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  • While she has worked with Mr. Corbett since 1990 and talks with him almost daily, all she knew about the Penn State case was what she read in the newspaper in March, when the grand-jury proceedings surfaced.

    Prosecutor Won't Handle Penn State Case Through Trial John W. Miller 2011

  • After she was sworn in this May, Mrs. Kelly was presented with a thick stack of documents—including a grand-jury investigation into the alleged sexual abuse by Mr. Sandusky.

    Prosecutor Won't Handle Penn State Case Through Trial John W. Miller 2011

  • According to the grand-jury report, Sandusky told the mother of an 11-year-old boy with whom he had taken a shower, I wish I could get forgiveness.

    Italy's Yields, Iran's Nukes, School Scandal 2011

  • Although the grand-jury presentment lists eight alleged victims, investigators are receiving more calls and may need to interview potential victims.

    Prosecutor Won't Handle Penn State Case Through Trial John W. Miller 2011

  • The group says its members are "outraged at the manner" in which Mr. Paterno was fired by the board in November, less than a week after he and several other university officials were named in a grand-jury report released when the Pennsylvania attorney general brought child sex-abuse charges against former coach Jerry Sandusky.

    Penn State Alumni Push for Changes Kris Maher 2012

  • The grand-jury indictments follow the recent arrest of a fifth Credit Suisse banker in the U.S. and show the U.S. is widening its crackdown of secret bank accounts in Switzerland and elsewhere following a bruising battle with UBS AG.

    Charges for Four in Swiss-Tax Case Thomas Catan 2011

  • He was once thought to be a potential successor to Mr. Paterno in the 1990s, but according to the grand-jury report in the Sandusky case, Mr. Paterno told Mr. Sandusky in a May 1999 meeting that he wouldn't be the next head coach at Penn State.

    Joe Paterno Dies at 85 Darren Everson 2012

  • A grand-jury indictment in Baltimore accuses Nadeem Akhtar, 45 years old, who operated an export firm in Maryland, of obtaining the items from U.S. companies and illegally exporting them to agencies that are on a U.S. Commerce Department blacklist.

    Pakistani Man Charged Over Shipments to Pakistan's Nuclear Program Evan Perez 2011

  • "Prosecutors can use his grand-jury testimony," says Wesley Oliver, a professor at the Widener College of Law in Harrisburg, Pa.

    Paterno's Death Prompts Debate Over Legacy John W. Miller 2012

  • The grand-jury report said Mr. Paterno was informed at the time about an alleged 2002 incident of abuse involving Mr. Sandusky and a boy in a Penn State shower.

    Penn State Alumni Push for Changes Kris Maher 2012

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