Taxpayers cutting Sandusky a big check
BY WILL BUNCH
bunchw@phillynews.com 215-854-2957
HE MIGHT be the most despised man in Pennsylvania right now, but accused serial child molester and former Penn State football top assistant Jerry Sandusky is still getting paid by taxpayers.
The Harrisburg Patriot-News is reporting that the former defensive coordinator for the Nittany Lions - indicted last week on charges he molested eight boys over a 15-year period - continues to draw a $58,898 annual pension from the State Employees Retirement System.
What's more, the paper said that Sandusky received a $148,271 lump-sum payment from the system when he abruptly retired in 1999, not long after an early botched probe into alleged sexual abuse by the onetime heir apparent to football legend Joe Paterno.
The Harrisburg paper said Sandusky's pension pales in comparison to that of ex-university vice president Gary Schultz - indicted for his role in an alleged coverup - who received a lump sum of $421,847 in 2009 and gets roughly $331,000 a year in pension. Schultz was briefly back on campus in an interim role before the charges came down.
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