Pennsylvania Court Restores Pension For Jerry Sandusky

A Pennsylvania Court has held that the State must restore a pension to former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky that had been taken away from him when he was convicted and sentenced to prison for child molestation. “A Commonwealth Court panel ruled unanimously that the State Employees’ Retirement Board wrongly concluded Sandusky was a Penn State employee when he committed the crimes that were the basis for the pension forfeiture.” In 1999 Jerry Sandusky received a lump sum retirement payment of $148,000 and was to receive an additional payment of $4,900 each month. The Retirement Board stopped making those monthly payments in October 2012 when Sandusky was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison for sexually abusing 10 children.

See Jerry Sandusky has pension restored after ruling from Pennsylvania court, USA Today, November 13, 2015.