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Related: About this forumFormer 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 Sanduskys child molestation arrest.
Judge Thomas Gavin on Thursday granted Mike McQuearys 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
Stuart G
(38,449 posts)underpants
(182,945 posts)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)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)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)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)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)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)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.
underpants
(182,945 posts)I agree about UNC but let's not act like it's the same thing. Were children raped in Chapel Hill?