As of Dec. 31, Penn State had paid a total of nearly $3.2 million to outside lawyers, consultants and public relations advisers hired to address a scandal that began with former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky’s arrest in November on sexual abuse charges, according to information disclosed Monday.
The details about spending on outside advisers came the same day Penn State announced in a press release that it had launched a “new openness website” geared toward answering questions, disseminating information and sharing messages from university officials about their efforts to cope with the fallout from the criminal case against Sandusky and two former administrators accused of lying about what they knew of his alleged crimes.
