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PROBLEM: As school leaders try to move on   Joe Paterno  loyalists  including many university trustees  continue to fight over the coachâs role in  his  assistantâs crimes.
In July  Penn Stateâs board of trustees met to discuss the most important issues facing a school system with 99 000 students and a $5.7 billion budget. It took about three hours before someone brought up Jerry Sandusky and  Joe Paterno .
Supporters of  Joe Paterno   right  question the evidence used to conclude  he  ignored or covered up the assaults committed by Jerry Sandusky  left. (1999 photo by Paul Vathis/Associated Press)
Law enforcement officials  victimsâ lawyers and private investigators â including Louis Freeh  the former FBI director who authored a damning 2012 report that asserted  Paterno âs involvement in a coverup â say the dispute results from stubborn âPaterno-deniers â âJoebotsâ and âtruthers â for whom no evidence will be strong enough to condemn the beloved former football coach.
âThe tragedy of all of this is that it is self-perpetuated and self-inflicted â said Tom Kline  an attorney for one victim. âThey have settled on an endless assault on anyone who dares suggest that there was something that happened that was wrong and that the fault lies at the doorstep of either  Paterno  or the football program.â
But alumni trustees and supporters insist  Paterno  and the school were victims of a rush to judgment that spared other  more culpable organizations â most notably the Second Mile  Sanduskyâs charity for at-risk children â from public scorn. They point to conflicting accounts of the assault at the core of the coverup case  evidence the NCAA may have influenced Freehâs report and doubts about claims  Paterno  ignored assaults as far back as the 1970s.
According to Freeh  in 2001   Paterno  and three university administrators â president Graham Spanier  athletic director Tim Curley and senior vice president Gary Schultz â decided to conceal a report of Sandusky assaulting a boy  to avoid bad publicity for the university and its football team. The men displayed a âcallous and shocking disregard for child victims â Freeh said  as they âempowered Sanduskyâ to abuse boys for another decade.
Freehâs verdict capped an unimaginable downfall for  Paterno   who just eight months before seemed poised to retire as the winningest  most respected coach in the history of college football. In 46 years as head coach  heâd piled up 409 wins and two national championships while professing selflessness and education  fielding teams that wore simple jerseys with no names on the back  his players graduating at rates that outpaced competitors. In the venal world of college football   Paterno  built a reputation as a coach who valued integrity over winning â âSuccess with Honorâ was his motto â and now he stood accused of covering up for a pedophile to protect his public image.
In including  Paterno   Freeh had gone further than prosecutors  who would charge the administrators with crimes but said they did not believe  Paterno  participated. In defending his conclusion  Freeh cited âthe most important evidence in the caseâ: a chain of emails between the three administrators from 2001.
A newspaper with the headline rewritten was left near a statue of  Paterno  outside Beaver Stadium on Jan. 23  2012  the day after he died. (Alex Brandon/Associated Press) Freeh conceded his reportâs condemnation of  Paterno  was made without knowledge of what was said in  Paterno âs meeting with Curley. (Matt Rourke/Associated Press)
The emails showed the men planned to report Sandusky to child welfare authorities but changed course after Curley met with  Paterno . Instead  they banned Sandusky from bringing children to Penn State and informed the Second Mile of the incident. Sandusky was convicted of assaulting four boys after this incident.
In an email  one trustee urged then-Penn State president Rod Erickson to tear down the statue of  Paterno  outside the stadium  if it would pacify the NCAA.
Eleven days after Freehâs news conference  the NCAA announced that Penn State had entered into a âconsent decree â accepting a $60 million fine and the erasing of all of Paternoâs wins after 1998  the year Sandusky was investigated â but cleared â by Penn State police and a state child welfare agency. Freeh had concluded  Paterno  should have suspected then his assistant was a pedophile.
Penn State students protested the schoolâs handling of the Sandusky scandal. (2011 photo by Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press) Students also honored the memory of  Paterno  after  his  death at age 85. (2012 photo by Gary Cameron/Reuters)
The lawsuit also produced communications between NCAA staffers and Freehâs team that prompted some alumni to theorize Freeh catered his report â which  by including  Paterno   put the case squarely in the NCAAâs crosshairs â to appeal to a desired client.
The NCAA is only a part of why some alumni feel the school and  Paterno  took a disproportionate share of the blame  Schmidt said  before explaining theories involving a former governor and the Second Mile.

SOLUTION: Penn State six years after Jerry Sandusky scandal remains divided

PROBLEM: DEATH OF CHP OFFICERS RAISES SAFETY CONCERNS
 CHP Officer Joseph Rodriguez cracked open the door of his patrol car on Monday  squeezing between his black-and-white and the traffic whizzing by.
 He passed the telltale scratches on the fender  like those found on most CHP patrol cars  made by officers' equipment belts as they cling to their vehicles for safety.
 On Monday  Rodriguez cruised up and down the 101 Freeway  on the lookout for speeders  tailgaters  cell phone yappers and beltless motorists.
 After he got married in November  he said he became especially conscious of the risk of pulling drivers onto the shoulder.
 When he'd ordered a woman to pull off the freeway last week  she'd paid no heed to his public address system. And after they'd rolled onto the shoulder  he'd almost got hit by the flying roof of a trailered Volkswagen.
 Six months ago  a car ran off the road on the Freeway 170  missing him by 20 feet.
 "We're all out there doing the exact same job " Rodriguez said  after removing his brimmed cap after issuing a warning for cell phone use. "These officers were doing everything right.

SOLUTION: DEATH OF CHP OFFICERS RAISES SAFETY CONCERNS

PROBLEM: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A major congressional committee on Tuesday launched  an investigation into how the White House handled allegations of domestic abuse against former aide Rob Porter  its Republican chairman   Trey Gowdy  told CNN on Wednesday.
Gowdy said  the panel  was seeking information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation  which conducted a background check of  Porter .
FILE  PHOTO - White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter (L)  reminds U.S. President Donald Trump  he  had a bill to sign after  he  departed quickly following remarks at  his  golf estate in Bedminster  New Jersey U.S.  August 12  2017. Picture taken August 12  2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday told lawmakers the agency completed its background check on  Porter  in July  contradicting the White Houseâs earlier assertion that investigations into  Porter  had not yet been completed.
 Porter   who had worked at the White House with a temporary security clearance  resigned after news media reports said he had physically abused two ex-wives. Porter has denied the accusations.

SOLUTION:
Congress probes White House FBI over domestic abuse accusations