From NBC:
Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed documents and computer hard drives from Penn State University as part of a new criminal probe into what school officials and board members may have known about alleged child sex abuse by former football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.
Investigators are also trying to determine if Penn State board members may have made previously undisclosed payments to “third parties” relating to Sandusky, according to the subpoena, a copy of which was obtained by NBC News.
As part of their investigation, federal prosecutors also recently sought files about Sandusky from the family of the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno. Wick Sollers, a lawyer for the Paterno family, told NBC News that federal prosecutors have asked him for all the late coach’s records on Sandusky, who served as an assistant coach and defensive coordinator at Penn State for nearly 30 years until his retirement in 1999. Sollers said he is voluntarily turning over the Paterno’s files on Sandusky without a subpoena and fully cooperating with the probe…
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EDITOR: If there was a cover up, how come it takes a federal in addition to the ongoing state investigation? Perhaps it has to do with who was involved in covering up.
When Sandusky seems more forthcoming than Corbett there is a problem.