WILKES-BARRE TIMES LEADER: Penn State’s trustees heard Friday — if they didn’t already know — that the firing of football coach Joe Paterno soon after Jerry Sandusky’s arrest on child molestation charges remains an open wound among the school’s vast ranks of alumni…
[Trustee Ken] Frazier said the school had to “deal fairly and responsibly with the undeniable reality of harm to children on our campus by a former Penn State coach,” and the documentary evidence that Freeh turned up was part of that process…
“The flaws of the Freeh report cannot be dismissed or overlooked,”[Trustee Anthony] Lubrano said. “They are significant and numerous and must be addressed. This case will not be resolved until the record is set straight.” … (more)
EDITOR: \Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s investigation will go far to addressing the question of whether, to cover his own failure when attorney general to properly prosecute Jerry Sandusky, Gov. Tom Corbett ‘threw Coach Joe Paterno’ under the bus to divert attention from himself.
If so, the NCAA may lighten the penalties it imposed.
As Bill Keisling has pointed out in Corbett/Penn State/Sandusky Series, the failure to arrest Sandusky years earlier lay mostly with the criminal justice and child welfare systems. Paterno was just a scapegoat for Corbett who, as an ex officio Penn State trustee, reportedly admonished the other trustees “to remember the boy in the show” before they took a vote on firing Paterno.
