Tom Corbett was the Governor of Pennsylvania from 2011-2015. Before that, he served as PA’s Attorney General, most notably working on the Jerry Sandusky case at Penn State University, which led to his indictment in 2011. His career began as an assistant district attorney in Allegheny County in 1976, and was first elected to public […]
PA Books: Wounded Lions: Joe Paterno, Jerry Sandusky and the Crisis in Penn State Athletics
In “Wounded Lions,” acclaimed sport historian and longtime Penn State professor Ronald A. Smith heavily draws from university archives to answer the How? and Why? at the heart of the scandal. The Sandusky case was far from the first example of illegal behavior related to the football program or the university’s attempts to suppress news […]