Sandusky Inquiry Grew Into Concerns of a Cover-Up

[joeybee12]

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — A critical break in the investigation of Jerry Sandusky came via a posting on the Internet: a random mention that a Penn State football coach, years before, might have seen something ugly, but kept silent.

Investigators with the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office had by 2010 already come to the conclusion that Sandusky, the longtime defensive coordinator for Joe Paterno’s Nittany Lions, was a serial molester, according to two people with knowledge of the case. But what had started with a complaint of sexual assault from a high school freshman had grown to include another matter altogether: whether Penn State had acted to cover up Sandusky’s behavior, even crimes.

Working off the brief mention on an Internet forum where people chatted about Penn State athletics, according to the two people with knowledge of the case, investigators narrowed their list of coaches likely to have seen something to Mike McQueary, then an assistant coach and the football program’s recruiting coordinator.

State College is a close-knit community. Word would get around that a Penn State coach had met with investigators. So investigators set up a meeting in an out-of-the-way parking lot, according to those with knowledge of the case. There, one day a little over a year ago, McQueary unburdened himself, the two people said. He needed little prompting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/sports/ncaafootball/internet-posting-helped-sandusky-investigators.html?_r=1&hp

[Fumesucker]

1. K&R

[fishwax]

2. Three years of The Second Mile's records gone missing?

That's news I hadn't heard before.

[joeybee12]

4. Yeah, that stuck out, too...

Smacks of a cover-up.

[Aerows]

3. Uh, it was a cover-up

Everyone is clued in on that fact.