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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probably had the vehicles wired for sound
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/spanier-attorney-slams-cynthia-baldwin-in-statement,1430196/
” She signed a “proffer letter,” a device the prosectors and criminal defense lawyers use to permit off-the-record statements by persons who are at risk of prosecution”
any fool knows when she signed a proffer, she was a prosecution target & did so to escape charges
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imo Dershem/Exarchos had to adhere to support of Glantz’ lousy advice as to do otherwise was to remove their own, and the County’s, suit defenses.
Glantz looks worse & worse, the more is divulged.
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Pipes should Pipe Down, and campaign relentlessly. I am rather tired of him myself.
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JJinPhila. Imo Arnold’s BOC testimony today has zero to do with the benefit of a County investigating grand jury looking into Gricar, looking into a drug connection (imo a no brainer due years ago). It has everything to do with her political party. And maybe the SPM brouhaha fomented by her party colleagues has her thinking of running for DA again when timely.
Lee’s Federal trial was supposed to be this month..
this is interesting
https://mobile.twitter.com/ScottPaterno/status/631424760535216128
So Baldwin’s presence in the GJ room itself is
proof she represented to all participants she had
dual representation.
Ridiculous that Judge Wm Carpenter has a protective order concealing
from taxpaying public salaciioys porn race religion emails sent by State
employees on State servers on State time.
So, until he lifts it, I find Kane’s argument plausible.
Why isn’t the Press panning (now and then ) that Order?
http://youtu.be/InrkrTTA-Pw
@Rose The e-mails were not illegal. They may have violated a work rule, but that is all.
http://vp.telvue.com/preview?id=T04959&video=245269
The 8/11 BOC mtg unfortunately lacked the ability to FastForward, therefore while on dim sound to get to areas of interest I heard enough to feel tortured by this inefficient anachronistic County system of govt management by Commissioners.
One by one County employees came up asking this or that bill to be paid, or contract to be renewed. What a waste. The County Admin Boyde sat at the table (Solicitor not present of course. my tiny Town has Solicitor there each mtg. these BOCs don’t get their $ worth.)
Everything these 3 did (check run etc) should have been handled by a County Admin or Mgr. I confess I felt these such dimwits, I stopped at 14:25.
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The media:
from memory, 12:30 – Pipe’s on Glantzgate recommending his termination (2 years late)
14:10 or so, Escargot’s stare down of Pipes (tip of the hat to Berner)
14:20 Escargot grandstanding
14:23 Escargot says to Pipes “You’re wrong on a number of counts.”
that easily-bullied and
subservient boy quips “Sure.”
14:22 Pipes seems to have an s-m dependency relationship with Escargot
@JJinPhila. Imo no one has suggested off-color emails on govt time & property were illegal.
Which makes it even more puzzling they were shielded by Carpenter from RTK disclosure
btw JJinphila. Did you see the “porn” was not merely stills but included 45 videos.
My bet is not just Fina but Corbett was a member of the email chain.
Grand jury authorized in Centre County: http://www.centredaily.com/2015/08/13/4874812_judge-grants-parks-millers-request.html?rh=1
CIOC howling mad.
How could he not?
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/judge-grants-district-attorneys-petition-to-form-grand-jury,1465063/
Go SPM.
drugs & Gricar intersect imo.
Carpenter is a joke. He says porn emails are not a part of his GJ’s testimony.
So why the stop order at Fina’s request.
imo if KK is going to jail, why not for
violating a protective order by dumping it
all out there?
It may be “outstanding” Jacobs that Centre County is entering the mainstream judicial age, BUT soft on crime Kistler, a Republican connectee to Escargot and Doughboy, is the GJ Judge. I long for Hard On Crime Lunsford.
It is clear some folks aimed to break up the hard on criminal judicial bloc by any allegations.
Finally. An erudite comment from Masorti:
https://m.facebook.com/crisisinourcourthouse/photos/a.424637974351622.1073741826.424583014357118/519499908198761/?type=1&source=48&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.519499908198761
CIOC must be another nom de plume or pfur’s Brit, Campbell.
Becase he says GJs have no Judge.
What State Bar member would say that?
Stewart moving on from asset forfeiture (getting spm some funding)
to special investigations unit
http://www.wjactv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/new-hire-centre-county-das-office-former-district-attorney-6646.shtml?wap=0#.Vc1164r3aJI
imo something was in the crosshairs when Stewart was hired.
@Rose, he is the PJ, that is pretty standard.
nice piece
http://www.mcall.com/opinion/yourview/mc-kathleen-kane-attorney-general-staff-yv-0818-20150817-story.html
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after finding the Western Turnpike (OH – Breezewood) in worse than ever life-threatening construction hell
(with no construction workers visible) I think the fbi ought to get after every Turnpike authority administrator back decades. However, for the first time ever in years on that piece, I saw several state police actually on the Turnpike (and writing tickets). If that is Kane’s doing, or Wolf’s, it’s a drop, but something. I have never ever seen ANY LE on that stretch in years, and truckers drove slightly more sane.
A centre county grand jury was guaranteed because
SPM realized the role of Presiding Judge would be irresistable to
Kistler on the grounds of vanity and of padding his PA Supreme Court
Candidate resume for another bite at the apple.
Rose,
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/03/details_on_the_charges_in_the.html
http://articles.mcall.com/2014-01-08/news/mc-pa-turnpike-hires-fbi-chief-20140108_1_mitchell-rubin-internal-investigations-pittsburgh-fbi
“The agency also has a long history of political patronage and meddling by top Senate leaders in promotions and hirings.”
Perhaps Pennlive referred to PA Senators in the leadership Doyle & his son Jake C.
Was Jake’s attempted apptmt of Kistler to the PA Supreme Crt some form of a
political patronage apptmt? for what, one wonders.
Kane under FEDERAL investigation. http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2015/08/fbi_investigating_kathleen_kan.html#incart_2box_topmobile
It just got much worse.
wow.
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@Rose, no doubt that Corman used hid newly found influence to get Kistler’s name put in nomination, since her would a virtual veto over anyone from his district.
That said, it deals with patronage for Turnpike jobs and supplies. I’ve actually met Rubin within the last 18 months. I think I was the only person in the room NOT a target of a federal investigation.
fwiw
a comparison of Fina to Nifong in the matter of Fina
planfully charging Curley & Schultz with a motive to disable
their potential testimony in the Sandusky case. They were
contemporaneous possible impeachers to McQueary’s vivid testimony.
http://notpsu.blogspot.com/2015/08/fina-feared-being-nifonged-by-kane-part.html?m=1
fyi
doubtless JJ will have this nailed with or without a website crutch.
http://www.delcotimes.com/general-news/20150820/montgomery-county-court-of-common-pleas-opens-website-for-kane-case
major misuse, yet minimal penalty.
Bill idle since March?
http://www.pennlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/08/lawmaker_calls_for_house_inves.html
“Payne’s bill, which has sat idle in the House State Government Committee since its introduction in March, would make knowing misuse of a state computer, network of cell phone to display, to view, transfer or access pornographic material a third-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and $2,500 fine.
It would exempt this conduct if required by official duties as well as anyone who viewed the offensive material without knowledge of its content provided they didn’t forward it to anyone and alerted their immediate supervisor about it.”
Fina’s Saviour may be sinking
http://mobile.philly.com/news/politics/?wss=/philly/news/politics&id=322472271&
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/stacy-parks-miller-accuses-office-of-open-records-of-hiding-records,1465126/
JJinPhila: June 10 2015 is the date the PA Supr Ct (what a joke that group has been as individuals) reinstated Corbett’s last minute OOR 6-year patronage appointment, Erik A, former Senate aide to Corman, after a 6 month battle by Wolf, as Director.
I have no doubt the 2 opinions are in conflict (in this case the words of the application are not a tecnical matter of statutory construction). The ussues are identical: who generated the records? To whom us their content attributable?
I also have no doubt Opinion 1 was online, & Erik irdered it removed. Love to see him deposed. Blame a nameless staffer indeed.
http://www.senatorcorman.com/2015/06/10/senate-hails-commonwealth-court-decision-to-reinstate-office-of-open-records-chief/
cioc’s admin today posted plaintively about Lunsford’s part-time job.
then she commented on her own post.
https://m.facebook.com/crisisinourcourthouse?_ft_=top_level_post_id.524383504377068
her comment on her own post:
–reads like a female wrote it (sentence 1)
–is grammar-poor
–has factual errors about Lunsford’s case load.
So I am wondering if Shutt is the cioc admin maintaining the sute for masorti et al?
@Rose, the opinions are quite close and the second opinion provides a “back door” to get around the first. It is close which could go either way.
https://m.facebook.com/crisisinourcourthouse
@Blink/JJ
no one else around
Idk if Steve = Sloane, as Steve is intact and pithy here.
Sloane is otherwise elsewhere online.
You know, if I were SPM, I’d dump each and every
text in a massive data dump.
& Let the chips fall.
and cioc drones on.
More from cioc site:
Elizabeth Hunt Celikbilek
This is very sad news for a number of reasons. I respect the opinion of everyone associated with this page, but I must say that Judge Lunsford is one of the absolute best judges I have known in my six years of clerking and practicing law.
Debbie Hummel-Brown
We love Judge Lundsford and his family; and he will always remain honorable to us
Edited · 1 · Hide · 4 hours ago
Elizabeth Hunt Celikbilek
I tried to post this comment on the main page, but I have confirmed that Judge Lunsford will be at work on Monday.
Hide · 3 hours ago
Ellen Black
That would be great, and it would be even better if he confirmed it here as well
Elizabeth Hunt Celikbilek
Given the fact that the entire post is incorrect and Judge Lunsford has not resigned, it’s easy to see why good people choose not to run for office. I know I couldn’t handle this type of misinformation and stress.
1 · Hide · 3 hours ago
If I were the attorney-employer of the ever-attack Lunsford & SPM dog paralegal or secretary Ellen, she’d be gone.
@Rose, she’d be out if I was in charge.
I think they are getting push back after their previous “Forgery Fiasco.”
SPM probably could not dump the text because some are, no doubt, confidential.
Kane officially bound over for trial.
Lunsford seems to still be a judge.
unlike SPM, Kane chose a bumbling
attorney (imo) and has
a weak defensive posture.
Her likelihood of jail time is quite high.
And, there is actually evidence Kane did it.
Disciplinary board is recommending emergency suspension of Kane’s law license, which will force her from office. http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2015/08/ag_kathleen_kane_action_referr.html#incart_most-commented_opinion_article
Parks Miller suing the commissioners, the defense attorneys, Shutt, Glantz and Boyd for defamation.
The complaint via the BOC is going to go down in law annals around the US as “bad faith” personified. She has to sue them. It also tells me the evidence from Shutt was apparently flimsy at best. Maybe Dicks is hiring.
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http://www.centredaily.com/2015/08/28/4895479/centre-county-district-attorney.htm
So JJinPhila, your pithy analysis?
https://m.facebook.com/crisisinourcourthouse
In my opinion the CIOC Admin is an attorney (rapid access to docs, content of comments).
In my opinion, she is not going for settlement and will disburse monies to local charities (after paying Castor) to aide crime victims as her next campaign promo down the road.
In my opinion, her goal is depositions under oath. There is much to be learned.
In my opinion, she should have left munchkin Michelle out of the suit. A mere mentally-challenged, and perhaps appealing to some men on the jury, distraction from truly venal targets.
In my opinion, outside of the scalawag attorneys, Exarchos is the real financial deep pocket, with Dershem’s business being able to pay too. She will look for a rapid trial to influence elections.
Kistler per SPM’s facebook FB blurbs is outrageously soft on bail and sentencing, odd for a Republican. I hope Lunsford is rehabilitated soon.
Glantz finally commented, and is posturing.
imo he, his partner Cantorna, and Exarchos are the biggest flies in the ointment.
And imo Kistler has had a behind the scenes nonpublic role.
Exarchos and Boyde got Kistler to communicate to his fellow judges last fall to save the County prison bed budget by softer bails & sentencing. imo they have a hold on him. It’s called wanting a Republican side Suor Court nomination in the offing, mediated by Corman.
a Lauren Boob kerps commenting on CIOC; the wife, JJinPhila?
Kane, suspension?
works for me. and the citizens.
but imo legally they can’t do it before conviction.
Republican American honors Ruests father:
http://rep-am.com/articles/2012/07/05/obituaries/646804.txt
@JJinPhila. have you a link to the filing?
found on State College site; I love Counts 8 & 9.
very righteous suit. as long as the Judge isn’t Republicans Wm Carpenter or Kistler.
can’t see County ins paying defense except for counts against county.
more spending from County coffers for personal liabilities, and the
State OAG will have to bring criminal charges too.
the US rain is not going where most needed.
I wonder if any partner at Stover, McGlaughlin, Gerace, Weyandt & McCormick, P.C.
ever reads their Secretary’s prolific comments for months in the local press calling for the DA to be removed from office. While claiming she is employed in the legal field, she is often clearly erroneous as to facts and law, as JJinPhila
usually points out.
@Rose, there are several Boob families or branches of the family in the area. I don’t know the connection.
@Rose, yes, they may suspend Kane’s law license even if there claim of a criminal violation. It happened with Don Bailey about a year ago.
I am not sure I understand why they would at this phase but I know that Bar chapter to be uber conservative.
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It isn’t the Bar chapter, but the Disciplinary Board. Oh… Thanks JJ
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It seems to me SPM’s suit is quite warranted because if the GJ had no true billed or indicted, she could be Disciplined (suspended) and removed like Kaine. Therefore there was extrememely serious jeopardy to her career and elected office. It is remarkable the GJ cleared her.