http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/09/06/troy-aikman-rips-fox-sports-for-hiring-skip-bayless/


Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman is the No. 1 NFL analyst on FOX, but he’s not afraid to criticize his own employer.

Aikman ripped FOX for hiring Skip Bayless away from ESPN and giving Bayless his own First Take knockoff show on FOX Sports 1. Aikman has disliked Bayless since the 1990s, when Bayless wrote a book about the Cowboys that included unsubstantiated rumors that Aikman is gay.

“To say I’m disappointed in the hiring of Skip Bayless would be an enormous understatement,” Aikman told Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated. “Clearly, [Fox Sports president of national networks] Jamie Horowitz and I have a difference of opinion when it comes to building a successful organization. I believe success is achieved by acquiring and developing talented, respected and credible individuals, none of which applies to Skip Bayless.”

Aikman has long maintained that Bayless is an irresponsible, unethical journalist and shouldn’t have a platform at any media outlet. Aikman will continue to say that now, even though Bayless is now a FOX Sports colleague

An interesting story in the Legal Intelligencer on Sandusky's latest PCRA filings concerning two of the key issues still open in Sandusky's PCRA. The issues are the Grand Jury leaks and the use of repressed memory therapy. Sandusky would like to see dismissal of all charges related to eight accusers who came forward after the initial Grand Jury Leaks to Sara Ganim on or before March 2011 as well as an in camera review of therapy notes for accusers who used repressed memory therapy. Here is the article by Max Mitchell of the Legal Intelligencer.
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More than a week after the conclusion of his post-conviction hearing, convicted serial child molester Jerry Sandusky is asking the court to allow him to review the mental health records of several victims who claimed their memories of being abused by Sandusky were repressed and later recovered through therapy.

Sandusky filed two motions made public Thursday afternoon, one of which asked the court for an in camera review of therapy records from several accusers, including Sandusky’s adopted son, Matt Sandusky. The other motion asked the court to dismiss all charges related to the claims of eight accusers who came forward after news of an investigation into Sandusky became public through what the defendant has characterized as a potential breach of grand jury secrecy.

Sandusky, a former Penn State football coach, was convicted in 2012 on 45 of 48 counts related to sexually abusing numerous children. In August, the Centre County Court of Common Pleas held a three-day hearing regarding Sandusky’s claims that his trial counsel had been ineffective and that he had been the subject of prosecutorial misconduct. The post-conviction proceedings are part of Sandusky’s effort to win a new trial on the charges.

Much of the questioning during that hearing focused on the source of that alleged grand jury leak, with Sandusky’s attorney, Al Lindsay, questioning former prosecutors about the source of the information.

One of the briefs filed Thursday said tossing all claims that arose after the leak would be the best remedy for the alleged prosecutorial misconduct. The brief cited a review of the prosecution conducted by H. Geoffrey Moulton on behalf of the state Attorney General’s Office as evidence of the leak.

“In light of the Moulton report’s indication that the leak of the grand jury material is what drove the case from being a flawed case with a single unreliable victim to the litany of alleged victims with stories of abuse, it is beyond cavil that Mr. Sandusky was prejudiced by the leaking of grand jury material,” the brief said. “Dismissal of the charges against Mr. Sandusky is the appropriate remedy, as it is evidence that the commonwealth would not have identified victims 3-10 without the grand jury leak to the media.”

Both Lindsay and the attorney general’s press office did not immediately return calls for comment.

http://www.thelegalintelligencer.co...e Legal Intelligencer&slreturn=20160802140455

Taking out another overrated sec team

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Thank you again Ray,
Didymus
Link: http://notpsu.blogspot.com/2016_08_01_archive.html
Tuesday, August 30

PA: State of Deflection (Part 1: Kane)
The Kathleen Kane and the Conspiracy of Silence cases show that the PA Corruption Network uses a deflection strategy to get rid of its opposition

By
Ray Blehar

The recent conviction of former Pennsylvania (PA) Attorney General (AG) Kathleen Kane will go down in history as another instance of the PA Corruption Network (PACORN) using a prosecution to deflect attention away from its own wrong-doing.

Kane was alleged to have leaked grand jury information regarding the case of J. Whyatt Mondesire.

Unlike the previous cases in PA where the media was "all in" for writing stories from leaked information -- her alleged grand jury leaks were treated as the crime of the century.

There were numerous leaks (to the Philadelphia Inquirer) from the Montgomery County grand jury that investigated the Kane case, but neither the PACORN's media arm nor prosecutor Kevin Steele nor former prosecutor Lisa Vetri Ferman seem the least bit concerned over the Montco leaks/leakers.

The Patriot News won journalism awards for its coverage of Bonusgate and the Sandusky cases -- both of which were plagued by grand jury leaks. Interestingly, both cases were prosecuted by Frank Fina -- but he is never mentioned in association with leaks.

How about that?

Fina grand jury cases leak -- no problem.
Montco grand jury leaks - no problem.
Kane's alleged leaks -- crime of the century.


The Kane leak case was treated differently by the media because one of her campaign promises was to clean up the "old boy's network" in Harrisburg. In other words, she was about to get rid of the leakers and those who allowed leaks to happen.

For example, James Barker was removed from his position because of his failure to investigate and plug grand jury leaks. While Barker claims it was retaliation, there is evidence indicating he was asleep at the wheel or otherwise ignoring leads about the leaks.

Of course, PACORN's media arm didn't have any interest in learning the facts about Barker's failures to plug the leaks.

Some of the Sandusky leaks are rather obvious, but have yet to be identified or discussed by the media.

How about that?

Bloggers can identify leaks using Google.
The media can't find them with LexisNexis.
Barker couldn't find them with subpoena power.

As it turns out, the blogosphere is the only place that the real facts and the truth can be found out about PA's corrupt criminal justice system.

Kane's conviction for perjury, false swearing, and orchestrating a leak of grand jury and CHRIA information is evidence of how the corrupt system works (as I wrote here).

The media insiders understood that Kane's Sandusky investigation had the potential of exposing PACORN's dark, sordid secrets -- and it was their job to protect -- and deflect.

Brad Bumsted, his corrupt media cohorts and other hacks, like Terry Madonna, ignored the facts of this case and continued their assistance in the cover-up. They painted it as Kane singling out and having an obsession with Frank Fina.

Yet another false narrative.

Frank Fina: Not a target of Kane's investigation -- but taken down by it.

A review of news articles from Kane's AG campaign clearly show her focus was on AG Tom Corbett -- not his underling Frank Fina.

Kane's probe of the Sandusky investgation, conducted by Special Deputy AG Geoffrey Moulton, was chartered to investigate if politics, specifically former Governor Tom Corbett's gubernatorial campaign, was behind the slow pace of the investigation.

Bumsted and Madonna twisting it into an obsession with Frank Fina was no accident.

Corbett, Fina, Others Feared Sandusky Probe

Those who feared the Sandusky probe made their pre-emptive strike on on March 5, 2013 -- and not surprisingly, you won't find that data point anywhere on Brad Bumsted's timeline of the Kane case.

Cowardly anonymous sources informed the Legal Intelligencer that they were angered over Kane's Sandusky probe and would retaliate if the investigation was critical of their work.
"Attorneys and agents from the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office who were involved in the investigation and prosecution of Jerry Sandusky are "outraged" that Attorney General Kathleen Kane is keeping her promise to investigate the office's handling of the case, and some are prepared to go public if the review's findings are overly critical of their work or inaccurate."

On March 16th, 2013 anonymous sources again struck at Kane via the Philadelphia Inquirer about her shut down of the Ali bribery case.

Those two shots at Kane were because she made good on a promise to review a case that let a child predator unnecessarily roam the streets and victimize children for two years -- and maybe more.

This was long before anyone knew about reconstructed emails.

The bottom line is that when Kane promised a "no stone unturned" investigation, it scared the living crap out of PACORN.

Had Geoffrey Moulton gone back and turned over the rocks around the failed 1998 Sandusky investigation -- that PACORN conveniently blamed on (assumed) deceased former Centre County DA, Ray Gricar -- it may have found that Sandusky wasn't the only molester being protected by the system.

Moulton's investigation had the potential to expose how the PA government turns a blind eye to child sexual victimization.

Had that happened the false narrative of a PSU cover-up would have been destroyed -- and Pennsylvania would have been a subject of nationwide if not international scorn and shame.

No one involved PACORN (e.g., judges, prosecutors, politcos, and businessmen) wants that cat ever getting out of the bag.

Fast forward to August 2016.

The Old Main/Second Mile Protection Scheme
The PA legislature, led by Senators Joe Scarnati and former TSM board member, Senator Jake Corman, moved for, then held a special session to confirm newly appointed AG Bruce Beemer.

According to The Legal Intelligencer, Beemer was confirmed without a single question asked of him. That fact confirms that corruption is on both sides of the aisle.

Corman also wasn't the least bit inquisitive when TSM terminated Lynne Abraham's investigation of Sandusky's charity in 2012 and certainly wasn't raising any objections.
“Maybe because the organization is clearly not going to continue, maybe that sort of review isn’t necessary. I’m not on the board anymore, so I guess I don’t have a lot of standing.”

He also took in foot off the neck of the NCAA, who would have to provide discovery materials regarding the lawsuit over the $60 million in fines.

While Corman released many documents damaging to the NCAA and Old Main, rest assured that he kept the public from seeing the most damaging evidence of Old Main's role in railroading Joe Paterno and the PSU 3.

Paterno, of course, was used as the ultimate means of deflection in the Sandusky scandal.

It seems obvious that whatever is being hidden by Corman and his cohorts has sweeping ramifications across the state of Pennsylvania. Something truly horrifying has to exist beneath the surface in order for politicos, top officials in Old Main and PSU trustees, officials from The Second Mile, and others to go along with scapegoating a legendary football coach and national sports icon.

Beemer's appointment almost assures that Sandusky's former charity and those connected to it will not face scrutiny by an investigation from Keystone state officials.

Meanwhile, the PACORN media arm and other political hacks continue to deflect on this situation, blaming Kane for the problems in the AG's office and that Beemer's job is to clean up after her.


But the fact of the matter is that Kane inherited a lot of unfinished business when she was sworn in. Outgoing temporary AG Bruce Castor referred to these things as "ticking time bombs."

AG Bruce Beemer: Saddled with ticking time bombs left behind by Frank Fina

The "ticking time bombs" are not personnel matters, the porngate report, or the office's penny ante spats with PA law enforcement.

Time bombs?

Look no further than the Conspiracy of Silence case -- should Beemer decide to play poker with that deflection. His hand has already been eviscerated by the Superior Court.

What's left of it consists of three things:

Unreliable witnesses.
Manufactured evidence.
Tortured interpretations of laws.

That was part of the mess left behind by Frank Fina. Evidence confirmed that Fina believed he could get Curley and Schultz to flip on Spanier and put an end to their charges - while taking down the ultimate target of Corbett's Sandusky investigation.

According a discussion at the Sandusky trial, former prosecutor Joe McGettigan told Judge Cleland the case wasn't going to be tried.

Fina's bluff/flip strategy failed. No one cut a deal.

Beemer now has that time bomb in his hands.

Tick. Tick. Tick.

I want to get this post in before topics turn in earnest to college football this weekend. I'm planning a four-adult, one-toddler early March ski vacation to Vail. I was hoping for lodging walkable to lifts in Vail Village or Lionshead areas. However, I'm frustrated by the prices, so I may have to look at less convenient lodging. How easy is it to get around -- particularly from lodging to lifts -- using shuttles that I assume are offered? Any advice on favored locations other than VV and LH proper? Before anyone suggests Breckenridge as an alternate option, we stayed there last winter and loved it. We'd like to try a different area this winter. Flying into Denver is the most economical and convenient destination city for both involved families, so I've ruled out SLC and other more western hubs. We desire a resort with the many amenities that a resort like vail offers, so one like Winter Park, for example, is not an option. Thanks.

Asking for a co-worker who is an alum....wants to bring her family to a game this year.

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Do you think she will be 'outted'?

I know, I know: "What journalistic integrity?"

Do you think she is monitoring the goings-on closely??

Thoughts???

The lengths that these bastards (and, I suspect - to a certain degree - prosecutors throughout the country) will go to run roughshod over the law - - - - and not blink an eye.
And we, as a society, for the most part just shrug our shoulders.

A defendant - ANY defendant, even a "Sandusky", for the "stick your fingers in your ears" crowd - has a right to a preliminary hearing.
That Fina would sit up there and ADMIT to extorting Sandusky into forfeiting that right (Fina would call it a negotiation , but it is pure extortion any way you look at it).
Admitting that the Fina Boys would seek to effectively revoke his bail and add additional charges against him - if he did not waive the preliminary.

"Uh...Frank...that's not how its supposed to work. Request for increased bail are supposed to be made when there is JUSTIFICATION for increasing bail. Additional charges are supposed to be filed when those charges are SUBSTANTIATED and VALID.......those things are NOT supposed to be some tool for a$$-f$cks like you to use to "Play God" and use your position to satisfy your personal objectives"

Frank must, indeed, be a very small little man.

In this country - prosecutors are not supposed to be able to threaten punitive actions against a defendant in order to force them to cede their rights........and the Fina Boys not only do it EVERY DAY, but they smirk while they admit to it - - - - knowing (or at least believing) that they are untouchable.

Until all of us begin to care as much about a system in which LE/Prosecutors/and Judges trample over the constitution, and other rights we are supposed to have in this society - - - - rather than spending our days in rapt attention over whether or not some dipshit swimmer pissed on a convenience store, or some wanna-be-celebrity-reality-TV-ninny flashed her cooter on camera - - - its only going to get worse.

Sigh

:-(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Rose_Bowl_Hoax

Anybody know some others?

IIRC - a big if these days - that was the year Pitt won the coin toss and their captains couldn't figure out what to do, they kept telling the official they wanted to receive at this end of the field, the official kept saying you only get one choice, they kept looking back at their bench for guidance.

The announcers were going nuts.....PSU's captains were going nuts.....I think Pitt ended up kicking into the wind and PSU got their choice in the second half.

Anyone else remember that?

I was at Penn State in the early 70's when streaking was en vogue. My Beaver Hall room mate, Joe T., was the King of Streaking! He also was the King of Pranking others such as:
1. Putting blue shoe polish on the phone ear pieces in the hallways and calling someone to tell them that they have black shoe polish on their ears.
2. Putting toothpaste in a match box, lighting it on fire, and pushing it under the door. The toothpaste would explode and make quite a mess!
3. Peeing in a trash can and then leaning the can against the outside of a door, knock on the door and run like hell!

http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...rested-police-say-found-handgun-marijuana-car
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What do you do? I may not recall correctly, but it seems to me that hand over heart has become a practice over the past few decades. I recall standing at attention in my younger years with arms at sides. Certainly hats should be removed. In school we were taught to place hand over heart during the Pledge of Allegiance. Since 9/11, some/all MLB teams play Good Bless America in a later inning. It now seems to be a secondary anthem, with most people removing caps and placing hand over heart. I'm not aware of anything official for the latter. I have mixed feelings about "two anthems," particularly a religious centric one.

Edit: Subsequently found the following from the American Legion. Nothing about "God Bless America."http://legionstuff.blogspot.com/2011/11/proper-protocol-for-allegiance-natl.html

Hosting some friends for the Pitt game this year and they're Capitol Hill-types unfamiliar with Penn State football tailgates. I wanted to see what folks here like to make at their tailgates to replicate an authentic experience. Would appreciate recipes too - sides, dips, crock pot, grill items, drinks, etc. Could be a fun thread!

And finally, our anchor man…Edward Hintz. The back of Ed Hintz’s bubble gum card is perhaps the most crowded of any of the trustees. Hintz was elected to the board in 1994 as a business and industry trustee, serving until 2015. He was the chair from 2001 to 2003, and served on the executive committee for much/most of his time on the board. He has also served on boards for The Hershey Medical Center and the Corporation for Penn State, and on the 1995 and 2013 presidential search committees. All plum positions. The initial focus of this piece will be on his 2001-2003 term as board chair. Here, former Penn State trustee Bob Horst describes the co-opting of the six business and industry board seats in 2002:

“In 2002, then board chairman Edward Hintz, Jr. (an industrial trustee) appointed a committee to study and recommend changes to the process for electing industrial trustees. The outcome of the study was a name change to ‘business and industry’ trustees, and the election was eliminated. Not surprisingly, some are the largest financial contributors reported by the university. As Horst noted, the ‘stealth maneuver’ would henceforth eliminate outside elections altogether and move control to the business and industry trustees themselves, as they would control three of the five positions on the selection committee. Thus, not only would a small ‘power’ group of trustees control governance of the university, effectively there would be no way to remove or replace them.” (pennlive.com, updated 12/8/11)

Ray Blehar has said, “The so-called 33rd Trustee was Frederick Anton of the Pennsylvania Manufacturer's Association (PMA). PMA rigged the BOT mechanical and engineering elections for decades -- up until the point the Hintz and [now emeritus trustee Edward “Ted”] Junker revised the charter and came up with the insular selection process for the newly named Business and Industry Trustees.”

In an earlier installment, we learned that the six Ag society seats might have been fixed for years. For certain, the corruption in the B&I process has become institutionalized. In both cases, parties outside of the university have been involved in the hostile takeovers. You think the PMA/B&I group hijacked those positions so Karen Peetz could one day run the show, or that the Ag Societies commandeered theirs out of everlasting reverence for Keith Masser? At the top…who really controls these 12 positions?

The Ag seats are said to funnel up through Pennsylvania Farm Bureau and its former president and former PSU trustee Keith Eckel. Beyond the Penn State board, Eckel is connected to Corbett through service on his chosen gubernatorial transition team. Both bear the same “appearance of impropriety” outlined in our examination of Corbett. These six seats certainly appear to be under the control of the type of “network” we discussed in the last installment.

If possible, B&I connections are even more troubling. On paper, the Penn State board has been tied most strongly to The Second Mile…for many years…through the Business and Industry trustees, the group that has effectively seized control of the university. Long-time B&I trustee Lloyd Huck was a major ($23,000+, with further estate provisions) contributor to TSM, and his wife Dottie served on TSM’s board); William Schreyer’s daughter DrueAnne served on TSM’s board; L. J. Rowell, Jr. served on both Penn State and TSM boards, and was a TSM contributor; Ted Junker, involved in the 2002 B&I coup, and Quentin Wood were four-figure contributors, as were 11/5/11 trustees Linda Strumpf and James Broadhurst. In addition to his $12,000+ contribution to TSM, Ken Frazier shepherded the Freeh fraud, and…did there seem to you to be an air of desperation in his desire to “move on”? Though Ira Lubert, whose ties to TSM have been well-documented, was a governor-appointed trustee at 11/5/11, he’s now been adopted by the B&I group. This is just what we know at a glance. The control of these six seats, and indeed, the university, was gained and has been maintained dishonestly. The group responsible for that would appear to be heavily invested in the protection of The Second Mile, in need of that protection, or both. (Not a single 11/5/11 Ag trustee appeared on TSM’s donor list between 2005 and 2010. Of the 11/5/11 governor-appointed trustees, only Paul Silvis did. Lubert was a board member.)

If we consider the protection of The Second Mile to be within the scope of these outside parties, and that a trustee owes an allegiance to his/her sponsor, a picture comes into focus. Constructing a “path of influence” from the 32 11/5/11 trustees upward:

CORBETT – directly connected to the NETWORK.
GREIG, TOMALIS, ALLAN – connected to the NETWORK as appointees of Corbett.
KHOURY – connected to NETWORK as appointee of Corbett.
CLEMENS, DAMBLY, SILVIS, DI BERARDINIS – appointed to at least one term by Rendell, subject to future confirmation by Corbett; thus connected to NETWORK.
LUBERT – connected to NETWORK several ways: appointment by Rendell; connection to Rendell through casino licensing; direct close connections to The Second Mile; now a B&I trustee.
JOYNER – connected upward through Lubert to NETWORK; Lubert surrogate.
GARBAN – connected to NETWORK through TSM tie (son Drew, long-time TSM director).
ECKEL, HAYES, HETHERINGTON, MASSER, SHAFFER, HUBER – connected to NETWORK through corrupt election process controlled by Eckel/PFB; Eckel connection to Corbett, and “appearance of impropriety.”
BROADHURST, FRAZIER, HINTZ, PEETZ, STRUMPF, SURMA connected to NETWORK through B&I group’s close connections to TSM; with Frazier and Surma, both former board chairs having close personal connections to TSM.

That’s 24 of the 32 November 5, 2011 voting trustees who can plausibly be tied to such influence, directly or indirectly. I’ve asked myself “Why would every one of those trustees care so much about protecting The Second Mile, no matter what it costs the university? Why did PSU join the Corman lawsuit…on the NCAA’s side…against its own best interest? They can’t all be “bad guys,” can they? Aren’t there any honest trustees who would vote to do the ‘right’ thing, and if others hang…so be it? Why does my belly button look like this?”(Good research knows no bounds.) It just didn’t make sense. How do 32 trustees independently, and often uninformed, consistently make one baffling, terrible decision after another? But when I viewed it another way, it made perfect sense: What if they are not in their seats to serve Penn State? What if they are agents of their sponsors? At least a circumstantial case can be made that the ultimate “sponsor” for the six Ag society seats, the six B&I seats and the ten (at 11/5/11) governor-controlled seats is an outside network…or maybe two or three smaller networks that seem to work remarkably well together. That’s 22…a majority…a majority that included the most powerful: the B&I seats, which controlled the chair, which controlled committee chairs and appointments, which control the university.

Even after voting power was taken away from the governor, the Old Guard still had 21 of the 30 votes in their pocket. Then Tom Wolf defeated Corbett in 2014. Did things get a little “iffy”? I know little or nothing about Tom Wolf’s background or any ties with any network. But I’m not bad at math. With the nine votes Wolf would control by the end of his term, do things get interesting for the Old Guard if Wolf’s appointees and the nine alumni trustees agree to “play nice”? No doubt totally unrelated…within 10 days of the election, the OGBOT had created four new positions that they would control. Mark Dambly was just elected vice-chairman of the BOT by a reported vote of 20-14. A breakdown was not provided, but we can be reasonably sure the “20” included the 12 locked down B&I and Ag votes, the four new votes under OGBOT control, and three holdover governor appointees (Benson, Silvis and Dambly). Without those four new votes, that’s 16-14…uncomfortably close. By the time Wolf has all six of his direct appointees in place, an 18-16 governor/alumni coalition could be created. This would give the existing power bloc until 2017 (if it hasn’t happened already) to convince, corrupt, compromise, and/or intimidate 1) one governor; 2) two or more voting members; and/or 3) the process. Unless you think they’d risk ceding control and power quietly.


So…this wraps it up, guys. 32 up, 32 down. Within a few days after reading the Freeh Report, I embarked on a personal mission, without bias, to try to find the truth. Full disclosure: I met Graham Spanier once in a casual setting. He was gracious. I met Joe Paterno once. He was gracious. I probably reffed Tim Curley in an intramural football game…no opinion of him one way or the other endured. I’ve rooted for Ira Lubert on a wrestling mat, Paul Suhey on a football field, and Dave Joyner on both. They were all the “good guys” to me. After five years of homework?…yes, I have some opinions now. As a final bit of research for this series, I reread a passage in Joe Posnanski’s book “Paterno.” On the morning of November 8, 2011, Paterno family consultant Dan McGinn came to the Paterno residence. Posnanski wrote:

“This is when McGinn learned just how far Paterno’s reputation and influence had fallen. He asked [former Penn State football branding director Guido] D’Elia for the name of one person on the Penn State Board of Trustees, just one, whom they could reach out to, to negotiate a gracious ending. D’Elia shook his head. ‘One person on the board, that’s all we need,’ McGinn said. D’Elia shook his head again. ‘It began in 2004,’ he whispered, referring to Paterno’s clash with Spanier. ‘The board started to turn. We don’t have anybody on the board now.’”

It occurred to me: Every single one of these 32 spotlighted trustees (sub Erickson for Spanier) lined up solidly against Joe? If you’re looking to create a defense for Joe Paterno, there’s your closing argument.


I will leave you with two thoughts:


1. The names matter.

In “Paterno Legacy: Enduring Lessons from the Life and Death of My Father,” Jay Paterno wrote, “They announced a unanimous vote. Unanimous. Not one of the trustees voted for my father. Not a one? Then it hit me. It was about the anonymity in unanimity.”

Whatever their motivation, each of these 32 trustees committed to an expensive path that cast an everlasting stain upon Penn State University. Each had a personal choice. Each made hash of it. “Hey, 32…I’ve got your moral obligation right here: Fess up. Apologize. Step down. Atone.” Only one took as many as three of those four steps. Lubert, Peetz, Frazier, Garban, Myers, Silvis, Tomalis, Suhey, Joyner, Deviney, Eckel, Masser, Riley, Dambly, Broadhurst, Strumpf, Clemens, Arnelle, Jones, Alexander, Huber, DiBerardinis, Shaffer, Greig, Hayes, Khoury, Hetherington, Allan, Erickson, Surma, Corbett, Hintz. Never forget.


2. The names don’t matter.

As long as control of the university rests in dirty hands, one trustee is the same as another. Surma out; Dandrea in. Same guy, different name. Let me know the next time an Ag or B&I trustee defies the Network line. I won’t bother to wait up.


Oh…there is one last item I’d like to address on my way out the door:

In response to an earlier installment, LafayetteBear took exception to characterization of these trustees as “feckless”:


“My issue with your use of the term [feckless] is that, while it applies, I do not think it is strong enough. IMO, the word suggests irresponsibility and incompetence rather than malign character and sociopathic disposition, which are qualities a lot of these Trustees have displayed. A more damning adjective would seem appropriate for them. And for the method of their selection.”

Hmmm…you know…when you look at it that way….

If only I had a “do over.”

But I don’t. Somebody lock up for me?


SR/BHF

Disgraced AG Kathleen Kane Did What Politicians Do … Only She Got Caught

Link to story:

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/dis...-did-what-politicians-do-only-she-got-caught/

Former Attorney General Kathleen Kane,once the rising star of the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania, was dealt a devastating blow Monday night. Kane, 50, was convicted of nine criminal charges including perjury and criminal conspiracy for leaking grand jury information about her Republican opponent, and then lying about it. She was forced to resign this afternoon. Her defense team is still reeling over the decision, but they pledge to appeal. Kane has long contended that she is a victim of selective and vindictive prosecution. She was accused of leaking grand jury information to The Philadelphia Daily News about a former leader of the NAACP whom her opponent chose not to prosecute.

Kane contends that the prosecution is retaliation for her exposing the “old-boys network” that was ripe in Pennsylvania government. The network that she exposed included pornographic and derogatory emails that led to the dismissal of two state Supreme Court justices and others. The back and forth between Kane and her opponents can fill lengthy articles. But the bottom line is, as I see it, Kane did what many politicians have done over the decades: she leaked confidential information to reporters. Only this time, she got caught. Her next mistake: She did a lousy job of trying to cover her tracks and got caught lying. What she did is clearly illegal, and there is no denying, as a prosecutor, she should have known better. Her opponents, and even her fellow Democrats, have condemned her actions and called for her resignation. But, I also think it is worth putting what she did in perspective and clearing the air of any pot-calling-the-kettle black that may be going on here.

Prosecutor John M. Morganelli, who ran for attorney general in Pennsylvania, put it succinctly to The New York Times. He said grand jury leaks are practically a league sport in Pennsylvania. Indeed, they are somewhat common in the world of investigative journalism. They’ve been the primary source for many an explosive story from our nation’s leading media outlets. So much so, The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press even put out guidance to journalists on how to deal with them. Most recently, a series of Grand Jury leaks over the death of Michael Brown sparked protests. For better or worse, those leaks were no doubt politically motivated and fanned the outrage in Ferguson, Missouri. No one was ever prosecuted for passing on that confidential information. In fact, to my knowledge, there was never even an investigation. The truth is, without leaks we would never get good information.