By Amaris Elliott-Engel
Of the Legal Staff
Cynthia Baldwin, Penn State’s vice president and general counsel, has been subpoenaed to appear with a wide variety of documents before the federal grand jury investigating the university, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and Sandusky’s former charity for at-risk youth, The Second Mile.
Sandusky has been charged in state court with more than 50 counts of sex abuse and related charges.
The scandal led to the ouster of Graham Spanier as university president, as well as head football coach Joe Paterno, Penn State’s most revered figure. Paterno died last month.
Baldwin has been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury at 9 a.m. Wednesday, and has been instructed to bring records dating from January 1998 to the present involving the names and addresses of all university board members and payments by those board members to the university or to third parties on behalf of the university.
The subpoena also requires records related to Sandusky, The Second Mile, allegations made to the university against Sandusky of “misconduct and inappropriate relationships with minors,” and records about Penn State’s reporting requirements relating to allegations of misconduct of people employed or otherwise associated with Penn State. The subpoena also requires the hard drives of Sandusky, former Penn State vice president of business and finance Gary Schultz, former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley, and Spanier.
Both Schultz and Curley face charges in state court of failure to report sex abuse and perjury, stemming from statements they made to grand jurors last year.
The subpoena is dated from Feb. 2, but the school released a copy of the subpoena more recently. The subpoena was from U.S. Attorney Peter J. Smith of the Middle District of Pennsylvania and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Gordon Zubrod and Francis P. Sempa.
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