PSU/Freeh Report

[Azrael]

“Our most saddening and sobering finding is the total disregard for the safety and welfare of Sandusky’s child victims,” said Louis J. Freeh, the former federal judge and director of the F.B.I. who oversaw the investigation. “The most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who Sandusky victimized.”

www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/sports/ncaafootball/13pennstate.html?hp

 

[Ben_Hecht]

In a moment, the results of that trial . . .


DUM-da-DUM-DUM

 

[Baron Scicluna]

"Paterno, through his family, insisted after Sandusky’s arrest that he never knew anything about the 1998 case. But Freeh’s report asserts that Paterno not only knew of the investigation, but followed it closely."

Damn.

 

[Azrael]

The entire report is available as a .pdf at CNN.com.

 

[Amy]

Here's the press release:

http://www.thefreehreportonpsu.com/Press_Release_07_12_12.pdf

The link in the press release to the full report won't work for me. The CNN link worked.

 

[Point of Order]

Can't take a good look at the actual report on my phone, but will be interesting to see if it uncovered any new, ya know, actual facts. News reports so far are just excerpts stating what any idiot already knows.

 

[TigerVols]

Well blow out my candle, JoePa was a pedophile defender. I'm shocked to just now discover this. #PedophileStateUniversity.

 

[Stoney]

http://thefreehreportonpsu.com/

Here's a link to the actual report. It's a couple hundred pages long, so haven't had a chance to read it, but from a quick scan it appears the alleged emails are included in the exhibits in the end.

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

I have to confess that I keep picturing the highlights of the investigation being sung by the FreehReport.com band (think FreeCreditReport.com commercials). God help me.

 

[JayFarrar]

The billable hours from an attorney working on "suspected child abuse" in February 2001 makes me want to throw up.

 

[Stitch]

Let's wait until the facts are known.

 

[Drip]

They threw a dead man under the bus.

 

[Pancamo]

And down goes the statue

 

[hondo]

The report is not only an indictment of Penn State and Joe Pa but pretty much blows up any argument the PSU enablers (including those on this board) had about what he knew, when he knew it and the inaction. If they've got any sense, they'll just sit this one out. They've got nothing now.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/12/report-by-former-fbi-director-finds-that-penn-state-disregarded-children/

all of Fame coach Joe Paterno and other senior officials "concealed critical facts" about Jerry Sandusky's child abuse because they were worried about bad publicity, according to an internal investigation into the scandal.

The 267-page report released Thursday is the result of an eight-month inquiry by former FBI director Louis Freeh, hired by university trustees weeks after Sandusky was arrested in November to look into what has become one of sports' biggest scandals.
The report concluded that Paterno, president Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz "failed to protect against a child sexual predator harming children for over a decade."
"In order to avoid the consequences of bad publicity, the most powerful leaders at the university -- Spanier, Schultz, Paterno and Curley -- repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky's child abuse," the report said.

We Are .... Going to Sweep This Under the Rug and Pretend Like It Never ****ing Happened,, uh, I mean Penn State!"

 

[TeamBud]

Let's wait until the facts are known.

I'm sure that's meant for me, Stitch. But being proved right when the facts are known does not mean it's acceptable to tear someone apart because of your hunches. Ask the Duke lacrosse team. Congrats on guessing right though. It's sad to see that Paterno and the others followed the 1998 investigation closely and still didn't throw Sandusky to the wolves after McQueary's report. I was wrong that Paterno only had a little knowledge that Sandusky had a previous dropped investigation so the 2001 report may have been a mistake. Sad that Paterno would ignore these things and just hope they would stop. You guys win. Paterno screwed up. Badly.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Thanks for manning up, TeamBud.

Seconded.

I'm being sincere.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Me too, TeamBud. Shows class and maturity on your part.

 

[Armchair_QB]

STATE COLLEGE, Penn. (AP) -- Pennsylvania State University officials today announced that tuition for all undergraduate, graduate, full-time, part-time, traditional and non-traditional students will be raised to $750,000 per semester effective with the start of the fall 2012 academic term.

 

[Dyno]

Matt Millen is on ESPN and is making me sick. Still defending Paterno.