tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post8221644269861028014..comments2023-10-22T09:32:13.417-04:00Comments on Big Trial | Philadelphia Trial Blog: 'CLOSE HOLD -- Important' -- It's Deputy Attorney General Frank Fina On The Line, Ready To Spill More Grand Jury Secrets Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04116104602505815614noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-9090026996977250002019-11-18T13:54:47.891-05:002019-11-18T13:54:47.891-05:00I wanted to thank you for this great read!! I defi...I wanted to thank you for this great read!! I definitely enjoying every little bit of it I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff you post. <a href="https://abogadoaly.com" rel="nofollow">abogado</a><br />Faiza Jeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00020979319705793429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-27309477342344626932018-07-10T22:39:26.611-04:002018-07-10T22:39:26.611-04:00There is a pattern that appears to follow a partic...There is a pattern that appears to follow a particular prosecutor, extending from the OAG to the Philly DAO. <br /><br />In the past, investigative grand jury reports included up to 5 parts, 3 of them added by the supervising judge:<br />1. An order ultimately unsealing the report/presentment and making it public<br />2. An order sealing the report/presentment until an arrest is made<br />3. An order accepting the presentment from the Grand Jury foreperson<br />4. A submission from the foreperson to the supervising judge of the Grand Jury<br />5. The Grand Jury’s “Findings.”<br /><br />The 1/21/2011 clergy abuse report follows this pattern, except that it lacks an unsealing order and items 2 and 3 above are combined. Most of the other presentments and reports in Philly prior to 2013 are similar. <br /><br />The very last example is the 2013 Philadelphia Building Collapse presentment - it contains all except #1 above. <br /><br />After that, one would be hard pressed to find a single order sealing, unsealing, accepting, or submitting from the GJ foreperson. <br /><br />It’s as if a certain prosecutor came to town, and said, “hey, you don’t actually need to have the GJ vote on the presentment, just write the one you want, staple it to an arrest warrant, and give it to any judge you want.”<br /><br />But that was 2013. Before that team came to Philly, they were at the OAG. And sure enough, the OAG presentments followed the same pattern with Curley, Schultz, Spanier, and Sandusky. Not a single order involving the supervising judge? How do we know it even came from the GJ?<br /><br />Somebody (a “JimmyW”) pointed out that the Sandusky GJ voted on a report that found credible a witness it had never heard from. JimmyW was concerned that the GJ voted on something they hadn’t actually heard.<br /><br />He missed the forest for the trees. They may not have ever voted at all. <br /><br />Of all the GJ presentments issued in jurisdictions that a certain prosecutor worked in, how many were actually voted on by the GJ itself? We don’t know, and due to secrecy, the grand jurors can’t tell us. <br /><br />The prosecutors are bypassing the vote. The scam isn't about the factual errors in the presentments, it’s who wrote them and who never actually voted on them. The investigative grand jury process has become a scheme for prosecutors to bypass as many attacks on probable cause as possible and go right to trial. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-30762436844925238252018-07-10T15:08:08.865-04:002018-07-10T15:08:08.865-04:00There could be lots of explanations. Maybe the Jan...There could be lots of explanations. Maybe the Jan. 8, 2017 document was an early version, and the source didn't provide the newest version. Maybe the source had even juicier stuff in the latest version that he wanted to hold for later. <br /><br />Given the roadblocks put up by the old guard trustees, it could have been slow going to review the Freeh documents and then write, review and edit a large report. The judge ordered that all Freeh materials had to be viewed in the lawyer's office. I assume that applied to all notes and reports assembled by the trustees. They probably had to do all the work in the lawyer's office. <br /><br />I'm surprised the old guard trustees haven't gone to the judge calling for an investigation of the leak.Tim Bertonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06534135581401662154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-60782981819805642392018-07-10T12:03:03.217-04:002018-07-10T12:03:03.217-04:00Thank you for the reply. I have asked the questio...Thank you for the reply. I have asked the question a number of times on the PS4RS group page on FB, first to Anthony Lubrano, who has refused to answer for 6 days now, and then to Alice Pope today, and she denied any knowledge of it.Chris Quinnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-85039383369105024272018-07-10T11:13:02.397-04:002018-07-10T11:13:02.397-04:00It's no typo. And you've asked a good ques...It's no typo. And you've asked a good question that everybody involved needs to answer for.bigtrial.nethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12188557653424544411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-47900201809675150632018-07-10T10:31:49.438-04:002018-07-10T10:31:49.438-04:00Ralph Cipriano.....is the January 8, 2017 date of ...Ralph Cipriano.....is the January 8, 2017 date of internal review's Executive Summary a typo? Trying to figure out why it took 17 months to call the special meeting.Chris Quinnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-62166806844019710982018-07-10T02:33:47.222-04:002018-07-10T02:33:47.222-04:00Shapiro is neck deep in the fraud and corruption. ...Shapiro is neck deep in the fraud and corruption. He is a grandstanding politico with no ethics or morals.Greg Vernonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10566899608592908874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-39362527924685053502018-07-09T22:10:31.876-04:002018-07-09T22:10:31.876-04:00Who is currently the most knowledgable and activis...Who is currently the most knowledgable and activist outsider in the C-S-S matters? I have a lead someone in Centre or Dauphin should follow up on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-47308469410658676712018-07-09T08:20:28.789-04:002018-07-09T08:20:28.789-04:00And where are you AG Shapiro? And where are you AG Shapiro? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-87596329462040431252018-07-07T09:21:53.961-04:002018-07-07T09:21:53.961-04:00Why do we have such flawed lawyers and laws govern...Why do we have such flawed lawyers and laws governing us,when do common sense and the truth get to make an appearance in our laws.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-39596977722017045952018-07-07T09:08:06.926-04:002018-07-07T09:08:06.926-04:00If the media would start to hold the prosecution a...If the media would start to hold the prosecution accountable instead of looking to them as a source of income or possible Pulitzer Prize material, the prosecution would find it much harder to indict, hide exculpatory evident and gain a conviction against defendants.<br /><br />How gullible some journalist must be to think the prosecution is taking them into their confidence to help save the public from some corruption scandal,when they are just being used for the prosecutions own end. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-29679310492097966972018-07-07T08:24:52.785-04:002018-07-07T08:24:52.785-04:00I could not agree more, its very easy to be indict...I could not agree more, its very easy to be indicted by a grand jury, it spells doom for a defendant, prosecutors, FBI and IRS agents lie without fear of being exposed and their lies have to be held in confidence. All the laws benefit the prosecution, testimony should be public. <br /><br />Defendants should be able to say the prosecution lied to a grand jury to indict them. Grand jurors should have to attend the trail of those they indicted to see to what extend the prosecution lied to gain the indictment.<br /><br />Prosecutors, FBI and IRS need to be held accountable and go to jail when caught.Lying is lying, lying to gain a conviction is an abomination.<br /><br />Also important and needs more exposure is the lengths the prosecution goes to intimidate and threaten witnesses into testifing against a defendant,some tactics include threats of jail time, IRS liens, deportation of family members, and my favorite, being told they were unable to seek the advice of a lawyer at any time as they were working with the prosecution.<br /><br />If the mainstream media would get out of the prosecution business and into the business of giving us the facts, we would have less runaway prosecution cases.<br /><br /> It would also enable defendants to fight back, the way it works now is that they are at the greatest disadvantage of fighting the government and public opinion. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-221459822843738412018-07-06T01:45:41.911-04:002018-07-06T01:45:41.911-04:00Tomalis was a Corbett stooge. Frazier was negotia...Tomalis was a Corbett stooge. Frazier was negotiating the Merck Vioxx liability with the OAG at the same time, and was without doubt an OAG puppet. Greg Vernonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10566899608592908874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-78596001758247847382018-07-05T14:11:08.433-04:002018-07-05T14:11:08.433-04:00Why is Fina not in jail? It is clear from these re...Why is Fina not in jail? It is clear from these reports that he, Eshbach and others in the PA OAG at the time of the entire Sandusky investigation committed multiple, egregious counts of prosecutorial misconduct. The convictions of Curley and Schultz should be thrown out and Fina and Eshbach as well as others in the PA OAG should be disbarred.MacDougalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17010921360016263368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-88564178736911315142018-07-04T12:07:38.493-04:002018-07-04T12:07:38.493-04:00PSU Trustees Ken Frazier and Ron Tomalis were also...PSU Trustees Ken Frazier and Ron Tomalis were also being looped in on the updates from the OAG....and helped author the Freeh Report.<br /><br />See: http://notpsu.blogspot.com/2014/09/frazier-tomalis-received-updates-about.html<br /><br />And: http://notpsu.blogspot.com/2014/09/frazier-tomalis-oag-instrumental-in.htmlRay Bleharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14557326921056183979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-32122958614190843342018-07-04T11:58:27.173-04:002018-07-04T11:58:27.173-04:00KEYSTONE CORRUPTION
Fina's modus operandi was...KEYSTONE CORRUPTION<br /><br />Fina's modus operandi was to pressure anyone and everyone into either cooperating with the OAG, confessing to a crime, or becoming a criminal defendant. Look at the long list of people who Fina alleged was withholding information when the reality was that Fina already had the email and Schultz file in his possession and had NO EVIDENCE of crimes from that information.<br /><br />He was on a massive fishing expedition to find dirt on Spanier -- and when the OAG couldn't find it, they fabricated it. Just like they did with Kathleen Kane's grand jury oath.Ray Bleharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14557326921056183979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-17247054666016635282018-07-04T09:31:43.111-04:002018-07-04T09:31:43.111-04:00No accident Freeh sold his law firm to a Philadelp...No accident Freeh sold his law firm to a Philadelphia powerhouse law firm and became a partner in that Philly law firm.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12578737874188115992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-78766613881393550242018-07-03T19:28:02.142-04:002018-07-03T19:28:02.142-04:00To be fair some of the $300 million was for Sandus...To be fair some of the $300 million was for Sandusky's numerous felonies. Even if Freeh concluded that C-S-S did nothing wrong, PSU still would have paid some kind of settlements, although probably substantially less.<br /><br />You are correct though that a sizable amount of the $300 million was because of Curley-Schultz-Spanier being charged, including the $60 million NCAA fine and tens of millions for their legal costs and those of Cynthia Baldwin, Freeh, the trustees and others. <br /><br />Most of the costs occurred before the misdemeanor convictions for C-S-S. Even if they had been acquitted, PSU would not have gotten any refunds. In fact, if Spanier's conviction is ever reversed, it will cost PSU millions more because Spanier will revive his lawsuit against Freeh. PSU is paying the tab for Freeh's defense and any judgements against him. <br />Tim Bertonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06534135581401662154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-41948126919850615162018-07-03T14:58:50.573-04:002018-07-03T14:58:50.573-04:00Commonsense reforms are needed in grand juries.
...Commonsense reforms are needed in grand juries. <br /><br />Grand juries should be used far less. They aren't necessary in most cases like those of Sandusky and Spanier. Prosecutors know when they have sufficient evidence to file charges without a grand jury. Grand juries almost always return indictments so they are just a rubber stamp. They are mainly used to convict defendants in the public mind the moment they are indicted. Using grand juries less would also reduce the problem of grand jury leaks, which is almost always detrimental to the defendant receiving justice.<br /><br />Out of fairness, all grand jury evidence and testimony should be publicly released at the time of the indictment. That would allow the public to see exculpatory evidence that the prosecutors deliberately omitted from the grand jury presentment. It would also allow the public to detect blatant lies in the presentment, like those in the Sandusky presentment.<br /><br />Tim Bertonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06534135581401662154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-69799936026195993352018-07-03T14:51:45.309-04:002018-07-03T14:51:45.309-04:00Penn State forked out $300M for 3 employees that u...Penn State forked out $300M for 3 employees that ultimately were charged with 1 misdemeanor each. What's up with that? There's a story here and it has nothing to do with football or Joe Paterno.LionInTheMidwesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17980828121920877845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-18639352469433744342018-07-03T02:29:12.591-04:002018-07-03T02:29:12.591-04:00Yawn...thanks for verbalizing what we've know ...Yawn...thanks for verbalizing what we've know for 6 years. Frankie (the rat) Fina, Corbett lieutenant and enforcer. When you have the press and corrupt judges in you pocket, you can get away with anything. You can create hoaxes and ruses and have the media begging for more. You don't think you're above the law...you think you are the law.<br /><br />But when good folks start to realize that all of your stories have more gaping holes than the surface of Yucca Flats and things don't make logical sense, someone with a modicum of courage is going to stand up and call you out. Like in the movie High Noon, someone is going to arise from the field of cowards and gun you down.Greg Vernonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10566899608592908874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876661997317409023.post-22424211433110085432018-07-02T20:57:29.693-04:002018-07-02T20:57:29.693-04:00It's mind boggling that Fina was still leaking...It's mind boggling that Fina was still leaking to the Freeh investigators on Oct. 31, 2012, months after the Freeh Report was finished and released. That just seems like gossiping and/or gloating by Fina.<br /><br />This evidence seems like enough for another disciplinary hearing for Fina, and maybe even criminal charges. Sounds like he should join ex-AG Kane in prison for leaking grand jury secrets. It may even give Spanier additional grounds for appeal based on prosecutorial misconduct. One wonders who else Fina was telling grand jury secrets to.Tim Bertonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06534135581401662154noreply@blogger.com