Post by Logan on Apr 5, 2017 12:35:06 GMT -6
Former Penn State assistant McQueary gets $1.7M in whistleblower fees
HARRISBURG — A former Penn State University assistant coach will be getting his legal fees paid after winning a whistleblower claim over his treatment by the university after Jerry Sandusky’s child molestation arrest.
Judge Thomas Gavin on Thursday granted Mike McQueary’s lawyers $1.7 million for their work on the case. He had been awarded more than $12 million from his court case in November.
The judge wrote that it would not be reasonable to expect whistleblowers to put their jobs and paychecks at risk in reporting suspected wrongdoing, as well as to fund their own legal representation.
Making whistleblowers financially whole, he said, “will put teeth in the statute and will further its goal of encouraging others to expose wrongdoing.”
Read more: www.post-gazette.com/sports/psu/2017/03/31/Former-Penn-State-assistant-football-coach-whistleblower-fees-sandusky-mcqueary/stories/201703310280
HARRISBURG — A former Penn State University assistant coach will be getting his legal fees paid after winning a whistleblower claim over his treatment by the university after Jerry Sandusky’s child molestation arrest.
Judge Thomas Gavin on Thursday granted Mike McQueary’s lawyers $1.7 million for their work on the case. He had been awarded more than $12 million from his court case in November.
The judge wrote that it would not be reasonable to expect whistleblowers to put their jobs and paychecks at risk in reporting suspected wrongdoing, as well as to fund their own legal representation.
Making whistleblowers financially whole, he said, “will put teeth in the statute and will further its goal of encouraging others to expose wrongdoing.”
Read more: www.post-gazette.com/sports/psu/2017/03/31/Former-Penn-State-assistant-football-coach-whistleblower-fees-sandusky-mcqueary/stories/201703310280