Tom Corbett spoke in Harrisburg this morning, and offered his preliminary two cents on the findings of the Freeh report, released last Thursday.
The Board of Trustees has a regularly scheduled meeting in Scranton today and Friday, but they had a great deal more to talk about than at an ordinary meeting. With the Freeh report released this morning, having met and read through the details of the report, the Board addressed the media at 3:30 p.m. today.
At 9:00 a.m, the Freeh Report will be released to the general public at TheFreehReportonPSU.com. We will be maintaining a live blog through the day with reactions and commentary on its contents.
The key figures in the report are Graham Spanier, Joe Paterno, Gary Schultz, and Tim Curley. And it appears that they had a tremendous amount of confidence in themselves to effectively contain the situation. But what is clear is that their final motivations were not that something deeply wrong had occurred, but instead that they must save the image of Penn State football and preserve it as it was known before 2011.
The release of Thursday morning’s Freeh report further exposed the pathetic institutional failings of Penn State University in regards to the actions of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. Chapter 8 of the 267 page report offers in full detail Penn State’s failure to implement and properly train their staff on the inner workings of the Clery Act, a federal statute that requires Universities to collect crime statistics on University property.
Gary Schultz is in trouble.
KDKA-TV out of Pittsburgh is reporting that Gary Schultz, former Penn State Vice President of Finance and Business, kept a "secret file with allegations regarding Sandusky and child abuse." This report comes from new documents obtained by the Attorney General.