SIAP.....Freeh out at Pepper Hamilton

[StinkStankStunk]

Scheduled for a deposition in the Paterno case next month......Louis Freeh is OUT at Pepper Hamilton.

He will be rejoining - I believe - Sporkin/Sullivan (sorta')


Probably even more than the "Paterno Suit", the Spanier Defamation Suit is a HUGE liability albatross for anyone associated with His Honor Louis Freeh.


It will be interesting to follow along - and I am sure we all will be doing just that - but I said a couple years back, His Honor is the likely "black hole receptacle" that all of the other Scoundrels (PSU BOT, NCAA etc) would try to shove their "blame" into. That may not work for the BOT Scoundrels, now that we are going to see access granted - maybe (and THAT is another developing story) - to those file documents.
You don't spend millions on a whore......and then not make full use of the whore before you are done.


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Louis J. Freeh has left Pepper Hamilton to rejoin Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan, the law firm that saw all of its attorneys join Pepper Hamilton in 2012, the latter confirmed.

Pepper Hamilton managing partner Thomas Cole Jr. said Freeh, a former FBI director and judge, approached the firm last year about leaving. He was no longer on the firm’s website as of Tuesday.

“We have enjoyed a long and productive relationship with him and will continue to work with him,” Cole said.

Cole said Freeh would rejoin the Freeh Sporkin law firm. Although a press release announcing Freeh’s joining Pepper Hamilton in August 2012 said, “As part of this transaction, Freeh Sporkin and Sullivan LLP is merging with Pepper Hamilton,” Cole said that firm never officially merged into Pepper Hamilton. But Cole said there have been no lawyers working at Freeh Sullivan since 2012. Also, Freeh Group International Solutions, a consulting firm Freeh chairs, became a wholly owned subsidiary of Pepper Hamilton in 2012 and will remain so, Cole said.

Cole wouldn’t comment on why Freeh wanted to leave Pepper Hamilton, a firm he chaired from February 2013 through October 2014. A message left for Freeh at Freeh Group International Solutions was not immediately returned.

Cole said there are still lawyers from Freeh Sporkin working at Pepper Hamilton’s offices in New York and Los Angeles. He said two legacy Freeh Sporkin lawyers, father-and-son Eugene R. Sullivan and Eugene R. Sullivan II, have left Pepper Hamilton as well. He could not confirm whether they too would be rejoining Freeh Sporkin.

Cole said Freeh wouldn’t be taking any work or clients with him to his new firm, though he said the two firms would continue to work together.

“Louie will continue to be called upon by clients who want his services,” Cole said. “I think we will continue to work together on certain matters as we had before Louie joined us in 2012.”

When Freeh Sporkin was hired by Penn State to conduct an internal investigation into the school’s handling of the sex-abuse scandal surrounding convicted serial child molester Jerry Sandusky, it brought on a team of several Pepper Hamilton lawyers to assist in the investigation.

The 2012 Penn State report, known as the Freeh Report, wasn’t the first time the two firms had worked together. The firms had teamed up in several arenas, including cases involving white-collar defense, pharmaceutical and medical devices, education and financial services, they said in 2012.

 

[tboyer]

I doubt Mr. Freeh's fact-finding services would be in much demand at this point. The guy bungles every single thing he touches. Hiring him was the biggest single mistake PSU made in the Sandusky aftermath.

 

[psuro]

He is, from eye witness reports, a physical mess after his car accident.

 

[StinkStankStunk]

I doubt Mr. Freeh's fact-finding services would be in much demand at this point. The guy bungles every single thing he touches. Hiring him was the biggest single mistake PSU made in the Sandusky aftermath.

"Mistake"?

They knew EXACTLY what they were buying....and they got it.

Now, in the long run, will it prove to be a "mistake"? We shall see.

 

[KSLion]

I doubt Mr. Freeh's fact-finding services would be in much demand at this point. The guy bungles every single thing he touches. Hiring him was the biggest single mistake PSU made in the Sandusky aftermath.

I doubt it was any mistake at all. Both client and attorney very likely knew exactly what was expected.

As I understand it, since the report Freeh produced did not have the benefit of subpoena power, sworn testimony or rules of evidence, the only evidentiary standard it could meet was "reasonability" -- the legal equivalent of saying, "It could have happened that way" without ruling out any number of other ways a sequence of events could've occurred as well. Which means that Sandusky-related evidence contained in a report for which the PSU Trustees spent $6.5M, or likely more, of University funds was legally insufficient to get a search warrant in the real world (you need probable cause for that), much less any conviction in a court of law. Yet, having paid out multiple millions for this evidentiarily-worthless pile of paper, these same trustees, without ever bothering to take an up-or-down vote on its acceptance, nonetheless allowed it to be used as a basis for the NCAA, an athletic governance organization, to levy historically-severe fines against the University in a strictly criminal matter having absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with athletic administration, then further allowed additional tens of millions to be paid to alleged victims, some of whose claims appeared specious to say the least, but every one of whom was apparently required to sign a Penn State settlement agreement which, for some peculiar reason, also contained hold-harmless language for the Second Mile, aka Jerry Sandusky's grooming charity.

All of which, from where I sit, adds up to breach of fiduciary duty so aggravated as to rule out any cause other than intent.

 

[marshall23]

Some trustees may privately regret many of their actions in this mess. What they are most sorry for is that they are being exposed. In terms of their decisions at the time.....they were well planned and purposeful,like a team's first 20 offensive plays, scripted. Surma and his co-conspirators were in lock step with Tommy Boy. I'd love to see the cell phone records leading up to the assassinations.

 

[marshall23]

hi

He is, from eye witness reports, a physical mess after his car accident.

As it says in The Good Book, "an eye for an eye."

 

[Aoshiro]

Buyer's remorse.

 

[wensilver]

So did Pepper Hamilton quietly ask him to pack his suitcase? Spanier's lawsuit is looming - would that bring blowback to PH if Louis is still around?

 

[StinkStankStunk]

I doubt it was any mistake at all. Both client and attorney very likely knew exactly what was expected.

As I understand it, since the report Freeh produced did not have the benefit of subpoena power, sworn testimony or rules of evidence, the only evidentiary standard it could meet was "reasonability" -- the legal equivalent of saying, "It could have happened that way" without ruling out any number of other ways a sequence of events could've occurred as well. Which means that a report for which the PSU Trustees spent $6.5M, or likely more, of University funds was legally insufficient to get a search warrant in the real world (you need probable cause for that), much less any conviction in a court of law. Yet, having paid out these multiple millions for a worthless piece of paper, these same trustees, without ever bothering to take an up-or-down vote on its acceptance, allowed it to be used as a basis for the NCAA, an athletic governance organization, to levy historically-severe fines against the University in a strictly criminal matter having absolutely nothing whatsoever to with athletic administration, then further allowed additional tens of millions to be paid to alleged victims, some of whose claims appeared specious to say the least.

All of which, from where I sit, adds up to breach of fiduciary duty so aggravated as to rule out any cause other than intent.

Bam!!!!!!

 

[Cruising Route 66]

I doubt Mr. Freeh's fact-finding services would be in much demand at this point. The guy bungles every single thing he touches. Hiring him was the biggest single mistake PSU made in the Sandusky aftermath.

Why is that? Because you didn't get the result you were expecting? At the time of his hire no one was complaining about Freeh being tabbed to conduct the investigation. No one. Ken and Ron initially wanted Chertoff but for very legitimate reasons, Freeh got the nod. My guess is that you would be saying Chertoff or Guliani would have been a bad decision if either one of them would have been hired and had come to the same conclusions as Freeh. No?

 

[marshall23]

The only folks who got the results they were expecting were Kenny, the SITF and the rest of the misanthropes on the BOT. They in fact were expecting the results because they provided the outline and most of the pertinent interviews.

 

[StinkStankStunk]

Why? Because you didn't get the result you were expecting? At the time of his hire no one was complaining about Freeh being tabbed to conduct the investigation. No one. Ken and Ron initially wanted Chertoff but for very legitimate reasons, Freeh got the nod. My guess is that you would be saying Chertoff or Guliani would have been a bad decision if either one of them would have been hired and had come to the same conclusions as Freeh. No?

LOL. Plenty of folks were dumbfounded at the "Freeh" selection (at that time, they didn't know what a self-serving cabal of Scoundrels your masters were)

I WILL concede you one point, in retrospect, ANY whore commissioned by your masters would have been a horrendous decision.



Have a great day!!!

 

[Aoshiro]

Why is that? Because you didn't get the result you were expecting? At the time of his hire no one was complaining about Freeh being tabbed to conduct the investigation. No one. Ken and Ron initially wanted Chertoff but for very legitimate reasons, Freeh got the nod. My guess is that you would be saying Chertoff or Guliani would have been a bad decision if either one of them would have been hired and had come to the same conclusions as Freeh. No?

Freeh's unsubstantiated "conclusions" have cost Penn State hundreds of millions dollars.
The people who told him to write those "conclusions" and sell them to the public are going to be held accountable.
No one will weep for your friends.

 

[colt21]

Why is that? Because you didn't get the result you were expecting? At the time of his hire no one was complaining about Freeh being tabbed to conduct the investigation. No one. Ken and Ron initially wanted Chertoff but for very legitimate reasons, Freeh got the nod. My guess is that you would be saying Chertoff or Guliani would have been a bad decision if either one of them would have been hired and had come to the same conclusions as Freeh. No?

You're wrong again CR
As soon as it was Freeh I knew the fix was in and many people were complaining before the investigation even took place

 

[simons96]

So did Pepper Hamilton quietly ask him to pack his suitcase? Spanier's lawsuit is looming - would that bring blowback to PH if Louis is still around?

reading between the lines of the recent rulings in the Paterno v NCAA lawsuit . . . the NCAA claims Pepper Hamilton has turned over 161K documents to the Paterno legal team. The "insurgents" have access to Freeh's work product (soon)

I'd say this was cutting a huge liability from their bottom line.

 

[Agoodnap]

LOL. Plenty of folks were dumbfounded at the "Freeh" selection (at that time, they didn't know what a self-serving cabal of Scoundrels your masters were)

I WILL concede you one point, in retrospect, ANY whore commissioned by your masters would have been a horrendous decision.

Have a great day!!!

I think you meant to say "with the benefit of hindsight"...

 

[Aoshiro]

reading between the lines of the recent rulings in the Paterno v NCAA lawsuit . . . the NCAA claims Pepper Hamilton has turned over 161K documents to the Paterno legal team. The "insurgents" have access to Freeh's work product (soon)

I'd say this was cutting a huge liability from their bottom line.

I don't think that PH can escape financial liability (remember - Freeh subcontracted "work" to PH and PH used that money to "acquire" Freeh) unless some of the plaintiffs would be satisfied by PH throwing Freeh under the bus. Which is possible, of course.

 

[Aoshiro]

You're wrong again CR
As soon as it was Freeh I knew the fix was in and many people were complaining before the investigation even took place

Here's one guy who raised some questions.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a11799/louis-freeh-penn-state-investigation-6593617/

 

[blion72]

So did Pepper Hamilton quietly ask him to pack his suitcase? Spanier's lawsuit is looming - would that bring blowback to PH if Louis is still around?

my bet is yes they did ask him to exit. going forward he is carrying a lot of toxic baggage = and most of the revenue that he arrived with is gone. he was surely thought of as a "rainmaker" - but now it ain't rainin.

 

[Cruising Route 66]

The only folks who got the results they were expecting were Kenny, the SITF and the rest of the misanthropes on the BOT. They in fact were expecting the results because they provided the outline and most of the pertinent interviews.

Where's your proof? If Lubrano or any of the other dissidents have it, let them come forward with it. Ryan Bagwell with his hundreds of FOIA e-mails found nothing of what you are suggesting so go peddle your asinine theories somewhere else

 

[marshall23]

Where's your proof? If Lubrano or any of the other dissidents have it, let them come forward with it. Ryan Bagwell with his hundreds of FOIA e-mails found nothing of what you are suggesting so go peddle your asinine theories somewhere.

I don't need proof. It is a reasonable conclusion.

 

[StinkStankStunk]

Here's one guy who raised some questions.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a11799/louis-freeh-penn-state-investigation-6593617/

Bam!!!!!!!! Aoshiro steals CR's lunch money, gives him a wedgie, and kicks his ass all over the playground!!!!!

 

[Aoshiro]

Where's your proof? If Lubrano or any of the other dissidents have it, let them come forward with it. Ryan Bagwell with his hundreds of FOIA e-mails found nothing of what you are suggesting so go peddle your asinine theories somewhere.

You know what?

Your friends and Louie the liar were the ones making the accusations.
The burden of proof was on them, not Lubrano or anyone else.

They accused Paterno and thousands of others of turning a blind eye to Sandusky's crimes without a shred of proof.
They cost Penn State hundreds of millions of dollars.

They are going to be held accountable.

 

[colt21]

Where's your proof? If Lubrano or any of the other dissidents have it, let them come forward with it. Ryan Bagwell with his hundreds of FOIA e-mails found nothing of what you are suggesting so go peddle your asinine theories somewhere.

Wrong again CR-you know that has quite a ring to it "Wrong Again CR"

There has already been enough "proof" demonstrated to indicate this was NOT a fair and impartial "investigation"

That has already been PROVEN. Unlike anything that came out of Freeh's mouth which, despite what he says, does NOT even reach the level of a "reasonable conclusion"

 

[Locolion]

Why is that? Because you didn't get the result you were expecting? At the time of his hire no one was complaining about Freeh being tabbed to conduct the investigation. No one. Ken and Ron initially wanted Chertoff but for very legitimate reasons, Freeh got the nod. My guess is that you would be saying Chertoff or Guliani would have been a bad decision if either one of them would have been hired and had come to the same conclusions as Freeh. No?

I thought it was a bad decision all along. Turns out - didnt need to waste that money on any firm

 

[GTACSA]

I doubt it was any mistake at all. Both client and attorney very likely knew exactly what was expected.

As I understand it, since the report Freeh produced did not have the benefit of subpoena power, sworn testimony or rules of evidence, the only evidentiary standard it could meet was "reasonability" -- the legal equivalent of saying, "It could have happened that way" without ruling out any number of other ways a sequence of events could've occurred as well. Which means that a report for which the PSU Trustees spent $6.5M, or likely more, of University funds was legally insufficient to get a search warrant in the real world (you need probable cause for that), much less any conviction in a court of law. Yet, having paid out these multiple millions for a worthless piece of paper, these same trustees, without ever bothering to take an up-or-down vote on its acceptance, allowed it to be used as a basis for the NCAA, an athletic governance organization, to levy historically-severe fines against the University in a strictly criminal matter having absolutely nothing whatsoever to with athletic administration, then further allowed additional tens of millions to be paid to alleged victims, some of whose claims appeared specious to say the least.

All of which, from where I sit, adds up to breach of fiduciary duty so aggravated as to rule out any cause other than intent.

That's why it was entitled a "report."

 

[GTACSA]

Freeh's unsubstantiated "conclusions" have cost Penn State hundreds of millions dollars.
The people who told him to write those "conclusions" and sell them to the public are going to be held accountable.
No one will weep for your friends.

Or you could say that the failure of certain individuals at Penn State to report the MM observations to the police cost Penn State a huge amount of money, as well as credibility.

 

[Aoshiro]

Or you could say that the failure of certain individuals at Penn State to report the MM observations to the police cost Penn State a huge amount of money, as well as credibility.

Four years later, this "fact" is still unproven.

 

[Cruising Route 66]

Freeh's unsubstantiated "conclusions" have cost Penn State hundreds of millions dollars.
The people who told him to write those "conclusions" and sell them to the public are going to be held accountable.
No one will weep for your friends.

Freeh's findings were crafted from direct and circumstantial evidence uncovered during the investigation and he all but said so during his presentation. If it looks like a duck and quacks likes a duck, guess what? People are found guilty every day on the preponderance of the evidence.

And who are those people to who you refer? The Board members who Louie also strongly criticized in his report?

 

[tgar]

Freeh's findings were crafted from direct and circumstantial evidence uncovered during the investigation and he all but said so during his presentation. If it looks like a duck and quacks likes a duck, guess what? People are found guilty every day on the preponderance of the evidence.

And who are those people to who you refer? The Board members who Louie also strongly criticized in his report?

so when is the one eyed judge going to return to defend his work as stipulated? when does he come back to answer questions in public to defend his work product? he had his grand standing moment, when does he defend his conclusions as promised?

you are such a tool. what's sad is you cant even see it. pathetic.

 

[Aoshiro]

And the other shoe drops.
The US Attorney in Delaware has just indicted Wilmington Trust.
http://www.justice.gov/usao-de/pr/s...-m-oberly-iii-regarding-indictment-wilmington
And who was a member of the Board of Directors when it was busy hiding its bad loans?
Louis Freeh.

 

[kentuckycb]

Freeh's findings were crafted from direct and circumstantial evidence uncovered during the investigation and he all but said so during his presentation. If it looks like a duck and quacks likes a duck, guess what? People are found guilty every day on the preponderance of the evidence.

And who are those people to who you refer? The Board members who Louie also strongly criticized in his report?

Preponderance of the evidence is a standard of law. None of what Freeh or the SITF did was in a courtroom. Thus, no matter what any of them "reasonably" concluded, it was flagrantly irresponsible of the leaders at Penn State to allow anyone to spout off about what they think happened. Their radical speculations (and that is absolutely what they are) have undoubtedly cost Penn State and others dearly. Things will never be the same. And for what? What good did it do anyone or anything to implicate Joe Paterno when the DAs office cleared him of any wrong doing? It was and continues to be a public disgrace. Luckily little by little people are starting to realize that Joe Paterno and Penn State got shafted by soulless charlatans who chose to save themselves over the university they were charged with protecting.

 

[Aoshiro]

Freeh's findings were crafted from direct and circumstantial evidence uncovered during the investigation and he all but said so during his presentation. If it looks like a duck and quacks likes a duck, guess what? People are found guilty every day on the preponderance of the evidence.

And who are those people to who you refer? The Board members who Louie also strongly criticized in his report?

"Crafted" = made up.

 

[JoeDidntKnow]

Why is that? Because you didn't get the result you were expecting? At the time of his hire no one was complaining about Freeh being tabbed to conduct the investigation. No one. Ken and Ron initially wanted Chertoff but for very legitimate reasons, Freeh got the nod. My guess is that you would be saying Chertoff or Guliani would have been a bad decision if either one of them would have been hired and had come to the same conclusions as Freeh. No?

Look who shows up to defend Freeh... not surprise here. Why do you even still post here? No one likes you and your posts contain less FACTS than the Freeh 'report' or one of the "victims" depositions

 

[KSLion]

That's why it was entitled a "report."

A significant portion of which was intended to be used, and was wrongfully used, as an indictment of a completely innocent man, Joe Paterno, in the court of public opinion.

 

[kentuckycb]

Or you could say that the failure of certain individuals at Penn State to report the MM observations to the police cost Penn State a huge amount of money, as well as credibility.

Penn State's incompetent legal counsel and administrative leader Rodney Erickson should never have let Jerry on campus w/ children in the first place; an observation Joe Paterno made during Jerry's retirement negotiation.

 

[Cruising Route 66]

Here's one guy who raised some questions.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a11799/louis-freeh-penn-state-investigation-6593617/

LOL! That's the best you can do?

 

[StinkStankStunk]

LOL! That's the best you can do?

 

[marshall23]

Freeh's findings were crafted from direct and circumstantial evidence uncovered during the investigation and he all but said so during his presentation. If it looks like a duck and quacks likes a duck, guess what? People are found guilty every day on the preponderance of the evidence.

And who are those people to who you refer? The Board members who Louie also strongly criticized in his report?

CRAFTED= skill in evasion, deception or guile. That's another thing we can agree on.