After years of paper pushing back and forth..... the NCAA got their opportunity to depose Corman the week before Christmas 2014..... A few days later - Corman "settled" with the NCAA.
From the deposition of Jake Corman (in the suit v the NCAA)
This was the first Question and Answer (try to keep from LOLing - knowing what Jake Corman did):
Q. Okay. What do you hope to get out of the trial in this matter; in other words, what are you asking the court for?
A. Well, at this point, we're asking the court -- I guess, we're asking the court to rule on the validity of the consent decree.
Q. Okay. Why?
A. Well, personally, I mean, I'm a big believer that due process is important. And one of the things I always tried to maintain in this whole situation from the beginning is let's find out the facts, let's understand what the facts are and then make decisions based on those facts. And, you know, due process is important to me as a very important component of the basis of our country; that we have a right to, you know, go through a process to understand what guilt is and then decide at that point if penalties are necessary. So this trial hopefully will finally give some sort of due process to this whole matter, find out exactly what happened, how it happened and how decisions were arrived at. I mean, I think that sort of clarity is important.
The NCAA Attorney saved his heavy ammo for the last few minutes of the 1 1/2 hour long deposition.
Beginning at Page 108 of the Deposition:
Q: Okay. So you were a board member of the Second Mile from 2008 to sometime in 2012?
A. I think that's accurate. Somewhere in that area.
Q. Give or take?
A. Yeah.
Q. Okay. And when the grand jury presentment came out, did you know anything about the allegations?
A. I mean, nothing to do with -- well, it was in the Patriot News. So that story about Jerry Sandusky was there. I don't know -- the whole Penn State component was a surprise.
Q. Okay.
A. And the whole multiple victim was a surprise.
Q. Okay.
A. We had been informed, I think, through our leadership to Second Mile that there was this investigation going on. So, therefore, they took steps -- this happened all before I got there. They took steps to move Mr. Sandusky out the population at that point in time. So we were aware there was an investigation going on. We didn't realize anywhere the depth of it.
Q. So the Second Mile knew about allegations of Jerry Sandusky molesting children prior to your arrival in 2008?
A. Before my first board meeting, the head of the Second Mile, Mr. Raykovitz, came to me to inform me that this matter was going on, that there was investigation. To what level, we don't know and didn't know, but just that there was investigation into possible sexual assault by Mr. Sandusky, and that the steps they had taken to deal with that.
Q. Okay. And what steps had they taken?
A. Again, I think to remove Mr. Sandusky from the population of anyone at the Second Mile. At that time, he still attended a little bit of the fundraising kind of thing, but he did not participate in any of the activities with the kids, so he would not have any interaction with the kids.
Q. Did you review the steps that had been taken in your capacity as a board member and deem them sufficient?
A. Uh-hum.
Q. Yes?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay.
A. Sorry.
Q. You didn't think anything else needed to be done?
A. Well, again, we were flying in the dark here somewhat. But clearly, the fact that we knew that there was an investigation going on was concerning, and so that's why we wanted to make sure he was not involved with any of the participants in the camp or in the program, and then we, you know, waited for -- to hear more from -- from the investigation.
Q. You said there was an investigation when you arrived in 2008. Investigation by whom?
A. I -- I believe it was the Attorney General's Office at that point already. And I think, and I could be wrong here, that the information that they were getting, the board leadership at the Second Mile, was through Mr. Sandusky's attorney. We weren't being informed by prosecutors or anything of that nature. We were -- that Mr. Sandusky's attorney informed us of this investigation, so we took -- they took what they thought was the proper steps.
Q. At any time during your tenure on the Second Mile board, did you consider that the Second Mile ought to conduct some sort of investigation into Jerry Sandusky?
A. We were waiting for obviously the investigation to figure that the -- obviously, law enforcement had more resources ability to deal with it than we did. Like any other investigation, you wait to see what the results are and make the decisions from there.
Q. Looking back at your tenure on Second Mile with perfect hindsight, do you wish you did anything different as a director?
A. Gee, I don't know, not off the top of my head, no.
GARDNER: Well, I'll withdraw that. Why don't we go off the record for a few minutes and I'll see where I am.
THE VIDEOGRAPHER: We are now going off the video record. The time 1748
5 Minute Break
THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Back on 1754.
Q. Senator Corman, when you learned that Jerry Sandusky was under investigation in 2008 for child abuse, did you warn anybody at Penn State?
A. No. They were told that -- I think we were told that Penn State was informed as well. I could be incorrect, but I didn't warn anybody at Penn State.
Q. Who do you think told you that Penn State was warned?
A. It would have been leadership of the Second Mile. Jack was president. I'm not a hundred percent sure, but, no we were -- no.
Q. You don't know whether Penn State had been warned or not as you sit here today?
A. I do not.
Q. You personally did not do anything to warn Penn State?
A. I did not warn Penn State.
Q. All right. I don't have anything else.
MR. HAVERSTICK: I have no questions.
MS. DUBLICK: No questions.
MR. GARDNER: We're done.
THE VIDEOGRAPHER: That now concludes this video deposition and tape number two. The time is 1755.
END OF DEPOSITION.
A few days later - Corman "settled" with the NCAA.
It doesn't take a "Rocket Surgeon"
BTW: There is a plethora of very revealing stuff in the Deposition, including:
1)Jake claiming not to know the parameters of the "Endowment Act" - even though, as the NCAA Attorney pointed out, Jake was the Author of the Act.
2) Jake's acknowledgement of a back room deal with Barron to pay the $60 million fine - regardless of the disposition of the case.
3) Corman sharing hand-jobs with Paul Silvis (including sharing info from the ongoing "independent and confidential" Freeh Investigation)
In addition to the general evidence of Jake being "less than bright".