Bill Cosby - More proof how badly the PSUBoT screwed up

[Aoshiro]

Bill Cosby was a member of the Temple Board of Trustees from 1982 until December 2014.
During that time, he used his position at Temple to gain access to at least one Temple Athletics employee who he raped.

That employee sued Cosby in 2005 and Cosby reached an undisclosed settlement with her (she filed a motion today to have the entire case unsealed, on the grounds and Cosby and his attorney breached the confidentiality terms of the agreement).

Despite the fact that Temple University was aware of the fact that Cosby had been forced to reach a settlement with a Temple employee who had been raped by him, Cosby remained a Temple trustee for another nine years.

And yet not one journalist, local or national, is questioning Temple's role in this mess. No one is calling on the NCAA to investigate and/or sanction Temple Athletics. Why? Because Temple is keeping its mouth shut, unlike the morons at Penn State.

 

[Aoshiro]

Oh. It gets even better. Bill Cosby was represented by Patrick O'Connor, chairman of @TempleUniv's Board of Trustees in the 2005 lawsuit.

So the Chairman of the Temple Board of Trustees advocated for Cosby against the Temple employee who he raped.

And Penn State has a culture problem? WTF?

 

[dwiz]

And Penn State kicked a lawyer off the board of trustees and then hired her to be the lawyer FOR the board of trustees, in which she railroaded 2 employees of penn state (who they are paying the mounting defense costs for). Bang up job, fellas.

 

[OldTiredLion]

FWIW, today Colin Cowherd mentioned Joe Paterno and Bill Cosby in the same sentence. Something about people who have man crushes.

 

[pennstatekev]

In all fairness, The lawyer Patrick OConner is founder of Cozen O'Conner, one of Phillys largest lawfirms. Still leaves a bad taste in your mouth, but any one of us would use that resource if one of our acquaintances ran a firm like that.

 

[Aoshiro]

In all fairness, The lawyer Patrick OConner is founder of Cozen O'Conner, one of Phillys largest lawfirms. Still leaves a bad taste in your mouth, but any one of us would use that resource if one of our acquaintances ran a firm like that.

Well, it sure looks like a conflict of interest to me. O'Connor chose to side with a Temple trustee accused of wrongdoing against a Temple employee who was a victim. Furthermore, as Cosby's attorney he was aware that Cosby had admitted in his deposition that he had illegally obtained prescription drugs to give to women. Under those circumstances, as a Temple trustee, O'Connor surely had a fiduciary duty to protect Temple by insisting, at minimum, that Cosby resign his trusteeship at Temple in 2005 and not have any personal interaction with any Temple employees or students.

 

[wensilver]

I sent an email to Jeremy Roebuck at the Inquirer who wrote about Cosby today. Roebuck also covered a lot of the Sandusky story. There are a lot of parallels with the stories - I wonder if Roebuck will opine on it.
Obviously everyone at Temple and in the City of Philadelphia knew, and covered it up because they are a bunch of CosBots, have a TV idol culture and were afraid of bad publicity. #sarcasm