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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fascinating
http://m.collegian.psu.edu/archives/article_932984cf-22e8-5e44-af45-fddee8b17305.html?mode=jqm
verbal’s substitute defense atty J Stover looks like a formidable,
experienced muni solicitor, worthy of being Glantz’ successor.
young grad Garrett is on a tear.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=499195366895882&id=424583014357118&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.499195366895882&__tn__=%2As
imo no Ganim, who I’ve been watching on the trail of the Adirondack escapees.
From above http://m.collegian.psu.edu/archives/article_932984cf-22e8-5e44-af45-fddee8b17305.html?mode=jqm
“Mike Madeira is not an idiot. He is an intelligent person; he knows how to kick the dirt where it needs to be kicked to keep things covered.”
I wonder what he meant by this statement?
@Steve. His knowledge base indicates
what he referred to was not local Centre County
doings generally
and was related to drug cases.
iirc drug cases at the State level was his area of responsibility before becoming DA.
suggests Gricar’s death was a
hit by a drug-based criminal enterprise.
Thanks Rose. I was just wondering why he would know Maderia is good at keeping things covered.
Exactly. The Madeira that went from US ADA to DA to Home Depot to suspended to voluntarily giving up his law license to working for PSU. Whose wife is a bio sis of one of Sandusky’s adopted sons.
B
Ah, I knew what you meant, Steve. I still think it has to do with drugs & not Sandusky or Lee.
Because that was Verbal’s own context. I was doing a time line last nite. Don’t quite remember it, but Gricar
was doing some drug investigations of higher level persons prior to disappearing, Verbal being only 1 of his roll-ups.
Verbal arrestedJan 05. Gricar off in Apr 05. Madiera following Gricar did do deug arrests, but it was street level sellors, iirc mostly students. He did a newspaper interview saying then you get the street levels to id higher ups in the sales chain & it takes 6 months. But I didn’t see, before I stopped reading, anyone higher up these student & street arrests led to. So that’s what I thought kicking dirt was. He got press for drug arrests, but they were negligble street level compared to Gricar’s source targets. But no one paid any attention to quality as long as the paper said “drug arrest.” One would think he was on the take, or had been threatened with Gricar’s fate, or feared it.
I LOVE Bruce Castor.
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/parks-miller-accuses-centre-county-of-trying-to-thwart-the-courts-intent-in-right-to-know-appeal,1464561/
And imo he is doing this for all the DAs and judges of Pennsylvania who may have renegade, narcissistic, politicized County administrators with malignant motives in an election year.
These are runaway County Commissioners who have governance deficits, and as Lunsford recently said in his own reelection interview, a “compromised” solicitor, resulting in terrible legal advice .
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/06/30/4817176_parks-miller-attorney-opposes.html?rh=1
Maierhofer has forgotten her client employer, the insurance company. She should have sent a letter to the insured, the County, after Kurtz’ first Order outlining exactly how to comply. Then when Boyde/Glantz/the 3some violated her legal written directions, the insurance company would be off the hook for further coverage in this matter.
@Rose, Madeira and Assistant PA AG and was the original prosecutor for Lee. Gricar, and the Centre county DA’s Office, was not involved in the prosecution.
It seems to me that Craig Staudemeier representing Centre County (Commissioners) to the tune so far of $54,000 (altho some of that was perhaps Glantz’ own devoted lawyer), is a conflict of interest. Here, in early 2014 Craig represented that one-man show who calls himself PFUR until Simon ran out of $ and pulled the plug on RTK litigation during the appellate phase.
http://www.paunionreform.org/PublicRecordsLawsuit/DistrictAttorney/District%20Attorney%20Marsico%20letter%20as%20mailed%205-14-14.pdf
And Simon PFUR is one of the RTK litigants with C Cty. Apparently he and Craig found a way for the County to pay the bill, it seems. The Commissioners are fools imo.
http://www.wjactv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/centre-county-legal-bills-close-55000-taxpayers-6585.shtml?wap=0
I just remembered Craig is the person who gave Glantz and Boyde the first advice on how to structure the reply (with redacted financial records) to the very first request for Lunsford’s phone records, resulting in spm’s suit. Glantz & Boyde said so at the first BoC meeting after the first suit. That advice would have been dished in early fall 2014 right after Simon/pfur pulled the plug on his appellate case due to lack of funds. Other suckers were found, but it wasn’t the many newspaper clients Craig represents. Wonder how the Court will handke those depositions (Craig, Boyde, Glantz) because at that consuktative juncture, Craig wasn’t retained nor paid by the County. He would run it thru his nonprofit rtk lobbying org. Anyway I now realize what Lunsford recerred to in the matter of “compromised legal advice,” not Glantz-Cantorna, but Craig-Simon/pfur, and the latter is now trying to lead the cabal of defense attorneys.
Animal Farm redux.
TY JJinPhila. If Madiera was the original Lee prosecutor while with the State, and it was a State prosecution,
then I count State citizens blessed Madiera moved over to the DA job, enabling a successor prosecutor to stop
the dirt kicking & get somewhere. That fact makes me more sure Lee was referring to Madiera in a drug prosecution
context.
Grine and Gillette-Warker are both making similar arguments to Parks Miller regarding RTK suit. http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/judges-reload-and-fire-new-volley-in-right-to-know-dispute,1464597/
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/judges-reload-and-fire-new-volley-in-right-to-know-dispute,1464597/
I think what Craig S really wants is to argue his position on aspects of the rtk state before the State Supreme Court–goodness knows why except for vainglory. Or as a media client magnet. And he can only do that with a client with deep enough pockets – pfue/Simon couldn’t raise enough money on line. Thus, he gave Glantz/Boyde the legal consultation when the very first request came in. The question is whether Cantorna & Craig S had a preexisting relationship such that Craig recommended the rtk phone gambit to Cantorna initially?
rtk statute that is
OT
great interview
http://m.collegian.psu.edu/news/state_national_international/article_3b7e6c7e-ee0e-11e4-a9c5-63cae2f2b243.html?mode=jqm
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/judge-strikes-down-countys-attempt-to-restore-righttoknow-request-power,1464679/
Shutt was the first responder (with sarcasm)
on the CrisisinourCourthouse site wrt this ruling.
She should know, she in part provoked the crisis in the most
provocative possible manner, not with decorum. Imo a real
attention seeker.
There is a commenter on the url above who strikes me as perhaps a paranoid schizophrenic who fixates on individuals. He not only attended the hearing but says he “confronted” the Judge after. Said he had a rhyme about the Judge running thru his head. Had another for JJ. I hope the Judge has a more attentive bailiff in future.
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/07/13/4833985_hearing-postponed-on-lawsuits.html
http://pafoic.org
I think I understand this ball of wax now JJinPhila.
Centre County Comm’s legal consultant last year, Craig S, who counseled Boyde on his rtk responses & now is paid to repr the County, and is the lawyer who advised Boyde to test (violate) J Kurtz’s injunction, as GC of pafoic (a media assn) had a mission but no money to litigate per pafoic’s own website. So Craig, via Comm fools found a way…. using CC, he createx causes of action. At the same time, Simon—pfur—dropped an appeal due to no litigation $.
Now what is interesting is 2 hours ago the CIOC site explicitly focused on an unrelated RTK PA issue–bandwagon style–making me wonder if CIOC is related to, devised or run by, Craig S & pafoic. It has been dominated by rtk trumped up titillating tales.
Anyway, imo the Comm fools are funding both pafoic & pfur, personal hobbyhorses of Craig S & Simon, and a Special Master needs to ride to the County’s rescue.
All of this CC rtk “foght” contasts with zero interest by pfur & pafoic into the Court-sanctioned lack of rtk wrt Sandusky and PS and Freeh, and the charged 3.
All of this CC rtk “foght
fight
I’d forgotten these Mar 7 comments
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/centre-county-judge-district-attorney-accused-of-bias-da-says-claim-is-without-merit,1463092/
Where Steve S says Shutt is a friend he speaks with regularly to validate his story she is a college grad in law school & served in the DA’s office as a legal intern. Also in this thread he indicates he took the fall for his employer Masorti who asked him to obtain the mj. So maybe friend Steve got her that “work” with Masorti in the first place.
I just stumbled on this:
http://framingpaterno.com/aaron-fishers-family-posts-facebook-photo-him-laying-cash-giving-middle-finger
Who are these folks in conflict? A back story?
He is #1- iirc also the young man whose passenger was killed on the way to school one morning. While I think the image is in poor taste, I think it is ridiculous for anyone to think this kid made up his abuse.
B
I’m bummed Craig S finagled a hearing postponement until Sept 1.
Leaves him 6 more weeks to ring up billable hours for Centre Cty.
phone calls & all that.
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/07/16/4838284/public-defender-says-parks-miller.html “……because of concerns over a decline in civility among members of the bar association in the criminal and family law arenas.” So imo some defense bar simply took moved antics to the weekly Commissioners meeting.
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2015/07/16/4838284/public-defender-says-parks-miller.html#storylink=cpy”
A lucid CommentAThis October decorum order designed to control acrimony between Defense lawyers & the DA’s Office predates Cantorna’s first phone records request on Nov 7th. Since then, all the interviews with the press seems to have been initiated by a criminal defense attorney. this Commenter on the Decorum article nails it imo with his one lucid thought:
A lucid Comment on above: “You would think that a ‘decorum order’ that was signed by four judges would have made the news, or at least an announcement of such on their page. Some sort of public documentation. I find no news articles on this order, nor any information linked through the court’s website.”
So much for any of these defense attorneys & the media friends they regularly call filing a RTK request for this Order. they simply changed their Forum from the Court to the Commissioners
Personally it confirms to me Kistler avidly dislikes SPM because such a public order is an embarrassment to her Office.
I see I messed up my cut & paste last paragr,
sorry, but the meaning is there, kind of.
The lucid Comment found below the article in quotes
said why was a procedural order signed by all 4 Judges not made public?
Possible SPM’s comment was deliberately designed to get
it publicized.
Good for SPM getting the Order made public. Explains the backdrop of events in Nov-Jan. the family law area goes back to Cantorna’s McClure case imo and the criminal law case goes back to Masorti & Sloane:
“She thinks Masorti and Cantorna were involved because of two criminal cases, the petition states.
In the first case, a lawyer employed by Masorti was prosecuted on drug-trafficking charges and a search warrant was executed at Masorti’s law office.
In the other, Cantorna was defense counsel for Jalene McClure, who was convicted and sentenced to 10-20 years in state prison late last year over child abuse charges. Glantz and Cantorna have offices in the same building, and Cantorna is a “close confidant” of Glantz, …”
Sloane has made comments he would not turn on colleagues he’d “shared” with, so imo SPM tried hard to get him to trstify against his employer Masorti.
Given the October Order designed to remove mutual acrimony from the litigation arena, it is no surprise Masorti hired Shutt to do contract labor last October.
I don’t think much of Kistler. He just kicked off a bunch of lawsuits between judges, criminal defense lawyers, DAs, Commissioners, and the County; involved the AG Office, other Court systems, Bar Counsel, fringe lobbyists; and so on. All the had to do was issue reprimands to individuals and/or hold them in contempt, in individual cases using the State procedural rule. A few fines and adverse rulings and they’d all have behaved. Lunsford had apparently tried the year before to do just that. Perhaps that would’ve turned out differently had Kistler backed him on the contempt thing. Perhaps Kistler and Masorti have something in common.
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2015/01/26/4572965/da-parks-miller-petitions-to-have.html#storyl
Checkmate. In SPM’s suit, which attributed to Masorti & Cantorna personal animus acted out theu the Executive Branch , will get an evidence windfall when she deposes Judge Kistler as to which cases in the criminal & family areas prompted his solution of an October Decorum Order. And she provoked a defense attorney into making the Order public in a Motion.
http://www.thelegalintelligencer.com/home/id=1202732367725/Centre-Co-Controversy-Raises-Texting-Social-Media-Issues?mcode=1202615493110&curindex=0
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/07/21/4844062/centre-couny-commissioners-ok.html
JJinPhila is correct the only good thing is Boyde is following procedure in awaiting the outcome of an appeal of
the General Counsel in a State Exec Branch Office. I happen to think OOR is right. The Court needs to pay its
phone bill out of its own budget and bar use for nonjudicial business.
Crowley is a respected PD with the office since 1989. Sloane appears in comments to see him as an ally/friend.
Crowley shares (from press reports of speeches) Sloane’s interest in legalizing mj except for large quantity dealors.
That policy stance alone puts him on a collision course with SPM’s Office.
per the doc on CIOC, SPM & Lunsford did not mount any argument the document was exempt.
Imo that means they don’t have one.
Their argument was the OOR lacked jurisdiction.
Dumb move to tell that to a State Agency.
OOR also has an appeals right by Statute over the PA judiciary in the matter of certain public information.
So Lunsford & Castor are skipping over all that and going to the heart of PA Constitutional separation
of powers aligning the judiciary against the executive and legislative branches together in the matter
of the public’s right of access to certain financial records of public judicial agencies where confidential information about criminal or family law cases is arguably not impinged on. Imo that is a losing litigation strategy should the case logically proceed to the US Supreme Court after its complete progress through the PA Supr Ct finds against them imo.
Although I bet the US would decline review.
@Rose, you may be right. I am sure, however, OOR cannot overrule a court’s ruling (though such a ruling may be appealed).
On this, I thing it is a question of who makes the initial decision, the county commissioners (or their employees) or the courts/DA. Looking at the statute, I come down on the latter.
Had the judges/DA made this decision and denied these records, and it was appealed and overturned, I would could read the statute that way. The is, however, a wall between the law enforcement/non-law enforcement agencies established in statute.
Lunsford/DA will prevail imo on the Court-involved case.
But imo when the OOR decision is appealed in the Crowley case,
it will be Crowley as to his request and his only
because Castor/DA chose not to present any argument at
all on the meat of the matter (the meaning of “created by” the judiciary
as applied to billable judicial employees phone/text interchanges) which should have been
easy to do but rather they just said “no jurisdiction” without the underlying basis
to substantiate it’s a judicial record. The best plan going forward is to supply
their own phones & pay their own bills. You know my spouse’s govt office requires
employees to deposit them on arrival & collect going outthe door. Be a good idea to
have cell lockers for all going in just outside every Courtroom door…litigants, observors, etc.
Madiera moved to his 3rd psu job last Oct
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-madeira/7/4b8/71a
Grand Jury has apparently concluded. http://www.fox8tv.com/News/NewsDetails.asp?NewsID=17931
@Rose, though I am no fan of the job Madeira did as DA, it is not unusual that he would be at PSU. They are, by far, the largest employer in the county.
Should be very interesting. Typically GJ’s do not issue reports if the scope of their task is to indict.
B
But the jobs at PSU were created from scratch and designed so he could arguably qualify.
AND he was not hired as one of several attorneys in the multiperson GC’s
Office, a couple of whom are–I bet–bew grads on their first jobs.
looking forward to the report.
Since media said its work was concluded
a few weeks ago, I concluded no indictment.
I assume she gets off on a technicality.
What did he know or suspect while DA via his wife of Sandusky’s shenanigans on the grounds of PSU and in the home for decades before it otherwise came to light? Imo that is why he was given excellent jobs, just not ones relying on a law license.
It looks like a special GJ at the Federal level (not the spm case)
can issue a report detailing noncriminal misconduct.
Grand Jury found no wrongdoing: http://media.centredaily.com/smedia/2015/07/31/10/08/1aOiuL.So.42.pdf#storylink=relast
It was somewhat critical of the Commissioner’s “Private Prosecutor.”
@Rose it was a statewide grand jury empaneled by the Attorney General’s office. Parks Miller only referred the case to the OAG, as she was suppose to do under statute.
@Rose, MTM’s wife was not close to her bother and were split in childhood. He wasn’t with the Centre County DA’s Office.
Only way the anti-Parks Miller group will be satisfied is to release the GJ transcript. Yesterday, Shutt’s latest tweet were to a reality TV wasted life asking where she got her sweater and, iirc, recounting her romance genre reading.
looks like she was exhonerated based on 2 handwriting experts.
My opinion is someone should be looking into Judge Ruest’s competency to sit the bench after her acknowledgements. I am not privy to her testimony per se- but not one item introduced in all those exchanges to “refresh her recollection”? Judge Ruest- what were you wearing on the bench last Friday while court was in session? I don’t know. Could it have been long, black, and a zipper down the front? I can’t remember.
Pardon my sass, lol.
B
imo spm should hide and be quiet
“Press conference is today at 3 on the courthouse step” CIOC
http://vp.telvue.com/preview?id=T04959&video=243933
most recent CC mtg video 7/28/15
Boyde wrt RTK at 24:30ff.
Seems competent.
Dershem about 27:10ff.
imo he is a jackass (and Passive Pipes ditto for his silence & lack of leadership).
I finally “turned off” and did not finish Dershem/Exarchos’ diatribes
that their Exec Branch does not know how the Judiciary is expending drug forfeiture
funds (staff, budget line items like wireless, etc). Imo the Legislature had a
reason to put forfeited proceeds fully in the Judiciary’s hands to devote to criminal law enforcement so
the Exec could not use it for general budgetary shortfalls.
http://media.centredaily.com/smedia/2015/07/31/10/08/1aOiuL.So.42.pdf#storylink=relast