Corbett's Sandusky Investigation showed an inexcusable lack of urgency, plus sloppiness [View all]

[JPZenger]

http://casablancapa.blogspot.com/2014/06/an-inexcusable-lack-of-urgency.html

The linked blogger has spent 7 years criticizing Corbett's political obsessions and incompetence. Instead of putting sufficient resources into investigating Sandusky, Corbett actually used a secret Statewide Grand Jury to try to force Twitter to reveal the identity of this blogger. Here's his latest perspective on the Sandusky investigation by Corbett's Attorney General Office.

"By any measure, Attorney General Kathleen Kane's review of Tom Corbett's investigation of serial child rapist Jerry Sandusky revealed unconscionable neglect, incompetence and sloppiness. Her central conclusion, "The facts show an inexcusable lack of urgency in charging and stopping a serial sexual predator," is undisputed. But because Kane couldn't prove that Corbett broke any laws or expressly told anyone to slow-walk the investigation, Kane's report is being hailed as a victory for Corbett.

... That's not to say that the delay in prosecuting Sandusky is entirely unrelated to politics. The report confirmed what we have long alleged: Corbett's obsession with prosecuting members of the legislature, and assembling those indictments before officially launching his gubernatorial campaign, contributed heavily to the delay.

Two of the agents on the Sandusky Task Force didn't begin working on the case until early April of 2011 - two full years after Corbett took over the case - because they had been working "almost exclusively" on Bonusgate-related investigations and prosecutions for the previous several years.

According to the report, "Bonusgate appeared to affect investigative assignments, arguably exacerbated an existing shortage of investigative resources, and certainly consumed a considerable portion of the time and attention of [Frank] Fina and other office supervisors ... is impossible to determine how the course of the Sandusky investigation would have been different had it, in its early stages, received the same intense focus as Bonusgate."