MSU’ Board Authorizes New Independent Investigation of Nassar Case and Michigan AG Responds
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"In other words, the University should leave the job of investigating to the professionals."
The ultimate lawyer speak clapback.
Dracarys the whole place already
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*yawn*...
To add some context, MSU has been stonewalling the AG’s investigation.
By now it's obvious that anyone who'd risen up the ranks of the MSU bureaucracy had to be corrupt in order to get their position in the first place. To expect them to go against their natures is naive and to expect them to say that they can is as predictable as rain.
To be fair, Engler is now gone and the board replaced 2 of the stonewallers with members that ran campaigns on cleaning up the mess and being more transparent.
Sharp jab is sharp. Good on the AG for stating what the public feels. Now if something actually comes of this investigation, I'll be happy.
Engler, Simon, Klagas, and half the Board of Trustees in Orange jumpsuits would be a start.
Tom Izzo getting fired with cause would be a bonus.
Hollis, Hollis, Hollis.
Why does everyone choose to forget about that debacle of an AD? He knew what was happening, and never did the right thing. So many more people suffered because of him. He needs to be in jail.
Someone needs to tell them it’s far too late to start another cover up now.
I wouldn't tell them that. They'll see it as a slight on their abilities, play the Disrespekt card and try harder.
Michigan State has released the findings of their most recent independent investigation:
"Still innocent, MoFos!!!!!"
Dana Nessel is about to be "Red-Locked"
There are some fine, upstanding professors, students and people at MSU but their administrators and the mechanisms that enabled this garbage for years needs to be demolished and the people involved should be fired and prosecuted.
It starts with the Trustees. They need to go.
As long as they don't hire the same panel of investigators that ohio used last summer.
At this point --- I just don't get it. The criminal probe is on-going and that will go where it goes. That's an appropriate avenue for all of (1) determining culpability, (2) justice, and (3) punishment.
A concurrent MSU internal investigation has the feel of "being competition" against the criminal probe. That's a rather bad look.
MSU the institution needs to be more forward looking. This may sound crass, but: what happened was unfortunate but it cannot be undone either.
How can MSU create a better future? How can MSU decrease the likelihood of something like this occurring again? I think those are better questions for MSU folk to be asking.
Seems like it depends on what the word "independent" means.
- If it means "MSU will conduct its own independent (of law enforcement, I guess) investigation," then no bueno.
- If it means "we will hire a firm to investigate us and we will have no say in that firm's conclusions and we will accept whatever verdict it renders," then that might be a way forward.
Based on past behavior I have no confidence that the right choice will be made, however.
The likes of Scott Paterno and Anthony (of PSU baseball fame) Lubrano said much the same thing about the Freeh Report.
AG Dana Nessel just...
On MSU's candy asses
To the staee board of trustees ‐ independent doesn't mean what you think it means.
Daaaaaaammmmmnnnn!
Drop the mic AG!
As a Michigan alum, she should have phrased it a little differently. “In other words, little brother, leave the job of cleaning up your mess to the grown ups in the room.”
I will never cease to be amazed by the complete inability of so many people in positions of influence at a large public institution like MSU to have even the most basic understanding of what an independent investigation entails.
If they were at all serious about transparency and understood the gravity of what is at stake, they would simply fully open up to the AG investigation.
Plain and simple, if MSU REALLY really feels like they've done nothing wrong, or are ready to take responsibility for whatever mistakes were made, simply stop obfuscating the legitimately independent investigations already under way and provide unhindered, un-redacted access to all records, documents, transcripts and correspondence.
The fact that they brought in Engler, the political/PR equivalent of The Wolf in Pulp Fiction, is all one needs to know about MSU's posture in the whole affair. Cover up, lie, block, deny, protect, blame victims......that is their legacy thus far, who with any sense of right and wrong would ever take their new "independent" investigation seriously?
Can't wait to see comments from MSU officials on the rationale for a new investigation......the only one that would hold any water would be if they said "the previous investigations were biased and inconclusive."
They just got done eliminating the paper trail. "Go ahead and investigate us now."
Well, I agree with her on that - MSU lacks the credibility to do this. For some reason, I have this image of MSU hiring an "independent investigator" with a suitcase of cash and trinkets, only after a sworn promise that "a freak storm located over every records room on campus" destroyed many of the relevant documents.
Most of their records are stored in used pizza boxes. As pizza is MSU's currency, it could be that the records were accidentally paid to MSU employees.
I’m starting to feel bad for their alum and students. What a black eye to their degrees.
Why do I imagine the MSU board a 3 person panel made of Gordon Gecko, Boss Hogg, and The Onceler.
F Y S
Hope AG Nessel comes down hard on all that covered/enabled Nassar.