What a cast of characters we have in the wrongful conviction of Jerry Sandusky. All the supposed good guys were the bad guys in this story.
The judges were biased and crooked, the politicians were vengeful and dishonest. The prosecutors were villains riding on a high horse, and the lawyers were incompetent and worse.
Eight men lied their asses off, making up stories about Jerry Sandusky, knowing their fortunes were assured.
The accusers were liars and money-grubbing grifters.
Some board of trustees were shape-shifters seeking to take care of themselves.
And the media was deplorable. The police and the investigator Louis Freeh were abominable liars.
Sandusky Was a Hero
Jerry Sandusky was railroaded into prison by a corrupt combination of perjurers – accusers, prosecutors, a despicable judge, shyster civil lawyers, a vicious governor and a cowardly, malicious, reckless media, and greedy group of Penn State trustees – and others.
Only a few heroes here: Jerry Sandusky, his wife, the three men who were collateral damage – Graham Spanier, Gary Schultz, and Tim Curley.
Above them all is Sandusky himself, a great American and a man of unusual strength.
The Sadist and the Coward
But let us meet two villains in the Sandusky case, and how they revealed who they are through their relationship with each other.
So many of these so-called good people showed their true colors through their actions and as interpreted by time. If there is one word that separates the villains from the good ones, the angels, it is the lying.
You who study the Sandusky case will realize that all the villains lied.
They knew they were lying. They may have thought they were justified at the time, because not everyone could be lying about Sandusky. If they lied, the others weren’t lying, so they justified their lies and the money they took from Penn State.
Now let’s talk about two big liars, two villains, both lawyers. One of them was the lawyer for Penn State, Cynthia Baldwin, and the other was the lead prosecutor, the deplorable, despicable man with a rat’s visage, a cockroach’s heart and schemer’s brain, a villain even among villains, a man who would ruin anybody for the pure joy of hurting another human being; Senior Deputy Attorney General Frank Fina.
He and Baldwin had quite a dance of fate. They both ruined each other’s reputations.
The Incompetent Cynthia Baldwin
Baldwin
Cynthia Baldwin had been a judge in Allegheny County for a while. She had also become a Penn State trustee, a non-paying job, but an opportunity to find opportunities for herself. Then, one day, a vacancy came up in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The position is usually elected, but in this case, there were two years left of somebody else’s term.
The governor of PA fills vacancies when they crop up. He wanted to make it a diversity appointment. So, he chose the most safely incompetent appointment he could, and still appear on board with diversity.
So, he cut a deal with Baldwin, where she could fill the two years on the term, boost up her pension, and have the prestige of being on the Supreme Court for a time, even though everyone knew she was nowhere near competent enough to rule on the abstruse and subtle legal points sometimes put before the PA Supreme Court.
So, he made the deal. Baldwin agreed she would only stay for two years, serve the unexpired term, and not run on her own for a term. She could no more be a Supreme Court judge, for example, than a lawyer to represent anybody in a serious capacity.
While she was good at schmoozing, she wasn’t competent as an attorney or judge. Baldwin filled the term, and she saw that she would need some income at the end of the two years.
Baldwin Creates a Job for Herself
While serving as an unpaid member of the Penn State board of trustees, she crafted a clever plan to create a new $300,000 per year position at Penn State, the new general counsel position for the university. Baldwin cleverly figured Penn State could use her incompetence for an extra $300,000 annually.
Baldwin proved her incompetence as a lawyer for Penn State when she lied 80 plus times to the grand jury and threw her innocent clients under the bus in a cowardly act to save herself from indictment. We will tell that story in detail later.
It was part of Fina’s coverup of the wrongful conviction of the innocent Jerry Sandusky to make him look guilty by convicting three other innocent men.
Baldwin displayed the only idea of justice she ever understood — save her capacious ass at all costs, including the truth.
Fina Loses His Law License for Lying
Sandusky prosecutor Frank ‘the Rat’ Fina
Frank Fina, the above-mentioned psychopathic chief of criminal prosecutions of the office of the attorney general, led the investigation of Jerry Sandusky. Later, Fina lost his law license for a year and a day over his handling of Baldwin as a grand jury witness. He threatened her, and she perjured herself.
Porn Boy Fina
The Philadelphia DA also fired Fina as an Assistant District Attorney before his suspension for his role in Porngate. That is a story for another day. But suffice to say Frank Fina loved to share porn with judges he would appear in front of and lawyers he would oppose, or perhaps to say it more accurately, lawyers he would cut backroom deals with to sell their clients down the river, if not drown them altogether.
Fina was fond of using his official attorney general’s email account to send porn to judges and lawyers, sometimes with an intimidating innuendo or two, but always in good, clean, dirty fun.
Later, when he left the attorney general’s office, he tried to scrub those emails from the attorney general’s computers. But, forensic analysts found them anyway, which Fina always felt was unfair, for he always felt he could use emails against defendants, but no one should use an email of a prosecutor against him.
He had used the tool of an old email taken out of context and Baldwin’s perjury to charge Penn State President Graham Spanier with perjury.
In Fina’s case, there were thousands of emails. Porn was the coin of the realm in Fina’s world while he was busy falsely convicting Jerry Sandusky and others.
Stay tuned for more on the sadist and the coward.
