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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No dispute with your opinion JJinPhila. My analysis is that
Eakin’s very use of the nom de plume John Smith indicates he knew his banter amongst
his friends & colleagues was inappropriate. Were I his AA or secretary and IN THE 21st CENTURY
he privately bantered with “professionals” about my tush and tits, and HR found out,
I would hope he’d be fired just before a just hanging by his B…s.
http://m.thelegalintelligencer.com/module/alm/app/pa.do#!/article/1757930166
Which one of the 3 deputies under Beemer, who testified in the
Senate against the AG’s administrative powers, is both sitting
on an unsigned contract, and dishing to the press it is unsigned?
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2015/10/ira_task_rap_of_child.html#incart_river_home
unimagineable level of depravity.
going unchecked but for some unit in the Federal gov’t. Chugging on apparently despite Sequester
budget cuts.
unfortunately the PA Republican House is unlikely to fund such a specialized unit in its own OAG.
Maybe the whole Kane thing in the Legislature is an excuse to defund criminal prosecutions at the State level.
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I noticed someone in the House has seized the day wrt budget from Corman.
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So how is Freed as a prosecutor, Steve?
Steve. thanks for the education. Freed’s a DA since 2006.
I see he was the alternative to Kane.
Bet Zimmerman was most unhappy with election outcome.
https://m.facebook.com/FriendsofDaveFreed/
How meaningful Freed ran vs
someone who promised to investigate the Sandusky prosecution history.
if she stays in office, maybe more is to come on that Sandusky
prosecution process now that her 4 underlings have taken positions
on her other investigation to the investigation’s detriment.
not so long ago, humble apt-dweller Simon had to walk away from an appeal because he lacked funds for further litigation.
I see he promises a new Donate page.
https://m.facebook.com/corruptda/
Has he a day job?
He’s going to a private e-group
http://www.corruptparksmiller.com/Subscribe.php
Thank goodness for subpoena power.
nothing will be private.
I’d forgotten about Kistler being stopped in his SC ascension tracks due to his
forwarding a racially insensitive email.
http://mobile.philly.com/news/politics/?wss=/philly/news/politics&id=292944991&
Maybe his fellow Republican Eakin was the original sender? or Fina?
Somebody audit Kistler’s email history….
@Blink “I get that we are discussing statutory v opinion, but transparency should be the goal.”
No, and it might might mark a divergence of opinion.
None of these e-mails had anything to do any function of government. They are NOT subject to RTK requests. They fall into sphere of private (though not privileged) communication. They should have been treated as such, and not released to the press.
It would be like you sending me an e-mail and me publishing it on another website.
If Kane felt that her staffers were acting inappropriately, she should have, and did in most cases, discipline them. If she felt that Eakin’s e-mails were inappropriate, she should have reported them to Judicial Conduct Board and/or the Chief Justice. Kane decided that the press should have them first. That was her decision.
We, as citizens, do not need to know if Obama is making an off color joke, if Rendell is commenting on a woman’s derriere, or if Eakin is behaving like he’s in a locker room.
maybe I think differently JJinPhila because I have read & sent private email on a govt computer, and today I do so to a spouse, airing private matters, to his private eaddress Tho I know full well he will open & answer at work. Therefore, my attitude has always been, damn the consequences, nothing is or even should be private that he reads or sends
at work, not from his govt eaddress, take yr lumps if it’s misused .
Eakin et al’s downfall was the content, not the act, of their written speech on govt servers written during working hours.
The content was and is relevent to their employment, profession, prosecutions, investigations, and adjudicating.
In a functional work environment, the JCB and Chief Justice would be proper. But that hadn’t worked to date so what’s left but the press. I’m waiting for Wm Carpenter to fall.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pornographic-email-scandal-ripples-through-pennsylvania-politics/2015/12/26/fc411a76-a374-11e5-b53d-972e2751f433_story.html
one of the litigation decisions Kane cannot make.
So this one was by Beemer & maybe the other 3 white guys of a certain age?
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/judge-restates-opinion-on-alleged-sandusky-victim-in-light-of-oag-appeal,1466438/
@Rose, the reason Eakin had, and as far as I know still has, a private account was to handle personal business. He has stated that he uses the same account to pay his electric bills.
I will freely admit to having several separate e-mail accounts (and shell addresses)that I use for different purposes (none of which involve porn).
Kane never tried to go to either JCB or approached the Chief Justice regarding Eakin. She chose to try this by press release.
JJ- I don’t disagree that personal v professional separations for emails that do not infringe upon the rules of the servers of the sender or sendee as it were- BUT- we are talking about a public official using an alias on a private email account, ( has it been established if that email(s) were sent during the scope of the Judge’s work day?) to an account of ANOTHER public official(s) on a GOVT server/servers. So in my view- this becomes fair game for public interest. Having worked in the fortune 50 tech sector years ago- I can tell you that EVERY MAJOR corporation with any requirements for email or electronic communication archive is very clear and unambiguous to it’s employees that any and all ecommunications sent from any “Co. device or peripheral” is subject to review, monitoring, disciplinary action same employee is bound by via it’s email policy indicating same. When we are talking about Judge’s and sworn officers of the court where it has potential to show bias/slant/ex parte communications and every other permutation thereof in a court setting- which can be tantamount to eDiscovery potentially- I would offer Kane was not successful in appointing a special prosecutor because it was lost on anyone that these emails are likely going to rise to further allegations over the ethical variety.
Do we know what agreements are in place individually re using Govt email servers for personal communications? I have to believe there is contracted language in that regard.
As far as Kane is concerned, I await the totality of evidence in the case against her but it does occur to me that this chess move of clearing the board and starting with the Ruy Lopez is intentional.
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I believe there is an issue in Cumberland County with them confiscating property of arrested individuals. The property is kept and charges are never filed, or something like this.
Oy.
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http://www.post-gazette.com/attachment/2014/10/17/J-Michael-Eakin-s-statement-and-letter-to-Judicial-Conduct-Board.pdf
“(I opened a “John Smith” account years ago SPECIFICALLY TO PRECLUDE IDENTIFICATION OF THE COURT OR MY POSITION ON ALL PERSONAL MATTERS, from sales confirmations to my electric bill.)”
Spell checker is your friend
Certainly trying to hide his activities, including but not limited to, paying electric bills, which would probably be done on a secure server anyway directly to the company.
For whomever chooses to read that- please keep in mind that was written by a Supreme Court Justice to his own Judiciary advisory committee. I am resisting the urge (for now ) to write a SNL-ish parody it is so embarrassing. ( Second disclosure: saw part of His Honors testimony) For those unaware, Eakin is referring to former Justice McCaffrey who RETIRED amidst his suspension and the scandal.
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http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2015/10/friends_and_colleagues_hate_mi.html
Haven’t fully read & digested this yet, but apparently his disrespectful speech about women
was evident in public settings dating back to 1990, Dems or not. Lady lawyers have often seen
seedy little men, usually inebriate-looking, trying to entertain while presenting a ceu course
in a rural part of the State, but his comment pushes the envelope.
I understand electric bills. The electric company has my son’s name & sweeps his bank acct; any ol email
can be used–his goes to me. Daughter has 3 accts–work, regular, ‘ hide from mama. All have her own name
incorporated. I suspect he started diverting his bills as a consequence of all those divorces this article cites.
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JJinPhil, when that JCB investigation started, finally, didn’t Eakin have a former campaign manager in the drivers’ seat until the press revealed that scandal? Not that the PA press is worth much imo. Seems pretty political.
wait a minute. Steve’s url, Eakins Oct 2014 letter to the JCB, indicates McCaffery first released John Smith’s intemperate emails, to govt eaddresses of govt employees, to the press over a year ago. I note when Eakin
“tattled” McCaffery’s rise fall or rise together threat–private speech, McCaffery thought–to the JCB he did not attach the Smith emails the press had received as evidence. A good prosecutor knows the value of evidence that woukd make McCaffery’s threat a real threat.
http://www.post-gazette.com/attachment/2014/10/17/J-Michael-Eakin-s-statement-and-letter-to-Judicial-Conduct-Board.pdf
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Eakin is reminding me of the merry & entertaining Fed legislator who jumped in the Tidal Basin with Fannie Fox.
Imo he’d have been better suited to the US Congress (House).
A decade plus ago Vanity Fair was my go to for reliable, factual, detailed political chatter. It’s not been the same in 5-7 years, idk why. I never buy it now. But VF is opining on Kane.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/12/pennsylvania-porngate-kathleen-kane-email-scandal
Before considering a read, I looked the “journalist” up. VF’s new “digital editor” who just left the same job at msnbc Nov 20.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ben_landy
I doubt in the last month he’s done any realup clise and personal interviews in PA and verified info with source confirmations.
He just wrote on the private space shot too. And we likely know his political point of view. Imo “digital publishing” is ruining primary source journalism. So, I pass.
reading the Intros, I thought Keisling was quite far afield to his detriment,
comparing Kane’s removal to Holocaust eugenics. But I see he is a very fine historian.
http://www.yardbird.com/In_the_field_of_the_Lord_PA_senate_provision_tied_to_eugenics_and_Holocaust.htm
Sadly, imo Wolf and his manor domos will digest none of this.
Imo he is likely to trade signing off on Kane for other political goals (budget, taxes, ed funding etc)
forget phone spell check (which I hate)
Wolf’s major domos.
whatever the 1990 Eakin divorces history was, he’s had Heidi for 35+ years.
http://lancasteronline.com/features/order-in-the-kitchen-first-assistant-district-attorney-heidi-eakin/article_78ae3ccf-a48d-58f1-b9b6-a8bc86c3d444.html
So he’s got the nom de plume for their electric bill.
That’s it -starting a cooking blog, lol.
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by now I REALLY DO NOT LIKE Williams.
http://6abc.com/news/da-seeks-rehearing-of-monsignor-lynns-case/1138248/
Why a cheap win when a fair win can be earned?
imo Williams coukd’ve convicted Lynn fairly.
The appellate Court was quite correct a large volume of prior bad acts before Lynn’s time in the local diocese (or whatever Catholics call it) unfairly prejudiced the trial against Lynn.
Williams did not prosecute “the church” although he could have, andinvited the Pope to the defendanf’s box. Lynn was on trial. His deeds were at issue. Imo Williams could have gotten the same conviction without gratuitously inflaming the jury.
Steve refers to
http://www.aclupa.org/news/2015/12/14/cumberland-county-law-enforcement-seizes-property-pennsylvan
http://www.aclupa.org/files/2114/5010/9994/CumberlandCounty_Forfeiture_Report-Final.pdf
if Cantorna & Masorti want to crimp the DA’s budget, their foias could fly on Centre Cty civil forfeitures, as apparently with current laws anything goes.
The Beemer, with office allies, asserted himself last week:
http://www.pennlive.com/news/2015/12/ags_office_asks_special_prosec.html
delightful Gansler will work without pay until the investigation is complete and the
raw data relating to this turbulant period is in the archieves. That latter will benefit all concerned
about the Sandusky prosecution process & quality. If Beemer thinks Gansler will screw up legally,
he’s wrong.
Judge assigned to Kane’s trial ducks
(or succumbed to political pressure, or in PA I’m willing to believe some material quid pro quo, or ask who has what leverage over him):
http://www.pottsmerc.com/general-news/20160104/new-judge-assigned-to-kane-perjury-trial-in-montgomery-county
“determined that “increasing responsibilities” as president judge and “continued obligations” as supervising judge of the county’s Veterans’ Court, “will prevent him from devoting sufficient time…”
so he reassigned to none other than:
Demchick-Alloy. The only legal career of this flagship Republican woman was as a pitbull prosecutor in MoCty.
So, JJ, did she and Steele overlap?
http://www.mainlinemedianews.com/articles/2009/11/04/main_line_times/news/doc4af1abc4218e3662267181.txt
For me, this Judge shuffle, and who got the pot (and will get the publicity), renders the entire trial moot. Declare a guilty verdict now.
Was Ferman once her supervisor?
@Rose. Steele started in 1995, and Demchick-Alloy in 1994. They were both with the office until she left in 2004, but the office looks big, so it is possible they had minimal interactions.
It looks like Ferman was head of the trial division from about 2000 and Demchick-Alloy was “captain” of some of the trial team, so she probably did some supervision of Demchick-Alloy.
That said, it far from unusual. David Grine, the former Centre County Judge, was actually the the DA who first hired Ray Gricar. The outgoing judge, Bradley Lunsford, was a former ADA under Gricar, and was with Goodall’s law firm, which was Gricar’s private attorney.
The bios of Ferman and Alloy are here:
http://www.campaignsitebuilder.com/templates/displayfiles/tmpl154.asp?SiteID=2469&PageID=45930&Trial
http://www.camcinc.org/bios/ferman.html (early one, prior to her becoming DA)
@JJinPhila. Thank you for detailed, on point info.
May be a small County in Centre, but isn’t this Montgomery?
My question is not why doesn’t she recuse (imo, should) but WHO persuaded the trial Judge to
reassign to her from himself in a punt, with made up overburdened pablum, and to place kick to her? when there were alternatives.
anyone else note yeoman Boyde was not present in the CC minutes video when the Commissioners signed the tide-over financial note? Is he gone?
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CrisisinourCourthouse (Rob? Masorti? Bernie? as Admin) now merely reposts the output on Simon’s myriad pages (corrupt da, pfur, & a 3rd focused on SPM, I forget name). More Simon anti SPM litigation as well. Tho he is really targeting the role and powers of any PA DA. Since CCty Commissioners signed a proclamation in honor of Nat’l Stalking Month, the 3 men might want to put some teeth in the Proclamation and ask (as a County) the State Police investigate Simon for possible criminal stalking violations wrt SPM.
nice satire:
http://truthinjustice.org/nifonging.htm
Imo Seth Williams has found “The Case” to rise to higher office in the case(s) against Kane, as orchestrated by his Supervisees, who in turn depend on his loyalty to them to retain their jobs. The Case disarms and permanently sidelines any future electoral challenge to him for higher office from an initially highly successfiul AG. Not only that, another County gets to pay for the litigation while Williams gets all the camera time he wants.
hope Weaver finds someone to relitigate her case pro bono:
http://mobile.philly.com/beta?wss=/philly/news&id=364717921
But for Eakin and McCaffery, the ruling would have been 4-3, as it should have been.
A legislature can’t give a small business exception to what is at heart a Constitutional
rights issue. The thing is, her fact pattern consisted of exactly the types of work site
behaviors the 2 Justices were bragging about in writing. If they’d recused on Weaver, no problem.
Boyde lost out.
btw this is Colorado.
http://www.garfield-county.com/administration/index.aspx
thought he retired in 2010.
must have some financial need.
Can’t see him getting a County mgmt position after contributing to the CC mess in
2013 ff. He couldn’t find the word “no” nor recommend rfping a new soliciter contract.
When will the new Commissioner officeholders
give Glantz his performance review?
yes, Boyde is gone.
http://centrecountypa.gov/index.aspx?NID=163
Ebell was the presenter at the Jan CCC mtg.
next up, Glantz.
O/T: Avery http://blinkoncrime.com/2016/01/11/netflix-making-a-murderer-epic-bingeblast-netertainment-or-visionary-expose/
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@Rose. Boyd is no longer on the director and the incumbent is listed as acting. He is no longer there, though I don’t know the cons=dition of his departure.
RE: The Case. Williams would not be making to many political points by charging 4 long term Democratic Representatives who happen to be black. I think that his staff convinced him that it was a strong case, and, so far, it is.
He also had a lot of blow back for retaining Fina, et al. Most of that was neutralized by Ellen’s (and Katy’s) e-mail.
@Rose In terms of prosecutors, many move on to become judges. The former CJ of the PA Supreme Court, Ron Castille, was the former DA of Philadelphia; Saylor, the current CJ was a prosecutor in Somerset County and was the first deputy AG of the state for 4 years. Five of seven current members were prosecutors. This is not unusual, even at the state level.
actually in my opinion prosecuting 4 Dem blacks appeals mightily to those segments of the State Williams will need not to scare off by the color of his skin when running for Statewide higher office….the Pennsylvanians who kept electing Rick Santorum, in his words, Blue Collar Conservatives and Patriot Voices. Imo he wants to live in Georgetown again.
Well Glantz’ performance review
couldn’t be worse than one of his
first in the 90s I saw online.
Commissioners chastised him then.
.”The idea “that the temporary suspension of Ms. Kane’s law licenses creates an unprovided-for doomsday scenario … that effectively incapacitates the entire office from doing anything in any pending criminal case, simply is nonsensical,” he wrote.”
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2016/01/11/Armstrong-County-judge-rules-AG-office-has-authority-to-continue-trying-cases/stories/201601110116
Who first proposed this doomsday scenario?
iirc The Beemer
@Rose. Obama won the state, twice.
Obama won the State twice kinda like Iowans for Bernie has enthusiasm.
I saw an awful lot of minorities at the final mega rally for Obama
in a rural stadium in VA the night before Term 1 election day (iirc date correctly).
Minorities got out for Obama1. Blacks in PA will not do that for Seth for Senator.
He will need Blue Collar Conservatives. Lockerroom humor OK, fits that subculture.
Prosecuting Legislators, any Legislator, equal a bonus.
http://centrecountypa.gov/index.aspx?NID=163
During this week’s CC Commissioners mtg, Pipes tasked a “Betsey” with drafting legal
language. Sure enough, there’s a new Solicitor in the County who actually attends the
Comm meeting. Wonder the date of Glantz’ contract expiration? Another change is
discussion occurs, then items are added for a vote the following week. An altogether
more professional Comm’s operation.
http://www.babstcalland.com/Attorney-Bio.aspx?Name=Elizabeth-A-Dupuis
She’s with a Pittsburgh firm that actually has a municipal law Dept,
and she has experience asSolicitor in 2 Townships.
One look at her Centre Cty volunteer Boards, & I figure Higgins recommended her.
One supposes a PA budget will continue to
languish until Wolf cans Kane.
The Senate Committe Chair (the S…. last name) looked
on video from the hearing as tho he had
IQ, temperment, and expressive/receptove language issues.
a purported letter from Simon’s “attorney” to Castor-Miller
http://www.corruptparksmiller.com/docs/PFUR%20Attorney%20Rossi%20to%20Castor%201-13-15.pdf
reminds me one should never engage anyone with Borderline PD features.
He will consume you if you engage.
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I hope Miller – Castor focus on the true heart of the matter:
Shutt, Glantz-Cantorna, Exarchos, Ruest. I’d leave off Dershem so as not
to appear political. Get the crux. Ignore totally the one-man PFUR.
Dang. I still say I just dont this generally.
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@Rose, I think that the solicitor might be an “at will” employee. The County Solicitor is now Elizabeth Dupuis.
Last year, minus six days, I think it was Cantorna that predicted that SPM would resign within a week. Now his associate is no longer the solicitor, and those supporting him were tossed by the electorate.
@Rose, The attorney does a lot of that stuff. You might read these, especially the last several paragraphs. http://lancasteronline.com/news/local-lawyer-successfully-argues-case-against-health-care-law/article_2ce50017-3e81-5460-bd99-d889fb1a1f55.html
http://www.collegetownship.govoffice.com/vertical/sites/%7B6F77EE0A-5147-4D68-88D3-B3066A5A57B4%7D/uploads/%7B2F8C3E6D-DCA1-4910-8693-B27E4428D535%7D.PDF
Not Centre County, but College Township with Exarchos, 1999.
Solicitor has a year to year contract (Jan 1-Dec 31) up for renewal yearly.
Township renewed for a year with a writing to Glantz:
show up at meetings;
be more timely & concise with responses.
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Some contact employees never learn, despite over a decade at Chris’ side.
contRact
professional appearing PA County RFP for Solicitor.
http://www.co.berks.pa.us/Muni/Wyomissing/Documents/Solicitor%20REQUEST%20FOR%20PROPOSAL.pdf
seems Centre Cty got the same result from a locally bred gal
without the public formalities.