From the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER:
They are longtime friends and close political allies, Tom Corbett and LeRoy S. Zimmerman, one about to become Pennsylvania’s governor and the other a Republican elder who helped the younger man on his long climb from Allegheny County to the pinnacle of the state’s political power.
Now that relationship has an added dimension: Gov.-elect Corbett remains, for now, Attorney General Corbett, and his office has confirmed that it is investigating the $7.5 billion Hershey Trust, overseen by Zimmerman, himself a former two-term attorney general.
The issue is the trust’s $12 million purchase in 2006 of a money-losing golf course north of Hershey with funds intended to educate impoverished children and increase the enrollment at the acclaimed Milton S. Hershey School. After acquiring the golf course, the charity embellished the Wren Dale course with the construction of a Scottish-style clubhouse and restaurant/bar, at a price of $5 million, again with funds meant for the Hershey School…
