Sandusky Case - The Parties Involved
Key People Involved in the Sandusky Scandal

Key figures in the Jerry Sandusky, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz criminal cases span Pennsylvania from Pittsburgh to State College and beyond.

Here's a look at some of the primary people involved. StateCollege.com will continue to update this page with additional detail, including about more individuals with ties to the cases.

Accused -- Alleged Victims -- Former Leaders -- Attorneys -- Other Key Figures

The Accused

Jerry Sandusky, 68, has been charged with 52 criminal counts in the child-sexual-abuse case led by the state Office of Attorney General. Jury selection for his trial has been tentatively scheduled to start May 14. A longtime icon of college football, he founded in 1977 The Second Mile charity, a youth-oriented nonprofit that has centered largely on assisting underprivileged children. State prosecutors have charged that Sandusky met his alleged victims through the charity, though Sandusky has maintained that he is innocent. Earlier in life, Sandusky played Penn State football under Joe Paterno, then went on to coach the team in various positions from 1969 until his retirement in 1999. In the football realm, he is best known for honing the team's defensive skill as its defensive coordinator.

Tim Curley, 57, on administrative leave as the Penn State athletic director, is charged with perjuring himself before the grand jury that's investigating the Sandusky case. He also is charged with failure to report concerns about Sandusky's conduct. While the charges against him have been bound over for trial in Dauphin County, Curley has maintained through his attorney that he is innocent. He has said he was not told of the severity of the concerns surrounding Sandusky. A longtime university employee, Curley was named its athletic director in December 1993.

Gary Schultz, 62, retired as senior vice president for finance and business at Penn State, is charged with the same offenses that Curley is facing. The charges in Schultz's case, too, have been bound over for trial in Dauphin County. But Schultz, as well, has, through his attorney, maintained that he is innocent. Another longtime Penn State employee, he retired as senior vice president for finance and business in 2009 after nearly 40 years of service to the university. Schultz returned to the job on an interim basis in 2011 after his successor, Al Horvath, left for another position. Schultz went back into retirement when criminal charges against him were filed in early November.

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The Alleged Victims

Sandusky is alleged to have abused 10 boys over a period of more than a decade. In the presentments developed by the grand jury, each alleged victim is assigned a number. Prosecutors have said that Sandusky used a pattern of "grooming" the boys during the alleged abuse, much of which is reported to have happened in Centre County. The pattern included the use of games and gifts, and escalated into physical contact and sexual assaults, prosecutors have said. Sandusky used his positions within the university and the community to perpetuate the abuse, state Attorney General Linda Kelly has said.

Victim 1, According the grand jury report, he was was 11 or 12 when he met Sandusky in 2005 or 2006. During 2007, he spent several nights at the Sandusky home, where he was abused 20 or more times, he testified. He is now 17 or 18 years old.

Victim 2, According to the grand jury report, he is the child involved in the alleged 2002 incident which Mike McQueary witnessed in the showers of the Lasch football building. The boy's age is unknown, and according to the report, has never been identified. Sandusky's defense team believes they have located him and that he will testify.

Victim 3, According to the grand jury report, he was 13 in 2000 when Sandusky allegedly abused him in the showers at a local gym by touching and hugging him. The abuse happened several times, the grand jury states, and he is reported to have been been a friend of Victim 4. Victims 3 is now 24, the report says.

Victim 4, According to the grand jury, he was 12 or 13 when he met Sandusky in 1996 or 1997. He was sexually abused by Sandusky at the Toftrees Golf Resort, where Penn State stays the night before a home football game, it's alleged. Sandusky also abused Victim 4 at the 1998 Outback Bowl and 1999 Alamo Bowl, where he was listed as a family member in Sandusky's party, the report states. The report says he is now 27 years old.

Victim 5, The grand jury alleges he met Sandusky in 1995 or 1996, when he was 7 or 8 years old. The alleged abuse took place in 1996 or 1997 in the showers of the football locker room, the report states. Victim 5 is now 22, the report states.

Victim 6, According to the grand jury, he called an episode in 1998 at age 11 when Sandusky approached him in the shower, grabbed him around the waist and said, "I'm going to squeeze your guts out." Victim 6's mother reported the incident to police but no charges were filed and the case was dropped. Victims 6 is now 24 years old, the grand jury report states.

Victim 7, According the grand jury report, he met Sandusky in 1994 at age 10. He is now 26. Victim 7 testified he had a blurry memory of some of alleged contact between him and Sandusky in the locker room showers. The report states he had not had contact with Sandusky for nearly two years but was contacted separately by Sandusky, his wife and a family friend in the weeks leading up to his appearance before the grand jury. He did not return these missed calls, the report states.

Victim 8, His age is unkown, but he was seen in the showers with Sandusky by a janitor in the fall of 2000, the grand jury alleges. Various sexual acts were reported to have taken place, but Victim 8 has not been identified.

Victim 9, was 11 or 12 years old when alleged abuse by Sandusky took place, according to the grand jury report. He had been an active member of The Second Mile between 2004-08 and reported to have been abused by Sandusky in the basement of the Sandusky home more than a dozen times. He testified his scream for help went unanswered even when he knew Sandusky's wife was upstairs. He is now 18, the report states.

Victim 10, According to the grand jury report, he was 10 years old in 1997 when he first met Sandusky. Victim 10 testified that Sandusky submitted him to touching and attempted sexual acts in the fall of 1997. He is now 23 or 24 years old, the report states.

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The Now-Former Leaders

Graham Spanier served as Penn State's president for 16 years before stepping down Nov. 9. Both the university board and Spanier decided it would be best for him to leave the presidency, according to public statements. While Spanier has not been criminally charged with any wrongdoing, Kelly has said he signed an order banning Sandusky from bringing Second Mile children into university football facilities. He signed the order without asking about why the measure was sought, prosecutors have alleged. Spanier testified before a grand jury that he was not told the severity of the allegations, court documents show. He remains a tenured member of the university faculty.  

Joseph Paterno was head football coach at Penn State for 46 seasons before the university trustees fired him on Nov. 9. The decision, made several days after the filing of charges against Sandusky, Curley and Schultz, was rooted in a board determination that it was no longer in "the best interest of the university" for Paterno to serve as head coach, Vice Chairman John Surma said. The board has since come out and said Paterno was fired for a lack of leadership and that he did not do enough when met with allegations concerning Sandusky. Paterno is not charged with any wrongdoing, but sources close to the board have indicated a discomfort with how Paterno is said to have handled concerns about Sandusky's reported conduct. Paterno died Jan. 22 at age 85 because of complications from lung cancer treatments.

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The Attorneys

Linda Kelly, Appointed the state attorney general after former Attorney General Tom Corbett was elected governor in 2010, Kelly has more than three decades' experience in government prosecution. She served as anti-terrorism coordinator for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Pittsburgh after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Kelly is the second woman to serve as state attorney general, having additional experience as an assistant district attorney, senior litigation counsel and liaison to federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies. She has appointed special prosecutor Joseph McGettigan to lead the case against Sandusky, which began under Corbett's leadership of the state AG office.

Joseph Amendola is the lead defense attorney representing Sandusky. He holds a law degree from Georgetown and a history degree from Penn State. Among the most high-profile criminal defense attorneys in Centre County, Amendola has represented clients from university football players to a former State College superintendent over the years. He has drawn some criticism for what's seen as unconventional representation of Sandusky -- including through mainstream-news-media interviews -- but Amendola has said there's a method behind his approach.

Karl Rominger is co-counsel for Sandusky. He made some interesting comments in December when giving a possible explanation as to why Sandusky would shower with young boys. Rominger told Harrisburg’s ABC27 News that people who work with troubled youth will tell you that some have to be taught basic hygiene, such as putting soap on their body.

Caroline Roberto is counsel to Curley. She earned her Juris Doctor law degree from Memphis and also holds degrees from Duquesne and the National Criminal Defense College. Roberto has been exclusively engaged in criminal defense for more than 25 years, and her work has earned notable recognition among her peers. In 2010, she was named Pittsburgh Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year.

Tom Farrell is counsel to Schultz. He received his J.D. law degree from New York University School of Law in 1986, three years after graduating cum laude in philosophy from Yale. With more than 25 years of experience, Farrell has worked a number of high-profile cases in Pennsylvania and has represented Major League Baseball players in grand-jury and Congressional investigations.

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Other key figures

Mike McQueary has become one of the most embattled figures in this scandal. He testified in Harrisburg at the Curley/Schultz preliminary hearing last December that he witnessed Sandusky directly behind a young boy against the wall in the Lasch Building showers in 2002. He testified he did not see anal penetration, but he believed intercourse occurred because of the positioning of their naked bodies. After telling Joe Paterno, McQueary then met with Curley and Schultz to discuss the incident, he testified. McQueary has reportedly said he told police about the incident, though authorities deny that, and a report in the Harrisburg Patriot-News states McQueary told a family friend that he saw Sandusky and a young boy in the shower — but not the graphic sex act. McQueary, the former wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator, is on administrative leave and had received severe threats in the days leading up to the football game against Nebraska on Nov. 12.

John McQueary is the father of Mike McQueary. Mike called John immediately after observing an incident between Jerry Sandusky and a young boy in the Lasch Building in 2002. John then contacted his friend, Dr. Jonathan Dranov, to come to his house to meet with him and Mike about the incident. Later, at a meeting with Dranov and Gary Schultz, John told Schultz what his son saw in the shower and described it as sexual in nature, he testified. John also testified he was “dissatisfied with the process . . . that it appeared on the surface that the system wasn't doing much about” the 2002 incident.

Dottie Sandusky is the wife of Jerry Sandusky, and she believes her husband is innocent. On Dec. 8, Dottie released a statement saying she was “shocked and dismayed by the allegations made against Jerry.” Dottie has come under scrutiny about what she knew about her husband’s alleged acts. In the Grand Jury report, one alleged victim testified his scream for help went unanswered while he was being sexually abused in the basement of the Sandusky home — even though Dottie was upstairs, the boy alleged.  

Tom Harmon was the director of campus police during a 1998 police investigation looking into allegations of sexual abuse by Sandusky. He ordered his detective, Ronald Schreffler, to close the case when then-district attorney Ray Gricar opted not to press charges. Property records show Harmon lived three houses down from Sandusky.

Ray Gricar was the Centre County district attorney from 1985-2005 before he disappeared in April 2005. Legally declared dead in July, Gricar did not prosecute Sandusky in 1998 after allegations of inappropriate contact with young boys surfaced, ending a police investigation into the matter.

Michael Madeira is the former district attorney in Centre County who referred a 2009 report alleging sexual misconduct between Sandusky and a Clinton County boy to the state attorney general’s office, which at the time was headed by now-Gov. Tom Corbett. Madeira has said he could not have investigated the matter further because of an apparent conflict of interest — his brother-in-law is one of Sandusky’s six adopted children.

Jim Calhoun was a janitor who allegedly observed Sandusky performing oral sex on a young boy in the Lasch Building showers in the fall of 2000. The grand jury report states he currently suffers from dementia, resides in a nursing home and is incompetent to testify. But co-workers have testified he approached them after the incident and was “very emotionally upset” and “very distraught,” while describing what he saw, the report states.

Dr. Jonathan Dranov, A family friend and colleague of Mike McQueary’s father. He sat with the then-28-year-old graduate assistant McQueary and listened to his very first account of what he had seen, according to a report by the Harrisburg Patriot-News. The report, which cites an unnamed source with direct knowledge of Dranov's testimony, states Dranov told grand jurors he asked McQueary three times if he saw anything sexual, and McQueary said no each time.

Gov. Tom Corbett, Prior to being elected governor of Pennsylvania, Corbett served as Attorney General and his office launched the investigation into Sandusky in March 2009. Corbett is an ex-officio member of the Penn State Board of Trustees. He has come under scrutiny for the length of time of the investigation.

Jack Raykovitz is the former president of The Second Mile. He resigned in November amid the allegations surrounding Sandusky, the charity’s founder. Raykovitz testified he had been told by Tim Curley that a Penn State investigation had found no corroboration for alleged sexual abuse between Sandusky and a young boy in a shower in 2002.

Katherine Genovese is the wife of Jack Raykovitz and was the executive vice president of The Second Mile. Genovese received about $100,000 from The Second Mile in 2009, according to the Associated Press, which cited tax forms. Raykovitz received about $133,00 from the charity in 2009.

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