Jerry Sandusky prosecutor: No evidence Joe Paterno participated in criminal cover-up at Penn State

HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: …In an interview recorded for CBS 60 Minutes Sports, former Chief Deputy Attorney General Frank Fina said flatly: “I did not find that evidence.”

That was after Fina stated that he did come to believe, as the state’s probe of Sandusky progressed, that former Penn State president Graham Spanier and several of his top aides had tried to interfere with the probe for years…

Paterno met minimal legal obligations, officials said then, because he did alert his superiors at Penn State to a 2001 eyewitness account of alleged sexual abuse by Sandusky, his longtime defensive coordinator, at a football shower facility… (more)

EDITOR: Coach Paterno either met legal requirements or he didn’t. So we don’t understand what is meant by “minimal.” He himself reflected that he wished he had taken upon himself to have done more.

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