Gregory Eells, University of Pennsylvania Mental Health Services & Jed Foundation, Self Extracts From Humanity

https://www.jedfoundation.org/

How ironic!

Gregory Eells was associated with the Jed Foundation.

Sounds like tiny human lab rat issues were the catalyst for his self extraction from humanity, or was it?

JED is a nonprofit that exists to protect emotional health and prevent suicide for our nation's teens and young adults. JED equips teens and young adults with the skills and knowledge to help themselves and each other; partners with high schools and colleges to strengthen their mental health, substance abuse and suicide prevention programs and systems; and encourages community awareness, understanding and action for young adult mental health.

Head of University of Pennsylvania mental health services dies by suicide

The head of the University of Pennsylvania's psychological and counseling services department died by suicide, officials confirmed on Wednesday. Dr. Gregory Eells, 52, died on Monday morning due to multiple blunt impact injuries, according to the Philadelphia Department of Health, and the University of Pennsylvania confirmed his death to CBS News.

Gregory Eells

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Eells jumped to his death from a 17-story building in Center City Philadelphia. The Inquirer said his death occurred about 6:40 a.m. on Monday morning along the 100 block of South Broad Street, where he had been living.

According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the university's student newspaper, Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum and Chief Wellness Office Benoit Dubé wrote an email to the university community where they extended their condolence to Eells' family. The two administrators described his death as sudden and did not state the cause of death.

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Eells had been hired in January to lead the university's Counseling and Psychological Services. He began in March after spending more than a decade at Cornell University in a similar role. According to a press release, Eells taught both graduate and undergraduate students in courses on counseling, social psychology and developmental psychology. He served as chair of the Mental Health Section of the American College Health Association in 2014 and won the Association for University and College Counseling Center Director's Award for Excellence in Counseling Center Scholarship in 2016.

Eells earned a PhD in counseling psychology from Oklahoma State University, an MA in psychology from Eastern Illinois University, and a BA in psychology and biology from Greenville College.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that police said no suicide note was left. Dr. Eells is survived by his wife and three children, who live in Ithaca, New York.

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Form Michigan To Illinois To Texas To Tennessee - The MSU Nassar Case Expands

Slowly the cloak reveals the horrors of child welfare in the United States.

Steve Penny, former USA Gymnastics president, arrested for allegedly tampering with evidence in Larry Nassar case

Steve Penny, former president of USA Gymnastics, was arrested Wednesday night for allegedly tampering with evidence in the case of disgraced team doctor Larry Nassar.

Penny was arrested by the U.S. Marshals service in Tennessee on a warrant issued by the state of Texas. He was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of tampering with evidence, a felony, on Sept. 28.

He allegedly removed documents from the Karolyi Ranch, the U.S. gymnastics' training facility in Huntsville, Texas, related to Nassar's activity at the gym.

I bet those were financial docs of what they were doing with the tiny humans.

"The indictment further alleges that the removal of the documents was done for the purpose of impairing the ongoing investigation by destroying or hiding the documents," the U.S. Marshals said in a press release. He allegedly ordered the documents be sent to him at USA Gymnastics headquarters in Indianapolis. Those documents have never been recovered, authorities said.

U.S. Marshals Service ~ Nice modernization of the perp walk.

The U.S. Marshals Service shared a photo of former USA Gymnastics President Steve Penny being arrested in Gatlinburg, Tenn., on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, for allegedly tampering with evidence in the Larry Nassar case.+

(MORE: Former USA Gymnastics head invokes Fifth Amendment rights at hearing about Nassar)

Penny was taken into custody at a cabin in rural Gatlinburg, Tennessee, by the U.S. Marshals and Smoky Mountains Fugitive Task Force, according to authorities. He is awaiting extradition to Texas.

He faces up to 10 years in prison, if convicted.

The Karolyi Ranch was operated by Bela Karolyi and wife Marta Karolyi, the two people tasked with selecting and developing athletes for the U.S. national team. It served as the national team's training facility from 2001 until earlier this year. Nassar worked at the facility and several of his accusers said they were abused by him at the facility.

(MORE: USA Gymnastics CEO resigns amid fallout from Larry Nassar abuse scandal)

Penny resigned as USA Gymnastics president in March 2017 amid allegations of sexual abuse against Nassar. Nassar pleaded guilty to seven counts of child molestation, but more than 130 women and girls, including Olympic gold medalists Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas and Aly Raisman, have accused him of assaulting them. Many of those accusers testified at a hearing in January when he was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison. He pleaded guilty in two other cases — one pertaining to assault and another possession of child pornography — as well.

Rhonda Faehn, Penny's former deputy, testified to the Senate in June that she brought up allegations of misconduct to him and she was told to keep quiet. Penny, who appeared before the same committee, chose to plead the Fifth and not testify.

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Former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar stands in Ingham County Circuit Court on Nov. 22, 2017 in Lansing, Mich.

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In a statement, USA Gymnastics said that it had "learned of the charges filed against its former CEO Steve Penny, who resigned in March 2017. We support law enforcement's efforts and have fully cooperated with the investigations by the Texas Rangers, Congress and others, and will continue to do so to help the survivors and our community heal from this tragedy."

USA Gymnastics has been in near-constant turmoil since the Indianapolis Star broke the story in September 2016 of Nassar's abuse of gymnasts under his care, both with the U.S. national team, where he was the team doctor, and at Michigan State University, where he was a faculty member. Nassar had been dismissed from his job with the U.S. national team in 2015, but only said it was done due to "athlete concerns."

After Penny's departure in March 2017, he was replaced by Kerry Perry in November 2017. But Perry's tenure was marked by consistent criticism over the handling of the Nassar scandal as well. She resigned less than a year after being named as Penny's replacement.

(MORE: Aly Raisman joins criticism of interim USA Gymnastics President Mary Bono)

Perry was criticized by stars, like Raisman, over her lack of transparency about how the organization planned to protect athletes going forward. She resigned days after she hired Mary Lee Tracy, in part to replace the Karolyis, as the sport's top coach. The hiring of Tracy received condemnation from athletes because she supported Nassar in the immediate wake of accusations against him.

In this Tuesday, June 5, 2018 photo, former USA Gymnastics president Steve Penny invokes his right not to answer questions in a Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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But the neverending parade of presidents didn't end with Perry's ouster.

Just this week, former Congresswoman Mary Bono, who was tasked with replacing Perry as interim president of USA Gymnastics, was forced out for a pair of scandals -- less than a week since her hiring. A day after her hiring, Biles criticized Bono, a Republican, for a photo posted on Twitter in which she was shown blacking out a Nike logo over the company's hiring of Colin Kaepernick as spokesperson. She publicly apologized for the photo.

(MORE: Simone Biles criticizes new USA Gymnastics President Mary Bono over anti-Kaepernick tweet)

A few days later, Raisman joined calls for Bono's ouster after discovering that Bono worked for the same law firm that worked with USA Gymnastics during the Nassar scandal and crafted excuses for his absences.

Bono was not directly involved in the law firm's representation of USA Gymnastics, but she stepped down nonetheless on Tuesday.

Penny is one of at least three people arrested in connection with the handling of the Nassar scandal. Debbie Van Horn, a trainer who worked with Nassar, was arrested last month in Walker County, Texas. She has denied charges, according to her lawyer, who spoke to the Houston Chronicle.

William Strampel, the former dean of Michigan State University's osteopathic medical school and boss of Larry Nassar while he was a sports doctor there, was charged March 27 with neglect of duty and criminal sexual conduct. His case will go to trial at a yet-to-be-scheduled date.

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All Hail The Whistleblowers: Kaylee Lorincz Calls Out MSU John Engler

Kaylee Lorincz revealed more than just the fact that Engler cares about nothing but the bottom line as Engler is more concerned about saving his own bottom. (puns intended).

Even Brian Calley put it out there to just pay off whistleblowers to make them go away in order to continue the raping of Michigan's children.

This is the culture of privatization, which all started, right here in Michigan.

Child welfare is the a multi-billion industry of trafficking tiny humans, because no one cares about the children, not even John Engler.

Michigan children have been Legally Kidnapped, raped, tortured, drugged as lab rats, and sold, under the leadership of John Engler.

Jennifer Granholm continued to carry the mantle of indifference.

Rick Snyder is clueless, just look at how he allowed the implementation of the plan to poison and profit from the children of Flint.

Engler used to sit on the board of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private foundation for foster care and adoption that is worth over $2 billion and has financial interest in:

• Bain Capital
• Bank of New York Melon
• Center for American Progress
• Goldman Sachs
• Amazon 
• UnitedHealth Group
• Blackstone
• Adage Capital Partners

Just to name a few financial entities that are deep into child welfare fraud and money laundering using federal dollars, of which I am going out there to say Medicaid and TARP, to traffic tiny humans on the stock markets.

This money was stolen from the children.

Engler is scared, and rightfully so, because I am on a mission.

Michigan State University investigation is deeper than just the Nassar investigation, much deeper.

We will get to Haiti, just be patient.

Until then, All Hail The Whistleblower Kaylee Lorincz because she let MSU, Brian Calley and John Engler know that she will not be bought and sold into silence.

Nassar survivor says MSU interim president offered her $250K to settle

LANSING, Mich. (WJBK) - What started as a simple introduction led to an offer to settle one of the many cases against Michigan State University for the misconduct of Larry Nassar, according to a victim of the disgraced doctor.

During the MSU Board of Trustees meeting Friday morning, Kaylee Lorincz revealed MSU interim President John Engler offered her $250,000 to settle her case against the university several weeks ago.

Lorincz said after sharing bits and pieces of her assault back in December, she has heard apologies on two separate occasions but has yet to see any action.

She said she is continually shocked by MSU interim President John Engler's "callous and disrespectful words" and said when she and her mom stopped in to MSU a few weeks ago to sign up to speak at Friday's meeting, she asked to introduce herself to Engler.

"My hope was that maybe if he actually met a survivor, he might become more empathetic to what we're experiencing," she said. "He has said some hurtful things and I wanted him to know that when he does that, he causes me to feel victimized all over again."

Nassar sentenced to 40-175 years in prison

While they waited, Lorincz said they were met by the Vice President University spokesperson, who spoke with them for about half an hour until they were brought into the meeting with Engler. Carol Viventi, Vice President and Special Counsel to the President, was also in the meeting she said.

"What he did not tell us is that Ms. Viventi is his lawyer."

During the meeting, Lorincz said she told them she was interested in helping the university heal, while Engler told her about the changes MSU has made and plans for progress. Lorincz said he told her that working together couldn't occur until the civil suits were settled.

That's when she said Engler asked her this question: "Right now, if I wrote you a check for $250,000, would you take it?"

Lorincz said that when she explained it wasn't about the money, he told her to give her a number. She says he told her he met with Rachel Denhollander, and that she gave him a number.

Father who lunged at Nassar in court: 'I lost control'

Denhollander was the first survivor to file a criminal complaint against Larry Nassar back in 2016. 

"I felt like I was getting bullied into saying something."

So she followed up with Rachel, she says, who told her she had never met with Engler -- and never gave a dollar amount.

Lorincz said that Engler attacked her attorneys, who were not present for this meeting.

"Then President Engler started saying it was sad that hundreds of good osteopathic doctors at MSU are being judged by one - one bad doctor. My mom interrupted and said what about former Dean Strampel? Wasn't he just arrested?" she said.

She said Engler rolled his eyes, and said it was "only a slap on the butt."

That's when Lorincz was cut off and told her time was up, as the crowd chanted, "Let her speak."

She persisted and kept speaking, saying MSU tried to make them feel like they (the victims) were the problem and that the school was the victim.

"When you protect and promote a sexual predator and foster a culture of lies and coverups, you are responsible," she said.

She continued to read her speech among several interruptions from the board: "Finish your four sentences, you are done."

So she finished with her last statement:

"You created this, not me. I can no longer care about helping MSU, and you guys, certainly, do not.

You are the ones who care about the money and I just want my life back."

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Schuette Special Prosecutor Investigates MSU, Clinton Foundation & Detroit Land Bank Authority For Child Welfare Fraud

Well, look at what we have here!

We do not just have an historic investigation, we have ourselves a real race for Governor of Michigan.

First, Brian Calley, Michigan Lieutenant Governor and 2018 Gubernatorial Candidate comes out calling for money to make everything go away.

Brian Calley To Help Children Tortured & Trafficked By Michigan 

Then, I sat back to wait and see what Bill Schuette, Michigan Attorney General and 2018 Gubernatorial Candidate was going to do as a comeback to the weak response to Calley.

Schuette: Special prosecutor, Michigan State Police will lead investigation into Michigan State

Yes, my precious Bill did the ultimate smackdown on Brian, but he did more than that.

Bill Schuette let me know that he is all over this.

See, the State Auditor General has "Reopened" the Ricky Holland investigation by suing the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and I just so happen to be an original source about this, so I can tell you that it is about child welfare fraud.

I am pretty sure the case is being represented by Schuette's office, or at least coordinated, because the case is in the Court of Claims.

Anyway, Schuette is using lots of special prosecutors, which is great to distance himself from any look of impropriety or political bias, because William Forsyth could be considered as a political operative for his campaign, but I really do not care at this point because Schuette is going for the glory.

Now, let us play a little game called, "Guess who did not incorporate in the State of Michigan".

If you say, "Detroit Land Bank Authority" you are absolutely correct, but there is one more organization, where the "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) of #perkinscoiesucks did not incorporate.

Perkins Coie did not incorporate the Clinton Global Initiative University in the State of Michigan.

So, how is it that Michigan State University joined with the Clinton Global Initiative University?

Kent County Land Bank Authority of the Michigan State University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Land Policy Institute.

Yes, the same Kent County where William Forsyth, the special prosecutor, hails, but this might just be a good thing considering that he might just be considered a subject matter expert.

This might be the same phenomenon that happened with Matt Schneider, Schuette's former Deputy Attorney General, coming back down to Detroit as the top U.S. Attorney for Michigan Easter District Court, to continue t he Detroit public corruption investigation that put former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, et al in their proverbial proper places.

There is one more area of significance the local rags will not talk about.

Michigan State University is a major influence in child welfare policies in the State of Michigan, for quite some time.

Hillary Clinton made her claim to fame on the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which is nothing more than a child trafficking operation, where Michigan is up there in the top 3 in the nation for children trafficked through foster care and adoption.

Michigan State University has a youth mentoring program just like Penn State had, except it is part of the University called FAME.

The children who were raped in the Jerry Sandusky, Penn State incident were foster kids, and more than likely, so were some of the youth in the MSU situation.

The Education of Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette On Penn State Child Welfare Fraud Scandal

Welcome to the family, Bill, or should I start calling you Governor Bill, because I finally figured out why you called me a public nuisance.

Love ya, too.

Call me.

MSU to join Clinton Global Initiative University

As they prepare for a Wednesday visit from former President Bill Clinton, Michigan State University will join his Global Initiative University and offer a campus-wide minor in entrepreneurship and innovation.

In doing so, MSU will be the first Michigan university to join CGIU, which was created to engage the next generation of leaders on college campuses around the world.

“Michigan State is committed to creating an entrepreneurial culture on campus and preparing our students to solve the world’s most pressing problems in innovative ways and to embark on careers that won’t resemble those of the past,” Neil Kane, MSU’s director of undergraduate entrepreneurship, said in a written statement.

Clinton will be on campus Wednesday and be the keynote speaker at the Governor Jim Blanchard Public Service Forum and first recipient of the Spartan Statesmanship Award for Distinguished Public Service.

The award and forum, announced in September, were established through a $1-million gift to MSU from Blanchard and his wife, Janet. Blanchard said the program honors distinguished leaders in politics, diplomacy, public service and journalism and gives MSU students and others “a chance to meet them and be energized by them.”

“The goal of this lecture series is to provide generations of students, faculty and people in the MSU community with the opportunity to hear and learn from national and international political leaders and others,” said Blanchard, former Michigan governor, U.S. congressman and ambassador to Canada, in a written statement. “His public service in politics, followed by his excellent work through the Clinton Foundation, is exactly the type of dedication and inspiring story we hoped to bring through the Blanchard Forum.”

The Clinton Global Initiative Network is a consortium of colleges and universities that provides support, mentoring and seed funding to student entrepreneurs. Students develop a “commitment to action” to explain how they might solve a social problem in areas such as education, the environment and public health.

Some students are chosen to attend the CGIU’s annual meeting. By joining the initiative, MSU pledges to financially support students invited to the meeting, which next takes place April 1-3 at the University of California-Berkeley.

Raeuf Roushangar, an MSU doctoral student in biochemistry, attended the CGIU at Washington University in St. Louis in April 2013. As part of his commitment to action, Roushangar formed a nonprofit organization that to date has donated more than $1 million worth of medical supplies to the developing world.

Two MSU students have applied for next year’s CGIU: a neuroscience freshman from Ghana, who is creating a mentoring program similar to Big Brothers Big Sisters, and a computer science sophomore from Ethiopia, who is working on a software application to make college more accessible to students in Ethiopia.

With the Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, which starts in the spring semester of 2016, MSU establishes a way for students to develop entrepreneurial skills, whether they aspire to start a business or become more competitive candidates for traditional employers.

Required for the minor are 15 credit hours consisting of two core courses and an assortment of electives that allow students to tailor the curriculum toward their interests.

“A university is an ideal setting for students to experience the entrepreneurial journey because there is no financial or professional risk in trying,” Kane said. “Once students leave campus, the cost, which is measured many ways, goes up a lot.”

Reply To Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette Thanksgiving Letter On Penn State Scandal by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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JUDICIARY: NADLER PRAISES LEGISLATION TO ADDRESS ABUSE OF ATHLETES CALLS ON CONGRESS TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE FUNDING TO SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION

I normally do not comment on House Judiciary Press Releases but this time it is different.

What the hell is this redundant legislation supposed to do to protect the other young victims from sexual abuse and safe sports?

I guess children of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) do not qualify, particularly the children in foster care and adoption who are exposed to sexual abuse on a daily basis.

I do not believe children under the auspices of a state should be excluded from protection.

What the hell was Child Protective Services created to do?

Obviously, not to protect young victims from sexual abuse and safe sports.

I guess Nadler is upset he might lose campaign finance from his contributors if these organizations are stripped of their funding.

Who is Nadler protecting?

Washington, D.C. - Today, the House passed S. 534, the “Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act.”  This bill would help prevent and address instances of abuse of young athletes participating in sports organized under the national governing bodies recognized by the U.S. Olympic Committee.  Among other provisions, the bill would authorize the U.S. Center for Safe Sport to receive and investigate allegations of abuse, and to develop training, oversight practices, policies, and procedures to prevent the abuse of these minors and amateur athletes.  However, the House version of the legislation would amend the Senate-passed version by stripping the funding authorization of $1 million every year through 2021. 

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement on the bill:

“I support the legislation being considered on the floor today. However, I am deeply disappointed that it strips funding for the organization charged with investigating abuse and developing policies to prevent it. We must do all we can to prevent the abuse of young athletes by those entrusted with caring for and coaching them, to remove obstacles that make it difficult to raise cases of abuse to the attention of higher ups, and to hold perpetrators accountable when such horrendous abuse occurs. I call on my colleagues in Congress to work together to ensure adequate funding is provided to ensure the bill lives up to its promise of protecting our young athletes.”

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Brian Calley To Help Children Tortured & Trafficked By Michigan

Michigan Lieutenant Governor and 2018 Gubernatorial candidate Brian Calley says Michigan State University should put up "100s of millions" for the child victims of Nassar sexual molestation cases and stop fighting lawsuits.

Awwwww, how cute.

I wonder what Calley is going to suggest for the tens of thousands of child victims of foster care and adoption who have been legally kidnapped, trafficked, violently raped, daily, used as lab rats for pharmaceutical experimental testing, aged out to become homeless to fend for themselves, having been denied an education by the state, to find a way to eat without having to sell their bodies because the state cut them off of what little help that SNAP provides?

I wonder what Calley is going to suggest for the children who have been murdered, attempted and have suicided in foster care and adoption?

I wonder what Calley is going to suggest for the children who have been poisoned, damaged for life in the intentional poisoning of Flint?

I wonder what Calley is going to suggest for the children who have been bought and sold through Michigan's child welfare system?

I wonder what Calley is going to suggest for the parents who have had their children legally kidnapped by Michigan's child welfare system?

I wonder what Calley is going to suggest when the feds hit the State with sanctions for allowing all this to go, for years, despite being put on notice, over, and over, and over again?

We should ask him or we could just wait for the State Auditor General Findings Report because this entire investigation may prove to be bigger than the Jerry Sandusky Penn State scandal, which will not be good for the gubernatorial campaigns of Bill Schuette or Brian Calley, because it will deal with foster care and adoption federal funding, like Medicaid.

Calley: MSU should put aside '100s of millions' for Nassar victims; stop fighting lawsuits

LANSING – The Michigan State University Board of Trustees should put aside hundreds of millions of dollars to compensate victims of former doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse and stop fighting to dismiss the lawsuits brought by Nassar’s survivors, Lt. Gov. Brian Calley said Saturday.

Calley, an MSU alumnus who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor, spoke out about the crisis at MSU for the first time in an interview with the Free Press.

Calley said he welcomed the apologies MSU trustees offered at a board meeting Friday, along with promises to take a new approach to dealing with the sex abuse scandal, but said: “I strongly encourage swift action that demonstrates a clear commitment to a dramatic shift in priorities.”

More: Schuette: Special prosecutor, Michigan State Police will lead investigation into Michigan State

That should include establishing a victim compensation fund, which “will likely need hundreds of millions of dollars,” and giving instructions to MSU attorneys to “drop all attempts to dismiss lawsuits” brought by victims, and instead push for the lawsuits to be sent to mediation for settlements, he said.

Jason Cody, an MSU spokesman, could not immediately be reached for comment Saturday.

Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to go public with a sexual assault allegation against Nassar, after complaining to MSU police in 2016, said she agrees with Calley’s recommendations.

She told the Free Press on Saturday she is grateful Calley supports doing “what is right” over “institutional protectionism.”

The comments from Calley, a close ally and adviser to Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, could ramp up pressure on the MSU Board of Trustees after Snyder signaled Friday he is considering unspecified action against the trustees, which could include formal inquiries aimed at removing them from office.

However, the legal position Calley advocates for MSU is in stark contrast to the position the State of Michigan has taken on lawsuits brought in recent yearsin both the Flint water crisis and the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency false fraud scandal. In both of those cases the state has aggressively fought lawsuits every step of the way and has attempted — sometimes successfully — to have lawsuits dismissed. 

"It's very ironic," said Royal Oak attorney Jennifer Lord, whose firm represents plaintiffs suing the state in cases related to both the lead contamination of Flint's drinking water and the close to 40,000 Michigan residents who applied for jobless benefits and were falsely accused of fraud and financially punished by a state computer system run amok.

More: Gov. Rick Snyder mulling action against MSU's Board of Trustees

More: Michigan State's Tom Izzo 'definitely not retiring', supports survivors

"Everyone would be well-served for the state to take its own advice so the victims of these state-created harms can get a hearing," Lord said.

"It's the right thing to do at MSU, and it's the right thing to do for the citizens of Flint and the individuals falsely accused of fraud."

Calley didn't give a direct answer when asked why he's advocating mediation for MSU when the state continues to try to get the Flint lawsuits thrown out of court. But he said the state has appropriated close to $300 million to help Flint since the water crisis began and MSU should have quickly appropriated a similar sum to help Nassar's victims.

He said it is particularly wrong for MSU to seek to dismiss victim lawsuits based on the statute of limitations, because it is not uncommon for sexual assault victims to not feel ready to come forward for extended time periods.

As for the unemployment insurance false fraud debacle, "I just don't think it's appropriate to compare sexual assault to unemployment claims cases," he said.

Nassar, who worked for MSU and with USA Gymnastics for 20 years, was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison Wednesday on seven charges of sexual assault, six of which occurred at MSU. His seven-day sentencing hearing included emotional statements from 156 women and girls who described the abuse they suffered from Nassar, under the guise of treatment.

Amid a flurry of investigations, MSU's athletic director, Mark Hollis, announced his retirement Friday after MSU President Lou Anna Simon announced her resignation Wednesday night.

Calley said he welcomes the investigation into MSU by Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette — which Schuette spoke about at a Saturday news conference in Lansing, where he said he would be assisted in the investigation by the Michigan State Police.

Retired Kent County prosecutor William Forsyth, who Schuette named to lead the investigation, is "independent, tough, and holds the highest ethical and professional standards," Calley said. 

"All decisions, including those made by previous investigators — like the botched Title IX investigation — need to be examined," Calley said.

MSU received a 2014 complaint about alleged sexual abuse by Nassar under Title IX of the U.S. Education Amendments of 1972, which is designed to protect students from gender discrimination. The investigation, conducted by MSU officials, cleared Nassar.

Calley said the board must "make justice and healing for the survivors the top priority."

Justice and healing should be put "ahead of MSU, ahead of liability concerns, ahead of insurance company requirements," he said.

That should be the "measuring stick" used to assess all actions, including those taken by MSU attorneys, he said. "Does this advance the interests of the victims?'

The board should also "take transparent actions to protect current and future students," Calley said.

"The only way the public will ever have confidence that this will never happen again is for them to be confident that they know exactly what happened," he said. "An open and complete independent investigation, available for public scrutiny, is required."

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The importance of Governor Corbett's action is not that he is suing the NCAA but the fact that he used to be the State Attorney General.  Just for clarification, the AG is the one who "protects" children.

For years, Corbett turned a blind eye to what was going on in Pennsylvania.  Remember the "Kids 4 Cash" scandal where judges were getting kickbacks for sending kids to state juvenile facilities?

Or how about the millions in Medicaid fraud in child welfare that was allowed to perpetuate under Corbett's administration?

What Corbett should be doing is making his Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and his Department of Health get together and start referring.

If children had a voice, none of this would have happened.  If Corbett would have listened, none of this would have happened.

Penn State Sanctions Prompt Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett To Sue NCAA

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Corbett said Tuesday he plans to sue the NCAA in federal court over stiff sanctions imposed against Penn State University in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal.

The Republican governor scheduled a Wednesday news conference on the Penn State campus in State College to announce the filing in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg.

A person associated with the university and knowledgeable about the matter, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the lawsuit had not been filed, told The Associated Press that it is an antitrust action.

The NCAA sanctions, which were agreed to by the university in July, included a $60 million fine that would be used nationally to finance child abuse prevention grants. The sanctions also included a four-year bowl game ban for the university's marquee football program, reduced football scholarships and the forfeiture of 112 wins but didn't include a suspension of the football program, the so-called death penalty.

The governor's office announced the news conference late Tuesday afternoon. His spokesman did not respond to repeated calls and emails seeking to confirm a Sports Illustrated story that cited anonymous sources saying a lawsuit was imminent.

Corbett's brief statement did not indicate whether his office coordinated its legal strategy with state Attorney General-elect Kathleen Kane, who is scheduled to be sworn in Jan. 15.

Kane, a Democrat, ran on a vow to investigate why it took state prosecutors nearly three years to charge Sandusky, an assistant under former football coach Joe Paterno. Corbett was the attorney general when that office took over the case in early 2009 and until he became governor in January 2011.

State and congressional lawmakers from Pennsylvania have objected to using the Penn State fine to finance activities in other states. Penn State has already made the first $12 million payment, and an NCAA task force is deciding how it should be spent.

The NCAA, which declined to comment Tuesday on the planned lawsuit, has said at least a quarter of the money would be spent in Pennsylvania.

Republican U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent called that an "unacceptable and unsatisfactory" response by the NCAA to a request from the state's U.S. House delegation that the whole $60 million be distributed to causes within the state.

Last week, state Sen. Jake Corman, a Republican whose district includes Penn State's main campus, said he plans to seek court action barring any of the first $12 million from being released to groups outside the state.

Sandusky, 68, was convicted in June on charges he sexually abused 10 boys, some on Penn State's campus. He's serving a 30- to 60-year state prison term.

Eight young men testified against him, describing a range of abuse they said went from grooming and manipulation to fondling, oral sex and anal rape when they were boys.

Sandusky did not testify at his trial but has maintained his innocence, acknowledging he showered with boys but insisting he never molested them.

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