By MARK SCOLFORO
Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Penn
State President Rodney Erickson received a subpoena last week to
testify regarding the investigation into former assistant football coach
Jerry Sandusky, the university said Monday.
The subject or subjects of
Erickson's future testimony was not immediately clear, and university
spokeswoman Lisa Powers declined to provide a copy of the subpoena,
which was first disclosed by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Erickson's "attorney is
discussing with the attorney general's office various aspects of the
subpoena, including the actual date of testimony," Powers said.
"President Erickson intends to fully cooperate and answer all questions
truthfully."
A spokesman for the attorney general's office declined to comment.
Penn State said in February
it had received a subpoena from the U.S. attorney's office in
Harrisburg that asked for records of payments made by trustees to the
school, or to third parties on the school's behalf, among other things.
That subpoena told Penn
State chief counsel Cynthia Baldwin to preserve all university records
and emails, including board and executive session minutes, disclosure
reports and computer hard drives. It sought all Sandusky-related records
and the hard drives for computers assigned to former university
President Graham Spanier, former vice president Gary Schultz and
athletic director Tim Curley.
Sandusky, 68, is scheduled
to go on trial in June on 52 criminal counts, involving alleged child
sexual abuse of 10 boys over a 15-year period. He has repeatedly denied
the allegations, which include claims that he sexually assaulted
children in his home and inside university athletic facilities.
Curley, on leave, and
Schultz, now retired, also are awaiting trial on charges they lied to
the grand jury investigating Sandusky and did not properly report
suspected child abuse. They deny those allegations.
The Sandusky scandal
toppled Spanier, who remains a faculty member, and led the board of
trustees to fire longtime head football coach Joe Paterno, who died of
lung cancer in January.
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