Much Much More on Corbett's 3 year delay in arresting Sandusky, when Corbett was AG

[JPZenger]

http://www.yardbird.com/joe_paterno_takes_the_fall.htm#arrest7

Excerpts:

'JoePa' takes the fall: A slow Tom Corbett throws Joe Paterno under the bus

'It's going to kill him'

"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 Pennsylvania 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 Jerry 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. Tom 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 Jerry Sandusky

Jerry Sandusky's kid glove treatment at the hands of diverse Pennsylvania institutions, from 1998 until late 2010, reveals a classic pattern of looking the other way. 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 Jerry 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.

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.

Tom 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. Jerry Sandusky would never be among the hundreds arrested by the unit. "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."

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Recommended - explosive!

[rhett o rick]

2. k&r

[Curmudgeoness]

3. Yes, all of his attention was on Bonusgate.

That was all he cared about, because it was such a newsy story.....not that getting Sandusky off the streets wouldn't have been huge news too. You just can't make this stuff up!

[JPZenger]

4. Great Quote - and was true in other situations in PA

The link includes a statement that was true in many situations in PA at this time:

"Around Pennsylvania, a new joke punch line was delivered by Republican district attorneys, a joke so funny that it knocked everybody to the floor with laughter: "I'm referring this matter to Attorney General Tom Corbett." Everybody knew and well expected that AG Corbett wouldn't actually do anything.

And so when Centre County DA Michael Madeira referred his Sandusky complaint(s) to his former boss, AG Tom Corbett, in March 2009, it was, we should presume, done with the same tongue-in-cheek knowledge that Corbett would simply and safely sit on the damn complaint, and do nothing."

[livetohike]

9. Ed Rendell was on KDKA radio yesterday praising Corbett!

He called him a good guy, and an excellent AG! They are all complicit in this mess, imo.

[JPZenger]

10. Rendell was trying to make up for his public criticism of Corbett

Rendell was coming out against Corbett's plan to cut off food stamps to people with more than $2,000 of assets. Rendell was being criticized because it is considered bad political form for one Governor to criticize their successor. Therefore, Rendell was probably doing a left hand compliment - he is a good guy, he just is trying to starve people.

[blue neen]

6. This line describes Governor Tom Corrupt to a "t":

"Tom 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."

We cannot let this issue go away. The questions need to be continued.

[JPZenger]

7. Entire criminal investigation division was ordered to look at jury pool for bonusgate

From another article by the same author on the www.yardbird.com website:

"Dec. 2009: After a person is acquitted in a bonusgate trial, "Corbett fears for his election prospects. AG Corbett orders all the agents in the Bureau of Criminal Investigation to drop whatever they are doing to perform background checks on approximately 350 potential jurors in the "Bonusgate" jury pool. Corbett says he suspects jury tampering by his political opponents.

The Sandusky investigation continues to languish."

[JPZenger]

8. Did Corbett Obstruct Investigation into York Co. VIP prostitution ring, including underage kids????

http://www.yardbird.com/tv_town_officials_cant_stop_pedophile_sex_ring.htm

[HopeHoops]

11. I'm so going to moon him if he ever shows up on the streets of Harrisburg.

At least Rendell got out to meet people. Corbett just hides in his mansion and limo. Coward.