Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett made it clear to his staff that he did not want to pursue the pedophile case against former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky.
A separate investigation involving AG office narcotics Agent Anthony Sassano in November 2010 finally broke the "Corbett-imposed logjam" in the Sandusky case.
On his PACE computer database system, he discovered that the former football coach was also supposedly under investigation for a pedophile complaint by Corbett’s heretofore-inactive state trooper, and prosecutor.
Centre County District Attorney Michael Madeira referred the Sandusky pedophile investigation to Attorney General Tom Corbett in March 2009. DA Maderia cited a personal conflict of interest between himself and Sandusky.
AG Corbett told key members of his staff that he did not want to actively pursue the Sandusky case.
"Tom didn't want to do it," one Corbett associate explains.
The case, per standard procedure, was assigned to a state trooper, and a prosecutor. Nevertheless, without Corbett's approval, and without the active shepherding of the AG, the investigation went nowhere.
At the time the pedophile case was first received by the AG's office in 2009, particulars of the case were, by routine procedure, entered into the Office of Attorney General's PACE computer system database. PACE is an acronym for Police Automated Computer Entry.
The PACE system is a computerized indexing and intelligence system. It allows law enforcement personnel to discover if a potential target is under investigation by other law enforcement officers or agencies.
When in doubt, follow the money trails. As it turns out, former Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno had close business ties to Second Mile, the $27 million charity founded by alleged child molester and former Nittany Lions assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. The Daly reports that Paterno and longtime Second Mile board chairman Robert Poole(runs Poole Anderson Construction, one of the biggest independent contractors employed by Penn State) secured financing to build a $125 million luxury retirement community in 2002.
Paterno was also partnered with that team of investors in developing a golf resort and nearby restaurant and inn. Paterno also partnered with other current and former Second Mile board members on a bottled water company, a coaching website and a chain of convenience stores.
Pinnacle Development, one-half of the developer team that built The Village at Penn State, included Paterno, Poole, William Schreyer—a Penn State trustee whose daughter is a longtime board member of The Second Mile—and local developer Philip Sieg.
Each partner stood to make an estimated $590,000 in fees and 15 percent annual interest on an $125,000 initial investment if the project was successful enough to get funding for a second phase.
It wasn't. The Village's nonprofit owner filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday. The filing indicated that Pinnacle was never repaid its initial investment, and that $18.8 million was owed to residents who moved out and demanded refunds on their entrance fees.
JoePa pimping the Village at Penn State
And if that's not enough, another thread can be added into this tangled web of lies and deceit. Amos Goodall, of Goodall Yurchakm, the former law firm of District judge Leslie Dutchcot, who initially failed to recuse herself from the Sandusky case, despite her ties to Second Mile, represented Ray Gricar's sister, to declare Gricar dead. On top of that, Goodall's son, Christian committed suicide
Is it any wonder that in 2007, then-President Graham Spanier vigorously fought a proposed expansion to the Open Records Law for Penn State and the other state-related schools, citing concerns about privacy to donors, compensation packages for staff and issues of intellectual property rights, among other reasons?
Over 30-years ago, in a 1976 Sports Illustrated article, Frank Deford coined the term "Sportianity"—"a triumphal evangelism blended with competitive zeal that has been crafted by and for those whose love of athletics often makes it difficult for them to view sports objectively."
Fast forward to present day, with the infusion of commercialism into athletics complete, the obsession with sports in our culture can only be defined in religious terms.
Sure, "sportsmanship" is given plenty of lip-service; however, in reality, it's almost non-existent, today. Healthy competition has degenerated into cut-throat competition and the concept of teamwork into self-elevating opportunities for players and coaches, alike...all the way down to the grade-school level, if not preschool! Whether actively participating as coaches, or shouting from the sidelines as parents, adults who live vicariously through their children has become as American as "apple pie". Little hard to counteract a self-absorbed society when the parents are leading the way, don't you think?
Moreover, when sports are always organized by adults, rather than the spontaneous organization of children, it kills the joy and sense of satisfaction and accomplishment that most kids experience as a result. Winning to please the adults is very often the unspoken "rule of law".
With the advent of "organized" sports for toddlers, and the competition, pressure and misbehavior of parents that accompanies, it should come as no surprise that the crimes and indiscretions of players and coaches in higher education is increasing with astonishing frequency. It just doesn't get any worse than the current Penn State/Syracuse scandal. Or does it?
It absolutely does. The mind-numbing glorification of sports at the expense of everything else is downright evil. As I've said before, Penn State is only the tip of a very dark and ugly iceberg. Child sex trafficking and sporting events go hand-in-hand. Take Super Bowl Sunday. It conjures up images of touchdowns, tailgates, and tradition. Nevertheless, there there is a very dark side that gets very little exposure. Believe it or not, in the spirit of Penn State, it's a child sex trafficker's playground, according to Brad Dennis, the director of the KlaasKids Foundation. Which makes sense when you really think about it. But that's the whole problem, no one thinks about it.
Don't get me wrong. I really enjoy sports. The problem is not sports, it's the sports-industrial-complex that has infiltrated every aspect of our lives creating a false religion that makes us forget what's important.
Like the driest of paper, the Penn State investigation was so close to bursting into flames that all it took was an infinitesimally small spark: one random message on a PSU football message board, to re-ignite it. This message conveyed the idea that there might be a PSU coach who saw something, but wasn't talking, which led investigators to Mike McQueary, who finally opened up about what he knew about Jerry Sandusky's sexual abuse of children. Although, it's been suggested that the case was kept under wraps until after Joe Paterno broke the record for wins by a Division One coach; however, even if that is true, it goes way beyond Paterno.
The circumstances surrounding this case - Sandusky's confession in 1998, Gricar’s dropping the case against Sandusky in 1998, the silence of all those powerful men at Penn State that knew of Sandusky’s perversion, Gricar’s disappearance and the Second Mile Foundation - leads those of us with inquiring minds to think that this may have been an open secret, a cover-up, but the very fact that PSU wants to investigate itself, will undoubtedly transform this possibility into probability in those inquiring minds. There needs to be an investigation by someone who has no association whatsoever with the PA political structure. There is no doubt that this went on thanks to the complicity of law enforcement and people in high places, in on the cover-up.
Moreover, Governor Corbett's decision to approve a $3 million dollar grant to the Second Mile charity,, while he knew about the Sandusky sex abuse investigation during his time as attorney general demands that an independent third party investigate this matter.
The problem is finding someone(s) with the appropriate credentials, without any affiliation to Penn State, and in my humble opinion, without any affiliation to Pennsylvania at all. Everyone will be satisfied once Sandusky gets what's coming to him without realizing that the organized abuse of children - elite pedophile rings - is a reality, that goes way beyond Sandusky. And by the very nature of these rings, they are protected by a vast network of high profile people with an abundance of power. So, it appears that evil will prevail once again, and none will be the wiser.
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing", and that's exactly what happened in the Penn State child rape scandal. Predators like Sandusky have existed since time immemorial, and they always will. Whether you believe these people are sick, or evil, or both, it's not up to them to police themselves...they either can't, or they won't. In other words, it ain't their problem. It's ours!
Because we know better! We know right from wrong! Or, do we? If we, the people - who either, do not possess the destructive and lustful appetite of the deranged, or, have the power to control these destructive and harmful urges - protect reputation, wealth, and status, over the lives of innocent children; hence, letting these predators roam with impunity, who is the real evil one here?
I mean, do we allow lions to roam free? And if we did, who is at fault when the lions feast on the innocent? The lions? Or, the people who allow them to roam freely?
Another wall that serves to protect pedophiles, and pedophile rings is that people just don't want to believe it's true. That's great, but it certainly doesn't mean it's not true. Burying your head in the sand may make people feel better, but what about those experiencing the abuse, and in some cases, torture?
Reading through many of the comments posted in response to the Penn State scandal, it appears that people want to make this an, us-versus-them issue when, in reality, pedophilia is everywhere: from the quaint and picturesque farms of the Amish, , to the behind-the-scenes of a glitzy and glamorous Hollywood. However, perhaps, the greatest evil is when pedophilia is used by people in positions of power and authority to either keep that power, or increase it. Pedophilia is an industry in and of itself, used by some our most revered institutions, because, pedophilia is, above all else, all about power
One state trooper was assigned to the Sandusky case back in 2009. Does that sound like a government interested in protecting its children?
The Patriot-News of Harrisburg reported Monday that only one trooper was assigned to the case after the state took it over in 2009. After Corbett became governor early this year and his former investigations supervisor in the attorney general's office, Frank Noonan, became state police commissioner, seven more investigators were put on it, the newspaper said.
There are quite a few things that point to the Sandusky case as part of a much larger and much more insidious enterprise. It's no secret that our government has been privatizing - using private companies for government work - everything from the military to child welfare, and one company in particular stands out: Dyncorp
According to DynCorp, the US Government is its biggest client, accounting for more than 95% of its revenues. Dyncorp's clients include the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Department of Defense, Department of State, Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service, Securities and Exchange Commission, FBI, CIA, and HUD and Child Protection Services. That's right. The very same company that kidnaps women and children for trafficking purposes.
It's reasonable to assert that the Sandusky case - just like the recent Hershey pedophilia case that also took almost two decades to "resolve" - is allowed to go linger in limbo for decades because these cases go all the way to the top and involve members of governments, religions, law enforcement and every other institution that we the people fail to hold accountable.
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In lieu of the Penn State scandal, which very well might just be scraping the surface of something much deeper, this shocking documentary reveals the disgusting practice that goes on amongst some of the most respected people at the top levels of the U.S. corporate and governmental structures. As Dr. Tom Philpott said, the "slaughter of innocence."
"Destiny, the fatum, or the inner voice, tells you where you have to wind up and what you’re destined to do, but it doesn’t tell you how to get there or how to do it…
Aeneas cannot choose not to found Rome; he’s destined to create it. But he as to wrestle with himself, inch by inch, hour by hour — play by play! — to figure out how to endure the struggle and torment of doing it, and take all the bad breaks along the way.
As I sat there, an impressionable, twentieth-century seventeen-year-old, I wasn’t really swallowing Virgil’s brand of fatalism. But I sensed him speaking to me with a broader and deeper kind of truth.
It was terrifying that Aeneas’ beloved Troy had to be destroyed. But what I absorbed as we read was that the founding of Rome had a cost — Troy’s defeat and Aeneas’ years of torment. No accomplishment comes without suffering. Humanum est pati. “To be alive is to suffer.” Virgil wasn’t saying something as simple-headed as “No pain, no gain.” That implies you can choose between suffering and taking life easy. To Virgil, nobody gets to choose not to suffer.
And nobody is guaranteed a reward, a victory, in repayment for his suffering. The best man, the best team, isn’t automatically entitled to win. The winds of fate can turn you around, run you aground, sink you, and sometimes you can’t do a thing about it. However, just to make the commitment to something you believe in is winning — even if you lose the game. But for committing yourself to winning the game, whether you win or not, you always pay in tears and in blood." -- Joe Paterno
