You guys are really reaching again.
Joe Pa, Penn State, and the retirement center would not have been "damaged" if Sandusky was reported for rape in 2002. If the rape had been reported, there wouldn't be a scandal. The scandal is occurring because Sandusky wasn't reported.
In 2002, if people had heard about Sandusky raping a child, they would realize that Sandusky wasn't even an employee at Penn State, but used its facility to attack a child. People would see Penn State/Joe Pa/Second Mile as other victims of Sandusky. There would not be any perjury charges or any coverup and therefore, no scandal.
It is a really illogical assumption to make that Joe Pa didn't call the police because of a retirement center investment. (BTW his retirement center investment was $125,000 not $125 million as one post states above.) To a man that donated many millions to Penn State library, $2 million to the local hospital, and $1 million to build a chapel for students, $125,000 is pittens anyways and likely is no concern at all.
It is also extremely illogical to assume that Joe Pa told every person, who his business advisor invested with, that Sandusky was a pedophile.
If you investigate months from now, you will find that the wealthiest individuals around State College continue to invest in business startups because this is what wealthy individuals do. The grand jury report won't alter their investing in the future and this same information wouldn't have had any affect on their investing in 2002 if Paterno had contacted the police.
It has been repeatedly stated in the last 2 pages, that the wealthy board of control members, who volunteered at a charity which helped 100,000 children annually, knew about Sandusky in 2002. Please post verification. (It is my opinion that Raykovitz, the child psychologist knew because of his education and position at Second Mile for 28 years, but this evidence hasn't been released either.)
The only reach is in trying to pretend that this deal would have happened anyway had this freak, Sandusky, been exposed in 2002.
In 2002, Jerry Sandusky WAS the Second Mile. He had not yet, *wink, wink*, disassociated himself from the organization. He was still the highly visible, ever grinnin, face of the organization HE founded. Pinnacle and this project was a venture of partners from both Penn State University AND the Second Mile. For crying out loud, one was Robert Poole who was CHAIRMAN of the Second Mile board of trustees. Had this monster been exposed in 2002, the consequences to that organization would have been just as devastating, perhaps even more so, as it has been today. At least now, in 2011, they can whine away that Sandusky hasn't been a part of the organization, *wink, wink*, since waaaay back in 2008. According to the article, Pinnacle had just secured financing for the project in 2002. That financing was certainly based, in large measure, on the financial wherewithal of Pinnacle's partners. To pretend that Poole would not have been just as negatively impacted in 2002 as he is going to be today, would be naive. The recently acquired financing could have very easily been pulled by the lending institution with cause.
Aside from the construction financing impact, what do you think would have happened to the marketing ability for this project? Since the project never was a blazing success anyway, how badly would a deeply immersed child molester have affected their sales ability? According to these articles, "kindly ole JoePa" was even holding "pep rally's" designed, in large measure, to kindle and promote interest in this project with elderly, wealthy, alumni. What in the heck would he have said at these rally's THEN? "We ARE Penn State.....everybody, that is, except ole creepy Jer"?
As far as I'm concerned, the proof of what would happen to this house of cards in 2002, had Sandusky's deplorable acts been exposed, happened last Wednesday less than 30 days after this freak was finally exposed:
The Village's nonprofit owner filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday. The filing indicated that Pinnacle was never repaid its initial investment, and that $18.8 million was owed to residents who moved out and demanded refunds on their entrance fees.
http://deadspin.com/5865111/joe-pat...-sandusky-was-caught-allegedly-sodomizing-boy
One thing's for damn sure. I'll bet the elderly, retired people who are owed this $18,800,000.00 from this bankrupt project WISH this piece of crap had been exposed in 2002. Most would likely still have their money.
