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Here's some highlights of an excellent piece of research published today by Bill Keisling IV. In late 2008, a parent went to authorities to report that Sandusky had sexually abused her son, who participated in Second Mile. The County District attorney shifted responsibility for the case over to Attorney General Tom Corbett in early 2009. Sandusky would not be charged until almost 3 years later, and not until Corbett had become governor of PA and career prosecutors were able to take over.
The linked essay is reportedly based upon discussions with people who worked in the Attorney General's office, and tries to answer the question: Why did it take 3 years?
"Insiders at the state attorney general's office speak of moral bankruptcy, blatant hypocrisy and raw politics in the AG's office under Corbett. Corbett misused the office of attorney general to win the PA. governor's office at any and all cost, by any means necessary, those around him say. Part of the great cost paid, we now see in the Sandusky case, included the safety, dignity and well-being of children.
As governor, Corbett then attempted to distract public attention away from his own mounting failures, political machinations and dishonesties by making a fall guy of Joe Paterno. Corbett's lack of sense of decency or character, his fundamental dishonesty, and basic incompetence were magnified by the political nature of the elected attorney general's office. This gives cause to pose plenty of troubling questions about the stalled legal case against Sandusky.
...From at least 2009 onward, AG Tom Corbett would be the lead player in this culture of cover-up, shielding and confidentiality. ...DeWeese* pointed out to reporters that AG Corbett, from March 2009 to October 2010, "had 14 prosecutors and agents tearing my life .. life apart. He had one investigator on Sandusky." ...But DeWeese is overly generous about the number of investigators assigned to the Sandusky non-investigation. It's apparent that the "one investigator," a state trooper, assigned to Sandusky's pedophile case, wasn't even actively investigating. The trooper was resigned to occasionally flipping through a dusty copy of Sandusky's book, Touched, that was stashed at his desk -- when he wasn't working on other cases.
* A Democratic legislator charged with using his office for political purposes.
The reality is that, since 2007, a large percentage of grand juror time was devoted exclusively to "Bonusgate." In Tom Corbett's election playbook and timetable, there would be little grand jury time for anything else, including sodomized children. One way to look at it is as a simple matter of priorities...From 2007 to 2010, the grand juries were almost completely saturated by witnesses and evidence involving Corbett's "Bonusgate" legislative bonus prosecutions. During this period Tom Corbett was also running for governor, basing his campaign on the controversial theory that he was a "Bonusgate reformer." So there had to be, if only for purely political reasons, "Bonusgate" results.
Corbett simply did not want to prosecute the Sandusky pedophile case. "Tom didn't want to do it," I'm told. "What do you mean, 'He didn't want to do it?'" I ask again. "He didn't want to do it." I have to keep asking the same question, and getting the same reply, before it begins sink in. By assigning only a single trooper, yet not instructing or even allowing his prosecutor to push the case, AG Tom Corbett did the bare minimum he could do to cover his ass and to say that he was doing something about the Sandusky pedophile complaint(s).
In 2011, in fact, the AG's office crowed that its hard-working Child Predator Unit had, since its inception in 2005, arrested 298 child predators. ... "The Child Predator's Unit could have done a quick grand jury in two months time back in 2009, arrested Jerry Sandusky like all the other predators and got him off the street." But that never happened. AG Corbett didn't seem to trust his own vaunted Child Predator Unit to handle the Sandusky case, or to get the job done.
Corbett incredibly settled on a beloved 85-year-old to take the fall....Corbett knows from first-hand experience that today's corporate media is servile, for the most part isn't all that smart or morally scrupulous, and doesn't look into things all that deeply or for very long. And more and more these days they simply write what they're handed."