Jerry Sandusky has pension restored after ruling from Pennsylvania court
Source: Associated Press, via USA Today
AP 10:57 a.m. EST November 13, 2015
HARRISBURG, Pa. - The state must restore the pension of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky that was taken away three years ago on the day he was sentenced to prison on child molestation convictions, a Pennsylvania court ordered Friday.
A Commonwealth Court panel ruled unanimously that the State Employees Retirement Board wrongly concluded Sandusky was a Penn State employee when he committed the crimes that were the basis for the pension forfeiture.
The board conflated the requirements that Mr. Sandusky engage in work relating to PSU and that he engage in that work for PSU, wrote Judge Dan Pellegrini. Mr. Sanduskys performance of services that benefited PSU does not render him a PSU employee.
Sandusky, 71, collected a $148,000 lump sum payment upon retirement in 1999 and began receiving monthly payments of $4,900. ... The board stopped those payments in October 2012 on the day he was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison for sexually abusing 10 children.
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2015/11/13/jerry-sandusky-pension-restored-pennsylvania-court/75702030/
This is strictly a matter of contract law. The decision was unanimous, too.
A copy of the decision is here:
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on November 13, 2015 at 9:55 AM, updated November 13, 2015 at 10:24 AM
A Commonwealth Court ruling issued Friday morning restores the state pension that was forfeited by Jerry Sandusky after the former Penn State coach was convicted of molesting several boys.
The court's ruling is based, in part, on a finding by the judges that Sandusky was not a Penn State University employee when the crimes were committed.
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Commonwealth Court opinion on Sandusky pension
ETA: I'm going to bold this, to make sure people know what happened today:
His convictions on the molestation charges were not overturned. He's still in prison. All today's decision affects is his pension.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)All the punishments stripped, Jerry gets his pension back.....no one has to answer for anything in Happy Valley.
Burn in hell, Joe Pa.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)catrose
(5,073 posts)The employees get thrown under the bus. Except for the postal workers, whose pension is paid 75 years in advance, to the destruction of the PO.
The "lawmakers" are not even pretending any more.
demosincebirth
(12,543 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)destitute either.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)They were manipulated, and they saw money, Sandusky said. Once lawyers came into the case, they said there was money.
The wife admitted that Sandusky did bathe with other boys, but denied that there was anything sexual about the steamy showers.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jerry-sandusky-wife-breaks-silence-not-weak-wife-article-1.1718237
Her adopted son:
At bedtime, Matthew says Sandusky followed a "ritual" of sexually abusing him. The rest of his time with the family seemed, on the surface, completely innocent and ordinary.
"Any other time that we were in the home... it was fine. You'd look at that family and you would say, 'Wow. I wish that I had brothers and sisters that cared about me. I wish that I had a mother who cooked dinner every night for the whole family. I wish that I had all of these things,'" Matthew recalls. "But then at bedtime, his ritual began."
In Thursday's interview, Matthew also shares his account of the grooming, methodical control and manipulation he faced as a child. Though it will spark outrage and disgust, Oprah insists it's an interview every parent must watch.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/16/matthew-sandusky-jerry-overnight-visits_n_5589355.html
Cosmocat
(14,573 posts)she, more than anyone, knew what he was ...
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)At least a cool $176,000 lump sum. His wife should be happy.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)His wife is entitled to the contracted payments.
For the record, corporation should also be beholden to contracted pensions, and they should have priority (yes, even over bondholders) in bankruptcy, given the severe effect of retracting them.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)That's how pensions (are supposed to) work.
modrepub
(3,503 posts)His legal expenses continue to mount. Not sure if he owes restitution or not (or if this is even touchable). In all likelihood Sandusky is going to spend the rest of his life in solitary confinement. Not that that will be enough in some peoples minds.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)niyad
(113,556 posts)school?
yardwork
(61,709 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)probably not. Pensions are usually insulated from suits.