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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 17, 2011 -> 08:04 PM)
Well clearly there is a second victim mentioned in the article.

 

Cousin of the first victim. I am reserving judgement on this one. The victims offered four others who would collaborate and none did.

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Bunch of random legal and political nuggets in this article.

Penn State's trustees have hired a large Pittsburgh-based law firm to represent them in relation to the child sex abuse scandal for which three current and former university employees face criminal charges.

 

Reed Smith spokeswoman Jamie Moss said Thursday that the firm will be working on issues related to the arrest of Jerry Sandusky, the former assistant football coach accused of sexual abuse involving eight boys over 15 years, as well as administrators Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, who are charged with not properly alerting authorities to suspected abuse and perjury.

 

Moss declined to say whether Reed Smith, which lists more than 1,700 lawyers on its website, would be focusing on criminal or civil matters.

 

Penn State university police said a continuing search on Thursday turned up no record to support a former graduate assistant's claim he reported a sexual assault by Sandusky on a 10-year-old boy in a campus shower.

 

Mike McQueary, who is now an assistant coach but has been placed on administrative leave, wrote in an email to friends and given to The Associated Press that he had "discussions with police and with the official at the university in charge of police" about what he saw. In the email, McQueary did not specify whether he spoke to campus or State College police.

 

State College borough police Chief Tom King said McQueary didn't make a report to his department. Penn State has said campus police did not have any record of a report filed in 2002 by McQueary.

 

University police spokeswoman Annemarie Mountz said additional searching has been fruitless. She noted that the 23-page grand jury report was the state attorney general's summary of testimony, so it's unclear what McQueary's full testimony was. McQueary and a law firm representing him have not returned phone calls.

 

On Thursday, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported that Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl wants former Steelers and Penn State player Franco Harris to step down as chairman of the Pittsburgh Promise scholarship program because Harris has questioned football coach Joe Paterno's firing last week.

 

Harris has said he felt Penn State trustees erred in firing Paterno, who fulfilled a legal requirement by alerting his superiors but has been criticized for not doing more when he learned of a sex abuse allegation against Sandusky in 2002.

 

Ravenstahl's press secretary and Harris did not immediately return calls from the AP on Thursday.

 

Pennsylvania lawmakers are planning a special commission to examine the legal issues raised by the scandal, which has prompted questions both ethical and criminal about why allegations of abuse went unreported for so long.

 

The scandal has resulted in the ousting of school President Graham Spanier and Paterno and has brought shame to one of college football's legendary programs. Curley has been placed on administrative leave, Schultz, who was in charge of the university's police department, has stepped down.

 

Schultz, Curley and Sandusky have all maintained they are innocent.

 

School spokeswoman Lisa Powers said in an email Thursday that Spanier offered his resignation in the best interests of Penn State. School officials could not immediately confirm whether the resignation was accepted or whether Spanier was let go regardless.

 

Rod Erickson replaced Spanier on a full-time basis, Powers said.

 

A commission being set up by Pennsylvania lawmakers will consider changes to state law in the wake of the scandal. The plan was described as being in the planning stage, including meetings of leaders and their aides.

 

There have been other proposals for legislative action in Harrisburg, as well as in Washington, where U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., has introduced a bill that would strengthen child-abuse reporting requirements.

 

On Thursday, U.S. Rep. George Miller of California said scandals at Penn State and the Citadel in South Carolina demonstrated a need for the House Education and the Workforce Committee to study potential changes to federal laws that protect children and students.

 

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/foot...l#ixzz1e54G8sRZ

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QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 18, 2011 -> 02:56 PM)
If McQueary did talk to campus police there may be a slim chance that any records were trashed as part of a coverup. However, my opinion is he never went to police.

 

 

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 18, 2011 -> 02:56 PM)
I wouldn't even call it a slim chance honestly. That place is a mess.

The problem with the "Records destroyed" idea is that it assumes that the PSU PD knew what they were doing in terms of destroying them. Who knows how many documents are generated every time a person gives a statement. I can't imagine that having them all "Vanished" would be easy.

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The Second Mile, a Pennsylvania-based youth charity at the center of the child sex-abuse charges against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, has begun taking steps to dissolve itself, the organization's chief executive told The New York Times on Friday.

 

David Woodle said in an interview with the newspaper that the foundation is seeking to transfer its charitable programs to other nonprofit organizations with hopes they can continue Second Mile's work with disadvantaged youth.

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 18, 2011 -> 04:41 PM)
The problem with the "Records destroyed" idea is that it assumes that the PSU PD knew what they were doing in terms of destroying them. Who knows how many documents are generated every time a person gives a statement. I can't imagine that having them all "Vanished" would be easy.

 

With the reaction to this over there, I doubt nothing.

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MOre at link

 

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf...rnet_forum.html

 

Internet forum post first led investigators to Mike McQueary

 

MIKE MCQUEARYAP Photo | CBSIn this screen grab provided by CBS, former Penn State graduate assistant Mike McQueary, left, speaks Tuesday to CBS News Chief Investigative Correspondent Armen Keteyian.

 

An Internet forum message regarding the Jerry Sandusky case first led investigators to Mike McQueary, providing a crucial break in the investigation.

 

According to The New York Times, in 2010, Pennsylvania attorney general's office investigators saw a message on an Internet forum remarking that a Penn State football coach might have seen something and was keeping quiet.

 

The investigators reportedly narrowed down the list of possible coaches and began their work. The New York Times explained:

 

"State College is a close-knit community. Word would get around that a Penn State coach had met with investigators. So investigators set up a meeting in an out-of-the-way parking lot, according to those with knowledge of the case.

 

There, one day a little over a year ago, McQueary unburdened himself, the two people said. He needed little prompting."

 

McQueary was the break that the attorney general's office needed in working toward a charge: an impartial witness.

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QUOTE (fathom @ Nov 19, 2011 -> 07:47 AM)
The timing of Paterno announcing he has a treatable form of lung cancer is very suspicious

 

It would make sense that he was planning on announcing after the season, or perhaps on the eve of a championship game. It also explains why the moved the house into his wife's name. Even when the doctor says treatable, it has to shake you. I'm just guessing it isn't a lie or he managed to contract the cancer.

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QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 19, 2011 -> 02:28 PM)
It would make sense that he was planning on announcing after the season, or perhaps on the eve of a championship game. It also explains why the moved the house into his wife's name. Even when the doctor says treatable, it has to shake you. I'm just guessing it isn't a lie or he managed to contract the cancer.

 

I'm not saying he doesn't have cancer...just that the timing of the announcement seems odd.

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