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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wrt erose says:
May 5, 2015 at 5:07 am
In my opinion the “other officials” responsible were the Holy See, aka Pope &
vatican bureaucracy. Easy to appeal to an Opus Dei member. Wasn’t OD in line
with Ratzlinger (2011)
Blink, I know you’re pressed for time. I’m starting with which Fortune 30 company he was director of global environmental programs for 20 years.
It’s all here at the kink and I assume it’s his experience with Olde Cloverleaf Village that makes him the perfect fit here. He got the governor’s award for his efforts! 1995-2005 (Ridge, Schweiker, or Rendell?) That Fortune 30 company, now Fortune 500 is Tenneco. Primarily looks like it started with oil. (PS Wondering who is running the FB page, making announcements and doing the hiring. Boal family?)
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=981393991871335&id=127547680589308
Tenneco is a multi-national corporation with 89 manufacturing facilities in 26 countries located on 6 continents, with major centers of operations in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. There were 26,000 employees in 2013[citation needed]. The North American manufacturing facilities are located in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee, Georgia and Ohio; the corporate headquarters is located in Lake Forest, Illinois, European facilities in Belgium, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, UK, France, Spain and Portugal, with headquarters located in Belgium, Asian facilities include in India, China, Singapore and Japan, Australian Facilities are in Sydney, Morea (New Zealand)[clarification needed] and Clovelly Park and African Facility includes South Africa’s Port Elizabeth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenneco
The Museum as a nonprofit has a Board of Directors which undertook CEO hiring, termination, and job structure.
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/christopher-lee-steps-down-from-leadership-positions-in-harris-township,1462686/
This was a March 4 article erose.
I am curious why Clayton updated it 19 hrs ago, and where.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hXX9vb5CBOwJ:www.centredaily.com/2015/05/04/4733411/boal-mansion-ceo-christopher-lee.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us#storylink=cpy
Oil, Energy, Texas
Before working at Tenneco, he had founded his own company, PennTex Corporation, in Houston, TX in 1977.
https://www.google.com/#q=penntex+wiki&start=10
https://penntex.com/
I think Lee’s trials will be severed.
Someone ought to pass on to his “doctor”
this simple vertigo dx, which if the first onset was in jail, is likely the cause.
http://m.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/centers_clinics/vestibular/conditions/benign_paroxysmal_positional_vertigo.html
Cured (tho recurs) with 3 specific head turns.
I had it & found it is common. I worry mine will recur on the goshawful PA Turnpike.
diet & exercise for vertigo is quackery.
Cindy Shaler, president of the museum board of directors, says the past few months have been “a difficult time” for the museum
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bfsQUwSAEI0J:www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/boal-mansion-museum-announces-new-director-will-reopen-in-may,1463345/+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
“Cindy Shaler is a joy to work with. In multiple publicity brochures we have produced with her help, she has provided invaluable design and content service, on time and under budget. She understands what is needed and provides effective, elegant solutions without fanfare.”
– Christopher Lee, CEO, Columbus Chapel and Boal Mansion Museum
President, American Federation of Musicians Local 660
Former President, Boalsburg Village Conservancy
http://cynthiamshaler.com/design-services
12-06-14
Boalsburg Village Conservancy
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The five continuing Board members are Doreen Diehl, Pete Ferretti, Ken Hart, Bruce Lord, and Cindy Shaler.
Harvey Manbeck and Bob Cameron must be replaced due to term limits. A third replacement is needed due to Chris Lee’s recent resignation from the Board.
https://sites.google.com/site/boalsburgvillageconservancy/board-of-directors/minutes
Cameron was on the board. His term was up.
Always wanted to see if there was a Lee Spanier connection. Perhaps through music. Of course there are 598 other members.
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Top Musicians Assemble for
“Listen to the Music” Free-for-All
At Cafe 210, from 2-5 pm on September 27, 2009, AFM 660 held its “Listen to the Music”
“This region needs musicians of the highest quality to enhance the quality of life and serve our local economy as an attraction,” explains AFM 660 President Chris Lee. “We’re bringing musicians and audiences together to communicate and to help make that happen.”
At a previous “Listen to the Music” party, musicians included (L-R), Ronnie Burrage – drums, Mike Dougherty – bass,
PSU President Graham Spanier – washboard, Chris Byrne – flute, Carl Ector – violin, and Arthur Goldstein – keyboard.
There is a definite Lee/Spanier connection. I have previously posted pics on here of Spanier playing at the Boal Mansion- if anyone can correct me, please do. I have the ancillary brain capacity of a rumble strip at the moment.
B
http://www.afm660.org/news.html
I am blanking now erose, but there was someone in the last couple days from the penumbra of self-interested CC scandel creation (idk maybe with cioc, pfur, BoC, or crim def attys…) who had overlapping interests with Chris Lee to include music & civil war history. and they appeared together at many local events. Maybe it was Dershem?
See interests
http://www.dershem.com/steve.htm
lotsa civil war stuff at the mansion, right up Dershem’s alley
http://www.visitpennstate.org/calendar/boalsburg-memorial-day.php
http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2015/05/06/In-praise-of-Kathleen-Kane/stories/201504300066
http://no1lion99.blogspot.com/2014/10/christopher-g-leeaka-sandusky-lite.html
I can’t swear to the accuracy of this.
@Rose, Interesting interests about Commish Dershem.
@Steve, That about sums it up.
There was a sports commentator in the very beginning of the Sandusky case who implied there were others involved with Sandusky in a pedophile ring. Then there was Greg Bucceroni’s claims.
Bucceroni is speaking at Dining for Dignity on May 30th.
Greg was a part of a sex trafficking ring in NJ and PA in the 70s. Many have tried to silence him, but he is determined to expose the reality of sex trafficking and the prostituting of children in our backyards. Greg will share insight as to how these children are recruited and how this hideous crime occurs
http://diningfordignity.org/calendar-3/
Learn something new everyday.
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Last Friday I discovered that Chinese companies were selling sex dolls in the image of very young girls
https://www.facebook.com/DiningforDignity?hc_location=ufi
@Blink, I remember that picture. I also remember Spanier’s past.
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During his tenure at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), Spanier was described as a “long time friend and associate” of Ronald Roskens, the former chancellor and president of UNL. Roskens, in turn, served as a close advisor to a man named Lawrence King, who operated a massive pedophile network in Nebraska that came to be known as “The Franklin Scandal.” – See more at: http://americanfreepress.net/?p=5335#sthash.XrrtLv32.dpuf
How in the Heffalump did I miss that erose? Just a disclaimer here- to my knowledge there are no accusations against Spanier of sexual abuse of a any kind.
B
COIC comment responding to What is PFUR:
“….Black. Pennsylvanian’s for Union Reform. They get into a lot of civil rights issues.”
Like the COIC comment itself, PFUR is represented as a large civil rights organization when in fact it
is one man who solicits online for donations.
things seem to be quiet on the CC BoC 2 weeks before the election.
Glantz continues not to appear.
No public comment.
http://cnet.pegcentral.com/player.php?video=3851b4c7533d64c745b9ac432d885242
IDK what to make of Spanier either, but note a case against a Penn State prof in 2005.
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Paul McLaughlin said he experienced a prime example of that habit of closing ranks. A decade ago, he says, he told Penn State officials, including Spanier, a horrific story: years before, when he was a boy, a professor had sexually molested him repeatedly, sometimes on the Penn State campus. He even said he had a tape recording in which the professor, who still taught at the university, admitted to the abuse.
But McLaughlin said he was rebuffed.
“He told me whatever I wanted to get from the school, I wasn’t going to get it, and this was a guy with an impeccable reputation, and unless he was convicted of a crime, they weren’t interested,” McLaughlin, now 45 and a private investigator in Phoenix, recalled of his short phone conversation with Spanier. “When I offered to send him the tape, he said, ‘Don’t bother.’ That was his exact words.”
The professor was charged in 2005 with abusing McLaughlin, but the charges were later dropped.
-NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/sports/ncaafootball/penn-states-graham-spanier-enjoyed-success-and-secrecy.html?_r=0
I like this link even less. We really know so very little about his upbringing and external family- I do not believe any of them have ever spoken on his behalf. I wonder if Ganim has any embers in that ash.
B
COIC also begs money for Simon, calling him “They.”
“…support their efforts, consider making a donation on their webpage.”
On COIC, paralegal Black, who often opines on law, and female Yurchak, state the Judge analysed and wrote poorly, was confusing, & they could do much better. Actually MM Garrett makes the ruling & analysis clear in http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/judge-rules-county-was-wrong-to-release-judicial-records,1463914/
which seems spot on to me.
He is South African & there was plenty of press Dad battered him to the point of physical disfigurement.
Good article I snipped from below, if you haven’t read it. I was interested in the past relationship between Neisworth and Spanier. It would seem they were both in the same department, Spanier working on child abuse issues of which he was a victim, and Neisworth who was working on autism in children.
Now a blast from our past, could they all have been in the same department with Patrick Wardell?
So hard to be sure as info on Neisworth is limited, though I do remember a comment from eons ago that said the nexus of all of this was in the Health and Human Development Department.
beejay says:
December 29, 2011 at 11:47 am
Uh-oh. Just found what wouldn’t post. Hmmm.
That Family Reunification Program, plus many other mental health services, is run by private corp Wardell and Associates (doing business as Family Intervention Crisis Services). W&Assoc is registered with PA Sec of State; pretty old corp.
There are 3-4 principals now, but Patrick Wardell, the founder, is not running it anymore. He says he’s still on the Board. Has 2 residences, 1 in Hawaii (where he has a real estate license) and 1 in Port____, PA (can’t remember). He was/still is(?) professor emeritus (social work) at LockHaven University in PA.
I’ll paraphrase, for copyright reasons.
From 1974 – 1988: Says he was an Asst Professor of Social Work (I think that was the LockHaven gig). Also that he taught practice classes and directed and coordinated field instruction. And I think that was at Penn State, the Univ Pk campus.
http://blinkoncrime.com/2011/11/12/ending-the-nittany-nightmare-penn-state-pre-game-plea-an-open-letter-to-president-rodney-erickson/comment-page-17/#comments
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Until last November, Spanier had an enviable reputation. He joined the Penn State faculty in 1973, as a sociology professor specializing in research on family dysfunction, including child abuse. Over the course of a decade, he moved into university administration, eventually becoming associate dean of a major undergraduate college at Penn State. In 1982, he became vice provost at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, then became provost at Oregon State. He spent four years as chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, then became president of Penn State, in 1995.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/former-penn-state-president-graham-spanier-speaks
I hope it is okay to be on a somewhat different track as the general discussion. Maybe it all ties together somehow.
Right now I think it is all very relevant erose, good work.
B
Wardell & Associates
Terry Shultz
Clinical Director
310 W. Linn St. Bellefonte, PA 16823
http://www.fics1988.com/
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Penn State University
Bachelor of Science (BS) Master of Education, Individual and Family Studies and Counselor Education with emphasis in counseling/therapy
1976 – 1981
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/terry-shultz/9b/82/b91
How is that for a name? IDK if he’s related to Gary, however Terry was a student at PSU in the Wardell, Spanier and Neisworth era at Penn State.
Wardell’s Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-wardell/3b/407/914
Sweetie_Pi says:
December 29, 2011 at 5:19 pm
This is my suggestion, FWIW, I would do a set of “Lombardi diagrams” of all the information to date. When these are done, the diagrams speak for themselves, and cannot be denied. You will see the relationships yourselves in a way that will shock even those know the bottom lines here. To make one of these, it’s art and a strict method, strict method and art. Create a timeline, establish entities on the timeline, and use arrows to show (and only show) money flows first. Then you do another one that shows the “child flows”. Then superimpose. Since there are so many facts to work with, start with placing each fact on a card as he did. PS I’ll warn ya ahead of time from personal exp. those who are trained to turn data points to litigation quality proof may want to think of extra life insurance.
http://blinkoncrime.com/2011/11/12/ending-the-nittany-nightmare-penn-state-pre-game-plea-an-open-letter-to-president-rodney-erickson/comment-page-17/#comments
@erose. for that quote of Spanier, one only has McLaughlin’s word as mediated by press.
if there is a kernal of truth, Spanier would be quite right that McLaughlin needed to take his allegation not to PSU but to the DA, cooperate with charges, and seek a conviction. Without a conviction, any Univ could not act against a tenured professor.
I see Terry and Gary spell their last names differently. Aside, Gary “Sch” is related to a Terri “Sch.”
I bet Exarchos and Dershem come down with something ensuring SPM’s hearing of 5/13 is postponed.
The Election is next week, & they have gone very quiet. They are running unopposed, but a stealth write in candidatesl team is possible.
@erose. you have any speculation on what
that comment means wrt ” money flows”?
Sounds jazzy. But flows from where to where?
To PSU from Board members or donors?
To politicians?
To TSM from Board members or donors?
To football program? or Paterno’s income?
Or Sandusky’s?
Too cryptic 4 me.
I love different tracks btw erose.
Feeds the brain.
@Rose, I took the money reference to mean the money flow from the TSM donors, and evidentially between Corbett and TSM (both ways), but that’s speculation on my part. The overall money flow could be all you have mentioned and I’ll add the Hershey money and the foster care money if it is to be related to “the child flow.”
looks like grandstanding for the cameras before the election
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/commissioners-upset-by-judges-ruling-against-the-county-may-change-cell-phone-policy,1463956/
Dershem’s problem with consulting the Soliciter is he’s the fool who got them into this and is himself being sued.
I suspect the 5/12 Video minutes will show
the Soliciter was not there. Again.
As he was criticized for by BoC in his first years on the job.
Some say of those, like Sanduskys, who house foster children
that they do it for the extra State money.
That is my firm belief in some cases and imo, the system is not geared to furrowing those folks out until it is too late.
And innocent children suffer.
B
somehow you have got to let me post that. It is flipping brilliant.
B
JJinPhil again starring as the sane person in the asylum, tho S Cook is now in a supporting role. That sane fiscal mgmt what Boyde is for, Cook.
“Why did the Commissioners EVER permit the topic of the forgery allegation to be raised at a public meeting and then decide to hire someone to prosecute the case?”
…… because Cantorna & his business partner the Town Solicitor had axes to grind and the Commissioners thought it a great campaign platform. Pipes the puppet should have used the fiscal irresponsibility angle (on lawyers & phones), found a writein candidate, and campaigned together for a substantially higher vote count than the twins through bullet voting in order to increase his informal Board power.
And it’s not too late.
Of course, did not mean that part- but no worries
B
does Centre Daily know how to link filings?
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/05/12/4745658_parks-miller-enters-more-filings.html
http://www.centredaily (dot) com/2015/05/12/4745657_lee-asks-for-charges-to-be-separated.html
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/judge-urges-da-county-to-settle-dispute-out-of-court,1463968/
got just the arbitrator:
http://www.bickerman.com/about-us
actually, I think the suggestion to mediate is crap because the law is clear and facts mimic the Judges he ruled on last week. He just doesn’t want to rule for DA as he ruled for judges. Imo in Castor’s shoes, I’d say Rule, Judge. He was given his own decision as precedent. Judge just doesn’t want Dershem, Glantz, & Exarchos under oath, testifying before next week’s election & found a way to postpone. Kurtz Must be a Republican.
looked Kurtz up.
He is.
“Did Centre County officials break state law by reportedly accessing the DA’s emails, even if they didn’t release any to the public?”
“Bruce Castor, an attorney for Parks Miller, wanted to focus on the DA’s emails. He says county officials looked through her emails after they began to receive requests for records of contact between judges and prosecutors, which Castor claims breaks state law.”
“She says the records are being used “to attack the victims of crimes,”
The DA’s emails looking backward address many confidential investigations, like Gricar, the County Admin Boyde and BOC’s like Dershem are not cleared to see, much less the Town Soliciter & biz pardners.
Early on, the DA alleged possible criminal activity at jail involving the Prison Board.
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/05/13/4746852_judge-sides-with-parks-miller.html?rh=1
http://www.centredaily (dot) com/2015/05/13/4746852_judge-sides-with-parks-miller.html?rh=1
excellent article
http://newslanc.com/2015/05/13/keisling-pennsylvania-courts-must-get-out-of-the-prosecution-business/
perhaps Castor is returning to MoCo DA position to ensure Carpenter does not continue his extrajudicial bench approach with a DA of weaker character in Castor’s backyard.
5/12 BoC mtg video is up, tho not the approved minutes of 5/5. hot air from empty suits on cell phones is kicked off by Exarchos at 25:30. Exarchos begins by opining on the RTK law ruling as surely and accurately as para Black does.
http://cnet.pegcentral.com/player.php?video=2d56ca644b2d7f8e7d4f74104f450a70
47:50ff. Dershem is unstable; he’s “going to battle.”
Someone take away his gun collection.