"The hiring of Louis Freeh is synonymous with an institution paying $6.5 million to concoct evidence supporting its own guilt and liability. Why would any institution in its right mind fund such an effort? It's insanity, clearly demonstrating the conflicted interests that are the point of this article. The Freeh insanity depicts Penn State as a schizophrenic trying to convict itself of a crime imagined in the fevered mind of its own alter-ego, the Board of Trustees."In Part I, CORBETT & SURMA - UNCOMMONLY COMPLETE CONFLICTS OF INTEREST, the roots of the damaging decisions of the Board of Trustees were exposed, showing why Corbett, Surma and Corbett's appointees should have recused themselves from the November 9th meeting that resulted in the termination of President Spanier and Coach Joe Paterno.
Although I have followed these events very closely since November 5, 2011, the Grand Jury Presentment by Linda Kelly drew my interest. I was very surprised to find the enclosed documents -- among the 300 made available by Ryan Bagwell -- verifying the 8-day timeline and the open efforts to restrict the special investigation group to a tightly-controlled Corbett conflicted few.
If you want further confirmation that the events of November 9, 2011, were a
well-planned and executed strategy on the part of Attorney General turned
Governor Tom Corbett and his willing Joe-hating partner, John Surma, then take a
quick look at this timeline. Have you ever seen any governing body move this
quickly?
TIMELINE NOV 5, 2011 - Penn State stands accused at the moment Linda Kelly decides to put an equal sized poster of AD Tim Curley and VP Gary Schultz on her Presentment stage along side of a poster of Jerry Sandusky. There was simply no equivalence involved in the crimes of which they are accused, and the display was part of a strategy to anchor a narrative of PSU enabling Sandusky's abuse.
The verifiable LIE in that presentment -- that Mike McQueary saw a boy being "subjected to anal rape" on the Penn State campus -- was tied to Curley and Schultz in another LIE: that McQueary told this to Joe Paterno and then to the two PSU administrators. Those lies created the media tsunami that made Penn State the equal villain in the public eye.
TIMELINE NOV 9, 2011 - In an emergency meeting of the BOT, John Surma takes over as chairman for Steve Garban. After telling any hesitant board member "We're not going to drink the Kool-Aid. This is what we need to do," he got no objections to his declaration that Joe Paterno was to be fired. Then Graham Spanier, who had served PSU with distinction for 16 years, who counseled Surma that firing Paterno would not be in the best interest of Penn State and who publicly told reporters that he stood behind Curley and Schultz, was fired for urging the right thing for Penn State. At that point we are into the 10th of November.
TIMELINE NOV 17, 2011 - With Ronald Tomalis - the Corbett-appointed Sec of Education - on board the new special investigations committee, Frazier, Chm Garban, Vice-Chair Surma and legal counsel Cynthia Baldwin (fresh from betraying Curley and Schultz in the Grand Jury) announced the selection of failed former FBI Director Louis Freeh as the 6.5 million dollar award-winning hitman who would work hand in hand with Attorney General Linda Kelly to craft a report that would support the case against Penn State administrators and the actions of board members Corbett, Surma, Frazier, Baldwin, Peetz, and Dambly. The same group that was paying him 6.5 million Penn State dollars to bolster the case against Penn State and insure their liability as an "independent" investigator.
The Corbett-Conflicted Board of Trustees must believe the people of Penn State are illiterate fools to think they could sell this investigator as "independent," since any report that cleared Paterno, Spanier, Curley and Schultz would make the people who paid Freeh 6.5 million, (Frazier, Corbett, Surma, Balwin and Garban) appear completely incompetent for firing Paterno and Spanier and paying over $200 million in liability settlements for which Penn State had no responsibility.
One week from their "emergency" meeting to hiring a hitman to work with Kelly. You don't see that kind of speed at a NASCAR track on Sundays in the summer, much less out of a deliberative board of 33 acting and 19 emeritus Trustees.
Louis Freeh wrote a fiction that supported those Presentment lies (and made up a few more). He took fragments of a couple of vague emails and made the case that Spanier, Paterno, Curley and Schultz were involved in some wild CONSPIRACY to cover up for a child molester they knew was operating on their campus. Joe Paterno, the icon of "Success with Honor," an aging old-school football coach, was painted as a conniving, manipulative, ultimate power on the campus, protecting his program from 'bad publicity' he feared more than having a child molester run loose. Curley, Schultz and Spanier, his willing accomplices bent on protecting Sandusky in order to save the program from the awful stigma of having to expose an ex-employee using his charity as a hunting ground for deviant sexual appetites. This CONSPIRACY THEORY was swallowed whole by the NCAA that spit out sanctions and stripped Joe Paterno of 111 wins dating back to 1998.
And you thought CONSPIRACY THEORIES never worked? In this case, the engineers of the railroading of PSU officials were all corrupted by their own self-interest that they put above the fiduciary duty they acquired as trustees of your Alma Mater. You should be livid.
And you thought CONSPIRACY THEORIES never worked? In this case, the engineers of the railroading of PSU officials were all corrupted by their own self-interest that they put above the fiduciary duty they acquired as trustees of your Alma Mater. You should be livid.
Ronald Tomalis, PA Secretary of Education, co-chaired the Special Investigations Task Force (SITF) and was to report directly to Governor Corbett. After Tomalis helped engineer the disaster at Penn State and his term as Secretary of Education expired, Corbett set him up with an advisory job that paid $139,931, with no office hours.
Tomalis was among the finalists to become the Chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education -- which would have paid him over $300,000. But State Auditor General Eugene DePasquale questioned the move, considering it part of the revolving door of position appointments at Penn State in the aftermath of the scandal. Tomalis didn't get that job so he had to settle for a $140,000 free time advisory position.
Next, you need to know that Business and Industry trustee, Kenneth Frazier, the other co-chair of the SITF had pending legal matters concerning the Vioxx case in the Pennsylvania judicial system. Shortly before AG Linda Kelly left office, she filed an $8.25 settlement agreement with Merck.
Tomalis was among the finalists to become the Chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education -- which would have paid him over $300,000. But State Auditor General Eugene DePasquale questioned the move, considering it part of the revolving door of position appointments at Penn State in the aftermath of the scandal. Tomalis didn't get that job so he had to settle for a $140,000 free time advisory position.
Next, you need to know that Business and Industry trustee, Kenneth Frazier, the other co-chair of the SITF had pending legal matters concerning the Vioxx case in the Pennsylvania judicial system. Shortly before AG Linda Kelly left office, she filed an $8.25 settlement agreement with Merck.
So, with these two gentlemen at the helm, all that was needed to complete the railroad was to align the "independent" investigation by Freeh with the ongoing investigation of the Sandusky case by Attorney General Kelly's office.
And that's exactly what happened, with Tomalis suggesting that Frazier "reach out to her early next week."
In the paragraph at the bottom, Governor Corbett already has directed that the PSU internal (independent) investigation firm talk directly with the OAG -- even prior to selecting Freeh.
This is smoking gun evidence. Corbett intended to have investigators at PSU work hand in hand with his Attorney General every step of the way to insure any report would support the presentment against Penn State administrators.
The next email shows Tomalis congratulating Frazier for getting U.S. Representative Pat Meehan to drop his request for a seat on the independent committee overseeing the PSU investigation. They would brook no interference from anyone near the committee outside the control of the Governor and his cronies on the BOT.
Another e-mail revealed Frazier, Surma, and Tomalis nixing the recommendations that those with legal training have seats on the SITF. No need to have a qualified lawyer questioning the independence of the investigation or the strength of any 'evidence'.
The cabal that ran the PSU BOT were ensuring that the SITF would be made up of people who would ultimately defer decisions to the chairs and they didn't need individuals on the task force who might ask any tough questions. By November 17, they had their man -- Louis Freeh. After the issuance of the Freeh Report, Governor Corbett would take credit for identifying and recommending Freeh for the job.
Is it any wonder that Joel Myers insisted they mark responses "Attorney-Client Privilege" and run them through Cynthia Baldwin?
Note the group who is the inner circle charged with selecting the Special Investigator and making certain that investigator is directly involved with the Attorney General.
1) Ronald Tomalis - Sec of Education appointed by Corbett
2) Ken Frazier of Merck Pharmaceuticals - needed Corbett's help to get Linda Kelly on board for a sweetheart settlement
3) John Surma - CEO of US Steel and subject of THE SURMA VENDETTA stories
4) Cynthia Baldwin - PSU attorney caught pretending to represent Curley and Schultz in the Grand Jury proceedings
5) Steve Garban - Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Two more members of the Board sent in endorsements of Freeh:
6) Mark Dambly - President of Pittsburgh properties management giant Pennrose Properties.
7) Karen Peetz - BNY Mellon officer - beholden to Surma who was a member of her Board of Directors
That's right - it only took 8 days after the Nov 9 2011 firing of Paterno and Spanier for Corbett & Surma to put Louis Freeh together with Attorney General Linda Kelly in order to have this "independent" investigation of their well-crafted PENN STATE SEX SCANDAL.
It's small wonder that the current BOT and their Upward State supporters keep pushing the "MOVE ON" meme. They knew that if these documents came into view, they risked this kind of exposure. This Board of Trustees and Upward State hope that Penn State alumni will grow exhausted and tire of the battle to win back the hard-earned reputation of their Alma Mater
YOU ARE PENN STATE - not this Governor and his Board of Traitors. THE LION SHOULD NOT SLEEP TONIGHT - the lions should not sleep until they drag down this pack of hyenas and hold them accountable for the damage they have done. What more evidence do you need to get angry enough to rise up and put an end to this? You now have the ammunition in the written words of the guilty.
What are you going to do now that you know the TRUTH?
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