STATE COLLEGE, Pa., July 10 (UPI) -- Former FBI Director Louis Freeh, commissioned by Penn State to investigate the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal, said Tuesday he will issue his report Thursday.
Centre Daily Times reported Freeh said he will post his findings online at 9 a.m. EDT and hold a news conference an hour later in Philadelphia.
Freeh's announcement said it would be the first time anyone outside his team "will in any way receive the report, including the Pennsylvania State University Board of Trustees and the Special Investigations Task Force," the newspaper said.
Penn State's trustees hired Freeh in November to conduct an independent review of the case and determine whether there was any cover-up. The trustees said there would be no varnishing of Freeh's work.
"We look forward to seeing the report on Thursday and reviewing Judge Freeh's recommendations," Penn State spokesman David La Torre said. "The university will provide a response in Scranton on Thursday at a time and location to be announced."
The Daily Times said Graham Spanier's attorneys said the former Penn State president was interviewed at length Friday by Freeh and members of his investigative team at Spanier's request.
"Selected leaks, without the full context, are distorting the public record and creating a false picture," attorneys Peter Vaira of Vaira & Riley and Elizabeth Ainslie of Schnader Harrison Segel & Lewis said in a statement. "At no time in the more than 16 years of his presidency at Penn State was Dr. Spanier told of an incident involving Jerry Sandusky that described child abuse, sexual misconduct or criminality of any kind, and he reiterated that during his interview with Louis Freeh and his colleagues."
Sandusky was convicted last month on 45 counts arising from years of sexual abuse of boys, often on the Penn State campus.
