Disgraced Former Penn State DC Jerry Sandusky (convicted child molester)

[LovelandBuckeye]

Not any more...

Is this the new Titanic 3-D?

 

[Taosman]

Interesting that I seem to have over estimated the impact of the case on the future of Ped State football as their recruiting is doing fine now that O'brien has gotten his act together. Clearly there are kids who still dream about playing there.The historical momentum of the football program did not come to a screeching halt.
Or is it still too soon to fully asses the damage? I'm just not so sure any more.
Their fan base is still composed of a cult like mentality as they're still in denial completely in conflict with outside perceptions. That is obvious.

And the investigation staggers on like a zombie from The Walking Dead.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Or is it still too soon to fully asses the damage? I'm just not so sure any more.

 

[localyokel]

So far, so good, I guess...Judge refuses to throw out charges:

http://http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/football/ncaa/04/12/Sandusky-charges.ap/index.html?eref=sircrc

Cleland also said Sandusky will be allowed to introduce an alibi defense, but only if it's based on new evidence arising from the discovery process.

Guess it's obvious, but in case it's not: "alibi defense", as defined by criminaldefenselawyer.com is

In criminal law, an alibi defense is when an accused person asserts that someone can vouch that he or she was with them, somewhere else, instead of committing the crime(s) charged to the defendant.

So, how is that gonna work exactly? "I can't be guilty, Your Honor, because at the time every one of these crimes is alleged to have been committed, I was in a completely different shower with a completely different eight-year-old boy. I am soooo innocent."

 

[BB73]

A 24-year old at the Patriot News in Harrisburg, PA was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her work on this story.

Congrats, Sara Ganim. Now, please don't follow George Dohrmann's career path.

Chicago.SunTimes

Patriot-News wins Pulitzer for breaking Penn State scandal

NEW YORK (AP) - The Associated Press won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism Monday for revealing the New York Police Department's widespread spying on Muslims, while The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa., and a 24-year-old reporter captured the award for local reporting for breaking the Penn State scandal that ultimately brought down Joe Paterno.
...
At The Patriot-News, Sara Ganim, a police and courts reporter, won for "courageously revealing and adeptly covering the explosive Penn State child sex scandal," the Pulitzer judges wrote. At 24, she is one of the youngest journalists ever to win a Pulitzer; at least one prior winner, Jackie Crosby of the Macon Telegraph and News of Georgia, was 23.
Ganim broke the news of the grand jury investigation into allegations against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. She was also the first to report his indictment on charges of molesting several boys involved in a charity he ran. Sandusky has denied the allegations.
The scandal ended Paterno's lustrous coaching career, prompted the ouster of Penn State President Graham Spanier and led to a nationwide discussion over the place of big-time sports on college campuses.

"Better than any award, the most rewarding thing through this whole process has been people telling me that this story and our coverage has changed their minds about local reporting, and we all know that there are a lot of minds yet to change," Ganim said.

Cont'd ...

 

[BB73]

SI.com

Penn State president gets grand jury subpoena

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Penn State President Rodney Erickson received a subpoena last week to testify regarding the investigation into former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, the university said Monday. The subject or subjects of Erickson's future testimony was not immediately clear, and university spokeswoman Lisa Powers declined to provide a copy of the subpoena, which was first disclosed by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Erickson's "attorney is discussing with the attorney general's office various aspects of the subpoena, including the actual date of testimony," Powers said. "President Erickson intends to fully cooperate and answer all questions truthfully."
A spokesman for the attorney general's office declined to comment.
Penn State said in February it had received a subpoena from the U.S. attorney's office in Harrisburg that asked for records of payments made by trustees to the school, or to third parties on the school's behalf, among other things.
That subpoena told Penn State chief counsel Cynthia Baldwin to preserve all university records and emails, including board and executive session minutes, disclosure reports and computer hard drives. It sought all Sandusky-related records and the hard drives for computers assigned to former university President Graham Spanier, former vice president Gary Schultz and athletic director Tim Curley.

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Cont'd...

 

[colobuck79]

Wonderful thing, subpoenas.

 

[localyokel]

Wonderful thing, subpoenas.

Love me some Wilford Brimley, esp. in that scene from Absence of Malice.

James A. Wells, Assistant U.S. Attorney General:
What'd you figure you'd do after government service, Elliott?

Elliott Rosen: I'm not quitting.

James A. Wells, Assistant U.S. Attorney General:
You ain't no Presidential appointee, Elliott. One that hired you is me. You got thirty days.

 

[BB73]

CBS

Penn State assistant athletic director Sherburne no longer at school

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- The Penn State official who briefly took over as athletic director following the sex abuse scandal is no longer working at the school. The Centre Daily Times first reported Mark Sherburne's departure Thursday night and said he was fired Wednesday.
A university spokesman said Friday in an email to The Associated Press that Sherburne no longer works there. Penn State has not said that Sherburne was fired, and declined further comment citing a personnel issue.

Cont'd ...

This is Sherburne.

 

[Gatorubet]

CBS



This is Sherburne.

This is Sherburne as seen by Taos...

 

[OSU_Buckguy]

CBS



This is Sherburne.

looks like the mental pederast from "gone baby gone." kind of fitting.

 

[Zippercat]

This Sherburne as seen by Taos...

He sees X ?

 

[BB73]

It's believed that Sherburne was fired because of something related to the investigation, perhaps because he didn't produce requested documents in a timely manner.

SI.com

Source: PSU's Sherburne connected to probe


STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- The firing of a Penn State athletics official was connected to the investigation into the child sexual abuse case at the university, said two persons familiar with the situation.
Mark Sherburne, an associate athletic director, was fired this week, said the people who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
One person said Sherburne was dismissed for failing to produce in a timely fashion documents under subpoena by the state Attorney General's office related to its investigation into Sherburne's boss, Athletic Director Tim Curley. Curley is on administrative leave after being charged with lying to a grand jury and failing to report an abuse allegation against retired assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
Messages left Friday at a number listed for Sherburne were not immediately returned.
University spokeswoman Lisa Powers declined comment Friday night since the matter was a personnel issue.
The person familiar with the firing said the documents were voluntarily produced and turned over to the attorney general's office.
It was unclear the types of documents in question, but the university has told staffers to preserve and produce documents related to the investigation.

Cont'd ...

 

[colobuck79]

not producing documents in a timely manner sounds like "coverup" to me.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

not producing documents in a timely manner sounds like "coverup" to me.

After having been explicitly reprimanded and warned over the exact same thing. While it's certainly indicative of a desire to protect the athletic department, JoePed and the others, it is also part of the larger batshit crazy culture of the place.

The Penn State secrecy thing is so fucking bizarre. Do you know that Ohio State actually had to remove Ped Aggy from our benchmark group of peer universities because they wouldn't release the necessary data.