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There Appears To Be A Reason Why That Now-Dead DA Did Not Prosecute Jerry Sandusky In 1998
One of the great mysteries surrounding the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse case stretches back 14 years, to when Penn State police put together a 100-page police report that included details of Sandusky admitting he had showered with and touched a boy. For reasons that have never been made clear, the...
Phony Penn State Baseball Star And Potential Trustee Made An Absurd Campaign Video
There he is: Anthony Lubrano. So majestic, so clean-shaven. So statuesque, presiding over the sports complex that bears his name. I pause here to remind you—because Mr. Lubrano is under no obligation to do so himself—that the field bears his name because he paid for it and that he was on the equiv...
Penn State Acknowledges That "A Number Of Other University Employees" Have Now Been Subpoenaed
The feds are already looking into allegations of a coverup, but the state attorney general—whose office is prosecuting Jerry Sandusky—has issued this latest round of subpoenas. That's according to a statement the school posted this afternoon on its website:...
Jerry Sandusky's Lawyer Sustains Another Setback, Promises To Throw Even More Shit Against The Wall
Joe Amendola, Jerry Sandusky's lawyer, has heard back from the judge about his request that prosecutors provide him with more specific details about the allegations against his client: Nope....
Jerry Sandusky's Lawyer Wants Even More Specifics From Prosecutors, May Seek A Dismissal
Prosecutors in the Jerry Sandusky case have already provided the defense with a "bill of particulars" that outlines a specific list of the allegations, including dates and locations. Sandusky's lawyer, Joe Amendola, was back in front of a judge today to argue that he still needs even more detail to ...
Paterno Family Fires Back At Penn State Board Of Trustees: "The Ultimate Responsibility For This Crisis Is Theirs"
This morning, the Penn State Board of Trustees affirmed that the Penn State Board of Trustees did the right thing in firing coach Joe Paterno, citing his "failure of leadership." Now the attorneys for the Paterno family have issued a statement saying that the trustees did the wrong thing in firing J...
Penn State Is Still Glad It Fired Joe Paterno, Sorry It Didn't Find A "Dignified" Way To Do It In Person
Penn State's Board of Trustees posted a statement on the university's website this morning, explaining why it chose to fire coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier. The trustees already explained this in a New York Times interview in January. But with so many Penn Staters still foc...
Penn State Alum And Potential Trustee Is Not A Baseball Star, Doesn't Feel The Need To Correct Anyone Who Says Otherwise
The Penn State Nittany Lions play baseball in Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Anthony Lubrano, according to Penn State's media guide, was a four time varsity letter man at the school from 1979-1982. That bit of information has been in the guide "for years." Lubrano, it turns out, is actually just a r...
The Feds Are Looking Into A Sandusky Cover-Up At Penn State
Cover-ups, bribes, fraud, misuse of government funds. That's what federal authorities will be looking into during their investigation of Penn State in the wake of the Sandusky scandal, according, as usual, to Sara Ganim of The Patriot-News....
Eight Of 10 Alleged Sandusky Victims Claim They Were Molested On PSU Campus
In January, Jerry Sandusky's attorney, Joe Amendola, asked prosecutors for more information about the alleged victims in the case. Amendola wanted a "bill of particulars," which is more or less a list of allegations, including dates, locations, and the ages of the accusers, if not their names. Prose...
Jerry Sandusky's Lawyer Wants More Time Before Trial To Do Stupid Shit; Judge Denies Him
Jury selection for Jerry Sandusky's trial will begin on May 14, as scheduled, now that Centre County (Pa.) Judge John M. Cleland has denied Sandusky's request to have it pushed back until July. Sandusky's attorney, Lawyerin' Joe Amendola, had filed his motion to delay by citing the "great volume" of...
Report: Jerry Sandusky Still Had Access To A Penn State Internet Account Until Recently
We still don't know why it took the feds three months to initiate their own investigation of Jerry Sandusky, but now that they have, they've subpoenaed a laundry list of financial records, emails, correspondence, computer hard drives, and other documents from Penn State dating back to 1998. It's tem...
Memo: Weeks After Sandusky's Arrest, PSU President Was Really Pumped That Only Eight Prospective Students Had Withdrawn Their Applications
Less than a month after Jerry Sandusky had been arrested and the Penn State damage-control thresher had mowed down Joe Paterno, newly installed PSU president Rodney Erickson began sending out stupidly triumphant memoranda to the university's board of trustees. Here's a new one. It comes to us via pu...
Now The Feds Have Their Own Jerry Sandusky Investigation
Penn State has confirmed to the Patriot-News of Harrisburg that it received a subpoena earlier this month from the U.S. Attorney's office related to the Jerry Sandusky child-sex abuse case. The feds appear to be conducting their own parallel inquiry even though the case is still being prosecuted by...
This Is Why Penn State Sets The Standard For Decency, Harmony, And Goodwill
The man in the green and white hat in the above video is Patrick Chambers, the first-year men's basketball coach at Penn State. This afternoon, Chambers handed out Big Macs to the first 200 Penn State students to come to a campus McDonald's with a ticket stub from Saturday's huge win over Nebraska....
A Reminder: The Perjury Case Against Penn State Administrators Is In Jeopardy Because Joe Paterno Is Dead
We told you last month how Joe Paterno's death might have the effect of cosseting Penn State administrators from criminal prosecution in the Jerry Sandusky case. And now that's the defense being pursued by Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, the on-leave athletic director and the former senior vice preside...
Mother Of Jerry Sandusky's Grandkids, Who Once Asked Court To Let Sandusky See Grandkids, Now Angry That Sandusky Can See Grandkids
On Monday, the judge in the Jerry Sandusky case ruled that Sandusky could see eight of his 11 grandchildren at his home, provided a parent is there at all times. He can also communicate with them via phone, e-mail, or video chat. Jill Thomas, the mother of the other three grandchildren, is upset abo...
Jerry Sandusky Can Pretty Much Do Whatever He Wants While He Awaits Trial
Centre County (Pa.) Judge John M. Cleland ruled this morning on a number of pretrial motions from Friday's hearing in the Jerry Sandusky case. And the big winner was Jerry Sandusky, whose trial can begin as early as May. From the Patriot-News of Harrisburg:...
Jerry Sandusky's Wife Nearly Ran Down A Reporter With Her Car, And It Was All Caught On Camera
Yesterday, on the eve of Jerry Sandusky's latest court hearing, Courtney Brennan of Pittsburgh's WPXI-TV was taping a report in front of the Sanduskys' house. It starts off looking like your standard TV news story: An earnest Brennan ready to give an overview of neighbors' complaints to police a...
Someone Shot Creepy Video Of Jerry Sandusky Throwing Biscuits To His Dog
Ol' Jerry gave his own Checkers speech earlier today in front of the Centre County (Pa.) Courthouse. "Now I can't take our dog on my deck and throw out biscuits to him," he said. That's because people were apparently filming him taking his dog on his deck and throwing biscuits out to it. You can wa...