Posted on 01/12/2012 10:43:15 AM PST by Scoutmaster
Jerry Sandusky reportedly watched Joe Paterno notch his record 409th victory from the president's box a week before the former Penn State assistant football coach was arrested on charges of child sex abuse in November.
A source close to the university's board of trustees told The Patriot-News on Wednesday that Sandusky, 67, was seen in then-president Graham Spanier's box on Oct. 29 and later went to Penn State's Nittany Lion booster club.
Earlier Wednesday, former Nittany Lions linebacker Brandon Short told the newspaper he had been told by two independent sources -- whom he did not identify -- that Sandusky was in Spanier's box for the Penn State-Illinois game.
The unidentified source also told The Patriot-News that the school's athletic director at the time originally did not want to give Sandusky tickets to the game, but Sandusky’s wife, Dottie, was so insistent that he eventually relented.
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Timeline:
May/July - Spanier briefs Penn State Board of Trustees about grand jury
October 29 - Sandusky sits in Spanier's box for Paterno's 409th win
November 4 - Sandusky indicted on 42 counts of child molestation
November 5 - Penn State AD Tim Curley and Sr. VP of Business & Finance Gary Schulz indicted
November 5 - Penn State Board of Directors acts surprised
November 7 - Curley takes leave of absence; Schultz retires
November 9 - Paterno fired; Spanier resigns as President (stays on as professor)
November 12 - Curley fired
Note that Joe Paterno was the only person fired - until the public complained too much about Curley only being on a leave of absence.
Note also that the Penn State Board of Trustees had retained former FBI head (1993-2001) Louis Freeh to head its 'transparent' investigation.
You may remember that name.
Freeh's claims to fame include:
It's curious that Freeh appears to be a Luddite. He had the computer removed from his office in the FBI. He wouldn't use email and wouldn't update the FBI computer system under his tenure as FBI director. I wonder if he'll look at emails or pursue leads that require technological knowledge?
After Vince Foster, and the investigation of Ruby Ridge, and Richard Jewell, I understand exactly what the Penn State Board of Directors was looking for when it retained him. Or is that being too cynical?
That's a beautiful non-answer to the question "Was Sandusky in the Erickson's box for the game."
Jerry Sandusky doesn't need to be on the guest list. He's Jerry Freaking Sandusky!
The guy brought twelve year old boys as sleepover dates to Penn State Football functions, and nobody said boo to him.
I remain convinced that the prosecution of this entire Sandusky episode was put on hold UNTIL Coach Paterno got that record-setting win. Hard to imagine that an investigation which went on for such a long time just happened to break the week following that win.
Joe Paterno is a disgrace; no one should be advocating his being “honored”
There, there now. Let's not be spreading falsehoods about the very moral Penn State coaches who sat at the coaches' table at Toftree's the 1998 and 1999 seasons (1998, during the investigation, and 1999, after he announced his resignation, effective at the end of the 1999 season, in the wake of the 1998 investigation, and Joe Paterno's May 1999 meeting with him).
Victim #4 was fourteen years old, not twelve. Victim #4 sat at those coaches' tables and spent those sleepover nights being molested, and went with Sandusky to the Outback and Alamo Bowls. Fourteen years old. And that makes all the different, eh? (I'm trying to learn to think like a Penn State apologist.)
Very nice job generating JoPalogist "thought"!!!
Now, this is getting interesting. Sandusky was hanging with Spanier a week before he was charged which, of course, was AFTER the grand jury testimony by Curly & Shultz.
We do fight, but you just made some very good points.
Why would Freeh sign on to a cover-up of pedophilia? There is an answer and it kind of makes you real sick if you think about it too much.
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And I've just realized something, . Paterno was the only person initially fired over this.
Paterno was the only one fired, initially. The Board acted surprised about the whole matter in November, when it had been briefed by Spanier in May/July (and you would expect periodic updates).
I still think Paterno did wrong, but he's beginning to look like a scapegoat in some minor way. The entire Board may need to go. Why is Spanier there?
And I've just realized something, . Paterno was the only person initially fired over this.
Paterno was the only one fired, initially. The Board acted surprised about the whole matter in November, when it had been briefed by Spanier in May/July (and you would expect periodic updates).
I still think Paterno did wrong, but he's beginning to look like a scapegoat in some minor way. The entire Board may need to go. Why is Spanier there?
I think it would be appropriate for Sandusky and Spanier to hang together along with everyone else who was responsible for the cover up.
Hopefully Sandusky and Spanier kept their clothes on and their hands to themselves when in such proximity to one another and kept their attention on football.
That's almost certainly a tenure thing.
Joe Paterno was an Ivy League man as am I. That background generally doesn't come in useful; as a Texan I am generally a more "get your hands dirty" approach to life and would, under other circumstances, appreciate the Penn State motto: "Making Life Better."
Penn State should have paid a licensing fee to its in-state Ivy League counterpart, The University of Pennsylvania, and used and lived by the Penn motto:
Leges sine moribus vanae ("Laws without morals are useless")
Or my alma mater: Veritas - "Truth." Or even the Yalie Boys' Lux et Veritas—“Light and Truth.”
I don't know what we're going to find if a light is ever shined in every corner. While now-PA Governor Corbett was running for Governor, but was the AG who had an impaneled grand jury investigating Sandusky:
Corbett accepted more than $25,000 from state board members of Sandusky’s charity, The Second Mile, during his gubernatorial campaign last year. On top of that, he accepted thousands more from the charity’s regional board members, according to Pennsylvania Department of State campaign contributions website.His openness to the charity’s board members’ contributions to his campaign didn’t stop there. Corbett also allowed S&A Homes president and CEO Robert Poole, who chaired Second Mile’s board, to hold a small fundraiser for him at Poole’s home in January 2010.
It kind of makes you wonder what exactly was the Board of Trustees thinking when they picked him.
It wasn't like they didn't have a whole lot of options.
Poole, however, said he did know about it.In his email, Pool said that “to the best of my recollection, I first learned in 2008 or 2009 that authorities were investigating Mr. Sandusky.”
The victims were pre-teen boys.
ESPN: ". . . a Q&A with (PSU) President Rodney Erickson. Given what you've heard him say on this program (ESPN): "We're not spinning. It's not a scandal" And the questions you want answered. What are you left with and what's your state of mind as you approach tonight's meeting?"
Thomas: "Well, we're going in looking for some answers as to was a proper investigation, like, there was no proper investigation before the media started spinning things a certain way."
"And if they would have sat back and said, well we're, there's a reason for the removal of University staff and this is the reason we've conducted an investigation, um, we're looking for due process, due process and transparency in the Board is basically what our group is . . .:
ESPN: "Has there been transparency on the Board in the past to your mind?"
Thomas: "Uhh. We don't really think so. It doesn't seem like anybody's saying anything, actually, since the night of November 9th.
An investigation before the media started spinning? I already posted about the PSU Board's memos about controlling the message. And for whom does want due process? Joe Paterno? The victims? And due process in court or some nebulous "you guys play fair with Penn State" standard for the media and public opinion? Why is she on national television?
President Erickson has told the press he didn't know anything about the Sandusky investigation until November; this is curious, as it was reported in the Harrisburg newspapers going back to last March. Transparency?
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