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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@JJin Phila.
who owns the county insurance policy vendor?
what are the County contract terms?
If Comment allegations re coverage (all sued parties, individual & official capacities) are true, that is mighty fishy.
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/09/01/4900135_centre-county-commissioners-reviewing.html?rh=1
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just wait til Exarchos sits thru his depo re advance knowledge from Glantz of Cantora’s appearance, not being on the agenda.
$88,000 above ins coverage seems wasteful mgmt recommendations by Boyde.
I assume that was the Glantz defense he tecommended.
one thing for sure
Maierhofer isn’t covering the 4 attorneys & Shutt.
And, she isn’t representing Glantz
just made for you Blink:
https://mobile.twitter.com/NotKeithMasser/status/638761418360098816
Sheetz to Ryan wrt Eshbach’s direct query the GJ wants to kniw where the heck the presentment is at?
If Sheetz didn’t like Eshbach’s tone, what would he do with you are me.
This Sheetz comment on her question to Ryan shows then AG
Corbett (to whom they would raise her question on Friday ) was absolutely in control of the timing of the Presentment.
@I don’t know who owns the insurance company, but there is a master liability insurance company.
One problem with the Shutt story from the start is that any DA who agreed to a reduction of bail could easily get it. It didn’t make too much sense from the start. Going into the GJ with that was weak.
It could have damaged SPM. both politically and professionally. The Commissioners compounded that by constants bringing it up constantly.
cursory glances around says local entities such as Penn State use locally owned ins cos.
I’m wondering what County (insurance) ins-co owner with a
deep pocket is so invested in ousting SPM that he is indemnifying all defendants both individually and in official capacities?
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I thot Masorti once had a bit part on Shutt’s LinkedIn.
Not there now.
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SPM alluded to a pecuniary motive on Shutt’s part.
That is certainly true
wrt an imo meritless Dick’s class action.
It seems to me Cantorna and Masorti defend drug dealors. Exarchos’ son had a problem along those lines.
Just like that drug arrestee Ray had announced had his roots in the NE, it seems to me a regional ins co (ny, nj, ct, pa) could be owned by or a money laundering asset for a crime family. and could chose to sell umbrella policies to local govts. and would have deep pockets to indemnify individually, and as employees, the whole sorry lot. and wouldn’t care about repr conflicts. this cavalier deep pocket ins co, and inattention to repr conflicts. has aroused Castor’s suspicions imo. So maybe after a back door for Ray, hard on crime SPM is being shown another door.
http://m.thelegalintelligencer.com/module/alm/redir/id=1202736480763/Centre-County-Judge-Wont-Seek-Retention?slreturn=20150804141741&_almReferrer=https%3A//m.facebook.com/
That prolific DUI defense blogger J McShane repetitively posts on this article on CIOC (substantiating hus collaboration with Cantorna-Masorti-PFUR) in a righteous orgastic mentalstate on Lunsford’s demise from the DUI bench.
Personally, I believe Lunsford, but he’s taking the right way out for himself to settlethis prior to elections. It will allow for another tough successor.
The double tragedy, besides his loss, is Ruest is in line to be Pres Judge acter Kistler goes to the great Bench Beyond (some temp placeholder Supr Ct seat).
Urban Dict on “orgastic”:
“A term coined by F Scott Fitsgerald in The Great Gatsby…
It is most likely a cross between “orgasmic” and “orgiastic”, although it is certainly left to interpretation.
The Last paragraph reads: Gatsby believed in the green light, the ORGASTIC future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. And one fine morning–
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
quite the irony Dem judges & candidates are hard on crime and Repubs are pro short or waived sentences, ARDs, low or no bails. As I understand the Repub Commissioners & Kistler’s policies, it has come in recent years down to beds in use at the County prison in a mission to reduce County prison budget expenditures, moreover earning income from other Counties for housing their inmates in the beds created by lenient bail & sentences. And SPM is very opposed to fiscal budget driving bail and sentence proscriptions by Repub Kistler.
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/judge-lunsford-announces-retirement-withdraws-retention-bid,1465293/
ironic a fine judge goes and that solicitor remains on County payroll
I respectfully disagree that Lunsford is a fine judge. I believe he is retiring to end a probe re the yanking of public files and rampant texting and while I truly have never heard of this kind of ex parte behavior nor the defense community’s reaction- I keep in mind Madeira essentially did the same thing and Lee’s case postponed. Those hens may have squawked loud enough to shine the light- but Keep in mind Kistler lost his potential also.
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Interesting Lunsford didn’t inform his Pres Judge directly, but his colleague was hardly supportive or a standup Pres.
In fact, iirc Kistler did explain why he removed Kunsford from Criminal Court: too many complaints from defense attorneys. (meaning appropriate ARDs, bails, & sentences)
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/09/04/4905009/judge-bradley-lunsford-pulls-out.html
now this (imo) dwarf weasel is going after the 2 judges mostly likely to succeed Lunsford.
https://m.facebook.com/TheMcShaneFirm/posts/10153146837324827
Didn’t get invited to the party?
http://triblive.com/mobile/9036814-96/kane-attorney-office
“Sensitivity training” is ridiculous.
Can’t change zebras’ stripes.
Why can’t trial defendants use the emails to
question the character of the prosecutor in
matters like rape cases?
Pity the females in the DA & Courthouse sites
working with these orifice-loving men.
#BOOM to Rose
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Respectable defense attorneys, and one Bellefonte PD member have commented here & there on his history as an able judge. As to what he stands accused of (texting does not equal texting about cases with DA) and removal of spurious accusations not to be deemed part of record but their preservation handled improperly, Judges thruput this country do that sort of thing continuously. at least in TX and VA.
The remedy is not removal. It is education by Court Administrator & Senior Judge as to document handling. (The real issue is the Court Admin jacket maintainance was apparently sloppy as heck across the Board (and thus retired).
And as to texting, ordinarily a Pres Judge would privately counsel and publically issue rules such as no texting during bench hours and no texting with anyone from DA’s office or whatever. Imo Kistler originally collaborated in starting this scandal with Lunsford, rather than solving it with private counsel & public rules, in order to ensure Lunsford would not have another 10 yrs so Republican Ruest coukd succeed Kustler as Pres Judge.
I do not believe the Disciplinary Office was able to find any ex parte case communication on Lunsford’s part or
that would have been announced and acted on with new trials recommended.
Castor is correct
http://m.collegian.psu.edu/news/crime_courts/article_39d16d18-4dd6-11e5-a266-777ddc9b5bc8.html?mode=jqm
I thot the 2 magistrates were the likelies, striking fear in the hearts of the CIOC crowd. But:
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/candidates-to-replace-lunsford-as-judge-announced,1465338/
Unsurprisingly McQuaid Blasko. No criminal experience. And a Republican legal handyman.
http://www.bradlunsford.com
last paragr by his mgr refers to a “family” decision
suggesting the wife counseled him out. Perhaps
the mudslinging to come now being averted
was not a judicial pecadillo but
a personal one.
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These days CIOC only seems to link articles in newspapers
other than Centre Daily. I can read CD free if entering thru
a link, but direct clicks on articles are prohibited w/o subscription.
So I can’t see if JJinPhil has returned to his CD mission from an August
on, say, the Jersey Shore.
Yes, I have been posting, though I was at a convention over the weekend. I have only been to the shore on business over the last 40 years. I dislike the water.
Spanier wants his passport back for a trip to Saudi Arabia.
For what?
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per press, He has traveled at least 3 times abroad last year: to Saudi Arabia, London & Spain on temp passports for the purpose of higher ed consukting, & surrendered the temp passport promptly on return.
This probation dept denial was ludicrous.
Hah, the Jersey Shore quip was more relevant to Blink, if not JoeP.
I married a man from a Rehobeth summer singles group house, and
after he effected marriage he never again visited a beach (sadly),
except in Maine with no sun.
To ride on a high horse wrt passport, interfering with
employment, for this Defendant, with a wife and
roots in the community, is laughable, imo.
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/09/11/4915707_da-stacy-parks-miller-lawsuit.html?rh=1
glad to see you back in comments, JJinPhila. I always learn.
Shutt hiring a slip and fall and employment lawyer tells
me she’s going to try for her second suit again a former
employer (no 1 being Dick’s) and has a tort angle.
The firm Shutt has hired is the same one where Goodall (Gricar family attorney) is the partner and where Dutchcot (DJ who first arraigned Sandusky). It is a fairly solid law firm in the county.
Yurchak does PI & employment (not defamation nor federal Constitutional causes of action).
I thought she was hired because she was a Yurchak, not for her highly reputable firm.
While Cantorna chose a fellow Son of Ireland, he hired one specializing in Defamation cases.
Xtra Xtra, Read all about it
http://brucecastor.com/category/endorsements/
Castor firm’s Case
now I see why castor bit on repping SPM.
He was involved in a significant defamation case with criminal overtones.
Shutt, Cantorna, & Co will not be able to hide behind the 5th now on Depo.
What better than elected govt officials in defendants’ posture?
If he’s re-elected, it looks like his firm retains the lawyer assets to forge on.
btw an alleged conspiracy of this
broad nature, involving elected
govt officials, really needs a federal courtroom.
I would speculate that the passport denial was reflective of the huge level of resentment towards GS in central PA, at least in many circles. Someone got in their dig.
summer reading I had missed
http://newslanc.com/2015/07/16/keisling-luna-was-the-worst-murder-ive-ever-seen/
yardbird.com has the Fina emails up.
A slight sampling reveals a mind permanently in the gutter.
One wonders how he could lay aside his obsessive thinking long enough to do any work.One wonders who Kimberly F is on these email chains, hopefully not a daughter.
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I see I confused Yurchak’s name with the Yonchuks.
CIOC FB has a diatribe commentary associated with this url:
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/parks-miller-attacks-county-through-new-avenue-in-commonwealth-court,1465387/#comments
CIOC boils down to why be litigious SPM? It’s just billing records, not content, no harm.
The problem is certain criminal defense attorneys are using those records in jury trials to raise doubt in juror’s minds about the ethics of prosecutor and judge, and on appeals from conviction/sentencing to argue a criminal trial was fundamentally unfair–all without content or context.
https://www.facebook.com/stacyparksmiller
as I read the work & fine print, I see a highly energetic
and competent prosecutor who Should have been on a trajectory
to a successful AG race but for 3 stooges.
SPM would need a lot of money to run for AG, and, with Kane in there, it will be hard for any Democrat to win.
That said from what I’ve seen, SPM is a brilliant trial attorney and excellent and apolitical DA.
JJinPhila. A commenter on the SPM FB page, under the dog thrown from car conviction, Paula Revere (get that?) set up a facebook page under Paula Revere just after Shutt was sued, for the specific purpose it states of cleaning up the DA Office. A resident of Bellefonte, she claims firsthand knowledge of SPM’s own dog’s antics in the office at work, and of the Disciplinary investigation of SPM. Further accuses her of cocaine use, saying a purchase is on tape, and of sleeping with various men, particularly Boob. I hope SPM finds out who in Bellefonte, who appears to have been employed in the DA Office, created Paula’s harassing FB page.
while SPM usually deletes inappropriate FB comments, she has let Paula’s stay up.
wonder if this includes Kistler?
Freeh?
http://mobile.philly.com/news/politics/?wss=/philly/news/politics&id=328727001&
Kistler is a proven racially-offensive image-sender at a Courthouse.
Maybe he backed off the SC because he knew there was more.
@Rose, I read “Paula’s” stuff. I doubt if it is anyone currently in the office.
I have been responding to “Paula” and “John Adams” seems very defensive when I mentioned Glantz. Interesting.
It won’t be “Spanier of Arabia.” The trip was disapproved. http://www.centredaily.com/2015/09/24/4936368_spanier-request-for-saudi-trip.html?rh=1
yeah. I thought Paula maybe works from home.
so where do Paula and her John hang out and chat with you, JJinPhila?
I only saw her lone brazen comment on SPM’s facebook page.
Actually, after reading Paula’s FB page interest list (not the FB content), my candidate is the former ADA who attended Brd of Comm mtgs this year and spoke during Public Comment to an antiSPM platform.
Paula is frothing at the mouth on CIOC about
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/county-clashes-with-da-over-intervention-in-court-fight,1465518/
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/office-of-open-records-asks-court-to-nix-countys-request-in-right-to-know-dispute,1465554/
see comments
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2015/09/sandusky_seeks_subpoena_power.html
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=545481145600637&id=424583014357118&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.545481145600637%3Atl_objid.545481145600637
what’s the point of sex in the city face pics?
Wen silverwood is on CIOC?
I thought she was a free Sandusky
and Elect Republican Judge Covey flybynight.
major flub
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http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=254389&st=2355
While I discount this person’s theories, I found this info interesting, tho no doubt well known to Blink & JJinPhila:
“Have you ever wondered why Smith. Arnold and one other person from the DA staff were not available that weekend? Maybe there had been undercurrents of uneasiness within the walls of Centre County Courthouse, whether acknowledged publicly or not. And then there’s Steve Sloane, who ambled back to work 2 weeks after Gricar disappeared, then went on a publicity spree of probably unprecedented verbosity for the CC DA’s office. He spoke to and met with everyone. He had opinions about everything Gricar. Give him a mic, and you had a couple hundred sound bytes. Why? ”
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Reminds me of the K Horman case where timing in setting of disappearance is vital, and McStay case where perpetrator planner was his closest business associate (allegedly).
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So looking at that possibility, why not Sloane?
In 2012: “”He said he was a former Oxycontin addict.”
http://www.centredaily.com/2012/10/02/3356578/former-centre-county-da-steve.html
As JJinPhila pointed out, the Office was shorthanded. http://www.centredaily.com/2010/07/26/2397477/mark-smith-and-the-gricar-disappearance.html
It was shorthanded before Gricar’s disappearance.
Oxycontin use would have been at its peak after the Sloane back injury at the time Gricar disappeared. We have seen in Sloane postings in various forums (allegedly) mood swings and great rage, and a specific target focus for the rage. What if Gricar had gotten emails which appeared to be under the influence of oxy, had exchanged emails about job performance and job resumption, and was trying to help Sloane while clean house for the successor DA. Had indicated by email concern for Sloan, and intended during a joint drive to a rural pastoral lunch site to counsel him out. Triggered a rage reaction. In the days before computer forensic reconstruction of emails, tossing the laptop was deriguer. Gricar didn’t worry about office coverage because in a sense he was doing the office’s work. Could it be SPM’s resurrection of the Gricar investigation, now empaneling a GJ, has triggered all this rage against her? Just one theory, “allegedly”.
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btw Blink. My guess is CIOC’s SPM google+ photos is a spoof containing a few real pics. Who knows?
SPM and her forensics lab will.
It is interesting it took SPM to oust an oxy addict ADA.
Why didn’t Madiera?
if Gricar was counseling a mentee about job performance and employment future options, I doubt he would’ve told PF or MSmith. Imo he compartmentalized. Interesting to know the content of emails Sloane to Gricar in the year before the disappearance. Maybe there was drug usage before the accident affecting job performance.
maybe someone in Bellefonte PD (or other)
he once worked with told him he was a focus of the renewed RG investigation.
Maybe his various rage-at-SPM diatribes are intended to
provoke her and get him in the defamation stew with Shubin, McGraw,
Cantorna, Masorti, etal. If a GJ indicted, good reason, bias, to get it removed from
CC. But, she has not taken the bait nor said anything about him in public.
But, some question re Gricar case could be why she terminated him immediately when installed.