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Subscribe to RSSA former federal prosecutor has been named to lead an investigation of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett's handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
H. Geoffrey Moulton, Jr., who worked in the U.S. Attorney's office in Philadelphia, will lead the long-awaited review of the Penn State abuse case, state attorney general Kathleen Kane said in a news release on Monday.
Sandusky, the former football coach convicted of abusing 10 boys from 1994 to 2009, some in the school's showers, is serving 30 to 60 years in prison.
Sandusky's arrest in November 2011 on a grand jury indictment rocked the lucrative world of college sports. Penn State has since been punished by the NCAA, which imposed a four-year ban on post-season play and other sanctions.
Kane, recently elected state attorney general, was highly critical of the way the case was handled by Corbett when he was the state's top prosecutor from 1995 to 1997 and pledged a review. She said that by convening the grand jury, Corbett failed to protect children by delaying prosecution for more than two years.
Corbett has said he would welcome an investigation.
"Once the facts have been uncovered, my office will make these findings available to the public," Kane said in the release.
Moulton, an associate professor at Widener University School of Law, served in 1993 as a special investigator into that year's controversial federal raid of the Branch Davidian headquarters in Waco, Texas, which led to a 50-day siege and a shootout and fire that killed 80 people.
Corbett is suing the NCAA in federal court, demanding the sanctions be thrown out.
Pennsylvania voters have also expressed dissatisfaction with Corbett's handling of the case when he was attorney general. A Franklin & Marshall College survey of registered voters in September found that nearly two-thirds thought he had done a fair or poor job.
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I hope all the skeletons are pulled out of this dark closet and brought to light. Many more that knew what was going on and impeded investigations still need to be prosecuted . Penn States power permeated all areas of government in Penn.
This Corbett is just trying to cover his azz. He has been deeply involved in this scandal long before it became a scandal.
Now he doesn't want his role to be exposed.
Then: Deny, deny, deny. Forget the little kids, Penn State football is more important.
Now: Deny, deny, deny. Forget the truth, the governorship is more important.
Corbett used Freeh to scapegoat Paterno, et al. so that he (Corbett) would not be blamed. He controlled the Penn State Board of Trustees that arranged for the Report and accepted its incredibly biased conclusions (read the Report and you will see that the evidence cited does not support the conclusions). The only real evidence against Paterno was the testimony of McQueary. McQueary was a very unreliable witness (he changed his story many times) and his testimony was directly contradicted by the testimony of Dr. Jonathan Dranov. Dr. Dranov is a very reliable witness, graduated Phi Beta Kappa, attended a prestigious Ivy League medical school, is a Board Certified Internist and Nephrologist, has more than 30 years of experience in questioning patients to get accurate histories and is familiar with the mandatory reporting requirement for child abuse. He interviewed McQueary on the night that McQueary says he saw Sandusky and the child showering together. Dr. Dranov testified that he asked McQueary three times if he had seen anthing of a sexual nature and three times McQueary said no. It can safely be assumed that Dr. Dranov did not report this himself because from his extensive knowledge and experience he didn't think it crossed the threshold for reporting. So this is what Paterno, a layman, and the others heard. They also had access to a report by the police in 1998 when Sandusky gave a child "a bear hug" and was investigated by a police detective, the PA Department of Public Welfare in Harrisburg, the Centre County DA's Office, and a CCYS counselor who interviewed the child and wrote a report. The conclusion of the police report was "no sexual assault occurred" and no charges were filed. Since this is all that Paterno and the others knew, what are they guilty of?
"Many knew"...? Like who? If you knew so much, why didn't you blow the whistle?
"Corbett, who launched the criminal investigation into Sandusky when he was the Keystone State’s attorney general, has faced criticism for the investigation’s length — it was three years before an indictment was handed down — and because his administration approved a $3 million grant to Second Mile, the charity Sandusky ran and used as a way to recruit victims. Sandusky was no longer running the organization at the time."
I hope they find Corbett guilty of negligence or some other means to make him accountable... He is pretty sure he's above the law... Just ask him.
Corbett was at the center of the investigation that DID NOTHING!!!! He is in this up to his eyeballs. I will be glad to see this investigation. Paterno paid a heavy price for this because he was the perceived center of Penn State, but the Penn State machine was even bigger. This could not have gone on for this long, with this many reports, and this many "players" without MANY people in high places able to make it go away.
After they're done rigging the electoral vote, the state legislature will just pass a bill making Corbett immune.
3oo million people and this is the only crap that MSN can come up with today..??
.. why do i keep coming back here.. sigh
Good question. Why do you keep coming back if you don't like the content? Maybe your web browser has a problem if this was the only story you saw. I could see many other stories/articles.
One Term Tommy.
@warren
By all means stop coming back, then. If you can't understand the value of a state leader being investigated that he may or may not have hedged on critical decision making at his former job to enhance his chances of obtaining the Governorship at the cost of allowing a now-convicted predatory pedophile to continue his child pursuit then perhaps journalistic releases of such inquiries may just be a waste of your time.
I don't care what state who lives where but anyone with minimal sensibilities would be outraged and demand the ousting of their government's top position holder if it were proven to play as this investigation may prove. Citizens of all 50 states have that right to know.
You'll have no problem finding an alternate news source. Try gocomics dot com.
"A Franklin & Marshall College survey of registered voters in September found that nearly two-thirds thought he had done a fair or poor job."
That is bad reporting, this is a reporter with an agenda. Which of the two-thirds thought he had done a fair job and which thought he had done a poor job? To link them together to get 2/3 as a derogatory statement doesn't pass the smell test.
Gov. Frack, er, I mean Corbett only put one investigator on Sandusky, while thowing most of his resources at his political witch-hunts. I can't wait until 2014 and I can help vote that fat scum-bag out of office!!!
As Attorney General, Tom Corbett received over $647,000 in campaign contributions from members of the Second Mile Foundation, while only assigning one investigator to the case.
Meanwhile, at the same time, he assigned 14 investigators to Bill Deweese and spent more than 5 years trying to get him.
It is difficult to believe these campaign contributions did not improperly influence his decision to not file charges against Jerry Sandusky.
The state police trooper who initially handled the Clinton County case against Jerry Sandusky believed there was enough evidence from a teenage boy -- known as Victim One-- to charge Sandusky with indecent assault.