In other words, let the real cover up at PSU remain. Let a massive injustice carried out by people still in charge go unchallenged. Sad.
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In other words, let the real cover up at PSU remain. Let a massive injustice carried out by people still in charge go unchallenged. Sad.
Dambly & Ira "magic"? ...$hit, currently, Ira's concern is building a casino in State College, to improve the cultural appeal of Penn State and community.
Penn State Candidate For Chairman Carries Plenty Of Baggage
By Ralph Cipriano
for BigTrial.net
As a Penn State student, Mark Dambly wound up in jail for five days in 1979 after he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. Then he got mixed up in an infamous multimillion dollar cocaine ring, a retired investigator says, but beat the rap by wearing a wire and cooperating with the government.
These days, Dambly is campaigning to become chairman of the Penn State Board of Trustees, an election scheduled for Friday.
But Dambly's most recent legal problems include getting hit with a subpoena last year in the federal probe of Allentown Mayor Ed Pawloski. Pawloski's being investigated for bribery and kickbacks; Dambly's connection is he's the Allentown mayor's top financial contributor.
With all the problems at Penn State, the question is, do they really need a guy with as much baggage as Mark Dambly as board chairman?
video posted on youtube.com and asked if Dambly had been arrested in 1979.
"I'm not aware of that," Dambly responded twice on camera. As he was walking away, in unreleased video recorded by the TV station, Sinderson asked Dambly about his alleged association with members of the cocaine ring.
"I don't recall that either," Dambly said.
When asked by his fellow trustees during an executive session about the disorderly conduct arrest, Dambly replied that it was "undocumented."
In 2013, Dambly filed an application in Centre County to have his 1979 guilty plea for disorderly conduct expunged.
TV reporter Sinderson also asked Dambly about the infamous "Dr. Snow" yuppie cocaine ring run by Larry Lavin, then a student at the University of Pennsylvania dental school, that operated between 1978 and 1984.
In 1986, a judge sentenced three dentists to jail for their roles in the ring that the FBI said was then the largest known cocaine distribution enterprise in the history of the Philadelphia area, grossing up to $5 million a month.
A retired investigator who worked the Lavin case and sought anonymity said that former FBI Agent Leo Pedrotty, who died last year, was Dambly's handler after Dambly decided to wear a wire to get himself out of a legal jam.
"Pedrotty was responsible for placing the recording equipment on Dambly and monitoring the results as Dambly secretly recorded conversations about the massive drug operation," the investigator wrote. "In exchange, Dambly would not be prosecuted and there would be no asset forfeiture action."
In the Dr. Snow case, Lavin, convicted of not paying $545,000 in taxes, served nearly 20 years in prison before he was released in 2005.
The judge also sentenced Brian Cassidy, like Dambly, a graduate of Conestoga High School and Penn State, to 12 years in prison. The other Conestoga/Penn State alum implicated in the cocaine ring was Kenneth J. Kasznel, who pleaded guilty and became a cooperator.
One of Dambly's former customers wrote TV reporter Sinderson a letter, saying that Dambly "used to supply me and dozens of others with pot and cocaine."
"Mark graduated from PSU a mid level pot and cocaine dealer, then went back home in the Phila burbs and got his masters degree in large quantity drug dealing," wrote the former customer, who was subsequently interviewed by the investigator.
"If we needed a 1/4 or half pound of the white . . . Dambly was our guy," the former customer wrote.
Dr. Snow himself did not remember Dambly.
"I really do not recall a Mark Dambly," Lavin, the star of a recent National Geographic channel documentary about his Dr. Snow days, wrote in an email.
But people keep asking him about Dambly, Lavin said.
"This is the third time over the years that someone has asked this," Lavin wrote. "Obviously there is always the possibility he [Dambly] did things under someone involved with me, but I have no knowledge of him."
Dambly rankles many Penn State loyalists because of the way he ripped Joe Paterno in a TV interview after the Jerry Sandusky scandal hit, and Paterno was fired.
"Although legally, I believe he [Paterno] did what he had to do," Dambly said, "Morally, I don't believe the standards he set for his own student athletes, he didn't live up to those standards for himself."
As far as Dambly's critics are concerned, he doesn't live up to the standards for chairman of Penn State's board of trustees.
"His apparent failure to recall a five-day period of incarceration in the Centre County prison for a violent crime casts great doubt on his credibility, and appears to be just the tip of the iceberg," wrote former NCIS Special Agent John Snedden, another Penn State alum.
I happened to be in State College visiting spring practice and read the article that day. There was no one that didn't know about what Ganim printed that day. Liar isn't strong enough to describe an OGBOT member
that claims they didn't read that article. Next someone is going to say Corbett didn't know and read the article that day. How stupid would anyone have to be to not know that phone lines were on fire that day and evening?
Remember, a certain doctor who was a trustee asked
Tim what he was going to do about Jerry? As if it wasn't the "friends of Jerry" on the BOT who championed his Emeritus agreement.
I wouldn't buy a NEW car with a warranty from Dambly. His lips may be moving but Tsar Ira the Terrible is doing the talking.Dambly & Ira "magic"? ...$hit, currently, Ira's concern is building a casino in State College, to improve the cultural appeal of Penn State and community.
Penn State Candidate For Chairman Carries Plenty Of Baggage
By Ralph Cipriano
for BigTrial.net
As a Penn State student, Mark Dambly wound up in jail for five days in 1979 after he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. Then he got mixed up in an infamous multimillion dollar cocaine ring, a retired investigator says, but beat the rap by wearing a wire and cooperating with the government.
These days, Dambly is campaigning to become chairman of the Penn State Board of Trustees, an election scheduled for Friday.
But Dambly's most recent legal problems include getting hit with a subpoena last year in the federal probe of Allentown Mayor Ed Pawloski. Pawloski's being investigated for bribery and kickbacks; Dambly's connection is he's the Allentown mayor's top financial contributor.
With all the problems at Penn State, the question is, do they really need a guy with as much baggage as Mark Dambly as board chairman?
video posted on youtube.com and asked if Dambly had been arrested in 1979.
"I'm not aware of that," Dambly responded twice on camera. As he was walking away, in unreleased video recorded by the TV station, Sinderson asked Dambly about his alleged association with members of the cocaine ring.
"I don't recall that either," Dambly said.
When asked by his fellow trustees during an executive session about the disorderly conduct arrest, Dambly replied that it was "undocumented."
In 2013, Dambly filed an application in Centre County to have his 1979 guilty plea for disorderly conduct expunged.
TV reporter Sinderson also asked Dambly about the infamous "Dr. Snow" yuppie cocaine ring run by Larry Lavin, then a student at the University of Pennsylvania dental school, that operated between 1978 and 1984.
In 1986, a judge sentenced three dentists to jail for their roles in the ring that the FBI said was then the largest known cocaine distribution enterprise in the history of the Philadelphia area, grossing up to $5 million a month.
A retired investigator who worked the Lavin case and sought anonymity said that former FBI Agent Leo Pedrotty, who died last year, was Dambly's handler after Dambly decided to wear a wire to get himself out of a legal jam.
"Pedrotty was responsible for placing the recording equipment on Dambly and monitoring the results as Dambly secretly recorded conversations about the massive drug operation," the investigator wrote. "In exchange, Dambly would not be prosecuted and there would be no asset forfeiture action."
In the Dr. Snow case, Lavin, convicted of not paying $545,000 in taxes, served nearly 20 years in prison before he was released in 2005.
The judge also sentenced Brian Cassidy, like Dambly, a graduate of Conestoga High School and Penn State, to 12 years in prison. The other Conestoga/Penn State alum implicated in the cocaine ring was Kenneth J. Kasznel, who pleaded guilty and became a cooperator.
One of Dambly's former customers wrote TV reporter Sinderson a letter, saying that Dambly "used to supply me and dozens of others with pot and cocaine."
"Mark graduated from PSU a mid level pot and cocaine dealer, then went back home in the Phila burbs and got his masters degree in large quantity drug dealing," wrote the former customer, who was subsequently interviewed by the investigator.
"If we needed a 1/4 or half pound of the white . . . Dambly was our guy," the former customer wrote.
Dr. Snow himself did not remember Dambly.
"I really do not recall a Mark Dambly," Lavin, the star of a recent National Geographic channel documentary about his Dr. Snow days, wrote in an email.
But people keep asking him about Dambly, Lavin said.
"This is the third time over the years that someone has asked this," Lavin wrote. "Obviously there is always the possibility he [Dambly] did things under someone involved with me, but I have no knowledge of him."
Dambly rankles many Penn State loyalists because of the way he ripped Joe Paterno in a TV interview after the Jerry Sandusky scandal hit, and Paterno was fired.
"Although legally, I believe he [Paterno] did what he had to do," Dambly said, "Morally, I don't believe the standards he set for his own student athletes, he didn't live up to those standards for himself."
As far as Dambly's critics are concerned, he doesn't live up to the standards for chairman of Penn State's board of trustees.
"His apparent failure to recall a five-day period of incarceration in the Centre County prison for a violent crime casts great doubt on his credibility, and appears to be just the tip of the iceberg," wrote former NCIS Special Agent John Snedden, another Penn State alum.
Let me help you out ...
This is a good organization up this way ... in fact, it's one of the 3 my boys tried out for this past season ... they both made their respective squads, but we decided to go to a different organization (which doesn't have as high class of a website). They usually don't bring in the elite studs to their program, but they bring in a steady stream of quality DI kids.
The reason I cite these guys is because they actually include their college commitments for their U17 team on their website in a nice orderly fashion, unlike most squads. There are more blanks than usual this year, due to the whole coronavirus mess. MA hasn't even started playing baseball this year, so it's been brutal ... well, that's a lie ... we just reopened for practice this week (had our first U12 practice last night. First U10 tomorrow). So they haven't been updating this column, and some kids haven't found a home yet. For instance, Connor Peek is listed as a blank, but elsewhere on their site it shows he committed to Holy Cross (DI). In fact, when our program opened up for its first indoor practice for the U18 and U16 teams on Monday, there were a bunch of college coaches there, since they're jonesing for some live scouting opps.
https://www.gbghawks.com/roster/show/5376832?subseason=651687
You'll see there it's Northeastern, Northeastern, UMass, UConn, BC, Brown, Quinnipiac, AIC (DII) and, like I said, another kid committed to Holy Cross. All D1 programs, except AIC. That's 8 kids going D1. And likely more will go when they finally commit, or after they prep for a year (some are 2022 class, so they have more time).
In other words, sure they do.
That’s apples and oranges compared to what I coached. It’s not even in the same stratosphere. My son coaches in an organization like the one you linked and that’s not what my situation was.
Anthony you can do whatever pleases you but if you want to be taken seriously by your Board colleagues, I would recommend that you focus on the real problems facing the university and its students. Louie Freeh is not one of them..
Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen so you can breathe. If you continue to fixate on this irrelevant obsession of yours, you owe the tree and most of the people who voted for you an apology.
Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen so you can breathe. If you continue to fixate on this irrelevant obsession of yours, you owe the tree and most of the people who voted for you an apology.
I agree and will add this. The destruction of PSU's (and Joe's) reputation and the charges against Curley, Schultz, and, indirectly, Spanier are based on and were set in motion with McQueary's testimony. Blow the Freeh report up and it barely gets noticed.
The only thing that redeems those damaged is McQueary publicly admitting that his testimony was a lie. Chances of that happening? Slim is way beyond the horizon. And even if he did, given the way the public is conditioned these days, 40% would say that he was paid off by PSU and/or Soros.
No, we'll stick with my advice ... even though you're "I knew people, and they didn't go to Vandy" argument was quite compelling.
Brown is Ivy League, they don't even give athletic scholarships. I'd check to see the data on Patriot League and if they award scholarships for baseball, there are very few. I don't know that baseball gives more than 12 scholarships at the best D1 schools. Pitchers get the most money followed by "up the middle" positions. Unlike football, very few, if any players get full rides in baseball. Much better chance snagging an academic scholarship than a piddly 1/5 of a ship for baseball.
Interesting analogy. Seems to me that Galileo's good name's been restored.
And Brown’s baseball team is really bad (at least they were when my son’s team beat them like a drum).
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Wonder how good that makes him feel, especially since he lived under house arrest for eight years until he died?
You may not want to admit it, but there is not a more serious and relevant issue to Penn State and the Board of Trustees than the Freeh Report. It has seriously damaged the school's reputation and has exposed the BOT's self-serving governance structure to incompetence including untold unnecessary financial consequences for no good reason other than to enable a former Governor (who happened to be the king BOT member at the time) to be vindictive to Penn State and its former President, and for other BOT members to cover their tracks.
The truth will eventually be evident for all to see and it would be better for the current BOT to get ahead of the curve before it causes more damage to our cherished institution. The story will be told and the story is already in the public domain for those curious enough to find out. Please read former NCIS Special Agent John Snedden's 110 page redacted report on his federal investigation on renewing Graham Spanier's high level security clearances where he found that Spanier was not a national security risk and that Mike McQueary was not a credible witness. Please read Mark Pendergrast's book "The Most Hated Man in America." Please read Freeh investigator and former FBI Agent Kathleen McChesney's 79 page diary where she describes the collusion between Freeh and the OAG as well as multiple incidents of prosecutorial misconduct. Please read the Penn State articles in the bigtrial blog. Please read the Penn State chapter in Malcolm Gladwell's most recent book "Talking to Strangers." Please read the alumni BOT's critical review of the Freeh Report. The truth will not remain buried forever. Too many people know what actually happened for the OAG's false narratives to hold water for very much longer.
You are still missing the point. This isn’t even on the top 50 list of university priorities.
You first sentence is mind blowing. Even if the BoT was rebooted, reduced in size, etc, you still wouldn’t be happy. This is all about Joe’s reputation and nothing more. If Paterno had retired and none of this happened, you wouldn’t care about how the BoT is structured or operates. This was never a topic of discussion prior to Sandusky. It’s all about Paterno. Always has been and always will be.
You're the first person in this thread to mention scholarships, I believe. We were just talking about joining a D1 program, not getting cash. Yes, scholarship money for baseball is definitely limited ... 11.7 scholarships among a maximum of 27 players (despite allowing a 35 player max roster), with no player who receives any scholarship money receiving less than a 1/4 share of a full ride equivalent. Ivy and Patriot don't give out scholarships.
I don't believe the only thing that redeems those damaged is McQueary publicly admitting that he lied. Spanier being completely vindicated of any criminal liability will help and that should happen soon. Evidentiary hearings in Sandusky's appeal would be a game changer imo and that is a distinct possibility even though it is under the auspices of the Pennsylvania judiciary. If Sandusky's latest appeals fail in Pennsylvania then there will be a habeas corpus appeal at the federal level where chances for traction are good. If Sandusky wins a new trial, it will be a game changer. In all of the cases, I believe that those damaged will be redeemed.
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So the bar is now any non scholarship D1 program? I thought your ten year old was a solid lock at Harvard, MIT, or Brown academically, or Vanderbilt or Stanford due to being athletic. We’ll be at Quinsigamond Community College before you know it!
Wut? Dude, have another. You're confusing discussions, sport. Focus.
Whether my children are academic or athletic locks for any college is completely different from showing AWS that AAU baseball programs in this area regularly produce D1 players (which is something he claimed he didn't believe).
I'd like to tell you "nice try," but it wasn't.
If Spanier gets off, of the few that are still paying any attention to that minuscule sideshow many will say it was because of a technicality. He will always be remembered as the President of PSU who allowed Sandusky to molest kids on his campus and did nothing when it was brought to his attention.
As for the Grinning Baboon himself, if he gets a new trial and somehow the original verdict is reversed that will also be dismissed as the result of a technicality.
Some people believe the moon landing is a hoax.
I would love to see Spanier to be 100% free and clear of his legal jeopardy so he can get on with his life.
I would also love to see a new trial for Sandusky because he certainly didn’t get one the first time around.
You're going to need a much larger plane to fly this on a banner around the stadium. That's about the only chance I see of this getting in front of the board majority.
It is never too late to pursue the truth ....because "the truth will set you free". Suggestion: the more you can put the personal assets of the perps at risk, to make PSU whole, the more effective your effort to get to the truth may be. I hope Bill Barr has the same tenacity as you do Tony.
You were talking AAU programs, I was talking an AAU team. I coached one team all the way up through the age groups. That’s what I thought you were talking about. The program you’re talking about is on a whole different level than what I did. That was my mistake.
I believe the moon landing was for real.
I don't believe that Spanier broke the law and hope that he is cleared. How he will live with himself for having failed PSU so miserably in the Sandusky case is beyond me, but if anyone can rationalize it to himself, the One Man Band can.
I hope Sandusky lives a long time....and rots in prison for all of it.
Damby is a shit bag criminal and a drag on PSU!Dambly & Ira "magic"? ...$hit, currently, Ira's concern is building a casino in State College, to improve the cultural appeal of Penn State and community.
Penn State Candidate For Chairman Carries Plenty Of Baggage
By Ralph Cipriano
for BigTrial.net
As a Penn State student, Mark Dambly wound up in jail for five days in 1979 after he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. Then he got mixed up in an infamous multimillion dollar cocaine ring, a retired investigator says, but beat the rap by wearing a wire and cooperating with the government.
These days, Dambly is campaigning to become chairman of the Penn State Board of Trustees, an election scheduled for Friday.
But Dambly's most recent legal problems include getting hit with a subpoena last year in the federal probe of Allentown Mayor Ed Pawloski. Pawloski's being investigated for bribery and kickbacks; Dambly's connection is he's the Allentown mayor's top financial contributor.
With all the problems at Penn State, the question is, do they really need a guy with as much baggage as Mark Dambly as board chairman?
video posted on youtube.com and asked if Dambly had been arrested in 1979.
"I'm not aware of that," Dambly responded twice on camera. As he was walking away, in unreleased video recorded by the TV station, Sinderson asked Dambly about his alleged association with members of the cocaine ring.
"I don't recall that either," Dambly said.
When asked by his fellow trustees during an executive session about the disorderly conduct arrest, Dambly replied that it was "undocumented."
In 2013, Dambly filed an application in Centre County to have his 1979 guilty plea for disorderly conduct expunged.
TV reporter Sinderson also asked Dambly about the infamous "Dr. Snow" yuppie cocaine ring run by Larry Lavin, then a student at the University of Pennsylvania dental school, that operated between 1978 and 1984.
In 1986, a judge sentenced three dentists to jail for their roles in the ring that the FBI said was then the largest known cocaine distribution enterprise in the history of the Philadelphia area, grossing up to $5 million a month.
A retired investigator who worked the Lavin case and sought anonymity said that former FBI Agent Leo Pedrotty, who died last year, was Dambly's handler after Dambly decided to wear a wire to get himself out of a legal jam.
"Pedrotty was responsible for placing the recording equipment on Dambly and monitoring the results as Dambly secretly recorded conversations about the massive drug operation," the investigator wrote. "In exchange, Dambly would not be prosecuted and there would be no asset forfeiture action."
In the Dr. Snow case, Lavin, convicted of not paying $545,000 in taxes, served nearly 20 years in prison before he was released in 2005.
The judge also sentenced Brian Cassidy, like Dambly, a graduate of Conestoga High School and Penn State, to 12 years in prison. The other Conestoga/Penn State alum implicated in the cocaine ring was Kenneth J. Kasznel, who pleaded guilty and became a cooperator.
One of Dambly's former customers wrote TV reporter Sinderson a letter, saying that Dambly "used to supply me and dozens of others with pot and cocaine."
"Mark graduated from PSU a mid level pot and cocaine dealer, then went back home in the Phila burbs and got his masters degree in large quantity drug dealing," wrote the former customer, who was subsequently interviewed by the investigator.
"If we needed a 1/4 or half pound of the white . . . Dambly was our guy," the former customer wrote.
Dr. Snow himself did not remember Dambly.
"I really do not recall a Mark Dambly," Lavin, the star of a recent National Geographic channel documentary about his Dr. Snow days, wrote in an email.
But people keep asking him about Dambly, Lavin said.
"This is the third time over the years that someone has asked this," Lavin wrote. "Obviously there is always the possibility he [Dambly] did things under someone involved with me, but I have no knowledge of him."
Dambly rankles many Penn State loyalists because of the way he ripped Joe Paterno in a TV interview after the Jerry Sandusky scandal hit, and Paterno was fired.
"Although legally, I believe he [Paterno] did what he had to do," Dambly said, "Morally, I don't believe the standards he set for his own student athletes, he didn't live up to those standards for himself."
As far as Dambly's critics are concerned, he doesn't live up to the standards for chairman of Penn State's board of trustees.
"His apparent failure to recall a five-day period of incarceration in the Centre County prison for a violent crime casts great doubt on his credibility, and appears to be just the tip of the iceberg," wrote former NCIS Special Agent John Snedden, another Penn State alum.
If your father had a ballgame to watch on the sad occasion of your conception we wouldn't have to listen to your bullshit.
And yet you feel compelled to come here and waste your time....telling us we're wasting our time. Seems like it's a priority for you.
i hope that Sandusky lives a long time and gets the justice he deserves.
Your efforts and those of a few other trustees have been appreciated throughout the years. I admire people willing to speak the truth even when the decks are stacked against them....
