6/24/16
by News Department on 06/24/163 Still await trial at PSU...
Penn State's former top lawyer said in a deposition made public Thursday he advised the university's vice president in 2001 to notify a state agency of a complaint from an assistant football coach about Jerry Sandusky showering with a boy in a team locker room.
Former university general counsel Wendell Courtney also said in the deposition that no one from Penn State has ever asked him for details regarding his Feb. 11, 2001, phone discussion with then-vice president Gary Schultz or the research he did that day on reporting suspected child abuse.
Excerpts from the deposition were attached to a filing by lawyers for former assistant coach Mike McQueary in opposing the university's effort to delay McQueary's whistleblower and defamation lawsuit against Penn State.
McQueary has said he saw Sandusky abusing a boy, called Victim 2 in court records, in the team facility late on a Friday night and went to head coach Joe Paterno the next day. Paterno notified Schultz and then-athletic director Tim Curley before Schultz and Courtney conferred that Sunday.
Schultz, Curley, and then-president Graham Spanier await trial on charges related to their handling of complaints about Sandusky, a retired assistant football coach, is serving a prison sentence on child sex abuse convictions.
