Jerry Sandusky's campaign from behind bars to have his Penn State pension restored will go before a hearing examiner in Harrisburg this week, more than a year after his child molestation conviction led the state pension agency to revoke it. Sandusky, now in the Greene State Prison in southwestern Pennsylvania, is expected to participate by video conference in the proceeding that starts Tuesday morning inside the state retirement system's downtown headquarters. It could last three days and bring to the stand witnesses tied to Penn State and The Second Mile, a children's charity founded by Sandusky where he met at least some of his victims. The former Penn State assistant football coach lost a $4,900-a-month pension in October 2012, the day he was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison for 45 counts of child sexual abuse. The decision also precluded his wife, Dottie, from collecting benefits. Source: Continue Reading
