Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE 2* Sandusky Arrested Again

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

Holy shit. Maybe it's already been mentioned, but the quote from one of the moms to the Patriot-News ...

“I don’t even have words to talk about the betrayal that I feel. [McQueary] was a grown man, and he saw a boy being sodomized ... He ran and called his daddy?”

 

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Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

Paterno's side of the story is in the grand jury report. Even if you believe his side of the story, he comes off looking pretty bad.

 

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So ...

In the GJ document, they state matter-of-factly that the GA's testimony was "credible." Then they later state matter-of-factly that Curley's testimony was "not credible."

I'm curious to know why that assessment of each. They don't say.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

That will come out in court.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

This. You don't tell the guy you are about to prosecute for perjury exactly why you know he's committed perjury. That'd give him too much time and leeway to cover his tracks.

 

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Zowie. Sums it all up.

 

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I agree with you guys. I meant that I'm looking forward to that. Because, as stated now, we don't have a lot to go on other than the GJ's word.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

Seconded.

Among the many things made clear by Jones in that interview: if it wasn't for the public school administrators going to authorities, when they thought Sandusky did something inappropriate with a student, none of this would have come to light.

Unfortunately, that moment of contacting authorities came in 2009, instead of, oh, 1998 ... or earlier.

 

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I covered the Northwestern betting scandal. The day the indictments were announced, I asked U.S. attorney Scott Lassar how he knew (not saying to him that Northwestern was so bad, how could anyone tell they were shaving points while losing). He danced around it. Came out in testimony that, in the case of running back Dennis Lundy, he said something to someone on a sideline at Iowa, and that someone took it to a superior. The whole scheme unraveled from there.

Oh, and Northwestern's people went to the FBI immediately, fully cooperated, and had their people available for interviews (as much as they could say, anyway) from the outset when the indictments came down. In Penn State's case, they're the people getting indicted.

 

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From the AP article:

Scott Paterno said the decision to cancel was made by Spanier's office, and that his father was disappointed.
"I know you guys have a lot of questions. I was hoping I could answer them today. We'll try to do it as soon as we can," Joe Paterno said to a group of reporters as he got into his car. About a dozen students stood nearby, chanting, "We love you, Joe."


If Paterno really wanted to talk, go ahead and talk right then. Also, fuck those 12 Penn State students.