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Jerry Sandusky shouldn't be able to see grandkids, ex-daughter-in-law says

The mother of three of Jerry Sandusky’s grandchildren said a judge was wrong Monday to rule that Sandusky can see his grandchildren.

Jill Thomas — who is in a custody dispute with her ex-husband, Matt Sandusky — also accused Sandusky of inappropriately touching a child, though she acknowledges that authorities told her there was not enough evidence to charge him.

Jerry Sandusky has been charged in the sexual assault of 10 boys. The 68-year-old former Penn State football coach maintains his innocence.

In a statement today, Thomas said she was prepared to testify at a hearing Friday on Sandusky’s bail conditions, but was not called by the attorney general’s office.

“I do not believe it is safe for my children, or any children, to be around Jerry Sandusky,” Thomas said.

“I cannot understand how a court could place the desires of someone who is criminally charged with sexually abusing children above the safety of children. These are my kids, they are the most important thing in the world to me, and I will continue my fight to protect them in hopes that at some point, someone in a position of authority will do what is necessary to protect them.”

Judge John M. Cleland ruled that Sandusky’s other eight grandchildren can visit him or communicate with him under their parents supervision while he is under house arrest awaiting trial on charges of sex abuse.

Cleland said the judge handling the custody dispute between Thomas and Matt Sandusky must decide if their three children can have contact with Sandusky. The judge in the custody case would also be able to set any conditions for such visits, Cleland said.

After Sandusky was charged in November, Thomas said her children told her Sandusky had “inappropriately touched” her son.

When she was told Sandusky there was not enough evidence to indicate abuse, Thomas said, a psychologist who investigated her allegations recommended her son receive counseling because he “could not rule out that Jerry Sandusky was grooming my son for sexual abuse.”

Sandusky unequivocally denies any allegations of abuse, including Thomas', according to his attorney Joe Amendola, who emphasized that officials did not charge Sandusky with molesting his grandson even as other charges were filed.

The legal guardian appointed to represent Thomas' children's best interests in the custody battle gave Cleland a letter during Friday's hearing saying the children want to see Sandusky, Amendola said.

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Former Penn State VP Seeks Dismissal of Charges
— MyFoxPhilly by Mark Scolford (AP), Updated Tue, 14 Feb 2012, 5:35 PM EST

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A former Penn State vice president on Tuesday asked a judge to throw out charges that he lied to a grand jury investigating former football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky and that he did not properly report suspected child abuse.

Gary Schultz said his statements to a grand jury that the allegations against Sandusky he fielded from a graduate assistant in 2002 were "not that serious" and that it wasn't clear a crime occurred are opinions that cannot be proved false.

"Perjury prosecutions rarely rest on expressions of opinion or belief," wrote Schultz defense lawyer Tom Farrell in court records first obtained by The Associated Press.

Schultz also joined a motion filed Monday by co-defendant Tim Curley that challenged the failure-to-report charge on the grounds the law was different in 2002, when Schultz and Curley, the university's athletics director, were told of Sandusky being in the campus showers with a young boy.

Farrell also sought a more precise description of the part of Schultz's grand jury testimony that prosecutors allege constituted perjury.

Farrell argued that the "defendant must not be left guessing as to which statements he is defending against nor as to basic information as to why such statements are false." Through a spokeswoman, Farrell declined to comment further.

A spokesman for the attorney general's office said Tuesday the agency had not received the filings but would review them when it had.

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Federal authorities are conducting separate investigation
involving Jerry Sandusky, Penn State, The Second Mile

Federal authorities are apparently conducting an investigation involving Penn State, Jerry Sandusky and his charity, The Second Mile, parallel to the case already being prosecuted by the state attorney general's office.

A Penn State spokeswoman confirmed Thursday that the university received a subpoena Feb. 2 from Peter J. Smith, U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, requesting information about the university, former President Graham Spanier, and Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, top Penn State officials who are charged with perjury and failure to report a crime.

Smith's office could not be reached for comment Thursday night.

Information also was requested about Sandusky and The Second Mile, Penn State spokeswoman Lisa Powers said. She said the university is fully cooperating with the U.S. attorneys office.

A second source with knowledge of the investigation said The Second Mile — the children's charity through which a state grand jury alleges Sandusky met and pursued almost all of the 10 boys he's charged with sexually abusing — also received a request from the U.S. attorney for information days after Sandusky was arrested in early November. That request was related to Sandusky's travel records, the source said. Much of the same information had already been requested by the state attorney generals office, the source said.

According to the state grand jury's presentment, one of the alleged victims said he was taken across state lines at least twice — to bowl games in Tampa, Fla., and San Antonio, Texas.

Local police in both cities have said they opened their own child abuse investigations as a result of the grand jury presentment. Police would not comment beyond that.

Typically, when an investigation involves more than one state, federal authorities assume jurisdiction.

A spokesperson for the attorney general's office couldn't be reached for comment Thursday evening.

David Woodle, who took over as CEO of The Second Mile shortly after the scandal broke late last year, said Thursday he would not comment on an ongoing investigation. He said the charity is cooperating with all requests for information.

Gov. Tom Corbett, in interviews last week with State College television stations WJAC and WTAJ, said the state attorney general was not investigating the State College-based charity. Corbett was attorney general when the investigation of Sandusky was launched in 2009.

The Second Mile is continuing to conduct programs for at-risk youths while it decides how and if it can move forward, Woodle said Thursday.

Attorneys for several of the alleged victims, reached by The Patriot-News on Thursday, said they had not been contacted by federal authorities.

Sandusky's attorney, Joe Amendola of State College, said he has no information about a federal investigation, and so would not comment. Sandusky faces more than 50 counts of child sex abuse.

Spanier, who was fired by the university's board of trustees days after the grand jury presentment was released, could not be reached for comment Thursday night.

Attorneys for Curley and Schultz, also could not be reached. Curley stepped down as athletic director and Schultz retired as vice president for finance days after they were charged.

Penn State football coach Joe Paterno also testified before the state grand jury, but was not charged in relation to the case. Paterno died of complications of lung cancer in January.

All four men had testified before the state grand jury about an incident allegedly involving Sandusky and a young boy in the Penn State football locker room showers in 2002.

The subpoena from the U.S. attorney's office marks more than a half-dozen Sandusky-related investigations.

In addition to the state grand jury, which continues to meet in Harrisburg, former FBI Director Louis Freeh is leading an internal investigation on behalf of Penn State.

Former Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham has been hired by The Second Mile to conduct an internal investigation.

The NCAA has given Penn State several questions to answer about compliance issues.

The U.S. Department of Education is investigating possible violations of the Clery Act, which requires universities to report crimes.

In addition, informal investigations are being conducted by several attorneys representing victims, organizations and others who might bring lawsuits.

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Lawyers: Bevilacqua ordered memo on priests to be shredded
By John P. Martin

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER


Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua ordered two key aides in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to shred all copies of a 1994 memo that identified 35 priests suspected of sexually abusing children, according to a new court filing.

The order, outlined in a handwritten note locked away for years in church files, was disclosed for the first time Friday in a motion by lawyers for Mgsr. William J. Lynn, the former church official facing trial for enabling abusive priests.

They contend the shredding directive proves the church conspiracy to conceal clergy sex abuse occurred at levels far above Lynn, and that he has been unjustly accused.

"It is beyond doubt that Monsignor Lynn was completely unaware of this act of obstruction," attorneys Jeffery Lindy and Thomas Bergstrom wrote.

Their motion asks Common Pleas Court Judge M. Teresa Sarmina to dismiss the conspiracy and child endangerment charges against Lynn, calling them a "gross miscarriage of justice."

At a minimum, the lawyers want the judge to bar jurors at next month's trial from hearing what Bevilacqua told prosecutors in a videotaped deposition last November.

The cardinal, who led the archdiocese from 1988 to 2003, died last month.

According to the filing, Lynn made compiling the 1994 memo on the 35 priests suspected of abuse or pedophilia one of his earliest priorities when he became secretary for clergy for the archdiocese. He did it, the lawyers said, because he "felt it was the right thing to do."

He then sent the memo to Msgr. James Molloy, who at the time was assistant vicar for administration.

The motion says that Bevilacqua discussed the memo at a meeting in March 1994 with Molloy and Bishop Edward P. Cullen.

In a handwritten note a week later, Molloy described being ordered by Bevilacqua to shred the memo and all copies. His note said another administrator, the Rev. Joseph Cistone, witnessed the shredding.

The motion doesn't explain where the documents come from or why they are now coming to light, one month before Lynn and two former parish priests are scheduled to be tried. In recent court hearings, prosecutors have said they still have outstanding subpoenas for church records.

In February 2002 - about eight years after the shredding - Bevilacqua turned over information about those 35 priests to the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office for a grand jury investigation. That spring, he told reporters that any priest accused of "just one act" of misconduct would never be allowed to function as a priest in the archdiocese.

And during 10 appearances before the grand jury, he denied knowing details or playing a significant role in the handling of sex-abuse complaints, saying that he delegated those responsibilities to Lynn and others.

"I saw no evidence at any time that we did any cover-up," he testified.

Lynn's lawyers contend that such testimony by Bevilacqua and others may have been perjury.

"Had this recent Grand Jury been aware of the Cardinal's successful efforts in 'deep-sixing' a significant document prepared by Msgr. Lynn, its view of him as a potential defendant may have been entirely different," they wrote. "It is clear from the Molloy memo and the belated production, that Monsignor Lynn has been 'hung out to dry.'"

Lynn has pleaded not guilty to endangerment and conspiracy charges. Prosecutors say he recommended the Rev. James J. Brennan and a former priest, Edward Avery, for assignments in the 1990s despite knowing or suspecting they would sexually abuse children. Both are accused of molesting a boy in separate incidents, but they have denied the charges.

Jury selection began this week.

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Jerry Sandusky wants May trial moved into the summer

Jerry Sandusky, through his attorney, is asking that his May trial in Centre County on child sex abuse charges be moved to July.

In a motion filed to the court today, attorney Joe Amendola says there is a “great volume” of material for him to process in preparing Sandusky’s defense to more than 50 charges involving 10 children.

So far, in going through hundreds of pages of evidence turned over by prosecutors, Amendola said he has identified many potential witnesses that he wants to find and interview before trial, along with subpoena’s for documents and records, and experts to testify.

Several defense witnesses are also unable to testify in May, Amendola wrote.

Prosecutors with the state Attorney General’s Office did not object to the request, Amendola wrote.

In asking for the delay, Amendola also requested that the March 1 deadline for pre-trial motions be pushed back.

Sandusky, charged in November alongside two Penn State officials accused of lying to a grand jury about an incident reported in 2002, appears to also be the subject of a federal investigation.

Earlier this year, Amendola told The Patriot-News he was scrambling to build his defense in just a few months, after prosecutors had several years to prepare.

“We’re really being pushed to kind of decipher this stuff,” Amendola said about the mounds of evidence. “We’ll be prepared to try the case whenever the judge says, but we’re playing a lot of catch-up right now.”

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Jerry Sandusky allowed to see grand jury testimony 10 days before trial
— By JEFF FRANTZ, The Patriot-News
— Wednesday, March 07, 2012, 8:42 PM

Jerry Sandusky will receive transcripts of grand jury testimony 10 days before the first witness is sworn in for his trial on 52 counts of child sex abuse.

Judge Barry F. Feudale, who oversaw the grand jury that investigated allegations against Sandusky, ruled Wednesday that Sandusky and his attorney Joe Amendola should receive approximately 581 pages of transcripts. Those transcripts will include any grand jury witness scheduled to testify at the trial.

Sandusky originally asked for the transcripts to be released Feb. 28. Feudale rejected that motion, but said “the interests of justice will be served by authorizing” the early release.

By law, the defendant does not have to receive the transcripts until after a witness has testified at trial. Such a release schedule would likely have delayed the trial significantly, legal analysts have said.

While Sandusky and Amendola can review the transcripts, Karl Rominger -- the Carlisle-area attorney assisting Amendola -- might not be allowed to.

In a footnote in the ruling, Feudale wrote that since Rominger had not appeared before the grand jury representing Sandusky, “he has no right to notice of the proceedings and/or to participate as counsel in grand jury proceedings.” Trial Judge John Cleland will make that decision.

In the same footnote, Feudale wrote that Rominger previously had Tweeted the time, date and location of a secret grand jury proceeding.

Sandusky’s trial is scheduled to begin May 14. The 68-year-old former Penn State coaching legend has a pre-trial hearing scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday in Bellefonte.

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Judge in Jerry Sandusky case won’t order prosecutors to give more details about sex abuse charges
— The judge presiding over the child sex abuse case against Jerry Sandusky says it would be “futile” to direct prosecutors to give the former Penn State defensive coordinator more details about the allegations brought by 10 different accusers.

Judge John Cleland dismissed the request made by Sandusky’s attorney Joe Amendola, saying that ordering the state prosecutors to give information they say they can’t supply makes little sense.

At a hearing Monday, Amendola said it was unfair to Sandusky to have only broad information—such as abuse that ranged over several years, in some cases, without specific locations.

But the state Attorney General’s Office countered that Sandusky is accused of abusing boys who are now men, who were pressured into forgetting what happened and many times abused weekly for many years. It’s impossible to get more specific information, said prosecutor Joseph E. McGettigan III.

Cleland, at the hearing, cited several cases where charges were tossed because accusers couldn’t pinpoint more specific time frames. He also [acknowledged] that this case has some unique circumstances. His ruling today only says that it makes no sense to order prosecutors to get information they say they don’t have.

Amendola said that if prosecutors don’t at least try to get more information, he will file a request for charges to be dismissed. That motion is due by March 22.

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Jerry Sandusky’s trial pushed back to June
because of scheduling issues
— By JEFF FRANTZ, The Patriot-News
— Updated: Thursday, March 29, 2012, 3:53 PM

Jerry Sandusky’s trial on child sex abuse charges has been changed from May 14 to June 5.

Judge John M. Cleland’s order to delay the start of the former Penn State assistant football coach is a matter of scheduling, not the delay attorney Joe Amendola asked for last week.

Pennsylvania prosecutors filed their response to Sandusky’s quest that a judge dismiss the 50-plus charges pending against him.

Sandusky maintains his innocence.

In a 95-page pre-trial motion filed a week ago, Amendola said the charges against his client are not specific enough to take to trial.

Sandusky also asked the judge to delay his trial, sequester jurors, force prosecutors to turn over more information and bar prosecutors from using some evidence.

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Jerry Sandusky’s attorney, prosecutors agree to choose jurors individually, but not on much else

Jury selection interviews for Jerry Sandusky’s child sex abuse trial should be conducted one at a time, and the selected jurors should be sequestered.

That’s about all prosecutors and Sandusky’s attorney Joe Amendola can agree on.

When they responded to Sandusky’s pretrial motion Thursday, prosecutors told Judge John Cleland that he should ignore Amendola’s request last week to dismiss the charges against his client.

The attorney general’s office also reaffirmed that it has given Amendola’s team access to all the evidence the law requires.

Prosecutors said evidence, including Sandusky’s statements and items obtained in a June search of Sandusky’s house, should be admitted. And prosecutors said the trial should not be delayed until after the perjury case against former Penn State University officials Tim Curley and Gary Schultz is resolved.

Cleland has set a hearing on the competing motions for 9 a.m. Thursday in Bellefonte.

Cleland did announce the start of the trial will be pushed back from May 15 to June 5 to accommodate schedules. Amendola previously had said some of Sandusky’s expert witnesses would not be available in May. But Amendola is still looking for a further delay.

Sandusky, a legendary assistant Penn State football coach, is accused of sexually abusing 10 boys over a decade. The 68-year-old maintains his innocence.

In the 95-page motion he filed last week, Amendola gave a list of reasons why Cleland should dismiss the charges: The charges were too vague, prosecutors hadn’t been able to identify two alleged victims, they cannot prove sexual contact with a third alleged victim and Sandusky is accused of committing crimes outside the statute of limitations.

In their response, prosecutors rebuffed Amendola’s arguments one by one.

The charges, they wrote, are specific enough.

“Defendant cannot exploit the appalling breadth of his own criminal conduct by claiming it encompasses so long a period as to hamper his defense,” prosecutors argued.

Even though alleged victims 2 and 8 have not been identified, prosecutors said witness testimony still can lead to a conviction.

Contrary to Amendola’s assertions, prosecutors said the alleged crimes do fall within the statue of limitations since he is accused of assaulting minors.

Repeatedly, prosecutors said Sandusky gave up his chance to test the evidence against him at a preliminary hearing.

Prosecutors said there is no reason to delay the proceedings until after the case against Curley and Schultz concludes. Since they have been charged with lying to investigators about what former assistant coach Mike McQueary told them he witnessed, prosecutors said, the former officials cannot be expected to testify truthfully.

Prosecutors also disagreed with Amendola’s claim that prosecutors had obtained some evidence illegally.

The attorney general did agree that prospective jurors should be questioned individually. And because of media attention, prosecutors also want the jurors hearing the case to be sequestered.

Cleland will decide the rest.

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Indiana man Richard Leon Finkbiner charged with child sexual exploitation
By Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

(CBS/AP) INDIANAPOLIS - A western Indiana man is accused of coercing 100 or more teenage boys into recording and sending him sexually explicit images in what federal prosecutors said Monday could be the largest U.S. case of online sexual extortion of children.

A detention hearing is scheduled for Wednesday for 39-year-old Richard Leon Finkbiner, who faces a preliminary charge of sexual exploitation of children.

U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett is urging other potential victims or their families to contact the FBI if they recognize Finkbiner from a mug shot released Monday. Federal officials are still trying to identify teens shown in hundreds of sexually explicit videos found on the Indiana man's computer.

Finkbiner was arrested Friday at his home in Brazil, Ind., on charges that he extorted a 14-year-old boy in Maryland and another in Michigan by threatening to post online sexually explicit videos of them that he had captured from webcam chat sites

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Sandusky defense tab totals $200,000 so far

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Jerry Sandusky's defense against child sex-abuse charges has cost an estimated $200,000 so far, and his lawyer said uncertain financial resources have caused the defense team to forego psychological testing of the former Penn State University assistant football coach as his trial approaches in June.

Five months after a Pennsylvania grand jury outlined the first charges against Sandusky, attorney Joe Amendola told USA TODAY that financial considerations also have limited defense investigations into the backgrounds of Sandusky's eight known accusers.

The remaining two alleged victims have not yet been identified by prosecutors.

"We have not been able to develop full profiles of these people," the attorney said in an interview just days prior to Monday's sweeping court order which now prohibits prosecutors, defense lawyers and potential witnesses from making public comments about the case.

Amendola said his client has "cashed out" his retirement account and is drawing on a insurance policy from the Second Mile, the organization he founded to assist at-risk children, to help pay for his defense. The insurance company, Federal Insurance Co., however has gone to federal court to contend that it is not obligated to pay defense costs, citing the former coach's alleged "reprehensible acts."

Pending a resolution of that lawsuit, the company has paid defense expenses totaling about $125,000, Amendola said. Attorneys representing the insurance company did not respond to inquiries seeking comment.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Corbett

On February 14, 2012, Corbett signed The Marcellus Shale Law (House Bill 1950).[24] The law changes the zoning laws applicable to Marcellus Shale well drilling, which is more commonly known as hydraulic fracturing. Some of its provisions are that all municipalities must allow Marcellus Shale well drilling in all zoning districts, including residential and municipalities may not limit hours of operation. Water and wastewater pits must also be allowed in all zoning districts, including residential. Compressor stations must be allowed in industrial and agricultural zoning districts and towns may not limit hours of operation. Gas processing plants are allowed in industrial zoning districts and hours of operation cannot be limited. Gas pipelines must be allowed in all zoning districts, including residential.[24] The law helps gain access to land for new pipelines,[25] one of which will transport natural gas from Pennsylvania to export terminals in Maryland,[26][27] [28][29] from which it will be shipped to Europe and Asia.[30][31] Others contend that the pipeline's purpose is to transport the gas to Maryland and D.C. markets.[32][26] There are also concerns that exporting natural gas will result in more jobs going overseas, leading to increased unemployment in Pennsylvania and other states as gas prices rise globally.[33]

The Marcellus Shale Law (House Bill 1950) also contains a provision that allows doctors in Pennsylvania access to the list of chemicals in hydraulic fracturing fluid in emergency situations only, but forbids them from discussing this information with their patients.[34] The information can only be used for emergency medical treatment, and the doctor must immediately verbally agree to keep the information confidential and later sign a document to that effect.[35] The bill also reduces the legal responsibility of vendors, service providers, and operators regarding the identity and impact of contents of the hydraulic fracturing fluid they use.[3