Experts: Ex-PSU president Spanier could still face charges
Source: AP-Omaha World Herald
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) More than a month after an explosive investigative report accused Penn States ousted president of burying child sex abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky, Graham Spanier has so far avoided criminal charges unlike two of his former subordinates.
That doesnt mean hes in the clear, according to legal experts.
As attorneys for Athletic Director Tim Curley and retired Vice President Gary Schultz urged a Dauphin County judge Thursday to dismiss the case against them, Spanier remains vulnerable to criminal charges over his alleged role in a scandal that has shaken Penn State to its core, outside lawyers said.
Former FBI Director Louis Freehs university-commissioned report that accused the ex-president along with Curley, Schultz and football coach Joe Paterno of covering up a 2001 allegation against Sandusky could help lay the groundwork for a prosecution.
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Graham Spanier
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Why does Spanier have a top level security clearance? What is he connected to in the government? What work was he doing? Is he one of those campus CIA guys?
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)As for clearances overall, they're more common than you'd expect. Sometimes they're needed just to enter a building to work there - there's places where the custodial staff would need a security clearance, even if they never ever actually look at or work with anything classified.
Of course that part doesn't apply to this guy, since it's more implied he has the clearance for the work he's doing for the government. Why him of all people is a whole other question, though.
Beowulf
(761 posts)however, Penn State was among the first universities to offer degrees in Homeland Security.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)Ah, that's right, Corbett. What ever happened to that slimeball? Must be hiding in a cave somewhere, hiding his head in shame.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)Wow. I had missed this story and googled up a doosie from "The Nation":
The Governor is far from an innocent bystander. As the states attorney general in 2009, Corbett headed a state investigation into accusations against the revered former coach. Although his office denies it, there are multiple confirmations that Corbett assigned no one from his office to follow up on the charges: just one state trooper, a state trooper not authorized to bring charges against Sandusky. In addition, when Corbett was sworn in as governor in 2011, he still had not informed Thae Second Mile Foundation that their founder was under investigation. Instead, as a candidate for governor, he took $650,000 in donations from members of the Second Miles unknowing board, even allowing their chairman to hold a fundraiser for his campaign. Upon being elected, Corbett then moved deftly from doing nothing to immediately try to deflect the entire weight of the scandal onto Joe Paterno and Penn State itself, using his recently appointed position as a member of the schools Board of Trustees (an automatic appointment for all Pennsylvania Governors) to do so.
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http://www.thenation.com/blog/168853/shocking-truth-about-joe-paterno-penn-state-and-governor-tom-corbett#
csziggy
(34,120 posts)And has not been seen since.
His disappearance was strange - his car was found in a town a few miles away from the town where he lived. His laptop was later found with no hard drive in it. The hard drive was later found but even the company that recovered data from the exploded shuttle's hard drives was unable to recover the data on it. Evidence of searches on how to erase data from hard drives was found on another computer Gricar had use of.
Some think Gricar committed suicide, some think he 'disappeared' himself. No body was ever found. No evidence of any effort to set aside money for a new life was ever found.