Sandusky’s Innocence Championed by Former Penn State VIPs and Community
Jerry Sandusky is an innocent man whom the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania railroaded into prison. The Commonwealth accomplished this injustice through a remarkable combination of perjury, greed, and the cowardice of the Penn State board of trustees.
Last week, more than sixty individuals sent a letter to the board asking that trustees review evidence of Sandusky’s innocence.
Sixty-eight people familiar with the case put their names on the letter. The list includes people closely associated with Penn State, such as a former trustee, the former director of Penn State University Press, a Penn State coach, former co-captains of the football team, a Penn State administrator, PSU lettermen, four physicians, a minister, two police detectives, several former big donors to Penn State, professors, teachers and counselors, business persons, a British mathematician, a retired federal special agent, several CPAs, an attorney, a pilot, reporters, friends of the family, Sandusky’s family and his wife.
These individuals have studied the case and come to the same conclusion. Sandusky is innocent.
One would think a group such as this would summon the attention of the Penn State Board of Trustees.
PSU Trustees Block Review
Chairman Matt Schuyler and Trustee Mary Lee Schneider worked to ensure the evidence never reached the other Penn State trustees while an innocent man, now 80, continues to languish in prison.
It is a strategy that may backfire on Penn State when the world learns the truth: that Sandusky is innocent.
Trustee Schneider studied journalism and ought to know enough to examine how the media misreported the story in 2011, failing to imbue its reporting with skepticism for the accusers.
An old journalism attributed to the City News Bureau of Chicago goes, “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.”
Once, the importance of verification and fact-checking, regardless of the source’s perceived reliability, was a guiding principle in journalism.
But modern journalism has adopted a new adage: “If an accuser says somebody abused them believe them.”
I tried to believe the accusers, but I uncovered nothing but lies.
Thank the media, thank the liars, thank shyster lawyers, dishonest cops and prosecutors, and a dishonorable judge who rushed the case to trial. Also, thank the Penn State Board of Trustees of 2011-2012.
Thatcher Has the Credentials to Be Heard
Sanford Thatcher.
In addition to putting his name on the letter to Penn State trustees, former Penn State University Press director, Sanford G. Thatcher, personally sent another letter to two board members, Jay Paterno, son of the late Joe Paterno, a man Penn State threw under the bus, and newly elected trustee Matt Grioin, asking them to review the evidence.
Thatcher, a legend in publishing and editing, might know a little about what is true and what is not.
Thatcher retired at the end of June 2009, after twenty years as Director of Penn State University Press. He sponsored over 600 books for publication in humanities and social sciences. Before that, his 22-year career earlier at Princeton University Press, culminating in his appointment as Editor-in-Chief in 1985, led to the acquisition of over 800 titles.
Thatcher has taken the time to study the false conviction of Jerry Sandusky. Maybe somebody should listen.
Trustee Anthony Lubrano
Anthony Lubrano is the only trustee on the board who has done the same. He is convinced Sandusky is innocent.
Problems at Penn State
I understand that fundraising is down at Penn State and that Schuyler and Schneider are afraid of Governor Shapiro, who might arrange to cut state funding if they sought the truth about Sandusky.
Matt Shuyler, Board Chairman.
Shapiro has a lot at stake in suppressing the truth about Sandusky. His relentless prosecution of the innocent former president of Penn State, Graham Spanier, when Shapiro was attorney general might make him want to punish innocent trustees who seek the truth.
Paterno’s Son Might Want to Stand Up for Dad
As for donations to Penn State, I have been told they are down.
It might be because Joe Paterno made Penn State’s reputation, and the university betrayed this legendary figure on the eve of his death and hauled down his statue after his death. Many have not forgiven Penn State and ceased making donations.
Jay Paterno.
Lord bless his son, Jay Paterno, who sits on the Penn State board. If Penn State did what they did to Joe Paterno to my father, I would not sit on the board. I’d join every board to discredit Penn State, unhinge its finances, and crush its reputation to atoms.
I would not rest until everyone knew that my father was innocent of wrongdoing.
Jay Paterno should take the lead in examining the evidence that shows his father was innocent of wrongdoing, because Jerry Sandusky is innocent of wrongdoing.
Schneider Should Look for the Truth
Mary Lee Schneider
Deception and obfuscation will not save Schneider when the truth gets out. She has become the face of the “Sandusky-Will-Die- Soon-Just-STFU” faction of the Penn State Trustees. At the end of the day, the lady may try to run, but she can’t hide from the truth. Though Governor Shapiro is said to be vengeful and might cut funding, a truth seeker can hold his feet to the fire. If he cuts Penn State funding just because brave trustees sought to right a historic injustice, he may find a backlash bigger than he imagined.
Like skeptical journalism, poetry has largely gone by the wayside.
But FR has long had a poetry corner. Percy Langmore, submitted this poem about the woman who rushed to prevent Anthony Lubrano from getting the floor at the last Penn State board meeting, and bringing our letter asking the board to review evidence of Sandusky’s innocence to the attention of the board.
Schneider RiderBy Percival Aethelwulf Langmore
Mary Lee Schneider wanted
to keep Jerry Sandusky behind the wall,
But truth came out, and Mary had a fall.
All the Penn State lawyers and all the governor’s men
Couldn’t put Schnieder’s reputation back together again.
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