Former Penn State University President Graham Spanier will be charged in the Sandusky child sex abuse case and the formal announcement will come later today from Pennsylvania State Attorney General Linda Kelly, NBC News reported.
Spanier is being charged with perjury and obstruction of justice, NBC reporter Michael Isikoff reported on "Today." Kelly and Pennsylvania State Police commissioner Frank Noonan have scheduled a news conference for 12 p.m. ET to annouce what Isikoff's sources described as a major development in the case.
In addition to the charges against Spanier, who served as Penn State's president for 16 years until he was fired last November, prosecutors are expected to file new charges against former administrators Vice President Gary Schultz and athletic director Tim Curley, who have already been indicted.
The charges against all three are based, in part, on evidence uncovered in an investigation former FBI director Louis Freeh, NBC News reported. Evidence detailed in Freeh's report, released in July, included emails in which the former officials appeared to agree not to report to child welfare authorities a 2001 allegation by former graduate assistant Mike McQuearey that he saw Sandusky sexually abusing a young boy in the Penn State shower room.
The Freeh Report was very critical of Spanier, Curly, Schultz and legendary head coach Joe Paterno, saying they chose to protect the school's image rather than deal head-on with the Sandusky sex scandal.
Spanier disputed those findings
"The report is full of factual errors and jumps to conclusions sthat are untrue and unwarranted," he said in July.
Spanier, Curley and Schultz have always denied any wrongdoing. Spanier has said he was only told that Sandusky was "horsing around" with the young boy in the locker room.
In July, Spanier wrote a letter to the board of trustees saying he would not have turned a "blind eye" to reports that Sanduky was abusing children because he too was a victim of abuse who as a child endured repeated beatings by his father.
"It is unfathomable and illogical to think that a respected family sociologist and family therapist, someone who personally experienced massive and persistent abuse as a child, someone who devoted a significant portion of his career to the welfare of children and youth ... would have knowingly turned a blind eye to any report of child abuse or predatory sexual acts directed at children," Spanier said in the letter.
Jerry Sandusky was convicted in June on 45 counts of child sex abuse, for assaulting ten boys over a 15-year period of time. Some of the abuse occurred on school property. For years Sandusky was the defensive coordinator for Penn State's football team. His office was just a few feet away from Paterno's. The sex scandal was the undoing of Paterno, who was fired and then died a few months later of cancer. Curly and Schultz are facing trial early next year.
Sandusky was sentenced in September to at least 30 years in prison and no more than 60. That is expected to be a life sentence for the 69-year-old. He was moved to his permanent prison cell this week.
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