<p>[Pennsylvania</a> (Group) - Democratic Underground](<a href=“http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1074]Pennsylvania”>Pennsylvania - Democratic Underground)</p>
<p>New investigative article in ESPN magazine.</p>
<p>[In</a> wake of Joe Paterno’s death and Sandusky sex abuse scandal, a power struggle spread from Penn State to state capital - ESPN](<a href=“http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/7770996/in-wake-joe-paterno-death-sandusky-sex-abuse-scandal-power-struggle-spread-penn-state-state-capital]In”>In wake of Joe Paterno's death and Sandusky sex abuse scandal, a power struggle spread from Penn State to state capital - ESPN) </p>
<p>It is a shame we have to depend upon ESPN for investigative journalism inside Pennsylvania. (Paterno comes out as very honorable in this telling of the story.) </p>
<p>"…In late 2008, the mother of a high school freshman called the local high school, where Sandusky was serving as a volunteer coach, to say that Sandusky had performed oral sex on her son more than 20 times and had forced the boy to perform oral sex on him. The …district attorney …had a conflict…So the case was transferred, in March 2009, to Corbett’s office. … Corbett assigned just one investigator to the Sandusky case, say lawyers with knowledge of the arrangement, although Corbett has denied this through his spokesman. At the time, he had 14 investigators looking into the activities of Pennsylvania House Speaker Bill DeWeese, a Democrat … </p>
<p>…As PA’s attorney general, Corbett investigated Sandusky for nearly two years but failed to make an arrest. But then, as governor, he blamed the university’s leaders for not doing more. One was Paterno, who some board members believed wielded too much power. The other was university president Graham B. Spanier… who had become a vocal opponent of the governor’s efforts to slash higher education funding. </p>
<p>“Throughout this whole process, I felt he had some ulterior motive,” a trustee says of Corbett. “Most trustees felt uncomfortable with his role. It was odd for him to be there and participate the way he did. Very odd.” …Corbett had tried to get Paterno, a staunch Republican, to endorse him, but Paterno declined; the coach had a policy against endorsing gubernatorial candidates because the election winner, as Pennsylvania governor, would get a seat on Penn State’s board of trustees…Penn State President Spanier began hearing from board members during the 2010 football season that Corbett was furious with him for appearing to openly favor his opponent. </p>
<p>One senior member of the Penn State faculty recalls seeing Corbett… at the American Ale House & Grill in State College on Thursday evening, Nov. 10, the night before the regularly scheduled board meeting. “He was just effusive,” the faculty member says. “It was like a victory celebration. I remember thinking at the time that it just seemed a strange thing … a kind of gratuitous political piling on.” …Bob Capretto …asked Corbett, “Who told the board to fire Joe and fire Spanier?” “And the governor said, ‘I told them to do it,’” Capretto says. “He was proud of it.'”</p>