HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: …His assignment, the Widener University School of Law professor-turned-special deputy to Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane explained in a recent interview with PennLive, was always defined by some fairly strict parameters.
He was to look at the actions of law enforcement from the date of the initial complaint against Sandusky in November 2008 through November 2011, when charges were filed, and try to address public questions about the time it took to build the case.
So, Moulton noted, his was never going to be the forum to tackle the construction of the Penn State-commissioned Freeh Report, or Penn State’s decisions following its release to enter into negotiations on a regime of NCAA sanctions… (more)
EDITOR: Would that he had explored Gov. Tom Corbett’s manipulation of the Penn State Board so that they fire Joe Paterno, thus diverting attention from Corbett’s handling of the Sandusky investigation. But that too was outside his mandate…. and we believe properly so.
According to Bill Keisling: “On November 9, 2011, Gov. Tom Corbett indulged the Penn State board of trustees, by telephone, to throw Joe Paterno under the bus. At the moment of the vote to fire Paterno, Corbett said over the speakerphone, ‘Remember that little boy in the shower.’ “
