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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Blink, MS enrolled in a new online for profit U to finish a BA iirc in forensics & slmething with a view to working in
the legal criminal field in that capacity. One thing for sure, if she gets hired kn a job of that nature her credibility as a testifying expert will be nil.
Don’t forget, with her longest & only “career” adult job, she is coplaintiff against her corporate employer seeking additional back wages and punitive damages. That makes her litigious against 2 of 3 employers. And for her action to succeed, she must disprove she had managerial duties which her linkedin for that position was dominated by. So which is truthful, her pleadings or her linked in? Whether true or not, the charge cannot have legs because it was made by a disgruntled terminated employee without corroboration. And, as you say, the time to report it was to tge Court Administrator at the time of occurrance. Finally, as JJinPhila pointed out, it does not meet the definiitiin of forgert because the intent element, under the CI circumstances, is missing….there was no intent or possibility of releasing him.
I agree with this “I’ve theorized that Gricar might have part of a program the CIA has to debrief individuals returning from foreign countries about conditions in those countries. The ask about observations during the trip.”
The situation I am familiar with in those days in E Europe.
Perhaps CIA came in depending on name of all foreigners contacted during travel in those years.
Additionally, when traveling to post-fall E Europe, we were given (over protests) a wrapped pkg of “books” for a foreign diplomat (“to save postage” haha), which we gave straight to a security agency in the US. If he visited Ukraine in those still impoverished years, any number of people would have given him wrapped up this & thats to bring back to this and that relative or friend. If he were smart, he’d have first given whatever to a US security agency to screen. If he did not, I expect he went on a CIA observation list for future trips to same location.
wrt “Personally I don’t give a rip about SPM private sex life unless it interfered with her elected duties and unless that could be proven has no place in coverage.” Unfortunately people like SSloane, the active Methodist KA, and the criminal defense attorneys do care abiut her sex life. That, imo, is why her apparent (per SS) cohabitor Boob is a target, along with Lunsford and Grine, in the RTK demands. IMO they want the content if SOM-Boob trxts. Sure would help a potential divorce alimony – child support settlement. One wonders who is Boob’s wife’s zealot in all this. One antiSPM poster on line wrt catting around on the wife with SPM & “abandoning” his family was from a woman in the wife’s very small town church.
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/04/15/4701999/gricar-disappearance-still-under.html
“Pennsylvania state police and criminal investigators of the Troop G Major Case Team took over the investigation from the Bellefonte Police Department last year. State police are assisted by the Centre County District Attorney Task Force, started in 2010 by current District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller.”
I suppose this means SPM gets troop g’s major case team’s warrants, tho obviously not from Lunsford any more. maybe grine. One reason some malefactor or associated crim def atty would have an interest in the content of her texts seeking warrants to Lunsford & Grine.
The timing of the rtk’s following on the heels of the send-up of Gricar to a State Major Case team is suspicious.
The phone numbers were merely a necessary prelude to going after content.
Glantz was Solicitor when RG was imo killed. How did they interface, & on what?
Prison Board member seems to be a common theme then and now.
@erose, Weaver was not with the BPD when Gricar disappeared. He was brought in in January 2006.
@Blink, there is no protocol for having another agency take over the case. Two AG’s one acting AG came and went. Two elected DA’s and one acting DA came and went.
Will it take a RTK request to get the BoC-approved minutes and
meeting video from April 7th? imo this is unusual.
http://centrecountypa.gov/agendacenter
@erose, I have had Sloane tell me things and later gotten them confirmed from other sources. I have discovered that he is extremely trustworthy.
Someone recently said when taking up with Gricar,
Patti was a victims Repr or Advocate.
wrt Gricar, she herself was a vic. So where did the investigatory advocacy gene go?
OT
PA press is alive on the topic of the Gettysburg gyro guy who embarked on what should be a 1st Amendment protected political speech wrt Citizens United, but for landing in a restricted area. Will the ACLU represent his 1st Amendment speech (an act qualifies as speech) as vigirously as that org reps PA DUI attorneys violating the process specified in a PA RTK statute? If Hughes had consulted me, I’d have suggested he’d get more mileage thru less mikeage–landing at Justice Roberts’ (the relevant Vote on CU case) Chevy Chase Country Club’s greens, There cameras could have filmed police arresting him in opulance before perhaps Roberts, or other SC justices, numerous members of Congress, and virtually all the big K Street lobbyusts, who slipped out of the office on a sunny day for a few rounds — on the greens, in the dining room/bar, etc. Corporate Board members & K street lobbyists live cheek by jowl with Roberts (& formerly O’Connor) in 2 Mill homes, socializing nearby at the Club. So if he’d landed there, he’d have reached his target mail recipients, gotten better camera footage, and could only have been charged with trespassing.
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/centre-county-goes-on-the-attack-accuses-judges-of-destroying-appearance-of-fairness,1463607/
D Hughes and defendants’ 1st Amendment arguments wrt publishing DA & Judge phone nos gives me an idea. The best strategy for criminal defense attys Cantorna, Masorti, & McGraw is to engage in an act of 1st Amendment protected speech to draw public notice & sympathy to their plight. I suggest they stake out space on the Courhouse steps and wear billboards proclaiming “We lost big cases to SPM, and refuse to do it again.” On the other side, display, “No Fair Trial from Judges Grine, Gillette, & Lunsford. My felony rapists and murderers are refused pleas, convicted, and given long sentences. Free your neighbors & friends! ” that could get their message on camera more effectively than claiming they didn’t understand the RTK Statute.
videos of both BoC mtgs now posted
http://centrecountypa.gov/agendacenter
http://cnet.pegcentral.com/player.php?video=1412101c42331747a1a6807dcd3aa696
Well, the Arnokd episode is buzarre.
She did not render a public comment in her 3 min opportunity in the 11 min BoC meeting. After tge meeting from 12:00 on, she began to opine about 14:40, went on for some minutes, then entered a dialogue with BoC members in which she kept restating her point, which was boiled down to: You’ve all these lawyers, have them shephardize the PA case law regarding the use of the Code provision enabling a special, temporary prosecutor to determine if SPM’s use was legitimate. As if all their lawyer’s hadn’t already though of that. And she went on & on until there was no press conf left (about 31:00). So the BoC’s were only subject to 2 minutes if real press questions which didn’t stray from Are you paying him? Therefore K Arnold did the public a disservice by eating up 17 min ir so of a 20 min press conference with a point she could have made in a 3 sentence email to the BoCs. No wonder her comments were all the press had to write about.
Is she trying to get hired?
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briefs in the Grine matter are up for 2 parties on CIOC.
My opinion is Exarchos & Dershem are bears of little brain who have caused the County
to disparage in open BoC sessions and by litigation 3 elected CC judges, the DA, & 2 ADAs. Exarchos
sure wants to keep his son from conspiracy to murder charges imo, & imo Dershem is just
a bear of little brain. Wasting taxpayer $. Attorneys too.
All BoC/Glantz/Boyde had to do in
Oct 2014 was inform Glantz’ business partner Cantorna to file his judge rtk with the Court
Admin, his DA rtk with the DA, get denied, appeal, get denied, then the attorneys coukd sue
for the info properly & let the State Courts decide the statute. Attorneys know this statutory process.
imo Glantz was trying to save his business partner money required to sue to get the info he wanted.
And, the forgery allegation was being handked by tge State AG; no need to insert themselves other than political.
In the meantime, Glantz’ & the BoC’s creation is costing taxpayers a lot & has beought kooks in to sue
the County ad infinitum as well (PFUR). I sure hope these lunkheads have opponents this year who if successful
will terminate Glantz’ contract.
gotta say I love p 3 of Grine’s brief.
footnote 2 is how I read the Statute.
T Kistler’s response to the BoC & on depo is amazing for a Pres Judge:
I am unfamiliar with the RTK Statute
I am unfamiliar with the County Code
I don’t plan to read & understand them & seek out case law & precedent.
I am uncomfortable.
Give it to a Judge in another County.
For real.
No wonder criminal defense attorneys have Gone Wild. Imo this is a function of D Grine’s retirement.
p4. oh my lord. The County refused to discose to Grine what information it had produced to Tanski/McShane wrt his personal (pd for by him) phone communications!
footnote 9 on p 12 is very interesting, but it is a shame the BoC’s County Admin (who had retired & was gone, but was recalled to recreate the BoC’s “team”) put this elected Judge in the position of forced disclosure of his private family business.
oh lord again. second to last line on p 13 omits a crucial word “not,” therefore asserting the opposite of plaintiff’s argument
CC’s brief in Grine case.
p3 items 14-17.
Does Kistler have altzheimer’s or some other cognitive deterioration?
p3-4. Smith needs to retire.
p4 theme = Boyde is righteous.
on p 6 there are several basic grammar errors; I can’t read further. I stopped at: Grine… “she” says… Whatever Mary Lou is, it isn’t a literate brief writer.
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Imo if I were a County employee in the judicial branch, or DA office, I’d take my county-issued cell phone & throw it in that river by Lewisburg and get my own phone. Imo pennypenching for a free cell & reduced monthly rate has led to catastrophe.
@Fornicola’s job as VWA was basically to make sure the witnesses and victims were comfortable in court, could get to court, et c. She wasn’t an investigator.
PS I said “on depo” but these quotes are under
oath in the Prelim Injunction hearing imo,
and the injunction survived & remained, a high bar.
@JJinPhila. “the is extremely trustworthy.” wrt matters you coukd corroborate. Right now his writings reflect loose associations, and vengeance in his heart. At the time, he was a substance addict (oxy) and unreliable at work. Right now imo those work and personal associates who were by their own statements were the only ones “close” to Gricar should be ruled in unless their alibis were substantiated, and they were cleared after investigation.
http://newslanc.com/2015/04/16/pa-judge-oversteps-bounds-in-kane-executive-branch-patronage-case/?utm_content=buffer52803&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
“Why are Centre County courts “out of control?”
I have a three word answer
“President Judge Kistler”,
who said
I do not know the rtk Statute.
I do not know the County Code.
I am uncomfortable.
Let another County’s judge handle the mess I caused by having no knowledge of the rtk administrative matters (which was send the request to the prothonotary, simple enough), no Court electronics rules, phone back chats with exec branch political buddies, and knee jerk responses to political unproven accusations such as
reassigning Lunsford, effectively saying do what you please to the Exec Branch & criminal defense bar..
@JJ, Thanks. OT – Been sidetracked. We have a scandal de jour here in WA. What is with these politicians, anyway? Is it that they can no longer win on merit, and must knock their opponent out in the courts, or are there just sleazy people in office? This does seem to be playing out in state after state, and county after county a year prior to a national election, fwiw. No more slinging mud, it’s mudslides now. (BTW, pretty bad when it’s the auditor.)
State Auditor Troy Kelley indicted on charges of tax evasion, keeping stolen money
Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2015/04/16/3743686/state-auditor-troy-kelley-indicted.html#storylink=cpy
OT Here’s one for you erose. County police spokesman, former school resource officer:
http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/28814128/fairfax-county-officer-arrested-child-pornography
Im sure the History Channel is thrilled about his choice of lid. I believe I have had a few communications with this man in his role as PIO in the Harrington, unidentified Faifax rape and attempted murder matter. Creep.
B
I sadly finished reading Mary Lou’s argument, which is:
–Grine communicated frequently with the DA.
–the DA represented him in divorce 1; he consulted his former attorney when embarking on Divirce 2 last fall.
–He lost the appearance of fairness on the bench based on having communicated with the DA.
–He committed professional suicide.
If this is the best she can do, the CC BoC is in trouble.
DAs and judges in a small county communicate constantly (ie warrants, public functions & commissions)
consulting one’s former private divorce attorney about representation and strategy fir a no. 2 divorce has nothing to do with fundamental case fairness on the bench.
that insurance firm should advise CC to settle
and let Justin McS carry his own water
Press Conf question if BoC does not let one resident consume 17 minutes:
Why are the CC Commissioners litigating a RTK defense when the interest in
upholding the prior info dissemination lies really with co-defendant, an out of County for-profit dui firm?
Why not settle and let the out-of-County private firm defend itself wrt the rtk product it received?
interestingly, if one googles
Thomas Kistler mandatory minimum sentencing
the first wntries are related to Masorti law firm
it seems they are ideological allies
essentially early last fall Kistler began voiding statutory mms
in drug traffickng cases. –in a school zone &
–committed with firearm possession.
I suspect furthering attacks on mandatory
minimum sentencing in drug cases was the reason he
was resigning for a 9 month gig on the PA Supreme Court. I wonder what
case is in the pipeline to be heard this fall. Anyway, Kistler & these dui
lawyers are beating the same drum.
Kistler & Masorti’s ideological determination to eliminate MMS in drug cases is a reason to ally
to remove Lunsford, the tough sentencer, from the criminal bench.
when this brouhaha began, SPM said Kistler had instructed fellow judges to go easy on sentence & bail terms, using the excuse of prison overcrowding (tho that’s due to contracting out beds to enrich the County budget).
An ideological alliance between Kistler & some criminal defense dui/drug attorneys may play a big role in events that began last Oct. Kistler started his own anti mms crusade in Sept. I don’t see a Republican judge on an anti MMS for drugs crusade unless he himself has reason to identify with the woes of marijuana users when their suppliers are shut down. .
I’d like to know which criminal defense attorney Exarchos hired to
represent his son with the DA when his son was actively involved with the drugs & murder defendant. Another press conf question. I’m kinda wondering if it was McShane?
@Rose, I do not agree with all of Sloane’s opinions, but when he have given me information, he has tended to be accurate. Likewise, when he spoke about Gricar to the press, I had confirmed some of his statements with other sources, and they were were telling, privately, the same things.
That said, SPM fired him on the first day she was on the job. He was and is very bitter about that. Judging from some recent posts, he is a fairly conservative Republican, so there is a political difference as well.
Newman appears to be the drugs (& gun) Mandatory Minimum Sentencing case in the PA Supr Ct pipeline that likely Kistler was itching to vote on. And DA SPM would be on other side.
http://m.lancasteronline.com/news/local/mandatory-minimum-sentences-are-unconstitutional-pa-court-says/article_023471ee-2946-11e4-87dc-001a4bcf6878.html?mode=jqm
Adjudicated by Superior Ct, Montgomery Cty, late last Aug, just becore Kistler’s two Sept rulings the MMS
was unconstitutional in Centre Cty cases.
going for a public pound of flesh
http://www.timesherald.com//general-news/20150417/montgomery-county-judge-moves-ag-hearing-to-larger-courtroom-bans-electronic-devices
4/7 CC BoC video. relevant part of “press conf” begins about 1:00:00
http://cnet.pegcentral.com/player.php?video=aef49edbdba499658ae24e6fa2364b14
topic of hiring Craig S as consuktant on rtk requests.
That’s the GC of the lobbying org serving primarily cirporate
media who want to wrest maximum info out of gov’t. So the BoC has made an
idealigical choice imo.
2 things I noticed. Firsf Exarchos comments the insurance co (Mary Lou) has a purely monetary interest in the litigation; so, he says, at some point the “County’s” interests may likely diverge from Mary Lou’s because the BoC are interested in other issues. I take that to mean when she advises settlement, the BoC will proceed to hire yet another litigator for those divergant interests.
I think it’s a bombshell if the requests were substantially similar to those that they previously complied with- but I would be very surprised considering the gaggle of lawyers they have to consult on the issue.
B
Second, toward the end Boyde admits he has recently denied some rtk requests because they have not complied with the Statute. That’s a bombshell. The best evidence the County released info re judges & DA wrongly because it was the province of their own agencies’ administrators to do so under rtk is this apparent change in the County Administrator’s behavior to comply with the Statute going forward–if any denials were due to failing to submit to the correct county administrative officer.
Apparently Boyde has begun to comply with the Statute’s process.
But, due to Kistler’s “discomfort,” rather than being processed by
his new Court Administrator (who has a smiley-PR touch), judicial
requests are being directed to the State judicial office, probably
the same folks who were in that prior mtg with all judges, Kustler, & Boyde.
To me this is like a suit against a car mfgr for a known yet
unremediated defect causing damages, and the mfgr–
as soon as a suit is filed–issues a recall & repairs
the defect before the suit is adjudicated.
Nothing Boyde has been directed to do by these self-absorbed Commissioners surprises me.
They did not have a gaggle of lawyers last Fall when the rtk’s in question for Masorti, Cantorna (Oct), & McGraw were dished. They had Glantz.
I did not watch the full (or much of) the video BoC minutes for 4/7 & 14. I saw Boyde at the table.
Was Glantz there? Whether he attended or not, he was absent from the BoC “press conf” portion, whereas previously in Jan & Feb he was the talking horse, or stalking horse, or talking head. And now he’s not.
PS by Kistler sending rtk requests to the State admin office for
determination, he is acknowledging his own administrative incompetence imo.
@JJinPhila. I am suggesting only that based on his 2015 writings that his cognitive competence in 2005 and 2015
differ a good bit. And maybe his pre-accident (involving severe bodily damage accident so perhaps a subtle, or not so, brain injury) and post-accident functioning. Only a neuropsychologist’s testing would know. But imo could have shown up on the job Long before SPM. And all those ” close” to Gricar–LE, Court, or office personnel–needed to be ruled out objectively.
@JJinPhila. Can you update from yr research who was objectively ruled out based on witness evidence from Gricar’s circle of work-related associates?
Was Patty’s whereabouts corrobirated? Sloane’s? ( he was on leave,
what did that mean for whereabouts confirmation?) Did requiring walking
help to conduct an interview
at the mini mean he could not operate without help?
Members of LE & judiciary who interfaced with Gricar?
It is possible the drug arrest announcement was a red herring & an opportunity to act
without suspicion.
I’ve heard that someone, in the last several weeks requested several Statements of Financial Interest, including SPM’s,from Boyde, and was then told that the application would have to made to her. A day or so later, the requester received SPM’s from Boyde, without explanation. The form is suppose to be kept by the county, not the local officeholder.
Strange.
Indeed.
B
according to 2 articles in this series, Madiera and Corbett were both responsible for not turning the investigation over to State Police or FBI as lead investigator. http://z10.invisionfree.com/usedtobedoe/ar/t2226.htm
What else were Corbett & Madiera tightly in agreement on?
Thank you JJinPhila for updating us with Someone’s recent rtk responses from CC wrt clearly financial records.
In another State such a form is designed to be a clearly public disclosure of elected County officials and is
maintained at the State level.
Here is an example of a County Court judge in Oregon, comparable to a Grine. Oregon requires yearly financial income and interests forms to be filed with the State Ethics Commission.
http://cascadepolicy.org/wp-content/themes/OPtransparency/economicinterest/Henry%20Kantor-Multnomah%20County-Circuit%20Court%20Judge.pdf
Btw JJ. imo not strange. I have every confidence Boyde shot the request for that DA (clearly financial) record maintained by the County over to her, who being one smart cookie, shot it right back saying “This is a financial record maintained by the County. Can you imagine if she’d supplied that info to requestor? Centre Cty’s Mary Lou would have objective evidence SPM’s Office was demanding rtk response rights over and above the Statute’s parameters.
@Rose, my source says that the DA and the others requested were copied.
The financial records I would be interested in are Glantz & his business partnership as well as Exarchos’, cross referencing latter’s Geothermal against the members’ businesses of those appointed to County Shale/Nat Gas advisory committee.
copied by Boyde,
or c copied by the requestor?
McShane’s brief is up on “other social media.”
I believe this is the McShane in Q, not the rugby player.
http://nihrecord.nih.gov/newsletters/09_08_98/story02.htm
I wonder if he knew Jerry in his wrestling days?
His self-identity still seems to be Superman, imo.
The Graphic of Grine on the url above reminds me I
never met a G Prep lad who wasn’t a playground bully.
url to the brief is obscurely located here:
http://www.paduiblog (dot) com/pa-dui/freedom-of-speech-is-freedom-to-question-judges/
“He (note: Grine) seeks to silence those who wish to question his authority, his fairness, and his fitness for office, and forever muzzle their freedom of expression under penalty of contempt of court and possible confinement. He seeks the threat of these penalties for engaging in truthful public speech. In other words, he wishes to stop inquiry into his office and his practices.”
Sounds manic to me. He seeks to prevent the publication of his personal phone number whose bill he pays and details relating to his private telephonic communications. Seeking that privacy information, which the Statute precludes, is “Big Brother” behavior even if carried out by private hands. So imo McShane has it backwards.
http://www.paduiblog (dot) com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/4-20-15-Defendants-Tanski-McShane-Firm-Reply-Brief-FILE-STAMPED1.pdf
Interestingly, McShane’s argument is an attack on Grine’s underlying “fitness for office,” not merely a defense of his right-to-use redacted phone records in criminal cases to seek recusal or redos on appeal.
I wonder which firm began to represent wife 2 in her divorce last Sept?
here we go:
Grine rules down the line against Freeh’s positions in the Spanier suit last April.
http://m.collegian.psu.edu/news/crime_courts/article_cc4211da-bf42-11e3-90d6-001a4bcf6878.html?mode=jqm
grist for any conspiracy theorist
@Rose, Boyde (IMO, properly), sent copies to the officials. PA state law requires that municipal solicitors file a statement of financial interest, and such is public information.
I believe that can get you a copy from the guy who requested it, if you can somehow contact me. I can post my old blogging e-mail, if Blink does not object.
I can’t oblige the poster email posts because I authenticate poster privacy. If there is something you would like for me to post, or review- I can email you directly if that will work JJ?
B
http://mobile.philly.com/news/?wss=/philly/news&id=300719381
righteous suit imo.
& necessary, so that DA Detective Plaintiff is credible
when put on the stand by Seth Williams. That’ll teach Kane not to go directly to
a 20 year AG Detective’s horses mouth, directly sourcing.