The Penn State football pedophilia scandal will not stop at the Penn
State campus in State College bit will have ramifications throughout
Pennsylvania. The Penn State scandal already involves the current
Republican Governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, and his two
predecessors, Democrat Ed Rendell and Republican Tom Ridge.
Corbett is guilty of the same ethical and possibly criminal
violations that plague ousted Penn State football coach Joe Paterno.
Like Paterno, who was more concerned about his near-godly status as Penn
State's football coach for over 40 years than in the plight of molested
children, Corbett, as Pennsylvania Attorney General since 2004, sat on
issuing indictments in the Penn State and The Second Mile foundation
pedophile case until after he was elected governor in 2010.
Corbett had a chance to act quickly when the case of child
molestation involving Paterno's former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky
came to his attention in 2009. Although Corbett convened a grand jury to
examine evidence in the pedophilia scandal, speed of action to prevent
continuing molestation by Sandusky and perhaps others was not Corbett's
major priority, but becoming governor was. Corbett postponed action
against Sandusky and perhaps others until after his election and the
scandal had another two years to metastasize into a scandal of epic
proportions.
Corbett as governor is also a member of the board of trustees of Penn
State. Corbett has a major conflict of interest owing to his previous
status as Attorney General, current governor, and trustee of Penn State.
Corbett should recuse himself as a Penn State trustee and, perhaps, this
rumored GOP vice presidential candidate in next year's election should
consider resigning as governor. Corbett's involvement as trustee and
past Attorney General is also complicated by the fact that two past Penn
State officials, Vice President Gary Schultz and former Athletic
Director Tim Curley, have been indicted on charges of failing to report
child abuse and perjury before the grand jury. Schultz retired in 2009
but returned to his old position temporarily in September, while
Corbett, knowing full well of the problems with Schultz, was serving as
a university trustee. Curley's and Schultz's attorney fees are being
paid by Penn State, with Corbett as a trustee of the university --
another ethical conflict on the part of Corbett.
Corbett, as Attorney General, could have certainly seen through the
conflict taking place after the 2007 election for Centre County
magistrate Leslie Dutchcot and the outset of the grand jury probe of
Sandusky. A registered Republican, like Sandusky and Paterno, Dutchcot
ran in the May 2007 Democratic and Republican primaries, winning the
Democratic primary and coming in third in the GOP race. She won the
general election but the fact that she was on both ballots and was a
donor to Sandusky's Second Mile charity and volunteered her services to
the organization raises all sorts of red flags, but not to Attorney
General Corbett, who may have been more interested in propelling the
career of a Republican who won the Democratic primary than in seeing
justice done.
Dutchcot, rather than recuse herself from the arraignment of Sandusky
on 21 felony counts of sexually abusing eight boys over a 15-year
period, granted the accused serial pedophile $100,000 unsecured bail, in
other words without any cash, and allowed him to return to a home that
adjoins Lamont Elementary School in State College. Dutchcot's
involvement with rescuing Yorkshire terriers does not appear to extend
to rescuing abused children, especially from the likes of her associate
Sandusky.
Second Mile, in business since 1977, is also accused by some sports
columnists of pimping out young boys for sex to deep-pocketed donors to
the charity. Pittsburgh sports talk radio host Mark Madden said "I hear
a rumor that there will be a shocking development from the Second Miles
Foundation … That Jerry Sandusky and Second Mile were pimping out young
boys to rich donors." Two prominent columnists were reported by Madden
to be working on the story.
On April 15, 2005, Centre County district attorney Ray Gricar, turned
up missing when his car was found locked and abandoned near the
Susquehanna River in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Gricar, who had been
Centre County's district attorney for 20 years, declined to prosecute
Sandusky in 1998, when the first charges surfaced about sexual
misconduct with minors. In July 2005, Gricar's lap top computer was
founs by fishermen in the Susquehanna, minus the hard drive. Two months
later, the hard drive was found near the river bank but too badly
damaged to retrieve information. In 1996, Gricar's brother, Roy, was
reported missing in Dayton, Ohio after his abandoned car was discovered.
He had recently been fired from his job at Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base. A few days later Roy Gricar's body turned up in the Great Miami
River. No traces of his brother Ray have ever been found.
In 1998, when Sandusky was first investigated for inappropriate
behavior with a boy, the Pennsylvania State Police reportedly warned the
boy's mother not to speak to the press. The governor of Pennsylvania at
the time was Tom Ridge, who was also a Penn State ex-officio trustee.
Ridge was also a trustee when Penn State, in 1995, hired Graham Spanier,
the Chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, as Penn State
President. Spanier, a specialist on family sociology who hails from Cape
Town, South Africa, remains a tenured Penn State professor. Spanier
wrote an article on mate swapping and sexual "swinging" for the Archives
of Sexual Behavior. Ironically, Ridge, the governor when Spanier was
hired at Penn State, is now rumored to be in consideration for Penn
State's next president.
Political conflicts-of-interest in Pennsylvania that involve child
abuse are not confined to Republicans in State College or Harrisburg.
In September 2009, Luzerne County Pleas Court judges Mark Ciavarella,
Jr. and Michael Conahan were indicted on federal charges in the "Kids
for Cash" scandal. The judges were later convicted of accepting millions
of dollars in cash kickbacks from two private, for-profit, juvenile
facilities run by PA Child Care and Western PA Child Care for sentencing
juvenile offenders to harsh sentences in order to ensure maximum use of
the facilities. Youthful offenders who committed minor violations were
handed out severe sentences. Hundreds of victims' sentences were later
overturned but there were rumors of violence and sexual abuse committed
on the youth at the private detention centers.
Luzerne County Democratic district attorney Jackie Musto Carroll said
she took no action against Ciavarella because he raised no red flags in
his sentencing practices. Musto Carroll's Republican opponent in the
last election, Stephanie Salavantis, took issue with the incumbent's
defense that she was unaware of Ciavarella's kickback scheme. Salavantis
defeated Musto Carroll, whose uncle, former Pennsylvania state senator
and U.S. Representative Ray Musto, was indicted in 2010 on federal
charges of accepting kickbacks from an unnamed company.
WMR has previously reported on a number of sex scandals involving
Pennsylvania politicians: "October 18, 2006 --Pennsylvania GOP
Congressman is Phil English of the 3rd Congressional District was
arrested in Erie in the late 1980s for soliciting sex from an underage
African-American male. At the time, English was the Erie City
Controller. The arrest was quickly covered up by Erie city officials,
including the mayor. WMR has received information that there was a very
credible witness to the arrest, a public school official in the
Pennsylvania 3rd Congressional District. A member of the Pennsylvania
State Legislature has corroborating information on the arrest. English
served as Chief of Staff for then-State Senator (and now GOP
Congresswoman) Melissa Hart." April 10, 2008 -- "Former Republican
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Commissioner Bruce Barclay was charged
in court documents of secretly filming sexual encounters with male
prostitutes at his Monroe Township home, his Mechanicsburg business, and
his West Palm Beach, Florida home. The Carlisle Sentinel reported that
Barclay had secret cameras installed in the bathroom, bedrooms, an
"indoor recreational area," radios, motion detectors, and intercom
systems. Barclay was found to have recorded between 100 and 500 sexual
encounters in his two homes and business. Barclay engaged the services
of a Harrisburg Internet-based gay escort service called "harrisburgfratboys.com."
A 19-year old male identified in a police complaint by the initials 'W.M.'
said he was flown twice by Barclay to West Palm Beach. Police are also
investigating a March 30 rape charge brought against Barclay." April 10,
2008 -- "WMR has learned that Harrisburg is the center of an
investigation of the use of male and female prostitutes, including
underage teens, by a number of leading state officials. The probe
extends through the State Police to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and
into the executive departments of Governor Ed Rendell, including
Rendell's own office. The investigation by Maryland US Attorney Tom
DiBiagio of prostitution rings in the Baltimore Police Department and
the administration of Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich also had links to
Pennsylvania, according to information received by WMR. Baltimore Police
Commissioner and later- Maryland State Police Superintendent Ed Norris
was convicted of using police funds to procure prostitutes from the
Pamela Martin agency of Deborah Jeane Palfrey. Palfrey went on trial on
April 7 in US District Court in Washington, DC. Palfrey's defense is
expected to call Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter as a witness
after he admitted he was a client of the escort service. Palfrey
maintains, with a high degree of credibility, that the high-profile and
Republican nature of her service' clients led to her being selectively
prosecuted by the Justice Department." April 1, 2009 -- "The attacks by
the so-called 'justice' system against independent journalists are
continuing at breakneck speed. Pennsylvania investigative journalist
Bill Keisling being hauled to court in York, Pennsylvania in violation
of state and federal shield laws, as well as First Amendment rights.
Keisling has doggedly pursued top-level corruption and sex scandals in
the Ed Rendell administration in Harrisburg and within the state's court
system. He also investigated the murder of Assistant U.S. Attorney for
Maryland Jonathan Luna, whose Baltimore office was pursuing the
customers of Deborah Jeane Palfrey's escort service, customers who were
reportedly high up in the administration of Maryland GOP Governor Bob
Ehrlich. Ironically, Rendell is now being considered to be the next
president of Temple University in Philadelphia, proving that, for Ridge
and Rendell, inattention and conflicts-of-interest pay off in the end.
The fallout from Penn State has universities and colleges across the
nation checking their records for indications of child abuse and other
sex scandals. The Citadel is now embroiled in a scandal involving child
sexual abuse by a summer camp counselor. Past gay-oriented sex parties
at Duke and the University of North Carolina involving then Duke
basketball and football player Reggie Love reportedly cost him his job
as President Obama's "body man." De facto White House chief of staff
Pete Rouse, upon hearing of potential problems regarding Love at Duke
and UNC and on the heels of the scandal at Penn State, forced Love to
leave the White House staff immediately, even over the objections of Obama.
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GOP TOADIES STICK IT TO THE STATE'S POOREST AND MOST
DESTITUE CITIZENS, ALL WHILE CUTTING TAXES FOR THE
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| MAYBE SANDUSKY WILL SPARE THE TAXPAYERS THE EXPENSE OF WAREHOUSING HIS ASS! |
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| DO IT JERRY! DO IT! |
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| FORMER CONGRESSMAN PHIL ENGLISH BUSTED FOR SEX WITH UNDERAGE MALE PROSTITUTE |
ULTRA RICH! THE BASTARDS! |
