Frank ParlatoSandusky’s Innocence Championed by Former Penn State VIPs and Community
Jerry Sandusky is an innocent man whom the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania railroaded into prison. The Commonwealth accomplished this injustice through a remarkable combination of perjury, greed, and the cowardice of the Penn State board of trustees.
Last week, more than sixty individuals sent a letter to the board asking that trustees review evidence of Sandusky’s innocence.
Sixty-eight people familiar with the case put their names on the letter. The list includes people closely associated with Penn State, such as a former trustee, the former director of Penn State University Press, a Penn State coach, former co-captains of the football team, a Penn State administrator, PSU lettermen, four physicians, a minister, two police detectives, several former big donors to Penn State, professors, teachers and counselors, business persons, a British mathematician, a retired federal special agent, several CPAs, an attorney, a pilot, reporters, friends of the family, Sandusky’s family and his wife.
These individuals have studied the case and come to the same conclusion. Sandusky is innocent.
One would think a group such as this would summon the attention of the Penn State Board of Trustees.
PSU Trustees Block Review
Chairman Matt Schuyler and Trustee Mary Lee Schneider worked to ensure the evidence never reached the other Penn State trustees while an innocent man, now 80, continues to languish in prison.
It is a strategy that may backfire on Penn State when the world learns the truth: that Sandusky is innocent.
Trustee Schneider studied journalism and ought to know enough to examine how the media misreported the story in 2011, failing to imbue its reporting with skepticism for the accusers.
An old journalism attributed to the City News Bureau of Chicago goes, “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.”
Once, the importance of verification and fact-checking, regardless of the source’s perceived reliability, was a guiding principle in journalism.
But modern journalism has adopted a new adage: “If an accuser says somebody abused them believe them.”
I tried to believe the accusers, but I uncovered nothing but lies.
Thank the media, thank the liars, thank shyster lawyers, dishonest cops and prosecutors, and a dishonorable judge who rushed the case to trial. Also, thank the Penn State Board of Trustees of 2011-2012.
Thatcher Has the Credentials to Be Heard
In addition to putting his name on the letter to Penn State trustees, former Penn State University Press director, Sanford G. Thatcher, personally sent another letter to two board members, Jay Paterno, son of the late Joe Paterno, a man Penn State threw under the bus, and newly elected trustee Matt Grioin, asking them to review the evidence.
Thatcher, a legend in publishing and editing, might know a little about what is true and what is not.
Thatcher retired at the end of June 2009, after twenty years as Director of Penn State University Press. He sponsored over 600 books for publication in humanities and social sciences. Before that, his 22-year career earlier at Princeton University Press, culminating in his appointment as Editor-in-Chief in 1985, led to the acquisition of over 800 titles.
Thatcher has taken the time to study the false conviction of Jerry Sandusky. Maybe somebody should listen.
Anthony Lubrano is the only trustee on the board who has done the same. He is convinced Sandusky is innocent.
Problems at Penn State
I understand that fundraising is down at Penn State and that Schuyler and Schneider are afraid of Governor Shapiro, who might arrange to cut state funding if they sought the truth about Sandusky.
Shapiro has a lot at stake in suppressing the truth about Sandusky. His relentless prosecution of the innocent former president of Penn State, Graham Spanier, when Shapiro was attorney general might make him want to punish innocent trustees who seek the truth.
Paterno’s Son Might Want to Stand Up for Dad
As for donations to Penn State, I have been told they are down.
It might be because Joe Paterno made Penn State’s reputation, and the university betrayed this legendary figure on the eve of his death and hauled down his statue after his death. Many have not forgiven Penn State and ceased making donations.
Lord bless his son, Jay Paterno, who sits on the Penn State board. If Penn State did what they did to Joe Paterno to my father, I would not sit on the board. I’d join every board to discredit Penn State, unhinge its finances, and crush its reputation to atoms.
I would not rest until everyone knew that my father was innocent of wrongdoing.
Jay Paterno should take the lead in examining the evidence that shows his father was innocent of wrongdoing, because Jerry Sandusky is innocent of wrongdoing.
Schneider Should Look for the Truth
Deception and obfuscation will not save Schneider when the truth gets out. She has become the face of the “Sandusky-Will-Die- Soon-Just-STFU” faction of the Penn State Trustees. At the end of the day, the lady may try to run, but she can’t hide from the truth. Though Governor Shapiro is said to be vengeful and might cut funding, a truth seeker can hold his feet to the fire. If he cuts Penn State funding just because brave trustees sought to right a historic injustice, he may find a backlash bigger than he imagined.
Like skeptical journalism, poetry has largely gone by the wayside.
But FR has long had a poetry corner. Percy Langmore, submitted this poem about the woman who rushed to prevent Anthony Lubrano from getting the floor at the last Penn State board meeting, and bringing our letter asking the board to review evidence of Sandusky’s innocence to the attention of the board.
Schneider RiderBy Percival Aethelwulf Langmore
Mary Lee Schneider wanted
to keep Jerry Sandusky behind the wall,
But truth came out, and Mary had a fall.
All the Penn State lawyers and all the governor’s men
Couldn’t put Schnieder’s reputation back together again.
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Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.
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Shapiro is not behind this. He more likely sees defending a guy pretty much everyone thinks is a pedophile is political suicide. He’s not the first PA Governor to be on the wrong side of this…ask Tom Corbett what happens when you try to throw a couple hundred thousand angry voters under the bus.
But Shairo supports other Pedophiles.
Maybe it’s time for rivals of Penn State to do an investigation. There has to be a university law department that is willing to take on the challenge.
Penn State is using Jay Paterno. If his own son is on the board then how bad can Penn State be? Where is the son’s allegiance?
When did he become a member of the Board? He’s being used.
Great work.
Jason,
He admitted to showering naked with kids, hard to overlook, and what went on in his basement, he crossed lines Jason, he is lucky to be alive, he f*cked around, and found out.
Shapiro is a Democrat.
Democrats support pedophilia.
Any questions?
Yeah, who is Pedro Shpiro. I thought Sandusky said grease up while drop plow?
You are sick
Frank has friends in State College here. Chumley’s bar n grill and poker in the rear. We love you Franklin Parlato.
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Everybody forgets that to free Sandusky an 80 year old guy this Frank ssshole will drive a stake into our beloved Penn states heart.
Who gives a damn about some old guy who’s going to die in a few years. Is freeing him is that worth the sorrow and loss of enrollment at our university?
I say use common sense protect our Alma mater. Boycott this asshole.
He wants Sandusky out over our dead Alma Mater. I have loyalty to Penn State.
Stop reading this fool
Too bad, too late. The fast growing ball of justice is rolling down the slope and will crush those who try to stop it. As for the Penn State image? Perhaps doing the just, moral and right thing might save it. If they do not? Hey, I’ll just root for and spend my money on Ohio State.
that just means youre too much of a fag to root for a real football program in the SEC
“Who gives a d*mn about some old guy who’s going to die in a few years.”
Careful, your lack of humanity and idolatrous worship of Penn State’s reputation are showing a little.
Wow, seriously though, your lack of concern for justice and Jerry’s lifetime of sacrificial service to others is pretty despicable. Take a good hard look in the mirror and ask yourself how you’d respond if your loved one was in Jerry’s shoes.
I find your comment offensive. You apparently have no value of life
PS deserves everything that may happen. PSs reputation could be somewhat restored if they face this injustice and admit to their mistakes.
Ty,
What kind of people wouldn’t want to free an innocent 80 year old guy? 🤔
Frank, I applaud your determination and excellent reporting on this case. New trial is in order!
Thank you Frank
“As if we needed any more evidence, this shows that the Penn State administration is not to be trusted, and that they’re going to take advantage of the Victims.”
At the time this all went down, I was stunned by “the cowardice of the Penn State board of trustees.” The board, rather than defend Penn State and its legacy from the media 24/7 onslaught, threw down their rifles, abandoned the trenches and headed for the hills.Throwing Joe Paterno under the bus was equally cowardly and reprehensible.The board’s failure to fight for Penn State caused damage to the entire Penn State family that continues to be felt to this day.
The Freh report may be characterized as something of a hit job. As courageous board members Anthony Lubrano, Ryan McCombie, Ted Brown, Barbara Doran, Robert Jubelirer, William Oldsey and Alice Pope averred, Penn State was forced to overpay millions of dollars in civil settlements and endure unnecessary damage to its reputation, and it “scapegoated some of the university’s most loyal, honorable and longstanding servants.”
There are still problems with the board today, of which leading the way is a continuing lack of transparency. Not even current board members can get all of the information/data they need or want.
Alan S. Krug
PSU B.S. 1955, Ph.D. 1974
I believe shapiro is definitely behind it. After all, he is a fool and does not want to look like the fool he is before the entire state for pushing for Spanier’s jail time. Shapiro is a FOOL! Added to that fact is how the judiciary of PA back in 2011 got the ENTIRE case WRONG……quite embarrassing as it should be! The way this entire case was conducted from beginning to end is a true travesty and CorbUtt, Eshbach, Kelly, Fina, McGettigan, Cleland, Shapiro, police, etc., should be ashamed. Totally reprehensible and unethical actions from ALL!!
Thank you Sandy Lane
I applaud your magnificent, courageous, steadfast reporting on this case. Hopefully, someday soon this innocent man will be free and those responsible for creation of the web of lies, corruption, and malfeasance that led to Jerry’s incarceration will receive their Justice.
As important as it is to free this innocent man, the equal or greater cause is to clear his good name. Jerry comes from a great family who guided many disadvantaged boys to successful lives in southwestern Pennsylvania, and these low-life people have literally destroyed that good family name. And for what? Money.
It is disgustingly reprehensible that these few people can hide their guilt But, your days of discovery of your crime is now here. I suggest that you get right with God, and soon.