Penn State Official Maintained Secret File on Sandusky Investigation, Report Says

A court document filed by the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office on Monday accuses Gary C. Schultz, Pennsylvania State University’s former senior vice president for finance and business, of maintaining a secret file on the investigation of alleged child sex abuse by Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant football coach at the university. And documents in that file, according to KDKA-TV, are inconsistent with statements made to a grand jury by Mr. Schultz and by Timothy M. Curley, the university’s former athletic director. Prosecutors long ago subpoenaed Penn State for any evidence related to Mr. Sandusky, his employment at the university, and any investigation of his conduct, but the attorney general’s office said it was only recently given Mr. Schultz’s file.

The state “has come into possession of computer data (again, subpoenaed long ago but not received from PSU until after the charges had been filed in this case), in the form of e-mails between Schultz, Curley, and others that contradict their testimony before the grand jury,” according to the court filing. The details regarding Mr. Schultz’s file follow another report that Graham B. Spanier, Penn State’s former president, in 2001 traded e-mails with university officials about allegations that Mr. Sandusky had molested a boy in a shower, but they chose not to report the alleged incident to authorities, deciding that it would be more “humane” to Mr. Sandusky to avoid notifying social services.

Mr. Schultz and Mr. Curley both face perjury charges, as well as penalties for failing to report the alleged incidents of sexual abuse.