Two former Penn State administrators are jumping into the fray in Mike McQueary’s whistleblower lawsuit against the university.
Former Penn State president Graham Spanier and former athletic director Tim Curley both filed “emergency petitions to intervene” in McQueary’s lawsuit in the Centre County Court of Common Pleas on Wednesday.
The two men want to keep former Penn State attorney Cynthia Baldwin from testifying as part of McQueary’s suit. Specifically, they want their attorneys to sit in during Baldwin’s planned deposition hearing with the power to object to any questions that relate to Spanier or Curley.
This action comes only days after Spanier and Curley filed appeals to keep Baldwin’s testimony out of the courtroom in Dauphin County, where the two men face criminal charges for their involvement in an alleged coverup of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
In both cases, Spanier and Curley say Baldwin’s testimony would violate their right to attorney-client privilege.
When Spanier and Curley appeared before the grand jury that ultimately indicted Sandusky, they were accompanied by Baldwin. The former Penn State leaders argue Baldwin represented them as individuals, whereas Baldwin and the judge hearing Spanier and Scultz’s criminal cases says she only represented Penn State University.
McQueary is suing Penn State because he alleges he was wrongly fired after serving as an important witness against Sandusky.
Spanier and Curley, alongside former Penn State Vice President for Business and Finance Gary Schultz, face charges of perjury and conspiracy. No trial date has been set.
