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Busted: Behind the Sandusky arrest
Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett made it clear to his staff that he did not want to pursue the pedophile case against former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, associates of Corbett's say. At the time, AG Corbett was running for governor of Pennsylvania.
The case finally was investigated in depth, and brought to court, only after Corbett's election as governor in November 2010. A separate investigation by an attorney general's office narcotics agent brought a renewed emphasis to the Sandusky case.
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The case, per standard procedure, was assigned to a state trooper, and a prosecutor. Nevertheless, without Corbett's approval, and without the active shepherding of the AG, the investigation went nowhere.
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Steroids?
A separate investigation involving AG office narcotics Agent Anthony Sassano in November 2010 finally broke the Corbett-imposed logjam in the Sandusky case. By late 2010, AG Tom Corbett had been elected governor of Pennsylvania. Corbett was engaged in his transition to the governor's office and was no longer was an obstacle to the Sandusky investigation.
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Following standard procedure, Agent Sassano then entered information about those involved in his narcotics investigation into the PACE cross-indexing and intelligence system. Agent Sassano got a hit on Sandusky and discovered that the former football coach was also under investigation for a pedophile complaint by Corbett's heretofore-inactive state trooper, and prosecutor.
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More: http://www.yardbird.com/busted_narcotics_agent_nabs_sandusky.htm
That SOB Corbett should be put under the jail with the rest of the enablers!
Missy Vixen
(16,207 posts)This case has reached to the highest levels of PA politics. It'll be interesting to see if Corbett will have to resign as a result.
Penn State's football program will be discontinued. At the very least, the NCAA has no other alternative but to act; the sanctions will be seen as draconian and program-destroying in the history of college athletics.
This will not be the only football program destroyed after discovery of the harboring of a pedophile.
monmouth
(21,078 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Republicans do shit like that.
Missy Vixen
(16,207 posts)They will not be able to find a jury pool.
I am wondering what the parents of current Penn State students (and those on the football team,) think of what's been reported today. If I were in their shoes, I would be petitioning the NCAA to get my kid OUT, now.
get the red out
(13,466 posts)There's some nice "priorities".