Graham Spanier might have been ousted from his post at the helm of Penn State over the sex-abuse scandal that engulfed the university, but it seems he’s found a backup employer: the American taxpayer. Only a disgraced public figure would consider joining the much-maligned ranks of the federal workforce as a step up, reputation-wise. We can assume there were no openings for a used-car salesman.
Spanier was faulted in an internal Penn State report after the conviction on child-molestation charges of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. The report said he, head coach Joe Paterno and others helped cover up Sandusky’s abuse.
His lawyer confirms to the Loop that Spanier is working on a part-time consulting basis for a “top-secret” agency on national security issues. But the gig is so hush-hush, he couldn’t even tell his attorneys the name of the agency. In April — months after his ouster as president but before the release of the internal report — he told the Patriot-News of central Pennsylvania that he was working on a “special project for the U.S. government relating [to] national security.”
But who’s he working for? The CIA? Homeland Security? Or maybe just a dull consulting firm with a government contract?
Birds of a feather.
umm,
WHO CARES??
He has a job..
His JOB should be breaking rock in prison. But the elites don’t go to prison, they get cushy gov’t jobs. Who cares? I bet the parents of the raped kids care. While this guy covered up the crimes.
Yeah, who cares.
C’mon,
You KNOW it’s at the TSA!
He will lead the internal audit of all suspected ‘agents’ who ‘allegedly’ enjoy their jobs a little too much, and will help Big Sis keeping it all secret.
He’s a guy who covered up a child molesting scandal for the sake of the orgnisation he ran and himself…. so he sounds OVER qualified for secret Government work.
If only he was around when the whole Pentagon Child Porn scandal was breaking, he’d have kept a lid on that.
Louis Freeh is lying on behalf of the people who hired him. Joe Paterno is innocent. Probably the univ admins are too. In 1998, Sandusky was investigated by 2 police departments, and 2 child welfare agencies(who were informed by Paterno and his superiors), and they either cleared him or declined to prosecute, despite a taped confession with the child’s mother. Now after the fact, people are coming in and saying Paterno should have stopped Sandusky. They forced him into retirement, but somehow some people think it would have been better to public declare someone cleared by the police to be a child molester. Oh, and Paterno failed to inform the Board of Trustees! That’s right, that would have fixed everything.
According to the Freeh report, the police, the Centre County District Attorney’s Office and the Department of Public Welfare all investigated Sandusky in 1998.
Charges were never filed. You can ask why charges weren’t filed, and you can ask why Paterno, Spanier, Curley and Schultz didn’t do anything to remove Sandusky from campus then. But in fairness to them, the authorities investigated and they didn’t charge Sandusky.
Okay.
What’s not okay is that they did nothing in 2001 when similar allegations were brought to their attention by former Penn State quarterback Mike McQueary, then a graduate assistant with the program.
The Freeh report makes plainly clear that it was inexcusable those four men failed to report Sandusky immediately to the police after McQueary told them what he saw in light of the fact that they had already been alerted something was wrong in 1998.
Allegations in 1998, after being cleared, heir apparent Sandusky was forced into retirement in 1999. In 2001, the delay of not immediately notifying police constituted waiting one day until Monday rather than reporting him on the weekend.
Note that McQueary himself waited more than a day to tell Paterno, and his story of what he saw has changed. My guess is he was pressured by prosecutors to add detail later.
Freeh Report also bashes Paterno for an e-mail that said he wanted to know what was happening with Sandusky. I thought the point was he didn’t followup after passing on the details to higherups?
Then Freeh thinks Paterno convinced the Univ to cover things up, on the basis of an e-mail that says talked to coach. No evidence what coach said.
Was there not an opening on the graveyard shift at of some convenience store somewhere?
The Penn State campus should be evacuated, then a small nuke dropped on it.
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