From the MILTON HERSHEY FORUMS:
There is credible documentation for charges that many Pennsylvania officials, past and present, are unethical and in too many cases, corrupt. Governors, attorneys generals, judges, police, and FBI agents have been called into question. These revelations have serious implications for all who seek reforms at the Milton Hershey School. The situation in Hershey also helps to explain the Sandusky case in State College, Pennsylvania. In both cases, at risk children are likened to lambs because they are without powerful advocates to protect them from a harmful environment.
By now most of us are aware that LeRoy Zimmerman, former PA. Attorney General, is accused of corruption in the book by Keisling and Kearns entitled The Sins of Our fathers. Yet, incredibly, LeRoy Zimmerman served from 2006 until December 2011, as Chairman of the $8 billion Hershey Trust left by philanthropist Milton S. Hershey for the education and care of needy children. PA Attorneys General are legal guardians of the Milton Hershey Trust; they have legal standing and authority to investigate and remedy the many problems at the Milton Hershey School. However, PA Attorneys General have been notably derelict in their oversight duties.
Documents indicate that cronies of Zimmerman, including former governor Tom Ridge, have been appointed to lucrative positions on the various Hershey Boards. Instead of protecting the Hersheys’ Trust for needy children these politicians are spending Trust money for their own purposes. Large sums of money and the unabated power of these well-connected politicians have provided fertile ground for improper use of the Hersheys’ legacy. The Hershey Trust for needy children has been turned into an entitlement program for the rich and sometimes famous. The interests of the Hersheys’ children are not being protected and they and their advocates have virtually no recourse…
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EDITOR: This is another ‘must read’ because the implications go beyond the Hershey Trust to two decades of negligence and apparent corruption in Pennsylvania politics, especially in the office of the attorney general while occupied by Gov. Tom Corbett:
“ Sadly, these Pennsylvania Attorneys General have a shameful record of protecting the beneficiaries of the Hersheys’ $8 billion legacy, the at risk children who can be characterized as the lambs. Certainly, the at risk children of the Second Mile charity can also be considered lambs. Koons and Sandusky fall into the obvious wolf category, but what about the guardians who look the other way when the lambs are attacked? Not exactly the good shepherds.”
