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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Gansler acknowledged he will associate locally for actual work
(on the low cost end) alrho he said he has a firm lead principal & others
who are PABar members. He has subpoenas & GJ conduct powers if needed as a special prosecutor.
In effect, she has delegated to him all her powers but truly garnered
independence. . He said if in review federal criminal questions arise, he will refer same to local PA US attorneys office. right on the process imo, as he is an experienced state prosecutor. I
suppose he was on one of my ballots at some time. don’t recall if he is R or D, or how I voted.
He is a good fit for this job. Which tells me someone way smarter than Kane seeks to clean PA’s judicial house.
press conf & appointment tells us where the Beemer stands, as he could
have co-appeared and cosigned off.
or just done it standing alone. Gansler said
there are OAG employees she woukd have
removed, but lacked power to do so,
so his review will be truly indepdt from all OAG employees.
the contract is not with Gansler but his
firm thus PA Bar thing is covered.
posttrial Sandusky hearing before Js Feudale & Cleland, Fina seeking protective orders.
http://www.wildabouttrial.com/court_docs/Sandusky%20-Transcript%20of%20Proceeding%20Held%20on%20June%2026.pdf
by p 17, line 17 Feudale’s callng him “Frank” (no one else does) &
saying “help me out.”
If this leads to some sick association to Sandusky I am gong to hurl.
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Gangier did mention he had been through something similar to Kane in Maryland re gay marriage.
He seemed to mention Kane as the “general” and not by name a lot.
I understood they will be looking at all the email contacts which ran through the attorney generals office with the intent to prosecute those whom broke the law and forward inappropriate, but legal, conduct to review boards.
Hopefully he will be somewhat insulated from possible reprisals coming from outside the PA system.
all attys general call each other general.
gansler iirc refused to bar gay marriages in md which brought hate speech out.
i have no memory of the underage drinking at the beach
but any Md HS lax team father who allows his son to go to the beach on break knows what goes,
so kudos he showed up. hello, remember yeardley’s HS culture pressures?
my kid’s HS lax team were 100% drunks (but for her) plannng weekend
shots on the playing field. It’s the Md culture. He can’t be blamed because he showed
up to control the son’s scene.
@Blink. that is likely where the feudale-frank friendship
will go, most likely affecting the psu-3′s cases.
given her office supervisors’ opposition, imo
kane has always needed an independent
spec prosecutor to reveal whatever.
http://mobile.philly.com/beta?wss=/philly/hp/news_update/&id=359817921
the devil is in Fina’s details.
How could he have gone unchecked & unsupervised for so long?
I hope he gets the same theft of services (misuse of govt computers & time
for personal benefit) prosecutuon & sentence DeWeese did. Must’ve falled him to be supervised by a himan with breasts. Note list of govt hearing attendees above–some on Fina’s personal porn govt-time e-list.
All sorts of problems with the Ganster appointment:
A. He is not licensed to practice in PA. It is not a technicality, since the court may look at his record (he was censured by MD Supreme Court).
B. There are question on if Kane is practicing law by appointing a special prosecutor.
C. There are money issues. Kane may normally not have the authority to move appropriated funds around.
I would quibble with the “ability to make legal decisions v policy- jus sayin.
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http://mobile.philly.com/beta?wss=/philly/news&id=360648781&
Email buds of eakin were local prosecutors & judges.
I doubt he limited himself to dauphine & cumberland cties.
Maybe SPM’s housecleaning of certain male ADA’s had some private
merit based on more than a fondness for marijuana.
@JJ PA. my only agreement is contract approval challenges–and that is not wholly financial.
Gansler’s proud of the censure; reading his explanation, he should be. And it has no impact on his practice of law.
Her suspension by the Supreme Court of PA pretrial & litigation outcome is ridiculous & political.
Who else at the top of the OAG would appoint a special prosecutor to in effect investigate themselves?
No one. This situation cries for an out-of-state special AG. The current Deputy AGs are part of the cover-up problem imo. She was elected–let the House impeach her, & Senate conduct the trial. or replace her in 3 years using the political process, because removal from office by the Senate would not be successful before a criminal conviction occurs.
OT
btw Gansler only lost the Gov election in 2014 because both Martin O’Malley & his wife were such a..holes
in office. Even I voted Republican there. Of course all of my voting ilk got
buyers remorse during the new Gov’s inaugural speech whose shock value iirc made the press.
@Rose, Kane could have delegated her legal abilities prior to being suspended; she had 30 days. The suspension was unanimous and was based on her being charged.
I’d like to see the day when any reputable State bar suspends any attorney merely on a “charge” by a local DA.
It takes a real State Bar investigation with due process–ability to confront one’s accusers–an investigation which is separate & independent from that “charge.”
To whom would she delegate?
Coverup Beemer?
what an opportunist. an “independent authoritative” GJ witness who opined to lay nurors from his DA role (undoubtedly disclosed to them) to help secure an indictment of Kane, has been followed closely by challenging her for the job in a near-term primary. Another peek at motivations behind the veils over ambitious attorneys. Too bad Parks Miller is too smeared by the Centre Cty Comm Creeps to throw her hat in the ring.
http://mobile.philly.com/news/?wss=/philly/news&id=361297471&
http://newslanc.com/2015/12/09/keisling-palace-coup-what-the-kathleen-kane-prosecution-is-really-about/
http://www.politicspa.com/exclusive-zappala-to-run-for-attorney-general/71251/
posted for 2 comments by Henry Tate @ 5:14 & 2:21 12/9
What the effing eff?
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the bldg owner Fina elected not to prosecute in 2013 whilst convicting the 2 low-level blacks.
http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/porn-king-richard-basciano-survived-rudy-giuliani-plans-risk-article-1.319185
Seth can foia Gansler’s final report in 8 mos since Seth is incapble of an independent investigation:
http://mobile.philly.com/news/politics/?wss=/philly/news/politics&id=361646961&
Fina was in a position to be subject to blackmail which may have impacted him wrt
Basciano, and to Sandusky in the incidents and rumors prior to final charge .
I wonder the the mob had something to blackmail Corbett on as well?
keeps her self-destruct button on Red
http://mobile.philly.com/news/?wss=/philly/news&id=362027311&
She’s never worked in a complex govt bureaucracy before….
reminds me of former US Atty Amanda Marshall in oregon.
These female attys go thru confirmation or election &
hit the ground screwing up. Demonstrates the need for
one good male mentor previously in the job position. By
comparison, with a host arrayed against her, Parks Miller is
doing well, and has the Mentor.
It really is difficult to imagine how many are left in the clown car.
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Drueker is left.
Driver is gone.
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Corman is slipping.
He coukd’ve played this Kane picadillo big time,
& perhaps didn’t due to an attack of
Sandusky righteousness (which got her
elected so he’s not going to cross that electorate line).
Noonan Et Al v Kane Et Al Complaint on Scribd.
https://www.scribd.com/book/289501241
p17 Fina makes the case against his own complaint:
–Case is about who got elected as AG.
he didn’t like the political campaign process, nor the result.
—He describes himself, Constanzo Feathers and Noonan as a tight team (and we all shared the same eporn & ehatespeech during the trial and after the election, while I was firing off letters to the supervisory GJ Judge to boot). Was that old friend Feudale? or Carpenter? Someone examine his email.
The Supervising GJ Judge (SGJJ) responded to my multiple written pleas & saved our bacon with wicked Kane’s internal Sandusky investigation.
–$&XX$& Spanier etal have NOT come to trial and it’s all HER fault (never mind defendant’s motions).
—SgJJ protected me from the possibility of a perjury accusation by making my interviews with Moulton subject to several protocols, ie video recording. Where SGJJ got the the idea I wanted to be video recorded & the right to preread & rebut Moulton’s report, idk. Maybe SGJJ actually reads my emails.
—paragr 81.
I am a Superhero. Bring my cape.
–paragr 87
I was personally responsible for each and every thing that scumbag Ali did to walk away from all his unrelated charges & keep his big pot of dough. But my old efriends Sheetz & Noonan had my back.
page 21, 22, etc
–Fina clarifies, in great detail, this suit is all about defending his work product entrapment prosecutions he carried over to Seth William’s shop.
–page 22. Inferentially speaking, Fina, after Ali’s arrest, directed Morrow, & likely instructed Morrow to join Kane’s campaign to create a conflict of interest. Machiavelli has competition.
and so it goes. Morrow has a conflict of interest wrt Kane, as he is clearly (to me) directed by Fina, so his shopping GJ docs to press, allegedly for Kane, has a reasonable doubt hole as to who his master really was.
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Oh how I love paragr 97, p 23.
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MachiaFina’s volunteer plant Morrow saves the day. Scumbag’s agreement to skate for hire survives.
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I stopped reading at p24. If there’s something more enlightening than Fina is trying to save his current ADA job, and sees the world through internicene political warfare lens, with a high dose of paranoia, let me know.
Fina could have cooperated with his new (politically detested) AG, given his Moulton interview & been whitewashed (Moulton, would not spring open a can of worms imo), dumped scumbag Ali, & still be litigating for the State, outlasting elected Kaine.
Imo this guy has some personality disorder consistent with getting off by sending e-porn to men.
what a plea Fina dished to avert an examination of his tactics.
He does not want his man Ali on the stand in trial with any of these defendants.
No contest to 1 misdemeanor, no financial payback, expungement in 6 montgs.
Who would turn that down to pay legal fees to defend?
http://mobile.philly.com/news/?wss=/philly/hp/news_update/&id=362741641
Bishop was 82 years old and well established in Philia. She would generate a lot of sympathy. So far Williams is 5 for 6, with one pending.
5 for 6 but riding on the minimalist pleas train.
any dumb f..k would sign on to the pleas Fina
proferred whether or not they were guilty if only to
save on defense litigation rep.
Imo Fina is a crim litigation conviction whore
(any ol plea will do, but gosh no trial please).
http://www.pennlive.com/news/2015/12/ag_kathleen_kanes_office_hands.html
god bless likely crazy, or likely dumb, citizen Kane.
even the crazy or venal see clearly on some things
Honestly Rose- you have that drill bit I don’t- so I count on it for some of these complex issues. I now live in this state, and will not take a client within 15 mi of Centre Cty.
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I’d like to see a PA AG do more than play with porn.
If she recruits the FBI and undoes decades of apparent Turnpike Commission
corruption, then I’ll turn fan.
Last nite in Ohio before snow fell I saw platoons of large modern salt trucks in military quality organization on the Ohio Turnpike, but in the real serious ice storm from the border to Breezewood, with many accidents, 100 mi of which was on solid ice with everyone at 20 mph, flashers on, the State had only one very old decripit looking snow plow (useless on ice) no salt. One 35 mi stretch had no shoukders either side for the same non-constructing construction tgat was there a year ago. Guard rails in mtns aren’t even as high as a knee. Some group has looted a lot of $ for decades. Why isn’t she crusading against real systemic corruption in the State? (though I have no doubt her housecleaning is useful.)
I am glad if she is removed a hard drive of all potential wmail evidence of anything (a fishing pond) is in outside hands. If ordered by acting ag Beemer to return it, Gansler might just send a clone to the fbi, public corruption unit, on the way to fedex.
interesting suit against Garrett & SPM
https://m.facebook.com/crisisinourcourthouse/
My opinion has been Garrett was a youthful reporter who often
didn’t vet his facts. Imo suit allegations against paper may have merit.
SPM’s problem is she republished an article she knew was erroneous
due to her official position. By excluding objective exculpatory evidence in the hands of police, she reminds
me of Frink…winning at all costs.
http://triblive.com/mobile/9314678-96/turnpike-legal-paid
Oh, I see. Been there, done that. Under public corruption crusaderFina before he left the office.
http://triblive.com/mobile/6631263-96/attorney-brandstetter-office
apparently in 2012 Fina felt entrapping $1500 bribeable legislators (I bet there were legislators who were on the take for far higher sums over the years) was a work product far exceeding putting full office resources behind the criminal prosecution of Turnpike Commissioners’ pecadillos, which coukd have been WAY more lucrative to the State but would not have the same media splash/cachet and might have offended some politicians & mob members.
But he said nice words about the lone female prosecutor smuck falling on her swords. Wonder hiw he described her T..s in private emails?
Someone needs to scrub all Fina’s prosecutions back to his day 1 in the office & see if he has a history of letting big fish skate whike he plucks & pleads out distracting (of the public, in the press) low hanging fruit. I suspect Angelasink is missing the real story.
ps I dabble in PA. Stay here for Gricar & Sandusky developments.
JJinPhila is the incisive PA expert to me.
and Steve.
Fina was one of the “Computergate” prosecutors, so his record is good on prior cases. They might have been planning to expand it prior Kane’s involvement.
The e-mails (for Kane Eakin and Granahan) were adult, included some silly racial jokes (for Ellen), but were not too bad. I really do not agree that anyone should be fired. I think, however, this should have been handled internally, by human relations.
iirc It was handled internally by HR, and a large no of employees were disciplined with a gradation of punishments ie a 3 day suspension. For some reason the number disciplined escapes me, but there was a goodsized number. If the 3 had not otherwise left, it is possible they too would have had private short term discipline from HR and no Bar report made like the others
2 characterologically consistent men
https://mobile.twitter.com/PSUEngineerx2/status/678660952724791296
wondering who their political or business/donor big bucks
sponsor(s) were to their SC appointments?
The e-mails should never have been released. Kane should never have been having pressers about them.
http://www.pennlive.com/news/2015/12/michael_eakin_not_suspended.html
Eakin had 2 arguments:
1. it’s before & after behavior & I’ve stopped. (No it revealed character and bias)
2. “There’s not a judge alive, or a man alive, who hasn’t looked at pornography or laughed at off-color jokes,” he said.” Really?
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his emails go to his jurisprudence.
thank goodness he’s the dissent:
https://mobile.twitter.com/PSUEngineerx2/status/678660952724791296
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The emails were never intended to be released but were private boy chat is an Eakin argument.
my own opinion is they are on State servers sent during work hours and should have been RTKable. Eakin’s a fool.
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/3b886d816fe44ca38a385ef8ced0720b/PA–Supreme-Court-Justice-Emails
“Perhaps my demeanor is one of the boys,” he said. “But what I sent was to people who were also one of the boys. It was in the locker room. I allowed, I created something that could be released. Shame on me and it won’t happen again.”
http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2013-11-how-locker-room-behavior-hurts-us-all
“In arenas dominated by white men, we’ve come to expect lewdness, sexual objectification, and unprofessionalism to be the norm. We even give it an affectionate, harmless sounding label: “locker room behavior.” As if there should be any space, private or public, that allows for the unapologetic demeaning or abuse of any oppressed group or marginalized person.”
I couldn’t agree more.
Steve- you are a welcome contributor here and I should prolly apologize in advance for the length and veracity of my response. (disclosure: as an OBSERVER only, I attended part of Judge Eakins testimony yesterday). My opinion is my own with no professional ties to his judiciary complaint/process.
Is he for real? His emails are part of an effort to oust the Attorney General of the State of PA – at least one I am aware of went to a staffer that she fired. To equate a Judge’s chambers and subsequent activity with other sworn officers of the court who in some cases USE PORNO ELECTRONIC EVIDENCE AS PROSECUTION WITNESS EXHIBITS and also sometimes to show mitigation of guilt- WHY THE EFF should a supreme court justice get a pass when it is his job to uphold the constitution under the PA supreme court? In my view- positions of public trust ENHANCE THAT STANDARD!
You have got to be KIDDING ME he is “sorry they were made public”?? YOU HOLD A PUBLIC OFFICE USING GOVT servers and outside of a very slim few exceptions under PA FOIA law- we GET TO KNOW the content and circulation of your email activity utilized on our dime, and our time. Don’t stop me there- has anyone taken the time to review if the content of the threads in general of such emails has compromised a criminal prosecution or other active litigation at the time? Under PA Bar ethics and responsibilities does it rise to impropriety? Me thinks this is exactly what will come out of Kane’s appointment of the special prosecutor to evaluate all of the emails in question.
To wit: In one email, Baxter said he could not attend a holiday party of Eakin’s and asked the justice to “slap” two male colleagues on the ass for him.
“And, well, Janey’s too and let me know how it was,” Baxter wrote of Thrush. “Maybe next year we won’t have the conflict and I can slap hers for myself.”
Eakin replied: “Will do,” according to the complaint.
To state that (sic) this is tantamount to a minor blemish on an otherwise pristine record makes me gag. Let me say emphatically that this process is not to be used as his personal Tarn-X. When this behavior colors the most sacrosanct of benches in the State it does not wash off, SIR. To appeal to some dark-wood stained, emerald green carpeted BS excuse about misogynistic tendencies being accepted and rampant with male AND female legal professionals as is inappropriate behavior in a locker room among male athletes is absurd.
Dear Honorable J. Michael Eakin- apparently nobody has informed you: you are not wearing a robe, and apparently, it is quite cold. You had the oppty to accept your suspension with dignity to the court and you furthered your embarrassment of it yesterday.
Lastly- our ethics rules apply to you- you are not sovereign in that regard.
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@Blink. imo his wife is behind his fight to hang on.
Yes, he does remind me of the Wizard of Oz.
good to see you Steve.
OT about how such govt office environments affect
office admins & secretaries (the powerless by definition).
I did four 3-month temporary secretary jobs for federal regional offices
between BA & grad school to earn $ for sane. irs, dhs (just after Cap the Knife as ended to his throne, ?, and the newly created OEO. The regional OEO had an old line liberal jewish male as director and a platoon of line level
(in retrospect, I knew nothing then & respected every professional) crazies. There was the Comanche Indian from Oklahoma with braids who spent all his workday walking the downtown streets alone because it was not part of his culture to be cooped up in an office. Then there was the black male I’m happy to name now, Love Johnson, who made it a point to stop by my desk to do what is now called twerking to music only he could hear. (I was then a sweet ( and gorgeous) Christian girl who had never danced.) He knew my BA was in Theology. He was as full of himself as Eakin & Baxter.
My big worry with him was he got constant calls from his wife as well as his mistress in Washington DC. I had to keep them straight, put them both right thru, or cover up for his whereabouts. One day the office dir came out to find me bawling at my desk. I just couldn’t take covering up for Love and watching him twerk in front of me any more. But I never told Mr R why I cried or who sparked it. A good office employee keeps her mouth shut & pretends it is nothing.
And I was poor and needed the money.
14. cute.
Eakin submitted his portfolio of 20 yrs of written opinions to prove his freedom from bias.
Per curiam opinion states no one has charged him of bias wrt his work product…yet.
http://www.pacourts.us/assets/files/setting-4647/file-4878.pdf?cb=8a49ac
God help him if he had anything for Masorti et al fodder- he’s toast.
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@Blink. don’t forget Eakin’s wife’s defense bar associates in the Counties who refer clients to her.
Here she is defending alleged sex assault on a minor.
https://www.ccpa.net/DocumentCenter/Home/View/20663
In fact who referred what trial business to her, arguably by virtue of husband’s position, ought to be
a big part of some entity’s investigation, suggesting as well why she’s pushed him to hang on in office, as much
mire, involving her, may come to light.
You know Eakin is an associate or partner in Judge Eakin’s lawyer’s firm, right?
I have to say- I wonder if anyone has ever reviewed her page for ABA compliance? There is certainly enough info on her “accomplishments” to figure out who those clients are which of course is privileged and work product. Big no no. Very loose abstract appearing very close to advertising outcome, imo. http://costopoulos.com/heidi-f-eakin/3511826
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probably why his followon Counsel, after her, remained inhouse with her boss.
Another sexual abuse of children defense case for her
https://www.ccpa.net/DocumentCenter/View/18371
what else was going on in Cumberland Cty?
I thot Luzerne was cash for kids.
What corruption is Cumberland known for?
I wondered who the M Sullivan was who kept joined & unjoined and rejoined Masorti’s letterhead. Seems she’s hus wife. They appear together in a 2001 Friends of J Eakin donation. Puts Masorti politically in the Dershem/Exarchos wing.
OMG I was kidding. Who is the Republic and Who is The First Order? (cheap star wars 7 plug- but take your kids and grands if they are into it- was brilliant)
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@Blink. She repped him to this
phase, then passed him on to her boss
got it. Must be a hefty waiver, lol.
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Blink, no apologies necessary. I think I am misunderstanding. I do agree with you in this matter, perhaps I didn’t convey it well. I was attempting to point out how he is trying to justify his actions and linked an article to support my position against it(locker room behavior). It hits very close to the excuses given as to why no one had a problem when JS was ignored in the PSU locker room with the boys.
Nope, we concur Steve.
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Rose, http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?293068-PA-Video-Taped-Rape-of-6-Year-Old-Boy-Cumberland-County-2015 is the latest.
David Freed, son in law to Leroy Zimmerman, is the DA.
actually, I was more thinking Cantorna & big PI verdicts the supremes saved.
there was one Castille & Mccaffery heard but “left” before the vote.
@Blink, the OOR determined that these e-mails are NOT subject to Right To Know requests. There was no reason to think that they would ever be public.
Banter, between the “old boys,” including Ellen Granahan Goffer, is to be expected. Most of these e-mails should never have been made public. If Kane thought Eakin’s e-mails were inappropriate, she should have contacted the JCD or the Chief Justice, privately. Likewise, instead of spreading the OAG across the Internet, they should have been handled by human relations, internally.
I get that we are discussing statutory v opinion, but transparency should be the goal.
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