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Penn State counsels role in Sandusky inquiry called into question
By Jeremy Roebuck / The Philadelphia Inquirer
http://bostonherald.com/news/nation...role_in_sandusky_inquiry_called_into_question
PHILADELPHIA - Three top Penn State University administrators were each posed a question from prosecutors when they testified separately last year before the grand jury investigating Jerry Sandusky:
Do you have counsel with you today?
Then-university president Graham B. Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley, and vice president Gary Schultz each offered the same answer: Yes, Cynthia Baldwin, the universitys general counsel.
But Baldwin has since maintained that she represented none of them and instead sat in on the proceedings on behalf of the university.
Those conflicting views have complicated the criminal cases against Schultz and Curley, who are charged with lying to the grand jury, and have called into question Baldwins role in managing the most significant crisis in Penn State history.
A review of court filings, interviews with sources close to the investigation, and the findings of the 267-page report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh portray Baldwin as more preoccupied with protecting administrators who would later be implicated in a coverup than with serving the interests of the university for which she worked.
And now, facing mounting pressure from the criminal investigation, Spanier, Curley, and Schultz have each turned on the woman they once trusted for legal advice............
She "has chosen to maintain confidentiality and to uphold her ethical obligations to her client, the university," [her lawyer] De Monaco said.
Freeh characterized Baldwins representation of Penn States interests as "seriously deficient."............
"If she was representing the university, she shouldnt have been in the grand jury room at all," former Pennsylvania Attorney General Walter Cohen said.
More at link.....
By Jeremy Roebuck / The Philadelphia Inquirer
http://bostonherald.com/news/nation...role_in_sandusky_inquiry_called_into_question
PHILADELPHIA - Three top Penn State University administrators were each posed a question from prosecutors when they testified separately last year before the grand jury investigating Jerry Sandusky:
Do you have counsel with you today?
Then-university president Graham B. Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley, and vice president Gary Schultz each offered the same answer: Yes, Cynthia Baldwin, the universitys general counsel.
But Baldwin has since maintained that she represented none of them and instead sat in on the proceedings on behalf of the university.
Those conflicting views have complicated the criminal cases against Schultz and Curley, who are charged with lying to the grand jury, and have called into question Baldwins role in managing the most significant crisis in Penn State history.
A review of court filings, interviews with sources close to the investigation, and the findings of the 267-page report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh portray Baldwin as more preoccupied with protecting administrators who would later be implicated in a coverup than with serving the interests of the university for which she worked.
And now, facing mounting pressure from the criminal investigation, Spanier, Curley, and Schultz have each turned on the woman they once trusted for legal advice............
She "has chosen to maintain confidentiality and to uphold her ethical obligations to her client, the university," [her lawyer] De Monaco said.
Freeh characterized Baldwins representation of Penn States interests as "seriously deficient."............
"If she was representing the university, she shouldnt have been in the grand jury room at all," former Pennsylvania Attorney General Walter Cohen said.
More at link.....