born a girl still a girl woman and I can’t get that much accomplished, lol.
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compare Shutt’s Linkedin:
“Sales Support Manager
DICK’S Sporting Goods
June 2005 – August 2010 (5 years 3 months)
Supervised Payroll
Supervised Administrative Duties
Managed all Cash Office Procedures & Cashiers
Managed all Freight Flow
Supervised 10-15 Associates under my department
Interviewed Associates
Stores Loss Prevention Coach
Assisted with daily operations of the store
Applied corrective action to those who failed to meet requirements
Performed daily opening and closing duties of the store”
To briefs filed with Court allowing her lawsuit against Dicks to survive summary judgment.
alleged to the Court she “had NO actual managerial responsibilities. The work allegedly consisted of cleaning and other manual labor duties, according to Court filings.”
http://www.law360.com/articles/569712/dick-s-assistant-managers-win-conditional-cert-in-ot-suit
If one will make untruthful (by her own writing) allegations in Court filings in one legal action for monetary gain, why not another?
I could not pull that link up, but I pulled her depo. She certified that she was a sales support manager and that was confirmed via employment records so I am not sure what you are looking at.
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We’ve seen this guy’s picture before…..
as Michelle Shutt’s Twitter follower, and on the Masorti law firm site endorsing his legal services:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robhampton
Rob Hampton consulting registered the crisisinoutcourthouse domain name on Jan 18—regististration name buried in the site data below under DNS Lookup
http://domainsigma.com/whois/crisisinourcourthouse.com?search_bar=True
tsk tsk for sure. Good catch Rose.
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someone subpoena HIM to the Grand Jury wrt those questions of conspiracy.
Where ARE the reporters in Bellefonte?
One wonders what Masorti repped him on, and who the Judge was.
One wonders if he set up this domain in part payment for legal services.
One wonders what a Masorti client registering this
domain to harass Miller & Lunsford would mean to
office of Bar Counsel?
apparently one only gets a certain number of free clicks on that article & then one is blocked as I am now.
http://www.law360.com/articles/569712/dick-s-assistant-managers-win-conditional-cert-in-ot-suit
However, it is my guess the depo was oriir to certification as a class in 2013.
After a motion for summary judgement in 2014, the Judge denied SJ in 2014 & the article quoted his opinion that finding was based specifically in part on Shutt’s testimony which I quoted from the article above on the denial of SH. The question on which that thrned was whether Shutt & co-complainant had ANY managerial duties. Dicjs said Shutt did; Shutt said she didn’t. So I imagine her depo under oath will be used against her at trial. Apparently there is a discrepancy between ber earlier depo then and hos her lawyer wrote his Reslonse to Dick’s Motion for Summary Judgment.
Shutt is a paralegal. She would certainly know when she is swearing a statement or alleging something of this magnitude her creds will be called into question and if she was dishonest in the Dicks suit it will come back to her, of that I have no doubt.
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Blink, I just relooked at J Abom. He is a serious criminal DEFENSE attorney, imo better than the 2 townies.
So, I suggest 2 or more of the BoC knew they needed a criminal defense attorney for something unknown, had
approached a local such as Cantorna or Masorti thru Glantz , who likely said let me show you a better way, and the Town will pay. ergo the planning & lead up to Jan 20. And the next week, the BoC answered a reporter that Abom had begun working in the interim before his formal contract vote.
reading elsewhere the Judge certifying a conditional class referred to in that article said his doing so was based on very “spirited” oral arguments on both sides (and omitted writings). He also had the flavor of I don’t want to spend too much time on the cknd. certification (ie, a 2 step approach)–just let them have a conditional cert. So it’s her attorney who made those arguments that she was the cleaning lady type employee without managerial duties arguments on that one occasion.
I believe the jist is that the managerial promotion was like a way to not pay O/T but assign tasks that were slated for non-exempt employees when add’l duties as assigned to the lower rung would grant overtime pay. Sort of an empty promotion.
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sadly, prescient:
http://www.yardbird.com/pdfs/Dwyer_Final_Statements.pdf
see p 4 wrt Zimmerman & Thornburg techniques
unfortunately, his addressee Biden = Ditzy, powerless over the Exec in the Bush era, & narcissistic
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Leroy Zimmerman was the first PA State Attorney.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/23/us/official-calls-in-press-and-kills-himself.html
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Unfortunately, McCord didn’t know his history
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for Miller & Kane, a reminder of PA politics, regardless of gender
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As for Centre County, I’m reminded Corman is not only now the PA Senate Pres, he is a kingmaker in the State, stepping over bodies with an increasingly wide stride.
Imo no Centre County Republican serving in govt, nor candidate hopeful, nor significant donor twitches without Corman’s blessing. … to include Exarchos, Glantz, Dedham, and associates.?
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What differs?
http://www.yardbird.com/pdfs/Dwyer_Final_Statements.pdf
see p 4 wrt Zimmerman & Thornburg techniques
unfortunately, his addressee = the haess Biden
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Leroy Zimmerman was the first PA State Attorney.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/23/us/official-calls-in-press-and-kills-himself.html
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Unfortunately, McCord didn’t know his history
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What does it mean for CC elected officials cor Corman to be in Statewide official and unofficial leadership?
“hapless” Biden
(curses on IPh6Plus)
I feel sorry for Dwyer
a classic populist who rose too far
gist = correct, Blink.
however imo the law turns on the actual duties, not the promotional title.
So, are the actual duties those on her linkedin, or those her attorney argued?
for all dick’s ladies, I hope the latter.
if so, she truly was not fitted to walk into a DA para as her first ever typist job.
Bad judgmentb of hirer and hiree. And likely a political hire as really she had no prior office or typing experience.
A para is, before anything else, a typist. imo I’d have advised my dau to plead for a reference & call it a day,
not walk to Masorti’s electric slide (out of the DA Office).
See http://www.psu.edu/trustees/members/silvis.html
Silvis = BOT & Restek founder,
close to Corman:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChiTownLionPSU/status/565614351441461248
And Shutt wrt Restek,
note the claim she stepped into Restek from the DA, a reward?
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/michelle-shutt/95/586/632
Does this come down to Corman, Silvis, & 409 truthers ensuring the DA who got the tip call to seal Sandusky’s prosecution eventually exacting retribution and opening a path to a DA team player’s election?
It seems Restek et al was a significant Santorum donor/supporter,
ergo his Chief of Staff Corman.
What was Miller thinking when she hired this newly online-minted para?
with interesting timing, Restek’s
Silvis gets a Board appointment from Exarchos/Dedham.
http://www.theprogressnews.com/default.asp?read=37545
http://www.lockhaven.com/page/content.detail/id/539372/Centre-buys-building-next-to-courthouse.html?nav=5009
Odd purchase as they couldn’t renovate it until the next door bldg conveniently burned down. http://www.theprogressnews.com/default.asp?read=37545
not surprisingly, it was arson
http://www.abandonedamerica.us/garmantheater
cost of the renovation morphed from $56,000 to 3.1M
http://www.centredaily.com/2014/12/23/4523238/centre-county-commissioners-approve.html
meanwhile they had declined a free bldg in Bellefonte the owner wanted to gift in 2012 due to the cost of roof & 3rd floor repairs with 28,000SF.
who sold this bldg to County in Feb 2012?
I wonder if her Office being moved there led SPM to ask for further arson investigation?
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nice story
http://www.statecollege.com/mobile/news/centre-county-gazette/new-bellefonte-youth-centre-opens-its-doors-to-public,1461007/
http://littlesis.org/person/91371/Paul_H_Silvis/giving
= a Corbett appointee to PSU.
(even Corman donated to Derek Walker, goodness.)
for whatever reason, my phone does not enlarge, so idk the comment focus
https://mobile.twitter.com/wensilver/status/566008405924790272
but imo good or bad, right or wrong,
these JJ “outers” are Stacy Morris type mob stalker personality disorder types.
which makes their accuracy wrt other criminal matters crap imo.
Btw, it seems to me without the mcqueary report there is no onus wrt ZoSU, Oaterno, ir the 3-hapless admins.
so mcqueary report is All.
And wasn’t that the substance of the Miller tip & forward to State?
So imo it all comes down, onset and all subsequent
penalties, to a Miller act on info
PSU, Paterno, Or the 3
why did 409 truthers come so late to the party?
https://mobile.twitter.com/wensilver/status/56600840592479027
known & accepted here for a long time.
& Curtis is the best of Philly to me.
Considering Jacobs didn’t move to Philadelphia until 1992 (as per Linkedin), it obviously isn’t the same person. According to that He was starting his term on the Ferndale Area School Board, which is outside of Johnstown. It is funny however.
http://gantdaily.com/2015/02/13/mark-higgins-announces-candidacy-for-centre-county-commissioner/
The twitter link above does not work I think & just as well.
It was from one of those on nittanynet giving 409 a tarnished name imo.
I posted it for its funniness, & then regreted.
It has become very obvious to me J Corman is using Paterno/PSU Alums as his base to run for Bob Casey Jr’s Senate seat in 2018, formerly held by his boss Santorum, & until then he’s packing minor & major posts thruout the State with “friends.” You read Kistler advanced himself to Corman for what will be a 9 month jib? I figure Lunsford will be eased out in Jan 2016 so Kistler can return. And, Higgins became known to Corman during the Corbett school funding cut wars.
If this isn’t exactly like Kitzhaber, idk what is.
On what planet is Pennlive sleeping?
Glantz works on County ad hoc Natural Gas Task Force wrt “Public Policy, Planning, and Legal Issues”
(where he gets to rub shoulders with what pol but Corman’s staffer)
http://centrecountypa.gov/index.aspx?NID=607
While at the same time he advertises himself as handling (imo negotiating, not just drafting) “gas leases.”
http://extension.psu.edu/natural-resources/natural-gas/service-directory/attorneys/glantz-johnson-and-associates
this business is right up Exarchos’ professional field as well.
Yep.
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How much in billable hours to taxpayers did Abom’s untruthful email cost?
http://www.statecollege.com/mobile/news/local-news/pa-supreme-court-denies-petition-from-centre-county-district-attorney,1462830/
Nor is the lead accurate. The Court made no findings of law, did not resolve the conflict of laws, did not examine the facts, did not provide reasoning against a Preliminary Injunction. Just denied this particular petition now. Bad for DA as soon Republican friend of Exarchos will be on Biard. My take is SC found the issues in the petition were not ripe or had largely been resolved at a lower level and deference was given to the Statewide GJ. I imagine A-bom will be so busy defending Exarchos and Dershem he’ll have to time to mount a special prosecution. Imo that wa what Glantz’ lady lawyer in the other firm is for–the one with a name something like Zitti. This ruling did give crisisinourcourthouse FB a carb laden dish of pasta to digest.
I would like to see a Federal grand jury with subpoena power and FBI investigators, such as went after Kitzhaber’s public & private records intertwining public office & personal profit, look into Glantz and associates dating to the mid-1990s, most especially his private representations before the Planning Board that approves building permits, such as the development he & his son appeared before repping Exarchos.
the way I see the brilliant Castir, he filed that quo warranto petition knowing wrt the previous action he’d be going before the State GJ judge & would be muzzled. So, the Initial Petition & the Answering brief to respondents, were nithing more than a legal means to hold tge equivalent of a press conference to get Miller’s story out. He knew how the QW would go. He’s fortunate they ruled w/o comment.
306 OAG child porn arrests in less than 2 years
http://www.timesleader.com/news/home_top-local-news/151844004/
SPM’s petition for emergency relief was rejected, though she had gotten what was seized back.
As far as I know, the judge has not granted the Commissioner’s the power to appoint a prosecutor.
Right, no Judge has granted Commissioners that power.
not ripe.
They have not yet appointed a special prosecutir.
They have appointed a special investigator.
Refer back to Boyde’s two step process statement.
a well-written article, & imo Castor is right wrt investigations of DAs
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-pa-kathleen-kane-special-prosecutor-20150214-story.html#page=1
As for who investigates the AG?
same as Oregon wrt Gov: fbi + US Atty.
certainly not Glantz & cut outs.
@JJ in Phila It seems Ellen does access her attorney supervisors for Courthouse info & legal advice that she puts on the web ie here at crisisinourcourthouse facebook, saying,
E…. B… to “Shari C…., I asked people in the legal field how this process works. That was the answer.”
And the frequent anti-Lunsford/Miller poster she addresses? SC blogs on 409 Truther, notPSU:
http://notpsu.blogspot.com/2013/09/shari-copenhaver-theft-by-deception.html?m=1
http://www.yardbird.com/Kathleen_Kane_Star_Chamber_Justice_in_Pennsylvania.htm
It troubles me the press quoted Kistler saying he hadxapproached Corman, knowing he was the SC Kingmaker, saying “How can I help?”
Help has meta meanings in context.
It is my opinion that JC is using the Paternos &
Joe’s legacy as a platform to the US Senate in 2018,
with 409 Truthers as his political base.
And imo he needed to get “sealed” Kane’s findings wrt Noonan & Fina.
see SPM in Comments
http://www.yardbird.com/midnight_ride_another_missing_PA_prosecutor_2.htm
This link includes the Sandusky trial transcripts which apparently the CC Court Administrator Ishler asked Robert K Balikey Data Processing to program so that google would not include the transcripts on the CC website in google hits. Keisling got the same request last year from Corbett’s repr to take his down.
http://newslanc.com/keisling-on-pennsylvania-politics/
Yardbird’s comments on Gricar’s laptop remind me of the Sat nite raid & seizure of Miller’s laptop, cell, etc, exposing, as she said, CIs, orchestrated in part by a man with a user son:
“And so it is with DA Gricar’s missing laptop. Surely, I thought, someone must know what’s on Gricar’s machine.”
http://www.yardbird.com/midnight_ride_another_missing_PA_prosecutor_2.htm#.dpuf
“The sanctity of informant dealings is a sacred subject, one about which the FBI, for example, historically feels justified in outright misleading the public. No use busting the Witness Protection budget, if one can help it. Chief Dixon’s interesting claim that a district attorney’s laptop contained no DA work product, but only personal distractions and pleasantries, presumably like asteroids, solitaire, recipes, chat logs and the like, is hard to swallow. But, after all, this is Happy Valley. Despite Chief Dixon’s claim, not too many Centre County drug informants can be sleeping too well these cool April nights….”
“Referring to decisions already made somewhere in Attorney General Corbett’s office, Dixon said, for some reason “they don’t think” the recent, “million-and-a-half-dollar” drug case involving alleged middleman Taji “Verbal” Lee had anything to do with DA Gricar’s strange disappearance. Though Chief Dixon has jurisdiction in the missing person case, he was strangely ceding authority in this area to others.”
“it’s not too far-fetched to even conjecture that each may have been commanded to drop everything and come along by someone with a badge. They sure as hell don’t want the public thinking about the implications of that…”
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another incisive Yardbird piece 4 mos ago:
“In recent years, moreover, there has been a concerted effort by public officials in Pennsylvania to misuse the court and grand jury system to conceal public corruption, and to punish writers and others who complain about it. An obvious intent is to conceal growing government and court corruption in Pennsylvania.
What makes the Corbett administration’s take-down request all the more peculiar is that the yardbird.com and newslanc articles did not link to any of the transcripts on the Centre County courthouse website.”
http://www.yardbird.com/Corbett_appointee_says_links_to_Sandusky_trial_transcripts_removed_from_Google.htm
this article is WOW on the politization last year of the CC Court Administrator’s Office (Ishler just retired) & one would assume the Sr Presiding (administrative) Judge. more yardbird down in Comments.
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Robert K Bailey’s hegemony in management of the Centre Cty govt website, the Court Administrator’s pages (to include transcripts), jury management (software I believe is being sold to other PACounties), and so on makes me wonder why any prosecutor’s laptop is needed if his co’s “cloud storage” is used by the DA Office and by the Judges & Court Administrators. I attended tech ceus once at a law school where the lecturer said no attorney should use cloud storage for client matters.
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After the Miller resolution, I hope to see Yardbird explain the events of Dec 2014 ff
Another thing Dershem & gun deregulators have against Miller, ensuring PA concealed carry permits are required of PA residents
http://m.collegian.psu.edu/news/crime_courts/article_bdcf3342-402d-11e3-93f4-0019bb30f31a.html?mode=jqm
a Masorti client:
http://www.thecrimsonpirate.com/rtkba/archive/mckown/mckown_drug_charges_amendorder_motion.pdf
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/10/pa_residents_must_have_pa_perm.html
apparent Sunshine Act violation for which SPM required Exarchos turn over records for, to right, page 2:
http://panewsmedia.org/docs/default-source/legal-update-newsletter/august-16-2013-legal-update.pdf?sfvrsn=2
(nursing home was local controversy–Exarchos/Dershem eventually made it nonprofit with a Board appointed by BoC — just like Natl Gas ad hoc etc
Lots of development approvals on agenda for Monday. Wish I had the energy to ck out principal investors.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BruceCastor/status/567317009336381440
don’t know my images; is this a front page twitter pic of Castor with Corbett?
What’s the purpose of this two-man background pic anyway?
Why not every eled kids’ school cield trip destination, say, the Liberty Bell?
https://mobile.twitter.com/BruceCastor
if it is Castor with Corbett, isn’t that political suicide?
Not Castor
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Who then? thanks.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BruceCastor
Lieutenant Gov Cawley, according to his twitter pic description
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He’s running for DA. You’d think his pic would be up with County Sheriff.
reading Gricar’s former ADA’s comments on the SPM brouhaha on several CDT articles, one is aghast Gricar considered himself closest in the office to this then young man on his first job. He comes across as intemperate, crude, self-absorbed, and hasty.
And with the US House lacking commenter Derek as an elected local Repr, merely due to a one-shot domestic type incident, one wonders how many more with a lack of knowledge, reasoning skills, & flexibility to llearn via taking in new info, serve there now, riding to success on raw ambition, money & father’s successes
@Rose Sloane was fired by SPM, so there is some bad blood there.
Take my word for it, at least when they get elected, a lot of them are like that in their first term.
Bad blood is expectable. However, the nature & quality of his writings, whether on SPM or others, do not reflect someone who once was a professional or employed as an ADA. It is the “good blood” then between Gricar & SS that is the surprising piece to me.
SPM seemed to be gathering steam in term 2. Her achilles heel is her staffing judgment.
She needed a greater proportion of seasoned prosecutors. Just like hiring a para with no
experience.
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An article said Gricar’s County-owned laptop held only personal (nonwork) material.
One wonders if he was involved in something comparable to emailing the likes of
Fina, Castille, Noonan, or other untoward online activities and had become threatened or
subject to blackmail?
Someone’s taking baby steps to limit govt worksite corruption & he got rebuffed:
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/02/17/4608235/county-employees-reminded-of-political.html
CrisisinourCourthouse forgot to republish this story.
It is workplace intimidation to have a supervisor such as say Boyde or formerly Ishler
say please sign and circulate this petition for a candidate, say Exarchos or
Dershem. And the 3 BoCs were just complaining about SPM maybe doing something
comparable. (Petitions could be filed starting 2/17).
Continuing his local public service crusade, Masorti has just published on CIOC
facebook the explicit how tos of filing a bar complaint against a CCty attorney
or judicial complaint wrt a CCty judge. Imo a public service crusade
against County judges & DAs is an indirect form of PR for a criminal defense counsel’s practice.
Come to my shores, you disaffected, & so on.
I suppose whatever County employee called Pipes is a Dem being asked by a work supervisor, at work, to sign a Republican’s election petition. Exarchos said employees can do this on their lunch hours. Supervisors are still supervisors during lunch. their refusal to prohibit govt worksite election petition drives is self-protection & coukd mean both Comms are running. One more thing for the OAG to get to some day.
http://gantdaily.com/2015/01/20/wjac-tv-centre-co-commissioners-approve-investigation-into-da-parks-miller/
Masorti filed a Bar complaint Dec 30, the day his employee signed the affidavit (wonder if production of same was a condition of employment?) I suppose State OAG will have access to her State tax return for 2014 to see when employment commenced. Thus the DA was made aware Dec 31 or Jan 2. SPM apparently gave Sinderson an interview before the 20th. I suppose since he’d been following the story before that, Masorti alerted the press in addition to Bar Counsel. 409 Truthers apparently don’t like Sinderson.