Photo shows former Penn State vice president Gary Schultz, left, former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley, right, and former Penn State President Graham Spanier, center,
Prosecutors say former Penn State President Graham Spanier was a “failure as a leader when it matter most,” when university administrators failed to act on a 2001 sex abuse allegation against ex-assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
Laura Ditka, a prosecutor in the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office, says Spanier chose to “protect his reputation and the reputation of his friends and the reputation of the University above the well-being of some innocent children. She called that inexcusable.