<p>Corbett was Attorney General in Pennsylvania in 2009 when the investigation began at the state level. He was privy to a fair amount of information about the case when he was elected governor and assumed his seat on the board.</p>
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<li><p>Just about the last thing anyone should want is to have Penn State governed by the Pennsylvania Legislature.</p></li>
<li><p>Many historical state “flagships” have a lot of independence from state government; Penn State is hardly alone in that. They have substantial endowments and independent funding sources.</p></li>
<li><p>Just to recap for people who don’t steep in this every day: Pennsylvania’s current governor, Tom Corbett, was Attorney General when the current investigation began. The investigation took over three years, and did not result in charges until a few months after Corbett took office as governor. It was completed by his hand-picked successor as AG.</p></li>
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<p>The rumor mill levels various, mutually contradictory accusations against him (and my personal assessments of them):</p>
<p>-- that he impeded the investigation hoping it would peter out (not very likely)</p>
<p>-- that he slowed the investigation so that he wouldn’t be seen to be attacking Penn State and Joe Paterno during his gubernatorial election campaign (about 100% likely)</p>
<p>-- that he made certain to protect Joe Paterno, a big donor to his campaigns and a significant figure in the state GOP (possible, but not probable, at least until the late stages)</p>
<p>-- that he was so angry about what he learned during the investigation that he has adopted an overall policy of punishing Penn State (seems at least somewhat justified)</p>
<p>-- that he personally demanded the resignations of Graham Spanier (almost certain) and Joe Paterno (less certain, but probable)</p>
<p>"In 2010, then-Attorney General Tom Corbett accepted a $25,000 political contribution from The Second Mile. </p>
<p>The timeline shows that Corbett had a grand jury seated for about a year, before he began his run for governor. Yet despite this, Corbett still gladly took The Second Mile’s $25,000 contribution."</p>
<p>There is so much written about Corbitt that it is impossible to put here. The timing of his actions. The thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Second Mile and its supporters over the years to him. His awarding of the $3 million grant to Second Mile AFTER the grand jury was already out there interviewing everyone. His letting the grand jury take so long and the details of it. </p>
<p>Just google corbitt, timeline penn state scandel and start reading. </p>
<p>It all stinks. Politics at its best (worse).</p>
<p>When Corbett was AG, he conducted an investigation into a Democrat (I’m going to have to Google to get the name) and assigned 13 investigators. For Sandusky, he assigned one investigator.</p>
<p>I hope the Freeh investigation included looking at why the Sandusky investigation stalled, why no charges were originally filed etc. unbelievable the level of conflict of interest, their only interest was their own personal benefit. despicable really.</p>
<p>The charity that was supposed to be helping children had so much extra money that it donated $25,000 to a political campaign. And the person running for office accepted the money from a children’s charity.
WOW! Just when you think this whole mess can’t get any worse. Surely this cannot actually be legal. It certainly is not ethical.</p>
<p>And worse than that, imo is that Second Mile was told about Sandusky and did nothing to protect the victims there from him. That is criminal, imo.</p>
<p>Ok, clearly I don’t understand this. So Second Mile was fully informed of the nature of the investigation and they continued to allow Sandusky to be around children.</p>
<p>Evil. There is no other word. And yes, criminal.</p>
<p>“When Sandusky announced his retirement in 1999, saying he wanted to spend more time with The Second Mile, Paterno called him “a person of great character and integrity.” That’s all the validation many people needed.”</p>
<p>"Louis Freeh, the former FBI director and federal judge who has led an independent, external investigation into all aspects of the University’s actions related to child abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, has just announced he will release the findings of his investigation at 9 a.m. Thursday, July 12, at [Freeh</a> Report on The Pennsylvania State University](<a href=“http://www.TheFreehReportonPSU.com%5DFreeh”>http://www.TheFreehReportonPSU.com) online.</p>
<p>We look forward to seeing the report on July 12 and reviewing Freeh’s recommendations. The Board of Trustees will be holding a regular meeting this week at Penn State Worthington Scranton, and the University will provide a response on Thursday in Scranton at a time and location to be announced."</p>
<p>Thanks 1moremom, I feel so much better now that I know exactly what JoePa did not know. I really do not know what to think of that statement. Trying to protect his legacy…</p>
<p>From 1moremon’s link to the Paterno family statement:</p>
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<p>The ONLY person who knows what Paterno told Curley is Curley. No way the family can say, categorically, that THEY know what was said. And as for “Joe Paterno did not know that Jerry Sandusky was a pedophile,” well, words fail. </p>
<p>And can anyone explain how Second Mile could legally make a contribution to a political campaign of any kind?</p>