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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CIOC just posted Boob gave 2 weeks notice. Quite the
info pipeline Masorti has. Did Masorti hire him too? or McShane? or Cantorna?
maybe Shubin? Perhaps there was a bidding war.
Now that is interesting.
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Helfrich is getting his IT/social media client firms confused as he moves text around sites
http://www.masortilawgroup.com
under “Family Law,” “at Reed Longyear, our friendly…attorneys…”
I was wrong. doubt a State College attorney has a Seattle firm as a social media campaign client. Masorti just lifted their website wording for 3 paragraphs.
Reed Longyear- http://reedlongyearlaw.com/practice_area/family-law/
“Having your family’s private matters decided in court can be incredibly stressful. At Reed Longyear, our friendly and knowledgeable attorneys will make you feel comfortable from the very start and help you determine your best of course of action. We take a big picture outlook on each case in order to determine how to proceed efficiently from start to finish, then assist you through each detailed step.
“Our family law attorneys have extensive experience guiding parties through mediation, traditional litigation, and less traditional formats such as FasTrack Divorce, Cooperative, or a Collaborative law processes. During your initial consultation a family law attorney will gather all the important details and help assess your goals and options going forward.
“We are strong proponents of alternative dispute resolution and legal solutions that include mediation, Cooperative and Collaborative law. Whenever possible, we encourage our clients to amicably and respectfully resolve their family law disputes. Nonetheless, we understand that in certain cases, litigation is the only method of resolution and our family law attorneys will not hesitate to advocate strongly on your behalf in court.”
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Masorti site: http://www.masortilawgroup.com
“Having your family’s private matters decided in court can be incredibly stressful. At Reed Longyear, our friendly and knowledgeable attorneys will make you feel comfortable from the very start and help you determine your best of course of action. We take a big picture outlook on each case in order to determine how to proceed efficiently from start to finish, then assist you through each detailed step.
“Our family law attorneys have extensive experience guiding parties through mediation, traditional litigation, and less traditional formats such as FasTrack Divorce, Cooperative, or a Collaborative law processes. During your initial consultation a family law attorney will gather all the important details and help assess your goals and options going forward.
We are strong proponents of alternative dispute resolution and legal solutions that include mediation, Cooperative and Collaborative law. Whenever possible, we encourage our clients to amicably and respectfully resolve their family law disputes. Nonetheless, we understand that in certain cases, litigation is the only method of resolution and our family law attorneys will not hesitate to advocate strongly on your behalf in court.”
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I was just looking to see if Boob was on his letterhead yet. Next we’ll see a 1st Amendment suit protecting the right to plagarize.
having read a smattering of Right to Privacy & the 1st Amendment tonight wrt statutory construction & public officials, my guess is the PA Statute is questionable wrt the exemption being litigated in the suit. My guess is Judges’ phone nos, including cells whomever paid by, are not private if the no. in question is used routinely in the course of business. I think SPM & Smith are subpoenaed to establish they routinely contacted the 2 Judges on those nos. to transact Court business. (Then imo just for fun defense will contrast SPM’ frequency of contact with MS’ frequency on cases & ask why the difference? Being of a pre-texting generation won’t work.)
JJinPhila or Blink, the below is based on brief reading on a phone last nite, & I am too lazy to go back & re-find hearing judge stewart’s last name, or the proper spelling of judge lokula:
After reading about the Thurs prelim inj hearing judge, Boob’s resignation, Smith’s subpoena, & the case of former judge Ann Lokula, imo this is likely to end up with 3 judges & a DA removed and is about anything but the merits of the RTKL.
tho I have no idea whose grand scheme it has been, I believe it is following on the Lokula case and will eventually focus on issues of temperment & public trust, mimickng tge Lokula removal.
there has been a steady drumbeat by the “conspirators” about SPM creating an adverse workplace & Courthouse employee & defense Bar environment–with departed staff (Sloane, McGraw, Shutt), her inhouse employees, the Bellefonte PD, & the criminal defense Bar. That imo is tge real focus. Whether her means to ends was designed to reduce pleas & increase trials, tighten ards, motivate lazy police who provuded too little evidence to go to trial but just enough to plead out, toughen sentencing, go after white bread middle class citizens on drugs or abuse formerly winked at, go after govt corruption, or she just has a lousy temperment, it all comes out in the same place if elected & givt officials nit only allow but sponsor this treatment of elected DAs. The next DA will get the message, like Madiera did, & go easy on ards, trials, pleas, nice white folks in trouble with the law, & govt corruption. She sboukd never have embarrassed Exarchos’ son.
As far as the Judges..
First Stewart is an oldie, & never likely texted a day in his life. But the important thing is someone (Kistler?) assigned the Sr President Judge of the body that administers judicial discipline, tge one that removed Lokula from the Bench for reasons of temperment to include treatment of her staff & Courthouse staff & attorneys appearing before her. As it happens, she didn’t get along with the 3 judges removed in Luzerne in cash for kids, and on appeal it was given one of those Republican judges committed perjury in her original removal hearing. But a primarily Republican majority of judges on her removal hearing & appeal voted her out. These are the same sorts if allegations leveled wrt Lunsford & Shutt. (That’s it’s hard to get along with a criminal defense bar whilst dishing stiff sentences will be overlooked imo by those with a political agenda.) So there is recent precedent on Sr Pres Judge Stewart’s judicial disciplinary body for a group of Republicans removing from the bench a Judge opposed to the cash for kids judges on general grounds of temperment when former employees & a cash for kids judge testified against her.
I believe Boob has resigned so he can testify in these actions against SPM & 1 or more judges, & the focus wrt SPMwill be on temperment, workplace environment, & ability to act collegially & trustworthily with the criminal defense bar & judges. No one can unring testimony under oath to be cross-used in other proceedings. Ditto for Mike Smith. The same will be his line of questioning, and she will be contrasted with Gricar & Madiera’s management & temperment.. Judge Stewart is the perfect choice to rule to let a wide breadth of job performance testimony all come in.
With Judge Stewart (?) in charge, I suspect the 2 judges who sued “the citizens” (in Exarchos words) wrote their epitaphs, for they shoukd have kniwn a right to privacy and the statute as to exempting their phone nos is probably void on that item on 1st Amendment grounds, but with the COIC (Masorti/Cantorna) and PFUR (McShane & nutjob tool) crusade now going on, and the texting records, these 2 judges will be found by Stewart’s judicial committee, someday when the suits are resolved, to be removed on grounds of temperment (suing citizens, wrangling with defense bar) & public trust like Lokula. Ditto Lunsford, only his removal will be far easier on same grounds (imagine sending a member of Bar to jail for contempt when the appellate Court found there was none. Lunsford was just vengeful & overly touchy), and so on.
btw PFUR put McGraw’s responsive filing including redacted phone nos up last nite & crossposted on cioc & media comments (actually, I didn’t bother to read McGraw’s but I think that’s what it was styled.) . However, his pfur website is as chaotic as his writing & his mind, so the phone no page is hard to find (iirc, it concludes McGraw’s pleading).
an earlier occasion when SPM was accused on the record of “prosecutorial vindictiveness”:
http://www.centredaily.com/2014/06/24/4238877/contempt-ruling-adds-to-legal.html
the 3 month investigation of Adewumi apparently began around April 2013:
http://onwardstate.com/2013/07/19/penn-state-entrepreneur-david-adewumi-charged-with-stalking-17-year-old-girl/
http://www.eme.psu.edu/faculty/adewumi
His father heads the psu office of global programs–
isn’t that the office that hired madiera some time after SPM defeated him?
was the hiring about the time of the investigation or SPM’s prosecution of his son? Yep. brought on board just after Akewumi the son was charged in July:
Aug 2013-Oct 2014 “. Coordinate Office of Global Programs Travel Grants program.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-madeira/7/4b8/71a
also Dad is prof of petroleum & gas engineering–that’s Exarchos’ PhD educational field at psu & his business co. interest. Wonder if Michael was on his dissertation committee?
The model being followed wrt Lunsford, & perhaps 2 others, which suggests Kistler is far more of a driving force than now known.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/02/08/54694.htm
The referred to Court of Judicial Discipline employees are likely still in place.
The Model followed, with variation, when Shutt was placed in SPM’ office imo:
” Lokuta claims in the complaint that her former secretary, Susan Weber, filed a complaint against her in April 2004, which was “advanced by these powerful President Judges” who had appointed Weber.
Weber is not a party to the complaint.
Lokuta claims that at the president judges’ urging “the JCB began an ‘investigation’ of allegations of misconduct against Lokuta.”
She claims that after Weber submitted her complaint, Conahan appointed Weber a court reporter and secretary, “despite her total lack of training as court reporter.”
@JJinPhila. Shutt asks to be corrected
if she is wrong (on the law) in CDT comments.
Have at it.
I was just thinking Shutt commenting on the text phone records published by McGraw reduces ber credibility on the forgery, showing bias against SPM on an unrelated matter. . Then I remembered McGraw is her personal attorney. So maybe she was the (former) inhouse tippee who suggested to McGraw to get texts between DAs & Judges handling his Blake case.
wow, my apologies to Boob, my guess as to resignation reason above borne out of my cynicism regarding the alleged co-conspirators of some allied Centre County Criminal Bar, the CC Solicitor/Developer Repr/Real Est Sales & Settlements/and jack of many trades Glantz, and Republican Commissioners/Longtime Cronies Exarchos & Dershem, & Secretary Shutt. I thought someone had seduced Boob with private firm pay, as PFUR just filed to RTK the ADAs’ & judges’ retirement info & I feel CC ADA salaries are pitiful.
http://www.statecollege.com/mobile/news/local-news/prosecutor-resigns-from-das-office-claims-attorneys-endangered-family,1463449/
God bless him.
If there was ever a question as to whether a CDT editor has intentionally mislead the readers in this matter, this article clearly excises Boob’s primary stated reason, replacing it with “a” reason:
” Boob cited an increase in pay as a reason for departure “”…”
Unattributed, it’s reminescent of the unidentified editor who on at least 2 occasions has undertaken a major rewrite of Clayton’s articles, excising quotes from SPM or Castor while adding quotes from Kistler or asversaries, while zeroing out all comments, like JJinPhila’s.
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/04/01/4681827/nathan-boob-resigns-as-centre.html
Previous parallel tactics by pfur & its Commander in Chief
http://www.pottsmerc.com//opinion/20140326/treasury-dept-says-columnist-misrepresented-court-filing-by-pa-treasurer-mccord
Apologies Blink. on reflection can you delete the second half of my copying a post from CIOC FB that has the woman’s name & her hurtful comment? in my comment at
“April 1, 2015 at 8:24 pm
Maybe Boob can recoup his moving costs to the new County by hokding CIOC accountable in Court for slander
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=460001410815278&id=424583014357118&refid=17&ref=stream&_ft_&__tn__=%2As ”
OR delete my whole post.
just a small town Centre Hall Methodist maven with a finger in every pie anyway.
Got it
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CIOC should be ashamed to repeat alleged personal derogatory information about Boob.
I don’t
http://www.statecollege.com/mobile/news/local-news/statge-is-set-for-courtroom-showdown-with-centre-county-officials-fighting-each-other,1463441/
I take exception to Garrett’s lead (url above): “The Centre County government and judicial systems have been plagued by conflict for months, ”
Conflict did not originate within govt or judicial systems.
Boob had it right.
Conflict originated with & has been inflamed by 3 criminal defense attorneys & one departed secretary.
Cantorna, Masorti, & McGraw. They attacked the DA, 2 ADAs, & 3 judges with whom they lost cases deservedly.
As tools they used 3 govt political adversaries of the DA & judges who have had (Exarchos family) or may have in future potential criminal issues of interest to the DA. They also used social media. Nothing like a “citizen” client emailing list whose families have had brushes with the criminal Court system.
I predict with Judge Stewart K presiding, todays hearing will not go for the Judges. Imo that’s the whole point of his assignment which my cynical mind suspects Kistler engineered. For one thing, he’s privy to all the as yet untested & unadjudicated slander from these same attorneys wrt Lunsford & DA due to his role as Sr Judge on the Judicial Discipline panel, which is a conflict of interest wrt presiding in this hearing.
Garrett is trying & improving–seems to be reaching out to opinions other than Glantz’ now, tho doesn’t name any.
Omits any discussion of prelim injunction which all reporters at that BoC press conf said they didn’t understand. But he still plays loose with skewed inflammatory language such as:
“Parks Miller has had *** a number of unrelated disputes *** with the county government in recent months. After allegations surfaced in January that she forged a judge’s signature on a fake court order, Parks Miller has denied the allegat…”
There was only one unrelated dispute, & Garret cites only one, Shutt’s forgery accusation. Such hype language untethered to facts by both CDT & Garrett’s SC worsen the fruit of the criminal defense attorneys’ attack on the CC judicial system.
Well, that maven of the Centre Hall Methodist church has gone from bad to worse on CIOC naming the County Boob is leaving to work in & initimating changing employers means he will leave his family behind. Sorry, I’ve met these small town busybody queens who try to run the church & myriad small town do-gooder events before, & I have visceral dislike for the guise of goodness cloaking cruelty. I feel it reprehensible Masorti in his CIOC offers a forum to personal attacks on Boob from a local busybody who claims she’s in the know.
Staff organization & responsibilities from the County whose Sheriff is on a mission to entrap resident State Police Comm Brown.
http://www.ccpa.net/1990/Key-Staff-Members
Posted for the contrast with Centre Cty & the education as to the assignments a DA Office entails County-wide.
While Cumberland has c 250,000 residents, & Centre c 155,000, this Cumberland DA Office organization template suggests any CC DA has miles to go to bring the office out of management dark ages. At least as to website information to public about office structure & assignments. The CC DA Office feels like matter in the book of Genesis before the heavens & earth were formed.
http://mobile.philly.com/news/?wss=/philly/news&id=298356411
@ JJinPhila or Blink. Do you see any intersection or connection between Sandusky’s activities & adult County associates/social support systems and Gricar’s County professional/social circles? I don’t mean specific “incidents” in 98 or 05, whatever the years (not reviewing here), but overall social system overlaps?
Embarrassed talking to myself here, but still this rogue assault on a County’s CJ system, and individual le/judicial employees, engages me.
@Blink, getting caught up here.
Patty Fornicola and Lara Gricar spoke at the first presser on 4/18/05. It is being referred to as the “phone home” press conference and some members of the family consider it a disaster. After that, the family/Fornicola stopped talking for several weeks.
After Bryant’s “oatmeal” interview, they got a bit more press savvy and appointed a spokesman, Tony. They also established a website at that point and maintained it to November 2009.
I’ve heard Boob is going to Cumberland County, with more money, perhaps a higher position, and no cabal of commissioners and defense attorneys.
That’s the County published by a Boob hater on COIC comments. probably info obtained in her
prayer circle at a Centre Hall church from the “insider” tone of her comments (sarcasm here).
longtime stable DA & well-organized office
Due to Boob’s new hiring’s timing, I tie his job search application process, which takes awhile for a govt position, to the Commissioner’s revelation in public session of the fake bail order designed to hide a confidential informant in the matter of a death threat against a DA. The minute Cantorna opened his mouth, the Commissioners should have stopped him, said this sounds like a personnel matter & does not sound public, & offered him a private appointment to discuss his personnel concerns. Of course they knew in advance tho what he’d say; there was an Exec Session prior. And Glantz in public indicated his awareness plus other “research” he’d done, ie Court “gossip.” Glantz in my opinion coached Cantorna.
btw I suppose the tightfisted Republican Commissioners Dershem & Exarchos,
and Administrator Boyde,
are responsible for “years of a merit pay freeze” for hard-working ADAs?
(altho they vote big privatizing contracts to cronies & spent money like water
on their own self-made legal expenses)
Reason enough for Office turnover.
The irony is there is no way to vote them both out of
office this year, & both will probably be reelected.
One Dem will probably defeat the other, likely naive Pipes.
video up on the CC Agenda page from this Tuesday’s Press Conf & clown show
http://cnet.pegcentral.com/player.php?video=edd531e381c49f9de78bb5c96677bfab
I myself don’t plan to watch them.
Wouldn’t mind a video of the Court hearing tho.
McShane pushed bringing popcorn on his blog.
Maybe he filmed it for future firm publicity.
Sloane contines to say (on CIOC) that Boob was “shacking up” with SPM.
Sloane was Gricar’s office favorite & presumably spent time alone with him.
Would that substantiate innuendo or outright claims of a gay affair made by another attorney?
Hold on- the allegation is that Boob and SPM were in a romantic relationship?
B
that is, and has been, Sloane’s unsubstantiated allegation.
both recently on CIOC, and formerly elsewhere
in socual media comments.
others allude to it, saying Boob & SPM always tried felony murder-type cases as co-chairs.
imo if the same Sloane standard was used with Gricar, Sloane himself would be in the shack up seat.
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The phone nos are irrelevant to Boob’s death threat claim as addresses are a touch away on the internet.
When the Solicitor & BoC orchestrated the conf informant & bail ruse to be made public in his death threat matter, coupled with no merit raise by BoC in years, that meant time to go.
Btw the Boobs are in the same Centre Hall little town as the Methodist church busybody trumpeting her view of their personal family business on CIOC. With friends like that, Lauren doesn’t need enemies.
Who doesn’t change the name Boob? Sorry for the immaturity but it has been bothering me for weeks, lol
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@Blink, with caveat of gossip being endemic about any female officeholder, I have heard rumors about a relationship for years. I just don’t really care.
Gricar was in a relationship with a coworker, Fornicola; it wasn’t an issue.
Fornicola did not work FOR Gricar. Boob was SPM subordinate- it is a very definite issue legally and ethically- if true.
Do I care? Not really outside of the fact that if they are married and cheats- those are not folks I want defense atty’s having leverage on.
B
I erred Kurtz was Pres Judge of Judicial Discipline. ended that gig in 2010
http://huntingdoncountycourt.net/senior-judge/
Fornicola was originally working in the DA’s office supervised by Gricar when they hooked up.
Blink, how does your standard for Miller & Boob fit the 3 couple we know about in the US Attorney’s Office in Oregon? Each couple has/had one spouse at the top of the administrative food chain supervising & co-litigatong with the other.
Karen Immergut, the OR US Atty who was married to & supervised her husband Asst US Atty Steve Peifer with whom she colitigated cases. A finalist for Federal judge. Consolation prize was Multnomah Cty Circuit Court bench.
Kent Robinson Acting OR US Atty, also a finalist for the top job, & longtime 1st Asst US Attorney, married to & supervisor of his wife Asst US Atty Claire Fay with whom he colitigated cases.
Scott Kerin, head of gangs & child trafficking, promoted to Drug Chief, then removed, married to Michelle Kerin whom he both supervised and colitigated cases with. At the same time he supervised wife Michelle, he separated from her to have an affair, yet still colitigated cases with her. His supervisor, who micromanaged his personal problems is off the job while he still chugs merrily along.
Personally, if we are discussing consenting adults and there is no policy against it- I can’t have an issue- although I will say I think personal relationships involving supervisory roles is a recipe for disaster overall. Not to mention how it effects collaborates. If we are talking about people committing adultry on the job- I personally believe that should be grounds for dismissal given the oath of the position.
B
Boob is a high frequency surname in Centre County region.
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Was there some kind of gag order imposed on today’s Court hearing?
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was the hearing closed? McShane invited the
public with popcorn, yet nary a crowing followup?
nothing whatsoever today posted on CIOC lends support to a gag order theory
finally, some reporting
http://www.wearecentralpa.com/story/d/story/judge-hears-right-to-know-case-arguments/10821/qc7L0kvRo0auhEOYhu8Hhw
between Boyde & Kistler, I find the former more credible.
And since Kistler is the supervisor of the RTK judicial Officer in his County (which would be his Court administrator), this testimony about his replying to Boyde hands off to another County Judge of every RTK request is ridiculous. It is also ridiculous he didn’t simply say to Boyde, follow the statute & send it on over to my Court’s RTK officer. Would every Pennsylvania Sr Pres Judge ship every request over to another County’s Court administrator? And the hands off doesn’t hold water on the phone no request because the statute is plain on its face, & surely a Sr Pres Judge coukd handle that.
link above
also wrt “Kistler testified that he wanted to be hands off and wanted an out of county judge to handle it.”
Both plaintiff Judges averred in theor Complaints that they were never informed by Boyde of the RTK requests but were blindsided after the fact.
It appears Kistler did know, was consulted (whatever his reply to Boyde was) and yet did not inform either colleague judge of the request nor afford them due process to object as called for by the statute. And Corman almost put this man on the PA Supr Ct.
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/04/02/4683836/records-from-right-to-know-requests.html
Fornicola was, during the bulk of their relationship, a victim/witness advocate operating under the supervision of the district attorney and working out of that office. In the last 3-4 months, she took the position of clerk, also under his supervision and working out of that office.
It was not an issue then.
Shutt seems to have an Admin’s blogging privileges on CIOC. And,
Comments in response to her post remain littered with the likes of a cop (her word) fired after 17 years and the
Centre Hall church volunteer airing her version of the Boob family’s dirty laundry out of
Christian love for them. If her kids gossip at school the way she does on social media, the Boob kids
do need a new start.
Here is a fairly detailed account of the hearing yesterday: http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/sparks-fly-at-hearing-in-judges-lawsuits-against-county-government,1463463/
This makes it clear requests for financial records of CC judges do not go to Boyde.
They are 509 records
http://openrecords.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/open_records/4434/registered_open_records_officers/487901
The County rtk officer is boyde’s email
https://www.dced.state.pa.us/public/oor/ORO_list-CountyMunicipal.pdf
Separately listed by the State are judicial rtk officers (509) –
CC’s is an email addr or room addr at the CC Courthouse in Bellefonte
https://www.dced.state.pa.us/public/oor/Judicial_AORO_List.pdf
Rule 509 financial records access
http://www.co.venango.pa.us/index.php/component/docman/doc_download/386-rule-509-information?Itemid=
I don’t see a DA RTL registry on that State list.
Here’s Montgomery County’s procedure, which the CC DA should also have on her website. MoCo utilizes Deputy DAs.
http://www.montcopa.org/index.aspx?NID=213
In this County, DA handles Criminal & Assts handle noncriminal
http://righttoknow.northamptoncounty.org
this & at least one other County use the chief detective with an ADA for appeals
http://www.monroecountyda.com/openrecords/
So, JJinPhila, will Boob’s new DA boss Freed
run again on the Republican ticket for AG?
http://m.wjactv.com/article?id=16932092
I’d like to know why PA Bar Counsel is not investigating criminal defense attorneys who filed harrassing RTK requests NOT following PA Statute as to process (whom to ask) or content (exemptions) AFTER they had lost at trial or on motions on the merits and chose this route rather than raising issues of bias on appeal based on the Trial transcript.
@Blink. If someone has separated from his wife, it’s no one’s business who he lives with. Like Kernan,
the section head Asst US Atty in Or who supervised his wife. The reason his “adulterous” self is still employed and his meddling US Atty for Or Supervisor is on leave. One can move in with a secretary or a peer attorney after a separation. Which the Centre Hall Methodist church volunteer & Sloane say Boob has done, just like Fornicola.
Legally, one cannot preclude spouses, separated spouses, adulterous spouses from govt jobs because one doesn’t like their “morals.”
Yes Rose, they absolutely can. Many have nebatism clauses- and HR protocol prohibiting same. I was not referring to a morals clause as “cause” although they exist in many jurisdictions. I was referring to activity precluding a separation or married persons of course- otherwise I personally would not be calling it infidelity. And I specifically referenced supervisory roles and/or elected official rules- I could care less what is said at the water cooler. I care about what can be rightfully litigated.
B
@Rose, possibly, but I don’t know. Seth Williams is likely Democratic candidate.
@JJinPhila. Don’t you think movement from the DA Vic/Witness
Advocate to Clerk would be one of 2 things: 1) demotion, or 2) a protective
reassignment after a threat?
@Rose, no. Fornicola was planning to leave when Gricar retired. According to Arnold, a clerk’s position had become vacant and Fornicola took it, leaving the victim/witness advocate position vacant.
It may have been that he wanted to give his successor someone experienced in the more professional position.
I thot Williams was running for governor, or god.
@Blink, while I will agree that it increases the chances for litigation, if apparently does not violate any policy in Centre County. Any presumed relationship is a private matter for the parties involved.
Some spouses are willing to turn a blind eye to the relationship.
I will be honest, though, that I was surprised Gricar was in a relationship with a subordinate, largely because it would open him to liability. A lot of what I’ve found out about Gricar surprised me.
an article on Kane’s reelection chances: http://lancasteronline.com/news/pennsylvania/kane-s-troubles-could-haunt-her-hopes-for-second-term/article_10bcb8f5-d5b5-5495-8cf6-73de0474f58b.html
Castille is considering a bid on the GOP side.