Sounds pretty credible . The guy slept through the whole investigation, arrest and trial , and now decides to come forward after PSU paid out the 120 million. No name, no age, and just cant pin down the date ,only to say sometime within the decade
Desperate attempt to get some cash
What a complete joke!
" The Office of the Attorney General of Pennsylvania said it "can't confirm or deny the existence of an investigation" into Sandusky."
Sandusky
First pedophile in history with
ZERO PORN
ZERO DRUGS
ZERO ALCOHOL
ZERO DNA
ZERO TEXT MESSAGES
ZERO PHONE CALLS
ZERO BRIBES OR COVER UPS
NO CONFESSION
AND HIS WIFE STILL SUPPORTS HIM !
Oh, one other small detail not brought up during the thing they called a trial
Medical records show he was physically incapable of what he was accused of doing !
For anyone interested in the truth,
the Bombshell Newsweek Cover Story ,Blowing Up the HBO“Paterno” Movie, ThatWas Spiked At The LastMoment http://www.framingpaterno.com/sites/default/files/sad_story_of_happy_valley.pdf
Desperate attempt to get some cash
What a complete joke!
" The Office of the Attorney General of Pennsylvania said it "can't confirm or deny the existence of an investigation" into Sandusky."
Sandusky
First pedophile in history with
ZERO PORN
ZERO DRUGS
ZERO ALCOHOL
ZERO DNA
ZERO TEXT MESSAGES
ZERO PHONE CALLS
ZERO BRIBES OR COVER UPS
NO CONFESSION
AND HIS WIFE STILL SUPPORTS HIM !
Oh, one other small detail not brought up during the thing they called a trial
Medical records show he was physically incapable of what he was accused of doing !
For anyone interested in the truth,
the Bombshell Newsweek Cover Story ,Blowing Up the HBO“Paterno” Movie, ThatWas Spiked At The LastMoment http://www.framingpaterno.com/sites/default/files/sad_story_of_happy_valley.pdf
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Oh this is gonna be good
From John
I wanted to let everyone in this group know that for the past two months me, two producers, and a prominent TV personality have been producing a documentary podcast series on the ENTIRE Penn State/Paterno/Sandusky story. The plan is to produce about 20 comprehensive episodes and then make a deal with a major podcast company. Production is going well so far, but there is a long way to go.
Also, a musician by the name of Mike Wowk has produced an entire album on the whole case and has put it in a professional CD format (I have several copies). It is all available on various formats for free. Here is the YouTube clip of my favorite track, which is named for the 32 cowards on the Penn State BOT, which began this whole fiasco. Enjoy and share!
https://youtu.be/JbQ5YwhFhoE
Information developed by @BigTrialBlog
and @SearchWarrant1
warrants the issuance of Criminal Referrals by the @DBoardPA
for #ProsecutorialMisconduct by the @PAAttorneyGen
’s Office Frank Fina and co-conspirators...this was a Criminal Conspiracy, not a disciplinary issue...
From John
I wanted to let everyone in this group know that for the past two months me, two producers, and a prominent TV personality have been producing a documentary podcast series on the ENTIRE Penn State/Paterno/Sandusky story. The plan is to produce about 20 comprehensive episodes and then make a deal with a major podcast company. Production is going well so far, but there is a long way to go.
Also, a musician by the name of Mike Wowk has produced an entire album on the whole case and has put it in a professional CD format (I have several copies). It is all available on various formats for free. Here is the YouTube clip of my favorite track, which is named for the 32 cowards on the Penn State BOT, which began this whole fiasco. Enjoy and share!
https://youtu.be/JbQ5YwhFhoE
Information developed by @BigTrialBlog
and @SearchWarrant1
warrants the issuance of Criminal Referrals by the @DBoardPA
for #ProsecutorialMisconduct by the @PAAttorneyGen
’s Office Frank Fina and co-conspirators...this was a Criminal Conspiracy, not a disciplinary issue...
WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2020
Sandusky's Lawyer Seeks To Depose Bad Actors In PSU Travesty
By Ralph Ciprianofor BigTrial.net
An appeals lawyer for Jerry Sandusky has asked the state Superior Court to either dismiss the charges against his client, or grant him a new trial.
And if the Superior Court won't go along with that request, Sandusky's lawyer seeks to have the case remanded back to Centre County Common Pleas Court. Why? For the purposes of an evidentiary hearing that would feature the questioning under oath of many of the bad actors in this ongoing travesty of justice.
In a 46-page brief filed July 6th, but only disclosed yesterday, Philip D. Lauer, an Easton lawyer, argues that Sandusky is the victim of a corrupt "de facto joint investigation" conducted by both the state Attorney General's office, and former FBI Director Louis Freeh. The joint investigation was marked by collusion and illegal grand jury leaks that not only tainted the jury that convicted Sandusky, Lauer writes, but may have also tainted the trial judge.
Freeh, Lauer writes, was hired for $8.3 million to "perform an independent, full and complete investigation" of the sex abuse allegations against Sandusky, and the alleged failure of Penn State personnel "to report such sexual abuse to appropriate police and government authorities."
But in asecret 79-page diary, Lauer wrote, the co-leader of Freeh's investigation, former FBI Agent Kathleen McChesney, "summarized daily briefings and other highlights from the ongoing investigation, including contact with other agencies, including the office of Attorney General."
That diary, as well as other confidential emails, "indicated that there were substantial communications' between the Attorney General's office and Freeh's investigators, " Lauer wrote.
Those communications "establish that the Freeh Group and the Attorney General's office were assisting each other's investigations by sharing information." The shared information included grand jury testimony that was "in direct violation of grand jury secrecy rules and would subject the participants in the Attorney General's office to sanctions," Lauer wrote.
During jury selection on June 6, 2012, Lauer wrote, Laura Pauley, a professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State who served as a juror in the Sandusky trial, was asked by Joseph Amendola, Sandusky's trial lawyer, what she had previously told Freeh's investigators.
"It was focused more on how the board of trustees interacts with the president," Pauley told Amendola, as well as "how faculty are interacting with the president and the board of trustees . . ."
But the interview went farther than that. According to a summary of the April 19, 2011 interview with Freeh's investigators, Pauley stated that she believed that the leadership at Penn State just "kicks the issue down the road."
"The PSU culture can best be described as people who do not want to resolve issues and want to avoid confrontation," Pauley told Freeh's investigators, according to their summary of the interview. She also stated that Penn State President Graham Spanier was "very controlling," and that "she feels that [former Penn State Athletic Director Tim] Curley and [former Penn State vice president Gary] Schultz are responsible for the scandal."
"She stated that she senses Curley and Schultz treated it [the scandal] the 'Penn State' way and were just moving on and hoping it would fade away," the summary states.
Meanwhile, when Pauley was questioned by Amendola at the Sandusky trial, "At no time during this colloquy, or any other time, did the prosecution disclose that it was working in collaboration with the Freeh Group, which interviewed this witness," Lauer wrote.
In an affidavit, Amendola said had he known the attorney general's office and Freeh's investigators were working in concert, he would have struck Pauley as a juror, for cause. He would have also questioned the other jurors about whether they had any interactions with Freeh's investigators.
In his entire 47-year legal career, Amendola stated in his affidavit that he had never been involved "in any significant case that proceed to trial as quickly as this case. The case was "very complicated," Amendola wrote, featuring 10 separate sets of charges, and eight alleged victims.
In spite of that, Sandusky, who was indicted in November 2011, was convicted just seven months later, on June 22, 2012.
Amendola stated in his affidavit that he also felt pressured to waive a preliminary hearing in the case, where he would have had his only pretrial chance to question the prosecution witnesses against Sandusky. Amendola said if didn't agree to waive the preliminary hearing, the attorney general's office had made it clear that they were going to seek bail for Sandusky in the vicinity of $1 million.
Having his client in jail, and not free to aid in his defense, would have been an additional hardship at a trial where he was overwhelmed, Amendola stated. Sandusky's trial lawyer made numerous attempts to postpone the trial, but all were turned down by Judge Cleland.
So, on Dec. 12, 2011, at a highly unusual meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn, Amendola met with Judge John Cleland, a magisterial district judge, as well as deputy Attorney Generals Frank Fina and Joseph McGettigan.
In McChesney diary, she notes that Judge Cleland was "holding firm on trial date."
In his affidavit, Amendola states that he never talked to anybody at the Freeh Group about what the judge was doing with the trial date.
"An obvious question arises as to whether or not the trial judge was communicating with a member of the Freeh Group, attorneys for the Attorney General's office, or anyone else concerning the trial date," Lauer writes.
The suspects, Lauer wrote, may have included notorious leaker Frank Fina.
According to Lauer, evidence clearly shows that Fina and other agents of the attorney general's office "were leaking information and testimony from the grand jury on an ongoing basis, before and after the issuance of the presentment in this case."
Such grand jury leaks, Lauer writes, were "entrenched and flagrant in Pennsylvania," especially when Frank Fina was the prosecutor.
Leaks in Sandusky case "were part of a systematic design practiced with a casualness that should shock the conscience of this court, by individuals who later testified in PCRA proceedings in this case regarding their efforts to uncover the leak," Lauer writes.
And of course in the corrupt Pennsylvania court systems, when Fina told a cockamamie story about how and deputy Attorney General Jonelle Eshbach supposedly set a trap for the real leakers, a judge bought it.
On Feb. 5, 2019, state Superior Court Judge Carolyn Nichols wrote a 70-page opinion denying Sandusky a new trial, an opinion that she foolishly staked on the credibility of Fina.
In her opinion, the gullible Judge Nichols also bought the argument that Fina couldn't have been the leaker because he had previously asked the grand jury judge to investigate those same leaks.
"It is a fact of human nature that one engaged in or aware of misconduct he does not wish to have exposed does not ask an outside source to investigate it," Judge Nichols opined.
Since Judge Nichols wrote her opinion based on the credibility of Frank Fina, the state Supreme Court on Feb. 19th voted unanimously to suspend Fina's law license for a year and a day. The state's high court made that decision after Fina was found guilty by the court's disciplinary board for "reprehensible" and "inexcusable" misconduct in his grand jury questioning of former Penn State counsel Cynthia Baldwin.
The disciplinary board found that Fina was so out of control in his pursuit of the Penn State administrators that he actually browbeat Baldwin into becoming a grand jury witness who flipped and testified against her three clients -- former Penn State President Graham Spanier, former Penn State Vice President Gary Schultz, and former Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley -- without telling her clients that behind closed doors she had thrown them to the wolves.
The disciplinary board also found that in order to get Baldwin, a former state Supreme Court justice, to breach the attorney-client privilege, Fina had to hoodwink the grand jury judge about what his real intentions were when he was questioning Baldwin behind closed doors. That's the same gullible grand jury judge -- the Hon. Barry Feudale -- whom Fina had previously asked to investigate the grand jury leaks.
How much more embarrassing can this get before the corrupt Pennsylvania court system grants Sandusky a new trial?
If there is an evidentiary hearing, Lauer is seeking to depose McChesney, Freeh, Fina, as well as Judge Cleland. Imagine how much fun that would be.
Sandusky's Lawyer Seeks To Depose Bad Actors In PSU Travesty
An appeals lawyer for Jerry Sandusky has asked the state Superior Court to either dismiss the charges against his client, or grant him a new trial.
And if the Superior Court won't go along with that request, Sandusky's lawyer seeks to have the case remanded back to Centre County Common Pleas Court. Why? For the purposes of an evidentiary hearing that would feature the questioning under oath of many of the bad actors in this ongoing travesty of justice.
In a 46-page brief filed July 6th, but only disclosed yesterday, Philip D. Lauer, an Easton lawyer, argues that Sandusky is the victim of a corrupt "de facto joint investigation" conducted by both the state Attorney General's office, and former FBI Director Louis Freeh. The joint investigation was marked by collusion and illegal grand jury leaks that not only tainted the jury that convicted Sandusky, Lauer writes, but may have also tainted the trial judge.
Freeh, Lauer writes, was hired for $8.3 million to "perform an independent, full and complete investigation" of the sex abuse allegations against Sandusky, and the alleged failure of Penn State personnel "to report such sexual abuse to appropriate police and government authorities."
But in asecret 79-page diary, Lauer wrote, the co-leader of Freeh's investigation, former FBI Agent Kathleen McChesney, "summarized daily briefings and other highlights from the ongoing investigation, including contact with other agencies, including the office of Attorney General."
That diary, as well as other confidential emails, "indicated that there were substantial communications' between the Attorney General's office and Freeh's investigators, " Lauer wrote.
Those communications "establish that the Freeh Group and the Attorney General's office were assisting each other's investigations by sharing information." The shared information included grand jury testimony that was "in direct violation of grand jury secrecy rules and would subject the participants in the Attorney General's office to sanctions," Lauer wrote.
During jury selection on June 6, 2012, Lauer wrote, Laura Pauley, a professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State who served as a juror in the Sandusky trial, was asked by Joseph Amendola, Sandusky's trial lawyer, what she had previously told Freeh's investigators.
"It was focused more on how the board of trustees interacts with the president," Pauley told Amendola, as well as "how faculty are interacting with the president and the board of trustees . . ."
But the interview went farther than that. According to a summary of the April 19, 2011 interview with Freeh's investigators, Pauley stated that she believed that the leadership at Penn State just "kicks the issue down the road."
"The PSU culture can best be described as people who do not want to resolve issues and want to avoid confrontation," Pauley told Freeh's investigators, according to their summary of the interview. She also stated that Penn State President Graham Spanier was "very controlling," and that "she feels that [former Penn State Athletic Director Tim] Curley and [former Penn State vice president Gary] Schultz are responsible for the scandal."
"She stated that she senses Curley and Schultz treated it [the scandal] the 'Penn State' way and were just moving on and hoping it would fade away," the summary states.
Meanwhile, when Pauley was questioned by Amendola at the Sandusky trial, "At no time during this colloquy, or any other time, did the prosecution disclose that it was working in collaboration with the Freeh Group, which interviewed this witness," Lauer wrote.
In an affidavit, Amendola said had he known the attorney general's office and Freeh's investigators were working in concert, he would have struck Pauley as a juror, for cause. He would have also questioned the other jurors about whether they had any interactions with Freeh's investigators.
In his entire 47-year legal career, Amendola stated in his affidavit that he had never been involved "in any significant case that proceed to trial as quickly as this case. The case was "very complicated," Amendola wrote, featuring 10 separate sets of charges, and eight alleged victims.
In spite of that, Sandusky, who was indicted in November 2011, was convicted just seven months later, on June 22, 2012.
Amendola stated in his affidavit that he also felt pressured to waive a preliminary hearing in the case, where he would have had his only pretrial chance to question the prosecution witnesses against Sandusky. Amendola said if didn't agree to waive the preliminary hearing, the attorney general's office had made it clear that they were going to seek bail for Sandusky in the vicinity of $1 million.
Having his client in jail, and not free to aid in his defense, would have been an additional hardship at a trial where he was overwhelmed, Amendola stated. Sandusky's trial lawyer made numerous attempts to postpone the trial, but all were turned down by Judge Cleland.
So, on Dec. 12, 2011, at a highly unusual meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn, Amendola met with Judge John Cleland, a magisterial district judge, as well as deputy Attorney Generals Frank Fina and Joseph McGettigan.
In McChesney diary, she notes that Judge Cleland was "holding firm on trial date."
In his affidavit, Amendola states that he never talked to anybody at the Freeh Group about what the judge was doing with the trial date.
"An obvious question arises as to whether or not the trial judge was communicating with a member of the Freeh Group, attorneys for the Attorney General's office, or anyone else concerning the trial date," Lauer writes.
The suspects, Lauer wrote, may have included notorious leaker Frank Fina.
According to Lauer, evidence clearly shows that Fina and other agents of the attorney general's office "were leaking information and testimony from the grand jury on an ongoing basis, before and after the issuance of the presentment in this case."
Such grand jury leaks, Lauer writes, were "entrenched and flagrant in Pennsylvania," especially when Frank Fina was the prosecutor.
Leaks in Sandusky case "were part of a systematic design practiced with a casualness that should shock the conscience of this court, by individuals who later testified in PCRA proceedings in this case regarding their efforts to uncover the leak," Lauer writes.
And of course in the corrupt Pennsylvania court systems, when Fina told a cockamamie story about how and deputy Attorney General Jonelle Eshbach supposedly set a trap for the real leakers, a judge bought it.
On Feb. 5, 2019, state Superior Court Judge Carolyn Nichols wrote a 70-page opinion denying Sandusky a new trial, an opinion that she foolishly staked on the credibility of Fina.
In her opinion, the gullible Judge Nichols also bought the argument that Fina couldn't have been the leaker because he had previously asked the grand jury judge to investigate those same leaks.
"It is a fact of human nature that one engaged in or aware of misconduct he does not wish to have exposed does not ask an outside source to investigate it," Judge Nichols opined.
Since Judge Nichols wrote her opinion based on the credibility of Frank Fina, the state Supreme Court on Feb. 19th voted unanimously to suspend Fina's law license for a year and a day. The state's high court made that decision after Fina was found guilty by the court's disciplinary board for "reprehensible" and "inexcusable" misconduct in his grand jury questioning of former Penn State counsel Cynthia Baldwin.
The disciplinary board found that Fina was so out of control in his pursuit of the Penn State administrators that he actually browbeat Baldwin into becoming a grand jury witness who flipped and testified against her three clients -- former Penn State President Graham Spanier, former Penn State Vice President Gary Schultz, and former Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley -- without telling her clients that behind closed doors she had thrown them to the wolves.
The disciplinary board also found that in order to get Baldwin, a former state Supreme Court justice, to breach the attorney-client privilege, Fina had to hoodwink the grand jury judge about what his real intentions were when he was questioning Baldwin behind closed doors. That's the same gullible grand jury judge -- the Hon. Barry Feudale -- whom Fina had previously asked to investigate the grand jury leaks.
How much more embarrassing can this get before the corrupt Pennsylvania court system grants Sandusky a new trial?
If there is an evidentiary hearing, Lauer is seeking to depose McChesney, Freeh, Fina, as well as Judge Cleland. Imagine how much fun that would be.
Has Sandusky been released from prison due to the Covid-19 while......... Under a separation agreement, Spanier was able to collect a total of about $3.7 million in salary as a tenured professor through the fall of 2017. Since then, he has been paid a salary the school will not disclose.
How much more embarrassing can this get before the corrupt Pennsylvania court system grants Sandusky a new trial?
If there is an evidentiary hearing, Lauer is seeking to depose McChesney, Freeh, Fina, as well as Judge Cleland. Imagine how much fun that would be.
How much more embarrassing can this get before the corrupt Pennsylvania court system grants Sandusky a new trial?
If there is an evidentiary hearing, Lauer is seeking to depose McChesney, Freeh, Fina, as well as Judge Cleland. Imagine how much fun that would be.
A public reprimand , that's it . Lives get destroyed and she gets a tongue lashing unreal
Lawyers' board castigates former state Supreme Court justice for work on Jerry Sandusky case
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By CRAIG R. MCCOY
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Attorney Cynthia Baldwin was formally reprimanded for her handling of the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State.
Pennsylvania’s disciplinary board for lawyers formally castigated a former state Supreme Court justice Wednesday, saying her legal work in the Penn State child sex-abuse scandal was marked by “incompetence” that violated the rights of top university administrators.
“You failed in your responsibilities,” Baldwin was told by James C. Haggerty, chairperson of The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. “You failed to recognize the magnitude of the challenge.”
For Baldwin, the reprimand was a bitter end to an ordeal that began almost a decade ago when the investigation into sex abuser Sandusky and Penn State’s response to his wrongdoing dominated national news.
The board, an arm of the state Supreme Court, officially delivered a reprimand that had been ordered by the high court in February. The session was conducted on YouTube because of the coronavirus pandemic. Baldwin, 75, her frowning face visible within one box in the live stream, was silent throughout the six-minute denunciation.
The court found that the former justice violated four provisions of the state ethics code for lawyers. Among them was improperly revealing the confidences of former Penn State President Graham B. Spanier and two other former top administrators, which Haggerty said led to criminal charges against them.
Sandusky, a longtime assistant to Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, is serving at least 30 years in prison for molesting 10 boys. Prosecutors later said top administrators quickly decided not to alert authorities about a key allegation against Sandusky and later misled investigators and hid evidence about their actions.
Before becoming a justice, Baldwin, a Democrat, spent 16 years as a Common Pleas judge in Allegheny County. She was the first Black woman to win election to the county bench. Then-Gov. Ed Rendell appointed her to the high court in 2006. She served out the final two years of a departing justice’s term, stepped down, and in 2010 became general counsel for Penn State University. She was also on Penn State’s board.
At crucial sessions before an investigative grand jury in 2011, she sought to represent both Penn State as an institution, and the three top administrators who were under investigation for a suspected cover-up: Spanier, Vice President Gary Schultz and Athletic Director Tim Curley. All three would later be arrested in the scandal.
Two Common Pleas judges found no fault with Baldwin's multiple roles. But in a scathing 2016 opinion, the state Superior Court tossed out the most serious charges against the three men because of her conduct.
The appeals court said Baldwin and a top state prosecutor in the case, Frank Fina, had both violated the men's rights. It said Fina had wrongly called Baldwin herself as a witness against the men in a later grand jury proceeding.
The counsel to the lawyers’ disciplinary board then filed complaints against Baldwin and Fina. Review panels later rejected both complaints.
In Baldwin's case, her review panel issued a 43-page opinion in 2018 concluding that she had fully briefed the three men on her various legal roles. Moreover, the panel said, the men lied to her about their lenient response to Sandusky, falsely leading her to think no conflict existed between them and Penn State. The panel said she had a right to testify before prosecutor Fina about their lies in part to make it plain she had not joined in their cover-up.
Though the panels effectively cleared Baldwin and Fina, the full Disciplinary Board rejected that view and urged the state Supreme Court to discipline them. The high court did so, imposing its harsher punishment on Fina. His law license was suspended for a year and a day, while Baldwin faced only the verbal reprimand.
In his remarks Wednesday, Haggerty painted Baldwin as in over her head in a complex criminal case and oblivious that the probe had moved beyond Sandusky to the three administrators.
"Despite the enormity of the situation," said Haggerty, a Philadelphia personal-injury lawyer, "you failed to prepare yourself or your clients for the grand jury testimony in even the most basic manner."
Haggerty said Baldwin, because of her missteps, fatally undermined the cases against the three administrators.
After the Superior Court threw out the most serious felony perjury and obstruction charges against the trio, Curley and Schultz pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of child endangerment. They each served less than three months behind bars.
Spanier went to trial and was found guilty of the same misdemeanor. That verdict was overturned last year by a federal judge who ruled that Spanier had been convicted under a statute not in effect when he was at Penn State.
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Lawyers' board castigates former state Supreme Court justice for work on Jerry Sandusky case
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By CRAIG R. MCCOY
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Attorney Cynthia Baldwin was formally reprimanded for her handling of the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State.
Pennsylvania’s disciplinary board for lawyers formally castigated a former state Supreme Court justice Wednesday, saying her legal work in the Penn State child sex-abuse scandal was marked by “incompetence” that violated the rights of top university administrators.
“You failed in your responsibilities,” Baldwin was told by James C. Haggerty, chairperson of The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. “You failed to recognize the magnitude of the challenge.”
For Baldwin, the reprimand was a bitter end to an ordeal that began almost a decade ago when the investigation into sex abuser Sandusky and Penn State’s response to his wrongdoing dominated national news.
The board, an arm of the state Supreme Court, officially delivered a reprimand that had been ordered by the high court in February. The session was conducted on YouTube because of the coronavirus pandemic. Baldwin, 75, her frowning face visible within one box in the live stream, was silent throughout the six-minute denunciation.
The court found that the former justice violated four provisions of the state ethics code for lawyers. Among them was improperly revealing the confidences of former Penn State President Graham B. Spanier and two other former top administrators, which Haggerty said led to criminal charges against them.
Sandusky, a longtime assistant to Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, is serving at least 30 years in prison for molesting 10 boys. Prosecutors later said top administrators quickly decided not to alert authorities about a key allegation against Sandusky and later misled investigators and hid evidence about their actions.
Before becoming a justice, Baldwin, a Democrat, spent 16 years as a Common Pleas judge in Allegheny County. She was the first Black woman to win election to the county bench. Then-Gov. Ed Rendell appointed her to the high court in 2006. She served out the final two years of a departing justice’s term, stepped down, and in 2010 became general counsel for Penn State University. She was also on Penn State’s board.
At crucial sessions before an investigative grand jury in 2011, she sought to represent both Penn State as an institution, and the three top administrators who were under investigation for a suspected cover-up: Spanier, Vice President Gary Schultz and Athletic Director Tim Curley. All three would later be arrested in the scandal.
Two Common Pleas judges found no fault with Baldwin's multiple roles. But in a scathing 2016 opinion, the state Superior Court tossed out the most serious charges against the three men because of her conduct.
The appeals court said Baldwin and a top state prosecutor in the case, Frank Fina, had both violated the men's rights. It said Fina had wrongly called Baldwin herself as a witness against the men in a later grand jury proceeding.
The counsel to the lawyers’ disciplinary board then filed complaints against Baldwin and Fina. Review panels later rejected both complaints.
In Baldwin's case, her review panel issued a 43-page opinion in 2018 concluding that she had fully briefed the three men on her various legal roles. Moreover, the panel said, the men lied to her about their lenient response to Sandusky, falsely leading her to think no conflict existed between them and Penn State. The panel said she had a right to testify before prosecutor Fina about their lies in part to make it plain she had not joined in their cover-up.
Though the panels effectively cleared Baldwin and Fina, the full Disciplinary Board rejected that view and urged the state Supreme Court to discipline them. The high court did so, imposing its harsher punishment on Fina. His law license was suspended for a year and a day, while Baldwin faced only the verbal reprimand.
In his remarks Wednesday, Haggerty painted Baldwin as in over her head in a complex criminal case and oblivious that the probe had moved beyond Sandusky to the three administrators.
"Despite the enormity of the situation," said Haggerty, a Philadelphia personal-injury lawyer, "you failed to prepare yourself or your clients for the grand jury testimony in even the most basic manner."
Haggerty said Baldwin, because of her missteps, fatally undermined the cases against the three administrators.
After the Superior Court threw out the most serious felony perjury and obstruction charges against the trio, Curley and Schultz pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of child endangerment. They each served less than three months behind bars.
Spanier went to trial and was found guilty of the same misdemeanor. That verdict was overturned last year by a federal judge who ruled that Spanier had been convicted under a statute not in effect when he was at Penn State.
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Good interview with the great Franco Harris . Franco is a little tough to listen to , as he speaks slowly , and chooses his words carefully.
He has some powerful things to say though, with regard to Joe, and shafting he received from the media, and the BOT .
[FONT="]With The Benefit Of Hindsight Franco Harris Interview 11.21.20 V1 (Starts W Liz Intro)[/FONT]
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[FONT="]With The Benefit Of Hindsight Full Interviews[/FONT]
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He has some powerful things to say though, with regard to Joe, and shafting he received from the media, and the BOT .
[FONT="]With The Benefit Of Hindsight Franco Harris Interview 11.21.20 V1 (Starts W Liz Intro)[/FONT]
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[FONT="]With The Benefit Of Hindsight Full Interviews[/FONT]
[FONT="]Listen on Apple Podcasts: [/FONT]https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...odeGuid=tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1019825233
19 episodes, each one over an hour long . Is it possible there are things about what went on at Penn Sate that you were not aware of ?
Series Trailer
With the Benefit of Hindsight...Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...=1000516238883
These two im posting , along with the post above, center around Joe and the alledged cover up nonsense
Maybe after 10 years, enough time has passed for people to take a hard , fact based look at what really happened
It’s time to fully expose the greatest injustice I have ever seen in my lifetime
Hopefully , this podcast wakes people up, Joe’s reputation and legacy restored , and Jerry finally gets a fair trial where someone , anyone , presents some evidence
On November 5th 2011 Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly announced the indictment of former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky on 48 counts related to child sexual abuse. The only eye witness in this case was former Penn State quarterback, graduate assistant and wide receiver coach, Mike McQueary. Kelly reported that on March 1, 2002 McQueary witnessed Sandusky sodomizing a boy in a Penn State shower. We now know, and these facts are not in dispute, that the state got the month, the date and the year of the incident wrong and that McQueary never claimed to have witnessed sodomy. Episode One tracks the investigative work of journalist John Ziegler as he puts the pieces of this puzzle together.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...=1000517288672
Episode Four: The Administrators
With the Benefit of Hindsight...
Penn State's most senior administrators: President Dr. Graham Spanier, Vice President Gary Schultz and Athletic Director Tim Curley, were each highly regarded in Penn State circles and beyond. The State College community was shocked to learn that both Schultz and Curley had been indicted along with Sandusky. In Episode Four: The Administrators, Zig and Liz explore the case against the administrators. Did the state actually believe these men participated in a cover up or were they simply "collateral damage" sidelined in order to protect the case against Sandusky. We also learn that Penn State's Board of Trustees hired former FBI Director, Louis Freeh to conduct an "independent investigation" of the case but no one knew our guest, retired NCIS Investigator, John Snedden was assigned by the Obama Administration to conduct it's own investigation. You won't believe what he has to say!
Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...sodeGuid=94288bc6ccddfb4a04676681a42a441f.mp3
Series Trailer
With the Benefit of Hindsight...Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...=1000516238883
These two im posting , along with the post above, center around Joe and the alledged cover up nonsense
Maybe after 10 years, enough time has passed for people to take a hard , fact based look at what really happened
It’s time to fully expose the greatest injustice I have ever seen in my lifetime
Hopefully , this podcast wakes people up, Joe’s reputation and legacy restored , and Jerry finally gets a fair trial where someone , anyone , presents some evidence
On November 5th 2011 Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly announced the indictment of former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky on 48 counts related to child sexual abuse. The only eye witness in this case was former Penn State quarterback, graduate assistant and wide receiver coach, Mike McQueary. Kelly reported that on March 1, 2002 McQueary witnessed Sandusky sodomizing a boy in a Penn State shower. We now know, and these facts are not in dispute, that the state got the month, the date and the year of the incident wrong and that McQueary never claimed to have witnessed sodomy. Episode One tracks the investigative work of journalist John Ziegler as he puts the pieces of this puzzle together.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...=1000517288672
Episode Four: The Administrators
With the Benefit of Hindsight...
Penn State's most senior administrators: President Dr. Graham Spanier, Vice President Gary Schultz and Athletic Director Tim Curley, were each highly regarded in Penn State circles and beyond. The State College community was shocked to learn that both Schultz and Curley had been indicted along with Sandusky. In Episode Four: The Administrators, Zig and Liz explore the case against the administrators. Did the state actually believe these men participated in a cover up or were they simply "collateral damage" sidelined in order to protect the case against Sandusky. We also learn that Penn State's Board of Trustees hired former FBI Director, Louis Freeh to conduct an "independent investigation" of the case but no one knew our guest, retired NCIS Investigator, John Snedden was assigned by the Obama Administration to conduct it's own investigation. You won't believe what he has to say!
Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...sodeGuid=94288bc6ccddfb4a04676681a42a441f.mp3
6.9 MILLION DOLLARS . Thats what he got paid to flip on Jerry , destroy Joe's legacy and the 3 Penn State administrator's lives
He was not a little boy, he was 14 years old
He stated public many times in writing that nothing happened that night in the shower, and the Jerry considered him family
When he finally did testify during the appeal under oath , he said he cant remember 34 times . Boy In The Shower Says He Can't Remember 34 Times | Big Trial | Philadelphia Trial Blog
Description In episode eight we learn about "the boy in the shower" from the Mike McQueary episode. His name never went public and prosecutors were intent on making sure his story never did either. His story, had it been told, would have dramatically changed the course of history. Maybe it's not too late!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/with-the-benefit-of-hindsight/id1562078872?i=1000521577026
He was not a little boy, he was 14 years old
He stated public many times in writing that nothing happened that night in the shower, and the Jerry considered him family
When he finally did testify during the appeal under oath , he said he cant remember 34 times . Boy In The Shower Says He Can't Remember 34 Times | Big Trial | Philadelphia Trial Blog
Description In episode eight we learn about "the boy in the shower" from the Mike McQueary episode. His name never went public and prosecutors were intent on making sure his story never did either. His story, had it been told, would have dramatically changed the course of history. Maybe it's not too late!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/with-the-benefit-of-hindsight/id1562078872?i=1000521577026
finally out of appeals Graham "Horseplay" Spanier heads to jail
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A judge on Wednesday ordered Graham Spanier, the former Penn State University president, to begin serving a sentence on a misdemeanor child endangerment conviction stemming from a 2001 complaint.
Mr. Spanier, 72, will begin serving his sentence — a minimum of two months in jail, followed by two months of house arrest.— on July 9.
He had been found guilty by a Dauphin County jury in March 2017 of a single misdemeanor count of endangering the welfare of children by the way he responded to a complaint that Jerry Sandusky had attacked a boy in a Nittany Lions football team shower in 2001.
Mr. Spanier had avoided prison thus far because of a series of appeals that, at one point, saw his conviction overturned, but later reinstated by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in December..
The latest ruling was handed down by Judge John Boccabella, a visiting senior judge from Berks County.
Mr. Spanier was forced out as university president shortly after Sandusky’s 2011 arrest on child molestation charges. A year later, Mr. Spanier was himself accused of a criminal cover-up, although many of those counts were later thrown out.
Mr. Spanier has said the abuse of the boy, who has not been conclusively identified by authorities, was characterized as horseplay. The incident was not reported to authorities after Mr. Spanier wrote in an email to aides that “the only downside for us is if the message isn’t ‘heard’ and acted upon, and we then become vulnerable for not having reported it.”
Mr. Spanier, who did not testify in his own defense, told Judge Boccabella at sentencing that he regretted not intervening more forcefully.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/judge-orders-former-penn-state-president-spanier-to-begin-prison-sentence-on-july-9/
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Mr. Spanier, 72, will begin serving his sentence — a minimum of two months in jail, followed by two months of house arrest.— on July 9.
He had been found guilty by a Dauphin County jury in March 2017 of a single misdemeanor count of endangering the welfare of children by the way he responded to a complaint that Jerry Sandusky had attacked a boy in a Nittany Lions football team shower in 2001.
Mr. Spanier had avoided prison thus far because of a series of appeals that, at one point, saw his conviction overturned, but later reinstated by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in December..
The latest ruling was handed down by Judge John Boccabella, a visiting senior judge from Berks County.
Mr. Spanier was forced out as university president shortly after Sandusky’s 2011 arrest on child molestation charges. A year later, Mr. Spanier was himself accused of a criminal cover-up, although many of those counts were later thrown out.
Mr. Spanier has said the abuse of the boy, who has not been conclusively identified by authorities, was characterized as horseplay. The incident was not reported to authorities after Mr. Spanier wrote in an email to aides that “the only downside for us is if the message isn’t ‘heard’ and acted upon, and we then become vulnerable for not having reported it.”
Mr. Spanier, who did not testify in his own defense, told Judge Boccabella at sentencing that he regretted not intervening more forcefully.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/judge-orders-former-penn-state-president-spanier-to-begin-prison-sentence-on-july-9/
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Disgusting, the curruption on PA never ends
Josh Shapiro Gets His Pound Of Flesh | Big Trial | Philadelphia Trial Blog
Josh Shapiro Gets His Pound Of Flesh | Big Trial | Philadelphia Trial Blog
You have right to remain ignorant, just admit you know nothing about the case
This ones going down in the history books .
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/with-the-benefit-of-hindsight/id1562078872
