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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Judges’ suit unsealed: http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/judges-lawsuits-against-centre-county-unsealed,1463354/
(No, it does NOT include the filing.)
JJinPhila.
CDT rewrote its article very significantly changing the content, with the effect of zeroing out your (& everyone else’s) comments.
March 26 version by Unknown author
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/03/26/4672066/centre-judge-rescinds-order-banning.html
Looks like Kistler (who had declined to comment on March 25) changed his mind & sent a comment, & Castor & SPM’s comments were deleted.
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March 25 version by C Over:
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/03/25/4670687/judge-kistler-rescinds-order-regarding.html
catch it quickly
https://mobile.twitter.com/StateCollegecom/status/581414571258163201
which of these playas is sending Garrett 5 am faxes with breaking news??
http://www.statecollege.com/mobile/news/local-news/judges-lawsuits-against-centre-county-unsealed,1463354/
sweet
“Both judges filed motions to unseal the documents after the Centre County Commissioners openly discussed the lawsuits at a public meeting.
“In an effort to protect Plaintiff from further disclosure of [their] private information and further violation of [their] right to privacy, Plaintiff requested that the Court seal Plaintiff’s complaint,” the motions to unseal read. “… Because the County has not respected the fact that the case was filed under seal…the public has recieved incomplete information about the nature of the case.”
the BoC cancelled this week’s mtg as they went off on a local BoC junket
reading on, Campbell of PFUR listed a number of members of the McShane firm in his 3/24 RTK request as having previously so filed. Even SPM in her suit styled them John Does 1-5. So if the suit was still sealed on 3/24, Campbell could only have gotten Grine’s sealed suit content, or who had filed with CC previously, from Boyde or his staff, a Commissioner, or a member of the McShane firm who wanted the publicity. Someone needs to find out who gave sealed records to PFUR & prosecute. Wait, that would be the DA.
Grine:
“”The fact that a government employee’s cellular telephone is provided by the government and that government business may be discussed over a personal telephone does not make that telephone any less ‘personal’ within the meaning of the Right-to-Know Law,” Grine’s complaint reads.
….is right imo. Because it is govt issued, all content is open to scrutiny by the issuing govt agency–
but phone numbers are not to the public. If the PA Statute permitted that (and it doesn’t–this is one financial record–phone nos.– that must be redacted), an appeal to the Supremes would fix the statute. Grine’s is a very Republican position & correct re the Statute.
an oddity
a general google search of Jonathan Grine threw this up on p 1.
“Jonathan Grine – Centre County PA Judge on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/122569007
Mobile-friendly – Mar 18, 2015 – Jonathan Grine, candidate for judge in Centre County Pennsylvania on a supposed desire to have a …”
Watching the vimeo, at first I thot it was by his Wife 1 or associates; but, then it appeared from the wife 2 elaborate picture album to have been constructed by say an ex-bf & rejected suitor competitor or former coworker/employer.
But, the music sounded familiar as tho in other CC-associated videos. So I went to PFUR Simon Campbell’s video feed, and this very Grine video was prominently & recently published, 5-6 videos ago. Seems a joint antiGrine campaign between Simon & others promoted by jealously. But I still don’t know where with Sandusky, BoT truthers, & CC polarization where I heard that music attached to a hatchet job before.
It seems to me 3 criminal defense shops are attacking the heart of the criminal justice process in CC by levying false allegations based on private information about 6 govt employees made public (against the RTK statute) during the course of criminal trials, levying charges on a personal basis, against 3 judges & 3 DAs. All 6 cannot be acting “with bias.” These 3 ceiminal defense shops have been aided & assisted with statutoriky private information provided at the direction of the Town Soliciter who is also the Happy Settlement for-profit private business partner of one of them.
That video is bizarre. They don’t like his wife.
Grine’s wife? Or someone liked her too much & just won’t let her go.
Too many personal pics of her in a well-perused digital album, probably
taken before her Grine marriage, imo. from a stalker seeking to discredit them both.
I see COIC has added some posting guideline & disclaimer.
Here is the latest output from the social system of players being drawn to each other in imo 1 or more Borderline’s scrum.
https://m.facebook.com/crisisinourcourthouse?ref=stream
the pipeline from PFUR’s attorney to Grine, Gillette & SPM diverts & streams into this swamp.
Being recently victorious against teacher union interests in securing the right to publish teachers’ home addresses has gone to PFUR’s head imo.
direct link to horses’s mouth, or swine’s snout:
http://paunionreform.org/Centre_County.php
in the letter recipients’ shoes, I’d ignore & let the potential litigant
assume anything she pleases on Monday at 5.
Nothing will stop these creators of chaos except settled Court orders.
i didn’t read most, but Emergency Injunctions were ordered last March 16 for Grine & Gillette (latter’s signed by esteemed ret’d Judge Chas Brown, iirc). High hurdle jumped. Extraordinary the BoC went into this & made accusations against the judges & allegations about the suits in a sealed case in open public session that week.
PFUR link above. under DA doc 3, the Complaint. See paragr 51-52. You are right about Boyde’s efficiency, JJinPhila. He & Glantz obtained the cell records they did not have from a 3rd party, the phone co; created a spreadsheet; sifted thru the nos. to find the ones of interest; & printed only those. the RTK product was thus doctored to look like a screwed no of calls went to 1 judge from the DA, or 3 attorneys from the judge. Boyde & Glantz effectively worked as Cantorna’s “paralegal.”
SPM missed 1 thing: Cantorna & Glantz are actual business partners in Happy Valley Settlements. I hope the man who should have stayed retired rolls over promptly on the others. I suspect the motivation of Glantz (& maybe his son) in Cantorna’s McClure is not the wife, who perhaps Glantz referred to Cantorna, but what may be a Bellefonte HVAC company-owning husband who may very well have worked on development projects with 1 or both Glantz’s historically.
screwed above should be skewed
Tanski p 19. of McShane firm.
cited in Grine & DA suits (& probably did a Lunsford)
does post sentencing appellate criminal cases.
http://www.pabar.org/public/yld/pubs/atissue/AISummer2014.pdf
one guess as to which recent CC case sentencing
a trial attorney like Cantorna passed on to him.
the child abuse case with the 10 year sentence?
B
Tanski’s specialty, apparently, is creative writing–per his feature piece.
yes, 10-20 yr sentence. She’s lucky it’s that lite.
One reason imo SPM’s complaint wrote extensively about that case & conviction.
Her suit is as much about making it stick, imo, as the RTKL. .
I thot btw mcclure had an hvac co, but it seems he is or was a sheet metal worker at psu.
unimpeachable Sr former Pres Judge Charles Brown signed those emergency injunctions ex parte btw.
Glantz said in a BoC mtg he’d relied on the counsel of Craig Staudenmaier GC for pafoic ( http://pafoic.org/who-we-are/ )
in making RTK decisions wrt the private criminal defense bar’s requests about CC judges & DAs,& Glantz further said the County might retain him in those suits. (They did not.) Note on the pafoic website the State College man & his 1st Amendment Ctr. I expecg to see his name in CDT soon. Glantz has politicized the interests of CC elected officials.
While Craig did not come in himself, he apparently linked a Coalition member with the personal interests of Glantz & his associates, PFUR, to whose Brit, Campbell, these 3 CC suits are now a personal Crusade. A link to CrisisinourCourthouse FB page is now prominently displayed on PFUR’s home page. And so the original 2 criminal defense attorneys (now 4 firms) scrum continues to grow. Delete one letter from scrum, & what do you have?
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It is disheartening to remember the press conf video at the last BoC meeting.
All those young male voices saying things like “I don’t know what an injunction is,” asking the Comms to explain the difference between a law suit & an injunction, literally. (Duh, you file a suit to get an injunction.) You’d think they’d call a PSU law prof before the press conf & enlighten themselves. Apparently not a single reporter understands what a very high hurdle an ex parte emergency injunction was, how rare. And rather than defense attorneys rushing to the Courthouse to lift it, it still stands.
I don’t know if this is posted, but that group posted the filings: http://paunionreform.org/Centre_County.php
You might to check them out before they realize their mistake.
In summary, they are generally these points:
1. The BoC released cell phone numbers.
2. Both the DA’s Office and the judiciary handle their own RTK requests.
DJ Gillette-Walker also claimed that she pays her own bill.
If accurate, IMO, the commissioners are in big trouble.
I believe Rose posted them previously but I could not locate the suits on the prior link, thanks.
Not sure if you have read McShane’s piece from yesterday- but yowza.
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/03/28/4676257_their-view-are-centre-county-judges.html?rh=1
B
I have been responding. I’m not a lawyer, but it probably is not a good idea to claim that you’ve seen the exhibits and then admit that they violated the statute.
The comments are interesting.
I am very proud of Rose for not reminding everyone that those of her colleagues that could not pass the bar in other jurisdictions took it in PA. ( lol, did I get that right Rose?)
B
Rose’s stock just quadrupled in my estimation.
Lol she gets that a lot.
B
You got that right. I keep saying that. But that was in the 80s, so probably Cynthia B’s, & Castille’s, & Glantz’ era.
I wouldn’t make inferences about anyone who grew up in & was educated in PA. I’d look for refugees from more rigorous States like NY VA or Calif. …but maybe these days they move from NJ to OR to take the Bar like Kantor.. Who knows? (Be careful or I’ll go off on a certain Van S commentator again.)
the link to suits (under ea person’s name) now featuring CrisisinourCourthouse FB link.
http://paunionreform.org/Centre_County.php
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responses were filed last week; looking foward to seeing them.
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Interestingly the CIOC and PFUR facebook pages look very similar. Maybe FB only gives one limited choices and Phillip & Simon both like gray. Or maybe an IT social media promotion business comparable to Rob Hampton, CIOC’s domain registrar, handles both.
I read it, thanks for link, Blink.
First he is untruthful with the facts.
Second, it’s laughable to claim a Bar complaint would involve “…to the Office of Disciplinary Counsel for what is clearly protected political speech.” A Bar complaint should read: as part of litigation strategy on behalf of a for-profit client, X Y & Z attorneys knowingly filed with the Centre County Administrator a RTK request where the info sought required a doctored record not regularly maintained by the County when 1) the Statute clearly specified different agency RTK Officers and 2) prohibited providing the public requested material, phone nos. requested. Said litigation use was a Motion to overturn a criminal judgement and sentence at both the local and appellate level.
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JJinPhila, you always get to the heart of a pithy response–the can’t keep ir use wrongfully received communications.
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Ellen’s way off the mark on substance, which is disheartening, as she’s a para with a reputable firm & has portrayed her pov as being that of info from her supervising attorney iirc.
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Personally, I think sealing the record protected defendants’ reputations more than plaintiffs’.
I didn’t notice defendants filing motions to unseal, nor rushing to the Courthouse to lift the exparte Emergency Injunction, which imo was rightfully granted as more RTK requests were pending. Instead the BoCs & others postponed the Prelim Injunction hearing a week so they wouldn’t miss their local junket getaway.
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1st Amendment is a great protection for untruthful or inflammatory speech.
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I think Kistler is responsible for a lot of this muddle; he could have nipped it in the bud
with his political friends.
Which says a lot about Corman.
Altho, if you go to law school Blink, I’d ride the zip train to NY or DC.
& study during the commute. In my opinion
content & process is the difference between
a Neiman’s & a dime store dress.
165 is going to have to be good enough for me I think- we’ll see
B
observation: Sloane has improved his still dated online picture in his Comments.
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One thing that has been bothering me, and engages my attention wrt the present cast of characters, is Exarchos, Dershem, Glantz, & Boyde were the home “team” in 2005—
and clearly have power to direct the activities & investigatory avenues of the Bellefonte PD,
right down to obtaining warrants.
from an Ellen comment on the CDT Ltr to Ed, link was B-provided above:
” The information requested was simply any contact between the judge and prosecutor…”
The Q is did Ellen or her Supv/Employer get this from a horses’s mouth (requestor or Cty Admin employee, or BiC or Glantz, or did she fabricate it as her inference ftom news articles?. If the former, if she is correct as to request parameters, why did the County Admin & Glantz seize only on ordering phone records from the phone co & editing them if the request was not specific as to phone records only?
http://www.paduiblog (dot) com/pa-dui/justice-or-an-abortion-of-justice-are-some-judges-and-the-elected-da-in-centre-county-out-of-control/
featuring the firm’s creative writer
Remove (dot) and put “.” in its rightful place
I noticed McShane claims on his dui blog to be the no 1 rated dui attorney on avvo.
That holds no water for me since I read the linkedin of https://www.linkedin.com/in/jshelffrich
After 2 mos with D Grine & 1 year with his son, Helffrich spent a year as the Masorti firm’s IT social media campaign specialist, with particular specialty in avvo comments & ratings. He also has a private business in avvo enhancement. It’s very likely if anyone in PA is no. 1 on avvo in a case type that he hired an IT social media campaign consultant like this man. Whatever happened to the idea you couldn’t hold yourself out as a specialist unkess you limited your practice to that type of case. He also claims a gun law specialist. and now a 1st Amendment crusader.
Fla is really the only state that cracks down on lawyer’s “advertising” past cases and outcomes and that was recently disputed in the Supreme Court- but damn- did he get the be careful what you wish for jinx? Isn’t Lunsford only sitting DUI’s?
B
CIOC continues to promite & asvertise the website, blog & legal advice of the Justin McShane law furm.
I sure hope that FB pageowner is not an attorney peer, because legal counsel from PFUR & McShane is being disseminated, which makes CIOC co-responsibke fir said legal counsel.
Not a conspiracy theorist either (altho the cioc – pfur alliance kinda makes one want to go there), but the legal expenses for attorneys for Glantz, County, & each BoC which are likely to be very considerable & outlast their terms in office, the deliberate violation in process & content of the Statute, the posturing re “forgery” when it’s in OAG hands, the taking on of 3 judges as adversaries in addition to the DA, strikes me as more than Republican V Dem politics, or electioneering by the BoCs, or any devotion to RTK when they allegedly were violating the prison board Sunshine law anyway and hold plenty of Exec Sessions, all of this strikes me as activity arising from concern or fears about their own potential criminal culpability in some preexisting matter(s) last fall…and exercising a sort of preemptive strike.
Seeking comments on Gricar’s disappearance by any current alleged “conspiracy” members, I found little. It seems unusual for such politically voluble men as Exarchos & Dershem that press comment was generally about resolving his salary payout.
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Bryant (a cantorna link):
Cantorna’s longtime partner Bryant self-styled as a longtime Gricar friend & gave media interviews.
“Not much of the known story makes sense. Jim Bryant, a flamboyant former Philadelphia prosecutor who’s now a defense lawyer here, said his longtime friend Gricar was quiet and very straight, “like being around a bowl of oatmeal.”
“Still, there are now differing opinions on Gricar’s state of mind when he disappeared. Bryant, the defense attorney, said he thought Gricar was chronically depressed….’http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1402467/posts
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Exarchos: “But others say that Gricar was looking forward to stepping down and was not acting any different from usual right up until the day he vanished. County commissioner Chris Exarchos saw Gricar at a meeting the day before he disappeared and said “there was nothing remarkable about that meeting.”"http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1402467/posts
“It caught me by surprise; he has been here for some time now,” said Centre County Commissioner Chris Exarchos.”http://m.collegian.psu.edu/archives/article_204d4f62-7c4d-5379-8d0e-f85de597d553.html?mode=jqm
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with both Gricar & SPM, there is the commonality of a sought-after DA laptop.
Gricar–allegedly he desired to clean the hard drive, plus it was actually destroyed.
SPM–hers was confiscated & perused.
“”There obviously is a question of whether someone may have wanted information presumably contained in the laptop,” Keisling wrote. “For example, had Gricar’s laptop contained information on the grand jury proceedings of …” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1402467/posts
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Summary:
the public, to include County officials & employees, were caught by surprise at the retirement announcement.
Gricar searched for a harddrive erasure method.
He took his hard drive to Lewisburg with him when not headed to work & during “time off.” Did someone offer to assist an IT cleanup?
One hypothesis, if there was derring do, is that his disappearance was triggered by his retirement announcement, not the drug bust.
His disappearance followed closely on the heels of his retirement announcement. And perhaps it was involved with an investigation known only to Gricar & the subject. While Patty said he did not do DA matters on his laptop, perhaps it was a subject so sensitive in this case he did.
farout speculation: Shutt was someone in a position to know investigatory materials in SPM’s computer. After termination, she might have told an investigation subject County official and been enlisted to make the affidavit due to subject’s desire to peruse the computer via warrant. That limits the concerned subject(s) to the BoC, Solicitor, juduciary, or Bellefonte PD.
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Cantorna seems to have been around in 05 Is there a County Official he is close to now and might do a favor by advancing the forgery allegation after his prior fall texting allegation against Lunsford & SPM? Someone who tapped him as a motivated tool? If his partner Bryant can call himself a longtime friend of Gricar, maybe Cantorna has friends too in CC government. Actually his best friend would be Glantz, also around in ’05 and mighty silent about the disappearance of his DA colleague. You’d think he’d agitate in the press for a high level investigation by OAG/State Police, or Feds.
wrt Shutt’s motivation, I have speculated before if press is true about Shutt’s online U, she owes a lot, also explaining reenrollment fulltime in another online U this Jan to postpone students loans. Or if owing significant money is not a motivator, the need for employment & a good job ref might be.
Bryant was a defense attorney and not close to RFG. He ran against him in 1993, where they fought over if the position should be full time.
Gricar announced his retirement in January of 2004, more than a year prior to his disappearance.
Gricar is actually Bob Durst.
Kidding- JJ I know you have a firm stance on Gricar’s disappearance and I respect that. You have certainly been engaged in researching it- I absolutely believe he is deceased and was the victim of a homicide.
B
TY for the info JJinPhila. Do you have a theory as to why the CDT interviewed Bryant, out if ALL the criminal defense Bar, on the disappearance. We have seen the CDT in the recent episodes work hand in glove in my opinion with Glantz, Exarchos, & Dershem to the extent McShane, in his defense, simply put links to each & every CDT 2015 articles on the CIOC matters on his website to establish his point. Freedom of the press!
And do you have an idea as to why in that interview Bryant called Gricar a “longtime friend” of whom he was especially knowledgeable?
Also, TY for the correction to Jan 04 from Jan 05. While not close on the heels then, I suggest a testable hypothesis for homicide (in this I agree with B) is the impending retirement as trigger, not a drug case or a mafia don, and whether or not someone in CC govt who knew Gricar had information on him about potential criminal activity–which perhaps Gricar had not followed up on for political or other reasons (ie, not wanting confrontation)–might in his final preretirement months be acted on or passed on.
btw JJinPhila. What is your firm stance on Gricar? I was not here in the beginning.
My firm stance is he showed no signs of an endogenous depression that rose to a suicidal level (ie he dressed & went to work daily, adhered to a schedule, was well groomed, drove off for a typical venture, etc). He had no signs of a character or anxiety disorder that would indicate an impulsive suicide. He had many ties that woukd preclude “disappearance,” and if he was getting out of Dodge, he’d go with his pension. He was versed in shedding wife figures. That leaves homicide–I’m suggesting it might have been close to CC home, not drug lords–and that aspects are being repeated with an activist investigatory DA. Imo Madiera was a reliable govt-caretaker wuss wrt prosecutions.
Sometimes you learn as much from someone’s silence as their speech.
Given Glantz’ chatter, leadership, even grandstanding, for several months in
public govt meetings, and to the press, on
possible favoritism between one of more Judges & the DA,
you’d think as a well-entrenched County Soliciter in 2005 he’d
have made noise & hay out of the actual
disappearance of the longtime DA.
http://www.statecollege (dot) com/mobile/news/local-news/judge-now-accused-of-violating-first-amendment-rights-in-right-to-know-lawsuit,1463409/
http://www.statecollege (dot) com/mobile/news/local-news/commissioners-legal-battles-paid-for-by-county-insurance-program,1463406/
JJinPhila, hope you ride to the SC,com comment rescue.
very sick doings afoot
very hard to determine the source of the CC infection
much revolves around Glantz imo
far from the first time the County is a defendant under Glantz, who shows great awareness insurance carrier attorneys cover his & BoC bottoms
http://lockhaven.com/page/content.detail/id/508790/Eich—Management-issues–in-District-Attorney-s-Office.html?nav=5009
Eich, the BoC Chair who questioned Madiera’s management on several fronts, shortly thereafter found hinself targeted & defeated by Exarchos & Dershem in his following election.
all I can say is thank god Kistler is not now sitting on the PA Supr Court as a final adjudicator of these suits. (and to have attempted to put him there tars Corman forever to me as a tool of as yet unknown puppeteers).
couldn’t go otherwise
http://mobile.philly.com/news/?wss=/philly/news&id=298190541
imo poor Ferman (in an election year) will let this controversy go to a jury
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/03/31/4680515/new-motions-filed-in-centre-county.html
@Blink, I’m at 58% likely at one explanation for Gricar’s disappearance; that is not exactly “firm.”
I meant you are firm about your percentage, my bad.
B
I@Rose, it wasn’t the CDT, it was CNN, and they were seeking out someone at a point when the family/Fornicola wasn’t speaking.
What would be a reason the family/Fornicola would stop speaking in your view JJ?
B
@Rose, I’ve been following the Kane situation. Thanks for the link. Even the dissent said the case against Kane should continue.
Ferman is running for judge and I would expect her to get it. Ironically, Castor is leaving the Montco Board of Commissioners and running for DA. He is also representing SPM.
@Blink, Durst is Gricar, I’m Gricar.
(April Fools)
lol
B