Most people do not realize how small a community Centre County Pennsylvania really is.
Penn State is Centre County....in most ways. The only other major employer is the state prison where we execute criminals.
The fact remains that we know everybody at Penn State is connected in some way to everybody at Second Mile. That is not illegal or indicative of improper activity.
However, the fact that everybody at Penn State is connected in some way to everybody at Second Mile creates an atmosphere where illegal and improper actions can take place.
Let the investigation take its course. Centre County is not leading this, the state is leading this, so it should be handled well.
One would hope so. The current governor was the State Attorney General when the current investigation started. Remember that the November 3 (3?) Grand Jury Presentment was the result of a State Attorney General action, not a local one.
That's the Presentment which carefully spells out in detail what McQueary said he told everyone - except Joe Paterno. If you have experience reading presentments, and you read between the lines, that information is left out because it would either be embarrassing to Paterno, who says he was only told that it was fondling or something of a sexual nature. Or else it will embarrass the state prosecutors for not pursuing a perjury indictment against JoePa as she did against Curley and Schultz for saying they weren't told about anal sodomy.
So, as an attorney who's read the presentment (more than) twice, once for what it contains and once for what it glaringly does not contain, I hop the state will handle it well and not try to make Pennsylvania and Penn State look well.
“Centre County is not leading this, the state is leading this, so it should be handled well.”
You think so?
If something like this at the UW or at WSU, there isn’t a chance, even with our Republican AG, that I would assume that the state could perform the investigation correctly. Were I the governor, I’d arrange to have someone in NJ do the investigation. As governor of PA, there’s not a chance in hell I’d touch this.