According to an investigative report, Penn State trustees said they felt former president Graham Spanier and former general counsel Cynthia Baldwin downplayed the seriousness of the grand jury investigating allegations that former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually assaulted boys on the university’s campus.
Penn State didn’t have an official Office of General Counsel until 2010, when former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Interim Justice Baldwin filled the general counsel role and took on the responsibility of creating the office. Prior to her coming on board, State College-based McQuaide Blasko served as outside counsel for years, with partner Wendell Courtney taking the lead during the years in question in former FBI Director Louis Freeh’s report.
