“Right.......Me thinks this chap hopes to make some money off of this by bearing false witness against some who is dead.”
It is not false when the independent investigation proved that Pedorno knew what was going on. In fact, he mentioned it to his AD but did nothing else. I am sure it went this way: “Hey, AD, my main assistant is raping boys. If it gets out, my good name will be damaged. And the university will suffer. What should we do? wink wink”
“fair disclosure: Penn state grad.”
Not so shiny now, is it?
The "independent investigation" proved no such thing. In his own court statements, the man who wrote the report, former FBI director (and Clinton/Gore political fixer) Louis Freeh admitted that the "investigation" investigated nothing. In his own court statements Freeh has admitted that his "report" is "not a factual document, and is only a collection and summary of opinion."
Freeh had no investigative authority. He had no authority to compel witnesses or to gather evidence. He had nothing more than access to PSU documents that most other people don't have. He did not even interview the three principal former PSU employees targeted by his report. In nearly two million pieces of email and other documents to which he had access, Freeh found someone -- who might have been Paterno but was more likely Sandusky himself -- mentioned EXACTLY ... twice. Neither of those documents implicates Paterno in a cover-up.
Yeah, that's some great damning evidence against Paterno you got there.