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TexasTowelie

(112,499 posts)
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 05:21 AM Apr 2017

Former Penn State assistant McQueary gets $1.7M in whistleblower fees

HARRISBURG — A former Penn State University assistant coach will be getting his legal fees paid after winning a whistleblower claim over his treatment by the university after Jerry Sandusky’s child molestation arrest.

Judge Thomas Gavin on Thursday granted Mike McQueary’s lawyers $1.7 million for their work on the case. He had been awarded more than $12 million from his court case in November.

The judge wrote that it would not be reasonable to expect whistleblowers to put their jobs and paychecks at risk in reporting suspected wrongdoing, as well as to fund their own legal representation.

Making whistleblowers financially whole, he said, “will put teeth in the statute and will further its goal of encouraging others to expose wrongdoing.”

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/psu/2017/03/31/Former-Penn-State-assistant-football-coach-whistleblower-fees-sandusky-mcqueary/stories/201703310280

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Former Penn State assistant McQueary gets $1.7M in whistleblower fees (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2017 OP
k and r...nt Stuart G Apr 2017 #1
Good. underpants Apr 2017 #2
I lived in State College for most of the 90s Orrex Apr 2017 #3
No, he won't and isn't. (PSU '71.) WinkyDink Apr 2017 #5
YMMV Orrex Apr 2017 #6
"Act like it's over"? It IS over. People committed crimes that ceased in 2009---2009---and WinkyDink Apr 2017 #4
It's certainly not over. Several parties are awaiting sentencing. Orrex Apr 2017 #7
I don't think we're going to be on the wrong side of history on this underpants Apr 2017 #9
I graduated in '99 on (ahem) a slightly longer than 4-year program Orrex Apr 2017 #10
Yeah just like this PSU Trustee says underpants Apr 2017 #8
That trustee can about fuck himself (nt) Orrex Apr 2017 #11

underpants

(182,945 posts)
2. Good.
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 06:44 AM
Apr 2017

He's still out of work and living with his parents from what I can find. He was a program guy and that's why they liked him. His marriage ended too.

The whole thing is just so disgusting. Sorry but for all the people who want to act like it's over or never happened I still call them Ped State.

Orrex

(63,232 posts)
3. I lived in State College for most of the 90s
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 07:29 AM
Apr 2017

Not part of the Paterno cult, though. Didn't care about football and never went to a game.

I'm sure that McQueary will be vilified by the sizable number of Penn Staters who still worship Paterno.

 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
4. "Act like it's over"? It IS over. People committed crimes that ceased in 2009---2009---and
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 07:57 AM
Apr 2017

have received punishment, as did the entire university, with financial penalties and athletic sanctions.

Should I call UNC "Fraud U."? (Maybe!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_academic-athletic_scandal

Orrex

(63,232 posts)
7. It's certainly not over. Several parties are awaiting sentencing.
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 08:26 AM
Apr 2017

And the vile predator Sandusky, convicted of 45 counts against him, is still appealing his conviction.

PSU paid fines amounting to pocket change (which, if anything, will simply be paid off through tuition fees) and Paterno restored to his throne at the head of the pantheon. Nothing to see here.

It was a great idea to strip the football team's victories from the record, but of course money talks, so they're right back on the books, hallowed be JoePa's name. Nothing to see here.

They could easily have left the victories on the record but stripped Paterno's name, but money talks. Nothing to see here.

underpants

(182,945 posts)
9. I don't think we're going to be on the wrong side of history on this
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 09:27 AM
Apr 2017

Vile. Horrible. It's never over for the victims.

McQueary did go to the highest power in the land. Joe Pa was way more powerful than the cops. They should have buried the whole damned program but, as you said, money talks.

Orrex

(63,232 posts)
10. I graduated in '99 on (ahem) a slightly longer than 4-year program
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 09:38 AM
Apr 2017

I still have a good many friends from PSU, and quite a few who still live in State College, and they're sharply divided on this. Slightly more than half become outraged at the suggestion that Paterno was anything less than perfectly righteous in his handling of this inconvenient blemish. And isn't he the real victim here? Hasn't he suffered enough? Think of poor JoePa!

My wife worked in housekeeping at the Nittany Lion Inn, and she routinely tended the rooms of visiting trustees. On more than one occasion she saw receipts for seven- or eight-figure donations, so I don't want to hear about the huge fines levied against dear PSU.

Incidentally, those same generous trustees typically didn't leave a tip. Money talks.



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