Ex-Penn St. Coach Sandusky Charged With Homo Sex Abuse of Young Boys

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Penn State: Jerry Sandusky Scandal Costs Stand At More Than $27M
February 15, 2013 2:26 PM

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State’s bill for legal fees, consultants and other costs associated with the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal stands at more than $27.6 million.

An updated figure as of November 2012 was provided this week on a university website. It includes a $13 million price tag for board of trustees communications and the internal investigation into the scandal by former FBI director Louis Freeh.

Freeh’s findings released last summer were the subject of renewed scrutiny this week after Joe Paterno’s family released an extensive response conducted by its own experts.

Nearly $7.5 million is paying for university legal services or defense. About $4 million is for other legal defense fees including those covering three ex-school administrators facing criminal charges related to the scandal.
 
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Attorney For Jerry Sandusky Says He’ll Continue To Seek New Trial
February 21, 2013 10:06 AM

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Jerry Sandusky’s attorney has filed notice that he’ll take his quest for a new trial to a higher level court. :mad:

Last month, the trial judge rejected arguments that defense attorneys didn’t have enough time to prepare for the three-week trial at which the former Penn State assistant football coach was convicted on 45 child sex abuse charges.

In documents filed Monday on Centre County Common Pleas Court, defense attorney Joseph Amendola does not explain the issues he plans to raise in his Superior Court appeal.

The trial judge, John Cleland, also rejected defense arguments about jury instructions, hearsay testimony and a comment by the prosecution during closing arguments.
 
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PSU Negotiators Begin Making Offers To Victims Of Sandusky
February 27, 2013 4:24 PM
By Ben Simmoneau

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (CBS) – Negotiators for Penn State University have begun offering financial settlements to the victims of Jerry Sandusky, according to several sources with direct knowledge of the discussions. This means the negotiations have entered a final stage and could wrap up in several weeks time.

There are now 30 individuals claiming to be victims of Sandusky. Sources tell Eyewitness News those cases have been broken into three groups by the university. The most serious could receive settlements in the seven-figures, equating to millions of dollars.

A source associated with the Penn State Board of Trustees also confirms that Penn State’s negotiators, Kenneth Feinberg and Michael Rozen, have evaluated all the claims and provided trustees with an estimated total cost to settle all the cases. The source could not divulge that figure, however.

Neither Feinberg nor Rozen would provide comment for this story.

“The negotiations are at a sensitive and delicate stage,” said Tom Kline, an attorney for victim number five. “We are talking about money and we are talking about noneconomic items as well.”

Kline would not provide additional details, except to say he’s meeting with the university negotiators on Thursday.

“This has moved quite expeditiously,” he said. “I believe that Penn State has been acting in good faith. They have hired very skillful negotiators who have been straightforward.”

Apparently, according to sources, dollar amounts began being discussed this week, but there are many moving parts to these negotiations. The university is likely looking for a vast majority, if not all, of the plaintiffs to agree to settle before it finalizes any individual payout.

The discussions also include non-financial terms, perhaps pledges of reform or policy changes by Penn State.

Jerry Sandusky, once a top assistant football coach at Penn State and revered figure in the State College community, was convicted in June of sexually assaulting eight boys over more than a decade. He is serving a 30 to 60 year prison sentence while his lawyers appeal the conviction.

Several top Penn State administrators, including former university President Graham Spanier, are now facing criminal charges for allegedly covering up and lying about what they knew regarding Sandusky’s behavior.
 
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US Judge: Insurer Not Obliged to Cover Sandusky
A U.S. District ruled Friday that Sandusky wasn't acting as an employee or executive of The Second Mile when he abused and molested boys
By MARK SCOLFORO | Friday, Mar 1, 2013 | Updated 5:46 PM

A federal judge says the insurance carrier for the children's charity that Jerry Sandusky founded doesn't have to cover him for acts of abuse.

U.S. District Judge Yvette Kane's ruling issued Friday says Sandusky wasn't acting as an employee or executive of The Second Mile when he abused and molested boys.

Kane says Sandusky's behavior was personal in nature and performed in his individual capacity. She sided with Federal Insurance Co.

Sandusky is appealing after being convicted of 45 criminal counts and sentenced to 30 to 60 years. He met victims through The Second Mile.

Sandusky's appellate lawyer Norris Gelman says he's sticking with his client, but “without money it's going to be a little tough.”

Messages weren't returned by Sandusky's civil lawyers or by attorneys for Federal Insurance.
 
There are now 30 individuals claiming to be victims of Sandusky

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Insurance company's are extremely powerful in this regime, believe it.

Hollywood and this regime promote, defend and protect perversion, believe it.

The majority of lawyers today are perverts themselves, and could care less about a police state, as itz just more money and power for them over US IMO.

:barf2:
 
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Sandusky Scandal Costs Top $41 Million For Penn State
March 11, 2013 2:43 PM

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State’s bill to pay costs associated with the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal has topped $41 million, including $8.1 million to pay for the internal investigation led by former FBI director Louis Freeh.

The latest disclosure posted Monday on a university website offered more itemization for certain costs including the bill for the Freeh probe. The bill also for the first time includes the $12 million payment to the NCAA — the first of five annual installments of the $60 million fine that’s part of the sanctions.

Penn State also released a copy of its engagement letter with Freeh in December 2011 that details the scope of his responsibilities. Some critics of the way trustees have handled the scandal had asked for a public release of the document.
 
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Court Rejects Appeal Of 2 In Sandusky Sex Abuse Case
June 7, 2013 4:58 PM

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court is turning down a pair of appeals by two of the three former Penn State administrators facing criminal charges alleging they covered up child abuse complaints against former football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.

The state Supreme Court late Friday issued a pair of unsigned orders that denied petitions for review filed by former university vice president Gary Schultz and former athletic director Tim Curley.

The court orders say the justices aren’t preventing the two men from raising the same issue during their criminal prosecution.

The two men appealed after the grand jury supervisory judge two months ago ruled he didn’t have jurisdiction to consider their request to have charges thrown out. They deny the charges against them.

The attorney general’s office isn’t commenting.

Sandusky was convicted of molesting boys but maintains his innocence.
 
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Son Of Jerry Sandusky Seeks To Have Name Changed
July 18, 2013 9:40 AM

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A son of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is seeking to have his name changed more than a year after his adoptive father was convicted of child sexual abuse.

Matt Sandusky filed papers Tuesday in Centre County Court seeking to have the names of him and his family changed. Though the documents are sealed, they show he filed for a name change, along with his wife and four children.

Matt Sandusky had been expected to be a defense witness until the trial, when he told investigators that he also had been abused by Jerry Sandusky.

Jerry Sandusky was convicted on 45 counts of sexual abuse. He is serving a 30- to 60-year prison sentence and maintains he was wrongfully convicted. He is pursuing appeals.
 
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Penn State’s Jerry Sandusky Settlements Hit $60M So Far
July 18, 2013 12:32 PM

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Penn State trustee says the tentative settlements reached by the university so far with men who claim to have been sexually abused by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky total about $60 million.

Trustee Ted Brown told The Associated Press on Thursday that he was unsure of how many claims have been settled and how many remain in negotiations.

The trustees voted Friday to authorize members of a committee to approve settlements, without detailing how many accusers have settled, how many remain and how much money might be involved.

Brown says trustees were briefed on the dollar figures in private before the vote. School officials aren’t commenting.

Sandusky is in prison after being convicted last year of 45 counts of child sexual abuse.
 
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3 Ex-Penn State Officials In Court For Hearing On Alleged Cover-Up
July 29, 2013 9:20 AM

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Penn State’s former president and two ex-administrators are in court on charges accusing them of failing to tell police about a sexual abuse allegation involving Jerry Sandusky and then trying to cover it up.

Former Penn State president Graham Spanier, retired university vice president Gary Schultz and ex-athletic director Tim Curley arrived at the courthouse in Harrisburg on Monday.

Also going inside was former assistant football coach Mike McQueary. He testified last year he saw Sandusky engaged in a sex act with a boy in a Penn State locker room shower in 2001.

The hearing for Spanier, Schultz and Curley will determine if have enough evidence to warrant a trial on the charges against them.

The men say they’re innocent.

Sandusky was convicted last year of 45 counts.
 
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Cryptic Penn St. e-mail suggesting conspiracy to cover-up Sandusky child abuse at heart of new charges against top university officials
By MARC LEVY
From AP
Last Updated: 8:10 AM, July 29, 2013
Posted: 2:26 AM, July 29, 2013

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Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly's office displays a poster outlining the Conspiracy of Silence when she announced new criminal charges related to an ongoing child sex crimes investigation against Former Penn State President Graham Spanier and added charges against two former underlings, Timothy Curley and Gary Schultz during a news conference Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. The three men face additional charges at a evidentiary hearing later today.


HARRISBURG, Pa. — It was late at night on Feb. 27, 2001, and Penn State's then-president, Graham Spanier, one of academia's most prominent administrators, typed a brief email to two other top administrators as they debated how to respond to a thorny situation.

He was, he wrote, supportive of the athletic director's proposed approach.

"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," Spanier wrote.

The question of what exact situation the three men were discussing will go before a judge Monday to determine whether Spanier, retired university vice president Gary Schultz and then-athletic director Tim Curley must face trial on charges they covered up an allegation that Jerry Sandusky was sexually preying on boys.

The men say they are innocent and were never aware that an allegation at the time involved anything of a sexual nature. Rather, they say, they had believed that Sandusky, a former top assistant coach on Penn State's heralded football team, and the boy known in court papers as Victim 2 were engaged in nothing more than horseplay in a university locker room shower earlier that month.

Instead of reporting it to police, Sandusky was told not to bring boys onto the campus anymore, according to a grand jury report released Nov. 1 that recommended charges against the men. At the time, nobody sought to learn the identity of the boy. Sandusky is now serving a 30- to 60-year prison sentence after being convicted last year of sexually abusing 10 boys. The conviction included molesting Victim 5 in those showers a mere six months later, sexually abusing Victim 3 around the same period and molesting Victims 1 and 9 in later years.

The case will go in front of District Judge William Wenner, a former Dauphin County detective, and the preliminary hearing is expected to last a day or two. In recent years as a district judge, Wenner has carved out a niche in handling many of the biggest grand jury cases developed by the state attorney general's office.

In these cases, Wenner has found, with the exception of a few charges he has dismissed, state prosecutors have met the low burden of evidence necessary to win approval to take their cases to a full court trial.

For this hearing, state prosecutors led by Chief Deputy Attorney General Bruce Beemer are not trying to prove the men's guilt. Rather, they just have to prove that enough evidence exists to warrant a trial.

No witness list was available Friday, but one key piece of evidence at the hearing could be that email exchange among the men.

"My eyes popped out of my head when I saw those emails because they are just so dramatically significant and documentary evidence of a then-conscious state of mind," said Thomas Kline, a Philadelphia lawyer whose client, Victim 5, testified against Sandusky.

A football team graduate assistant in 2001, Mike McQueary, has testified that he saw Sandusky and a boy engaged in a sex act in the locker room shower and within days reported it to coach Joe Paterno, Curley and Schultz. However, Curley and Schultz say McQueary never reported that the incident was sexual in nature, and Spanier, in turn, has said Curley and Schultz never told him about any sort of sex abuse of a boy.

The three are charged with perjury, obstruction, endangering the welfare of children, failure to properly report suspected abuse and conspiracy. Those charges include allegations of hiding evidence from investigators and lying to the grand jury.

Curley and Schultz were initially charged in November 2011, when Sandusky was arrested, and accused of perjury and failure to properly report the incident.

Spanier was forced out as president at that time. A year later, he was charged with covering up a complaint about Sandusky while additional charges were filed against Curley and Schultz. Spanier remains a faculty member on administrative leave.

Paterno was fired and died in January 2012.
 
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Former Penn State Officials Spanier, Curley And Schultz Ordered To Stand Trial
July 30, 2013 5:30 PM
By Todd Quinones, Tony Romeo

HARRISBURG, Pa., (CBS) – After a two-day preliminary hearing in a Harrisburg courtroom, three former top Penn State administrators have been ordered held for trial on charges that they covered up the Jerry Sandusky scandal.

Former Penn State University President Graham Spanier, former Vice President Gary Schultz, and former Athletic Director Tim Curley – they were all once among the most powerful men at the beloved university, but now with Tuesday’s ruling to move this criminal case forward to trial, they are all facing possible prison time.

“The Magistrate has made his decision. We respect that decision even if we disagree with it,” Spanier’s attorney Tim Lewis said.

The attorneys for the three defendants, including Thomas Farrell representing Schultz, argued that the Commonwealth failed to produce enough evidence to try their clients. :rolleyes:

“What a prosecutor is supposed to do is come into court and introduce evidence… and then make arguments about the elements of the offense… and how the evidence proves each of those elements beyond a reasonable doubt. I didn’t hear anything like that today, I haven’t heard anything like that in two years, because there isn’t evidence,” said Farrell.

In court on Tuesday for the first time, Spanier’s grand jury testimony was made public and read in court. Spanier testified he wasn’t aware of allegations Jerry Sandusky showered with a boy in 1998.

He went on to claim when Schultz and Curley came to him in 2001 about more allegations Sandusky was seen in the showers naked with a young boy, he was only told they were “horsing around” and that he was never told anything sexual was going on.

Among the prosecution’s arguments is that the alleged decision by the defendants to remain silent about Jerry Sandusky led to more victims. In the courtroom observing the preliminary hearing was Philadelphia attorney Thomas Kline.

“The testimony went directly to the young man who I represent, Victim #5, and the prosecution clearly linked the fact that he had been assaulted just six months after the McQueary incident,” said Kline.

Kline refers to the locker room incident involving Jerry Sandusky and a boy witnessed by Mike McQueary in 2001.

The district judge, calling it a “tragic day for Penn State”, ruled that Schultz, Spanier and Curley be held for trial on charges of endangering the welfare of children and other offenses in what the prosecutor again characterized as a conspiracy to remain silent about Jerry Sandusky.

All three men have maintained their innocence and have vowed to fight the charges.

As things stand now, it appears this case may not go to trial until March of next year.
 
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Sandusky Scandal Costs PSU Nearly $48M
Friday, Aug 2, 2013 | Updated 7:36 PM EDT

Penn State's bill to pay costs related to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal is nearing $48 million.

A university website on Friday showed a $47.7 million total as of the end of May, up $1.9 million from two months earlier. The amount covered legal fees, consulting work and other associated costs.

Much of the increase was tied to the university's legal services and defense, which cost $10.4 million, up about $700,000 from March.

The university has said it won't use tuition dollars, state appropriations or donations to pay for scandal costs.

The arrest of retired assistant football coach Sandusky in November 2011 triggered the sweeping scandal. Sandusky, 69, was sentenced to 30-to-60 years in prison last fall after being convicted on dozens of criminal counts.
 
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Penn State Defendants Waive Formal Arraignment
August 5, 2013 4:12 PM

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Three former administrators at Penn State are waiving their right to a formal arraignment on criminal charges in an alleged cover-up of reports about Jerry Sandusky’s behavior with boys.

Dauphin County court officials said Monday that Graham Spanier, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz signed the waiver paperwork last week, after a district judge ruled following a preliminary hearing that there was enough evidence to advance the case to county court.

The documents say all three men are pleading not guilty to the charges against them. Waiving formal arraignment is routine.

Spanier is the school’s former president, Curley is retired from the position of athletic director and Schultz is a retired vice president.

Sandusky is serving a decades-long state prison sentence for sexual abuse of 10 boys and is pursuing appeals.
 
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Sandusky wants to 'grow from experience' of spending rest of his life behind bars
From POST STAFF REPORT
Last Updated: 10:55 AM, August 6, 2013
Posted: 10:52 AM, August 6, 2013

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Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, center, is taken from the Centre County Courthouse after being sentenced in Bellefonte, Pa.


Disgraced football coach and convicted child-sex predator Jerry Sandusky wants to “learn from” and “grow from this experience” — of rotting in prison for life. :rolleyes:

The former Penn State defensive coordinator has been writing letters from behind bars, telling one pen pal he’s struggling to find day-to-day activities.

"I've been quite confined, always searching for purpose," Sandusky wrote in a May 19 letter obtained by the celebrity gossip site TMZSports.com.

“For now my main purpose is to endure, learn from, and grow from this experience. It is very challenging.”

Sandusky, 69, was convicted on 45 of 48 kiddie-sex charges on June 22, 2012, and immediately remanded into custody. He was sentenced to 30 to 60 years behind bars, virtually assuring that Sandusky will only leave prison in a wooden box.

Sandusky parlayed his position at Penn State into creating a charity that gave him access to young boys who he victimized.

He still spoke lovingly of his time in Happy Valley.

“Coaching at Penn State was an act of love and the many wonderful experiences have been a great reward in themselves,” Sandusky wrote. “My plan is to continue this battle until the last whistle blows.”

At one point, the convicted sex abuse fiend assured his pal "I'm trying to get better." :rolleyes:
 
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Sandusky May Be Witness in His Fight For Pension
By MARK SCOLFORO | Friday, Aug 16, 2013 | Updated 2:06 PM EDT

Jerry Sandusky might have to testify in person if he wants to win back the pension he earned during three decades at Penn State :mad:, and former FBI Director Louis Freeh could be called as a witness too.

Sandusky, 69, lost his $4,900-a-month pension on Oct. 9, the day he was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison for sexual abuse of 10 boys. The forfeiture also made his wife, Dottie, ineligible for benefits.

Sandusky appealed the revocation. The hearing examiner charged with handling the appeal wrote last month that his lawyers and the State Employees' Retirement System both may want the former Penn State assistant football coach to testify at a Jan. 7 hearing.

That presents a logistical challenge, because Sandusky is a state prison inmate.

Sandusky is kept from the general population of inmates at Greene State Prison while he awaits arguments before a state appeals court next month in Dallas, Pa. The Corrections Department said Friday procedures exist to accommodate hearings for inmates, whether in person or by video.

Hearing examiner Michael L. Bangs said in 159 pages of case records released to The Associated Press this week under a Right-to-Know Law request that both sides have until Nov. 7 to identify all witnesses they plan to call. If Sandusky is among them, they will have to determine if it's practical to have him transported to the hearing.

Another possible witness is Freeh, the former federal judge and FBI director who led the team that produced a report for Penn State into how the school handled complaints about Sandusky and the actions of top administrators.

The retirement system, which permits enrollment by Penn State employees even though the school is not state-owned, ruled Sandusky's conviction met the standards of the state Public Employee Pension Forfeiture Act, and stopped retirement payments immediately.

In revoking the pension, SERS said Sandusky's convictions for involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and indecent assault fell under the forfeiture law, and his post-retirement ties to Penn State made him a “de facto” employee for crimes committed after he left the university's payroll.

Sandusky's lawyer Chuck Benjamin challenged that ruling, arguing his Penn State employment contract was not renewed after the forfeiture act passed in 1978, so its terms don't apply. Benjamin said Sandusky acted as an independent contractor, not as a university employee.

A SERS prehearing statement from April listed potential witnesses that included Freeh, SERS benefits administrators, someone from Penn State to authenticate documents and possibly Jeff Clay, executive director of the state's teachers' pension system.

Benjamin's prehearing statement from April said Penn State made only six payments to Sandusky between 2000 and 2008, and he was never a Penn State employee in that period. It said his potential witnesses include the Penn State controller, who would describe post-2000 payments to Sandusky.

In recent weeks, Bangs signed a SERS subpoena for Sandusky Associates Inc., founded by Sandusky in September 1999, seeking records that document its connection with Penn State from 1999-2010, payments to Sandusky and information about youth sports camps he ran on university property.
 
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Settlement Reached In Penn State-Sandusky Scandal
August 18, 2013 9:16 AM
By Cherri Gregg

HARRISBURG (CBS) — A lawyer representing one of accusers of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky says his client has reached a settlement with Penn State.

“I would describe my client’s reaction as relieved,” says Philadelphia attorney Tom Kline. “This has been a long road for him.”

Kline says his client, known as “Victim 5,” is the first to settle his claims against Penn State for an undisclosed amount. But the university reportedly approved payouts totaling $60 million.

“My client is fairly and adequately compensated,” said Kline. “Penn State now has an opportunity to recover a substantial amount that was paid to him as well as will be paid to others.”

Kline says “Victim 5″ — who is now age 25 — was assaulted about six months after the 2001 shower incident involving assistant football coach Mike McQueary. Kline says he expects 25 or 26 of the claims against Penn State will settle.
 
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