Penn State Sandusky cover-up: AD arrested, Paterno fired, dies; cover-up charged #8

[Dr.Fessel]

FANTASTIC NEWS!!

Federal authorities are conducting separate investigation involving Jerry Sandusky, Penn State, The Second Mile

Federal authorities are apparently conducting an investigation involving Penn State, Jerry Sandusky and his charity, The Second Mile, parallel to the case already being prosecuted by the state attorney general's office.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/02/federal_authorities_are_conduc.html

 

[StellarsJay]

Wandering off on Dr. Fessel's link I got to another Patriot News story
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/penn_state_under_review_by_us.html about the Clery Act. That article was superficial, but a commenter quoted the Act itself. I hope they set the dogs on Schultz.
Comment:
"The website of the Student Press Law Center (www.splc.org/wordpress/?p=2846), has an article discussing a possible violation of the Clery Act by PSU in 2002. The site includes the following quote taken from the Clery Act:

"It is widely — and incorrectly — believed that crimes do not 'count' for Clery Act purposes unless police get involved. In fact, federal regulations provide that a crime must be tallied in year-end statistics so long as it is reported to any “campus security authority,” and that definition is exceptionally broad. It includes:

'Anyone with responsibility for campus security who is not a police officer, such as the operator of the security gate at the campus entryway. Any person or agency to whom students are told they can report crimes in the institution’s own 'statement of campus security policy' (and this statement is a public document that any university must disclose on request). An official of an institution who has significant responsibility for student and campus activities, including, but not limited to, student housing, student discipline, and campus judicial proceedings.'

To be clear, even if a crime is handled through the campus disciplinary board rather than through criminal channels, its existence cannot be withheld from end-of-the-year Clery statistics. Because the objective of many campus disciplinary bodies is to avoid involving police and creating a public record that may damage a student’s reputation, crimes processed as disciplinary violations often evade proper counting and reporting."

 

[Velouria]

Egads! Another fruit cake jumps into the fray. This guy can't really be serious. He sure thinks he has an awful lot of power. Guess we'll see.

He sounds an awful lot like Fred Phelps (I refuse to refer to him as "Reverend") doesn't he?

Kook-a-doodle-dooooo! :chicken:

 

[Dr.Fessel]

The U.S. Attorney's Office is asking Penn State to divulge payments from university board members made to the university or to third parties on the university's behalf, a spokeswoman said Friday.


The subpoena, dated Feb. 2, also requested information from 1998 to present about Penn State, former president Graham Spanier, two top officials who are charged -- Tim Curley and Gary Schultz -- Jerry Sandusky, and his charity, The Second Mile.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/02/financial_records_of_penn_stat.html


Looks like they got word someone made some payoffs to kids families.

 

[Reader]

Report: Federal authorities seek Penn State records on Sandusky

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/na...ime-sanduskytre81n0yp-20120224,0,901371.story

Per Dr. Fessel's post above, here is another article that says they are also looking into Sandusky's travel records:

The request related to Sandusky's travel records, the source told the newspaper.

One of the alleged victims said in the grand jury report that he had been taken across state lines at least twice, to Tampa, Florida, and to San Antonio, Texas.

 

[Reader]

Gardening catalog sets off firestorm

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/02/24/1879485/nursery-catalog-sets-off-firestorm.html

The open-ended brand of satirical cartoons that Tony Avent puts on the cover of his garden nursery catalogs have earned him sporadic hate mail for more than a decade.

Now his new spring catalog is getting the Wake County plant whiz investigated by Penn State University officials for possible trademark infringement. The cover also has triggered an angry storm of emails, phone calls and Facebook postings by Penn State alumni.

They're still upset over the firing of their beloved football coach, Joe Paterno, last fall and by the child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.

Avent says the real problem is that they don't understand satire.
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The problem is mainly the drawing of Sandusky, who was charged in November with 40 counts of sexually abusing children. He is portrayed as the Cowardly Lion with a white and blue oval on his side that resembles the Penn State lion logo, and he is chasing three young boys. Nearby, Paterno appears as the Scarecrow, up on a stick and pointing in two directions as if clueless.

"It's offensive to show someone accused of child molestation chasing children while wearing the university logo," said Nancy Koebel of Fremont, Ohio, a member of the Penn State alumni association. "By him wearing that logo like that, it's like the university condoned the abuse or looked the other way, and he hadn't worked for the university for years."
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"They have even been calling places where I'm supposed to speak and trying to get them to cancel out," Avent said.

The portrayal of Paterno, he said, was meant to show that the coach had been set up as a straw man and left hanging by the university leaders - the very thing that angry alumni have been saying. And Sandusky, well, he is a cowardly Nittany Lion. It's obviously not a positive thing to paint someone as the Cowardly Lion, Avent said.

Avent's wife died about two weeks go, and he said that the Penn State maelstrom is taking a toll.

"I'm sitting here trying to grieve and having to deal with these idiots who are angry about something they don't even understand," he said. "I think Penn State would just be shocked at the things they're saying and doing."


More at link...

 

[Reader]

 

[ThoughtFox]

As a satirical editorial cartoon - that's great. As the cover of a gardening mag? Not so much.

Just bad taste, and why would he think that people wanted to be reminded of all the bad stuff happening? I think maybe this man's grief is clouding his judgment.

And I wouldn't have understood that Paterno was just the "straw man" since he really did remain on the fence by passing the buck to others and keeping both Sandusky and McQueary around campus for years.

The other connotation of the Scarecrow is that he doesn't have a brain. That's probably what people thought he was saying. Can't say I disagree with him much. :innocent:

(Is that Michele Bachmann beckoning one of the children? My mind can't get itself around what he's trying to say there . . . scary.)

 

[Dr.Fessel]

Here is the actual fed's subpoena.



http://www.psu.edu/ur/2012/openness/DOJ_subpoena.pdf

 

[Reader]

As a satirical editorial cartoon - that's great. As the cover of a gardening mag? Not so much.

Just bad taste, and why would he think that people wanted to be reminded of all the bad stuff happening? I think maybe this man's grief is clouding his judgment.

And I wouldn't have understood that Paterno was just the "straw man" since he really did remain on the fence by passing the buck to others and keeping both Sandusky and McQueary around campus for years.

The other connotation of the Scarecrow is that he doesn't have a brain. That's probably what people thought he was saying. Can't say I disagree with him much. :innocent:

(Is that Michele Bachmann beckoning one of the children? My mind can't get itself around what he's trying to say there . . . scary.)

According to wiki, he has a history of doing this and they are actually created by someone else:

Owner Tony Avent has a history of publishing satirical catalog covers. These covers, created by Jack Pittman have historically provoked controversy as they typically present one sided political satire, evidenced by letters contained in a hate mail section on the Plant Delights website.[14] In 2012, Plant Delights' Spring catalog cover ignited a strong reprisal from Penn State alumni, when the cover featured a caricature of former coach Jerry Sandusky dressed as a lion with a Penn State logo attached chasing children down a road. Numerous facebook comments directed to the business were deleted. Avent publicly commented on News 5 WRAL in Raleigh that he stands by his artwork.[15]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Delights_Nursery#Controversy

My problem is that it's too busy looking...too many themes going on...it was probably commissioned months in advance also so these things were going on at the time.

The Sandusky part doesn't bother me but since Paterno died it would have been better to leave that out to me, but I think he just likes to cause controversy, and his thinking might be off as you mentioned.

I at first thought the Bachmann figure was gesturing toward the woman across the street with the 'money' sign, since she was short of money for her campaign, but now that you mention it, she looks like she's wearing a Dorothy outfit...the girly dress and red shoes? Don't know about that now.

I did notice Santorum with the tin hat, LOL.

 

[J. J. in Phila]

NBC just announce that that the Fed's are looking at payments of hush money in the Sandusky case. It's worse.

 

[Dr.Fessel]

NBC just announce that that the Fed's are looking at payments of hush money in the Sandusky case. It's worse.

That is what I figured. They got word one of the families of a boy were paid off.

Instead of boosters paying money to players they might have someone paying money to a family.

 

[Reader]

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_n...case-subpoena-penn-state-records?ocid=twitter

This is interesting also:

NBC News has learned that Sandusky had access to a Penn State Internet access account from shortly after his arrest until it was disabled sometime in the past two weeks. That means records of his account and emails stored on the Penn State University system would have been saved and be subject to a subpoena.

How stupid can you get to use the uni email? although I'm glad he did...

 

[J. J. in Phila]

NBC Story: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/46519401/#46519401

They are going back to 1998. http://www.centredaily.com/2012/02/24/3102498/penn-state-adds-detail-about-sandusky.html

 

[Reader]

Here is the actual fed's subpoena.



http://www.psu.edu/ur/2012/openness/DOJ_subpoena.pdf

Thanks for that! I see it is addressed to Cynthia Baldwin...I thought she was leaving?

 

[Dr.Fessel]

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_n...case-subpoena-penn-state-records?ocid=twitter

This is interesting also:



How stupid can you get to use the uni email? although I'm glad he did...

I wonder if two weeks puts it back to the time he got permission to skype with his grandkids? Maybe the Univ did not want to be part of that?

 

[Reader]

I wonder if two weeks puts it back to the time he got permission to skype with his grandkids? Maybe the Univ did not want to be part of that?

That, and also soon after they got the subpeona and they realized there was a lot of stuff on there the school does not want to be accountable for....a little late for that....

 

[Dr.Fessel]

You know I think Freeh really found something and had to turn it in. That is a very powerful and far reaching subpeona and they would need some good evidence to get it.



Freeh said his goal was to conduct a comprehensive, fair and quick review. His team of former FBI agents, federal prosecutors and others has already begun the process of reading the grand jury report and looking at records.

"We will immediately report any evidence of criminality to law enforcement authorities," said Freeh, who has no connection to Penn State.

http://espn.go.com/college-football...ire-ex-fbi-director-louis-freeh-investigation

 

[Steely Dan]

As a satirical editorial cartoon - that's great. As the cover of a gardening mag? Not so much.

Just bad taste, and why would he think that people wanted to be reminded of all the bad stuff happening? I think maybe this man's grief is clouding his judgment.

And I wouldn't have understood that Paterno was just the "straw man" since he really did remain on the fence by passing the buck to others and keeping both Sandusky and McQueary around campus for years.

The other connotation of the Scarecrow is that he doesn't have a brain. That's probably what people thought he was saying. Can't say I disagree with him much. :innocent:

(Is that Michele Bachmann beckoning one of the children? My mind can't get itself around what he's trying to say there . . . scary.)

I would have made Dorothy "Dottie" Sandusky beckoning the kids like she'll help them, but it's obviously not her. JMO

 

[J. J. in Phila]

That is what I figured. They got word one of the families of a boy were paid off.

Instead of boosters paying money to players they might have someone paying money to a family.

I'm very worried about payoffs.