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JoePa
Jul 18, 2012 11:38:26 GMT -6
Post by "Redneck" Johnson on Jul 18, 2012 11:38:26 GMT -6
Best comment I've seen was that Paterno's statue should be rotated 90 degrees. Then it can continue to look the other way.
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JoePa
Jul 19, 2012 5:58:25 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 19, 2012 5:58:25 GMT -6
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JoePa
Jul 19, 2012 22:04:47 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 19, 2012 22:04:47 GMT -6
www.chicagotribune.com/news/s...,7664258.story HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Pennsylvania's governor said on Thursday that Penn State University officials may have intentionally withheld information from a grand jury looking into allegations of football coach Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse. Penn State's cooperation in the Sandusky investigation, dating back to 2009, was "incomplete," despite a subpoena from the state attorney general, Governor Tom Corbett said at a news conference. Corbett was Pennsylvania's attorney general in 2009, before he was elected governor in 2010. Ads by GoogleSandusky, 68, a former assistant coach at the college football powerhouse, was convicted last month of molesting 10 boys over a 15-year period. He could spend up to 373 years in prison. Penn State, where Sandusky worked for 30 years until retiring in 1999, came under fire last week with the release of a report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh, which said top university officials callously covered up Sandusky's sex abuse of children for years in an effort to protect the school's reputation and lucrative football program. Penn State failed to turn over all the evidence sought by the grand jury looking into Sandusky, Corbett said. "It was not initially provided by Penn State University when it was subpoenaed by the attorney general's office," he said. "I am very disappointed in the lack of forthcoming evidence to the subpoena that was given to them by the attorney general's office," he added. Pennsylvania newspapers reported that Corbett said that emails implicating university officials did not come to light until after charges had been filed in the Sandusky case. Penn State spokesman Dave La Torre said that Penn State is cooperating fully with all investigations. "Penn State has, literally, turned over millions of pages of documents to investigators and continues to cooperate with any and all requests for information," he said. The grand jury investigation into the case remains open, according to Attorney General spokesman Nils Frederiksen. He would not say whether Penn State might face obstruction of justice charges or if any other charges might be pending. Freeh's report said an assistant to University Vice President Gary Schultz removed two files regarding internal Sandusky discussions in November, when Sandusky was arrested, and failed to disclose doing so in interviews with Freeh's group. The files were discovered in May 2012, the report said. Along with the Freeh report, which was commissioned by the Penn State Board of Trustees, the family of the late football coach Joe Paterno has said it is conducting its own investigation. Paterno was fired for failing to report the allegations against Sandusky to authorities. Penn State also faces an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education, which is weighing whether it violated the Clery Act that requires colleges to report criminal incidents on campus, and by the NCAA, which governs U.S. college sports and is weighing sanctions against the university.
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JoePa
Jul 21, 2012 18:24:37 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 21, 2012 18:24:37 GMT -6
This reads like an Onion article. But it's not.
PITTSBURGH — Former Pittsburgh Steelers and Penn State University running back Franco Harris has been one of Joe Paterno’s biggest defenders since the Penn State scandal broke, and he’s still defending the late coach despite the Freeh Report. Harris told Channel 11’s Alby Oxenreiter, “After I read the Freeh Report, I feel even more strongly about Joe and about his non-involvement in any type of cover-up. There was no cover up. No way would Joe ever cover-up anything like this. No way would Joe protect Sandusky or protect the football program.” Harris said he thinks justice was served with the Sandusky verdict, but that Paterno is also a victim, especially in the court of public opinion. “All of the focus has been on Joe. People blame him more than anybody else and he played such a minor part in all of this,” Harris said. Harris went on to scoff at any suggestion to take down the Paterno statue that stands outside Beaver Stadium. “Until we finish with this, with this next trial and even more investigation into this, they really shouldn’t even consider this,” Harris said. Overall, the Penn State Board of Trustees is the target of Harris’ most direct criticism. “The Board of Trustees has made every bad decision along the way. These decisions, I’d probably say just about every one, have done things to hurt Penn State,” Harris said.
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JoePa
Jul 22, 2012 5:54:26 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 22, 2012 5:54:26 GMT -6
Joe Paterno statue coming down Updated: July 22, 2012, 7:20 AM ET Associated Press
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Police and construction workers have barricaded both sides of the street and the sidewalks near the statue of Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno at Penn State University after the school announced Sunday morning it would be taken down.
A chain-link fence has been erected around the area surrounding the statue.
Two dump trucks, a flatbed truck and a forklift that brought the fence are at the scene. In all, about 20 construction workers and about 20 police officers are present.
The statue has become a target for the late coach's critics since former FBI Director Louis Freeh alleged a cover-up by Paterno and others that allowed retired assistant coach Jerry Sandusky to continue molesting boys.
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JoePa
Jul 22, 2012 6:31:16 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 22, 2012 6:31:16 GMT -6
PedPa 'won' game 409 on Oct. 29th, 2011. On Nov. 5, 2011 the Grand Jury presentment was released, just 1 week later. Jerry Sandusky sat in the President's suite for that game. Think about that for one second. Everyone had testified in front of the grand jury weeks or months before. Everyone knew he was under investigation for child rape. Everyone knew it was the second time he was investigated for this. Everyone knew he was a child rapist. Yet, Jerry Sandusky still sat in the President's suite for the 409th 'win'. THE $#@!ING PRESIDENT'S SUITE!
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JoePa
Jul 22, 2012 12:29:39 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 22, 2012 12:29:39 GMT -6
CBS News has learned that the NCAA will announce what a high-ranking association source called "unprecedented" penalties against both the Penn State University football team and the school.
"I've never seen anything like it," the source told correspondent Armen Keteyian.
NCAA President Mark Emmert will make the announcement Monday morning at 9 a.m. at the organization's headquarters in Indianapolis.
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JoePa
Jul 22, 2012 13:51:37 GMT -6
Post by mayor on Jul 22, 2012 13:51:37 GMT -6
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JoePa
Jul 22, 2012 17:01:14 GMT -6
Post by gk on Jul 22, 2012 17:01:14 GMT -6
Vacated wins, I wonder?
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JoePa
Jul 23, 2012 6:36:16 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 23, 2012 6:36:16 GMT -6
25 minutes until the press conference.
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JoePa
Jul 23, 2012 6:57:38 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 23, 2012 6:57:38 GMT -6
By Victor Thorn
On Nov. 11, 2011 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania radio talk show host Mark Madden dropped a bombshell during an appearance on Boston’s WEEI when he told radio talk show hosts John Dennis and Gerry Callahan, “I hear there’s a rumor that there will be a more shocking development from the The Second Mile (TSM)—and hold on to your stomachs, boys, this is gross—that Jerry Sandusky and the Second Mile were pimping out young boys to rich donors.”
Now, further evidence that Jerry Sandusky’s TSM was being used to traffic underage boys to wealthy donors took a major step forward via a July 19 interview with Greg Bucceroni, currently employed as a school police officer in the Philadelphia, Pa. school district while also volunteering with the District Attorney’s office.
Bucceroni told this reporter, “In 1979 and 1980—when I was 13 and 14 years old—a well-connected pedophile named Edward Savitz took me on trips from Philadelphia to TSM fundraisers. I knew the minute I got there it was a breeding ground because of Savitz’s involvement. While [Jerry] Sandusky interacted with wealthy donors, the other men were sizing-up kids. I felt like a cheap whore because I was in these naked pictures that Savitz was passing around.”
When asked how certain he was in regard to these claims, Bucceroni replied, “I’m sure of it. Savitz talked about taking kids from Philly to TSM and introducing them to men—soliciting them to ‘his friends.’ They exchanged and swapped kids like baseball cards. It was a feeding frenzy. I felt like a prostitute or a go-go dancer at a bachelor party. I felt dirty, used and cheap.”
When it came to TSM’s founder, Bucceroni didn’t overplay what happened. “Savitz introduced me to Sandusky on two separate occasions, but he didn’t come across like a pedophile. The other guys at these functions, though, were different. I could tell from their body language what they had in mind. When I met him, Jerry was a like a movie star. Everyone called him ‘Coach.’ After Savitz hand-delivered my enrollment forms to him, Jerry grabbed me by the shoulder—not in a sexual way—and said, ‘Don’t worry, we’ll take care of you.’ Savitz told me that Jerry would take kids to football games.”
Sexually abused victims who testified at the Sandusky trial in Bellefonte, Pa. confirmed this point.
As questioning turned to other individuals at these get-togethers, Bucceroni remarked, “They were obviously wealthy—like doctors, attorneys, politicians and businessmen—and I could tell some were married from their wedding rings. But their body language gave away their intentions. On my second trip to TSM, I went with Savitz, another pedophile, and a boy my age. Savitz mingled with the other adults, discreetly showing them child porn pictures that he’d brought along. These are the kinds of places where guys from New York, Jersey and Pa. interact. Plus, with all the Penn State hoopla, TSM promoted itself as an alternative to jail or juvenile hall. They said it was the best thing since peanut butter and jelly. But Sandusky is just one in a handful of them. I hope you shine a light on this society of pedophiles.”
On July 16, nearly a month after Jerry Sandusky’s conviction on 45 counts of child sex abuse, Sara Ganim of Harrisburg’s Patriot-News revealed, “Sources close to the Jerry Sandusky case say that three men have come forward and told police that they were abused in the 1970s or 1980s by the convicted pedophile.” She continued, “If found to be credible, [they] would directly attack the 68-year-old’s defense argument that a person doesn’t become a pedophile in his or her 50s.”
The Story’s Beginning
During our July 19 interview, Greg Bucceroni described himself back in the mid-to-late 1970s as “a young tough John Travolta-type kid with a New York accent—a poster boy for juvenile delinquency that got in lots of trouble.”
In 1976 he met Edward Savitz, a “youth advocate,” Democratic political booster, and big donor to then-Philadelphia District Attorney Ed Rendell. In a July 17 article for the New York Daily News, Christian Reid wrote, “Savitz was finally arrested in March 1992, charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sex abuse of children, indecent assault and corrupting the morals of a minor. He died of AIDS in a hospice days before his trial was to begin in April 1993.”
Reid also noted, “Like Sandusky, Savitz met and groomed many of his alleged victims through his work with at-risk youths.” In this context, Reid continued, “…Savitz would engage in oral sex with Bucceroni and other victims. Savitz’s attorney, Barnaby Wittels, told the Daily News Savitz paid his victims in exchange for them performing deviant acts.” Lastly, “There were over 5,000 photos of Savitz’s many alleged victims recovered by authorities from Savitz’s apartment, including many of Bucceroni,” Reid wrote.
Bucceroni continued this narrative. “Instead of going to juvenile jail, Savitz pushed me toward TSM. My stepfather had already filled-out the paperwork, so when we drove up there [32 years later, Bucceroni can’t recall the exact location], Savitz said he’d keep me out of jail if I ‘treated his friends right.’ Back in those days I didn’t know anything about Penn State or Jerry Sandusky. My whole goal was to stay out of jail, so I went along with it. Afterward, Savitz gave me and the other kids money and gifts and alcohol, but a couple of months after the TSM trip I beat him up when he tried to molest me. That’s what caused him to call the police.”
Prompted to describe what Savitz did to him, Bucceroni explained, “He liked me to defecate on him, perform oral sex on me, or else he’d take naked pictures and masturbate while other juveniles had sex. Savitz also wanted me to introduce him to other kids. Savitz had an entire photo album from TSM. Over the decades, I’d say he probably had hundreds, if not thousands, of victims until his arrest in 1992. Time magazine even wrote about him.”
Indeed, an April 13, 1992 Time magazine article entitled “Uncle Ed’s Ugly Secret” began, “To the teenage boys who visited his apartment near Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square, Ed Savitz was an easy client who paid $15 for oral sex and had a fetish for soiled underwear and socks. Health and law-enforcement officials fear that Savitz was also a walking AIDS time bomb.”
Fast Forward
In November 2011 when the Sandusky scandal broke, Bucceroni spoke of his reaction. “After I told the Philadelphia police about Savitz in 1980, I tried to bury my past for the next 30 years. But everything I heard about TSM really hit home. There were all these allegations about TSM and their well-connected donors. So, I decided, since all of this stuff from my youth screwed up my life, maybe I could help other kids.”
But, Bucceroni insists, the process has brought about many hardships. “It would’ve been easier to get in the ring and fight Mike Tyson than come out and talk about this stuff. I don’t have an agenda, Eddie Savitz is dead, and I don’t plan on suing anybody. All I know is that if the Philly police had listened to me in 1980 and done their work, there’s a chance that the Penn State sex scandal could have been avoided. But the police did nothing.”
On a final note, Bucceroni added, “There are a lot of politicians that take money from these wealthy pedophiles. That’s why the Freeh Report didn’t go very deep. He kept the focus limited. Similarly, the mainstream media hasn’t—for the most part—touched this story either.”
The big question now is: will local and national TV stations, news reporters, and radio talk show hosts investigate this hidden angle, or will they continue to provide cover for a network of perverted pedophiles that prey on vulnerable children at supposed “safe havens” like TSM? If they continue to stay silent, they’re as guilty as all the others who’ve covered up this atrocity.
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JoePa
Jul 23, 2012 7:07:39 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 23, 2012 7:07:39 GMT -6
oh my god, quit preaching and get to the freaking sanctions.
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JoePa
Jul 23, 2012 7:13:22 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 23, 2012 7:13:22 GMT -6
$60 million fine on PSU, with proceeds going to abuse funds.
Banned from bowl games and post season play for 4 years.
10 schollies lost a year for four years. All players can transfer and compete.
VACATES ALL WINS FROM 1998 TO 2011
Five year probationary period, whatever that means.
NCAA reserves right to continue investigation and impose sanctions in the future.
PSU required to adopt fed guidelines they previously refused.
Integrity agreements, whatever those are.
No death penalty.
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JoePa
Jul 23, 2012 7:15:27 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 23, 2012 7:15:27 GMT -6
Meh.
All I heard was "too big to fail."
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JoePa
Jul 23, 2012 7:21:28 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 23, 2012 7:21:28 GMT -6
Well everyone seems to think these are serious and crippling. We'll see.
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