Penn State’s board of trustees admitted July 12 it “failed” in its oversight obligations regarding the Sandusky scandal. Louis B. Freeh, the former FBI director and judge hired to investigate the university’s handling of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, placed the bulk of the blame on the board and directly on four of the university’s top leaders who he said “concealed” facts to avoid bad publicity.

So what do Freeh’s findings and the university’s response mean for the civil litigation that could come, and has already been brought against, the university?

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