Feds seek record $2.4 million fine against Penn State in Sandusky scandal

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Federal investigators have concluded that Penn State should pay a record fine of nearly $2.4 million for numerous violations of campus safety law — findings that arose from a five-year probe related to former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse of several children over more than a decade.

The Education Department said Thursday that it uncovered “11 serious findings” of Penn State’s noncompliance with the federal law that requires crimes on college and university campuses to be reported.

Among them were violations directly related to Sandusky’s abuse of children, a failure to issue timely warnings of threats to the campus and a failure to keep an accurate and complete daily crime log. One finding — a “failure to properly classify reported incidents and disclose crime statistics from 2008 to 2011” — carried a recommended fine of more than $2.1 million.

If upheld, the total fine would be the largest by far since the law was enacted more than 25 years ago.

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By Nick Anderson November 3 at 5:02 PM

[DURHAM D]

1. You mean Louis Freeh, former FBI Director and member of Opus Dei,

couldn't help Penn get out of this?

Surprised, surprised, surprised.

[Mc Mike]

2. How much money is the football program bringing in to Penn State's coffers?

How about merchandising? How much money are they making with shirt, mug, poster sales?

I'm glad they're trying to get something, but this $2.5 mil would be a drop in the bucket.

[arithia]

3. Good.

Seriously. Penn State profited from the victimization of minors. It did little to protect victims of rape on campus. It wasted time and energy and money on defending the legacy of someone who protected a child rapist instead of the children they are supposed to protect and educate and guide towards a better future. Even more disturbing is how they continue to do so after all their dirty laundry was aired for the world to see.

Hit em the only place they seem to care about- their wallet.

[radicalliberal]

4. Penn State and Baylor University (not to mention other institutions) --

-- have earned themselves a place in the Hall of Shame.

As usual, the football program takes precedence over the rape victims. Will this sort of injustice ever change? I doubt it.