Mike McQueary Files $4 Million Whistleblower Lawsuit

Mike McQueary Files $4 Million Whistleblower Lawsuit

Last Tuesday, Mike McQueary filed a lawsuit worth $4 million against Penn State. The 37-year-old former Penn State quarterback that has been grad assistant to Joe Paterno filed the lawsuit at Centre County Court.

McQueary became popular upon climbing the ladder to the Nittany Lions recruiting coordinator position. At the moment, he is unemployed and his college football future may have actually been lost forever.

It was on February 9, 2001 when the controversy allegedly took place. McQueary said he saw Jerry Sandusky and a boy in an empty Penn State coaches shower. He said he was only watching a movie before stumbling upon Sandusky and the boy engaging in an “extreme sexual position.” At that moment, he described himself feeling all stunned and scared of what he saw.

“Frankly,” McQueary said from the witness stand in June at the Sandusky sexual molestation trial that ended in 45 guilty counts, “I want to be a football coach at Penn State University.”

However, he isn’t going anywhere. Every coach assistant aside him was interviewed for the job which got Bill O’ Brien to replace Paterno. This is the core of the lawsuit McQueary filed against the school, saying, “I don’t think I’ve done anything wrong to lose that job,” in one of his testimonies last June.

Whether he wins this lawsuit or not — or whether Penn State simply settles — remains unknown. It now boils down on the stated rules in the contract and if the allegations of President Graham Spanier blackballing him is true or not.

What’s definite is that McQueary deserves the chance to clear his name and defend himself from various parties attacking him.

In the case of the Sandusky trial, McQueary never stated that he actually saw the penis entering the rectum. This got the jury to believe that Sandusky is actually guilty of the said offense which resulted to conviction of four out of five counts.

Posted by Andre Monohan on Saturday October 06 2012, 10:56 AM EDT. Ref: Google. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0