David Wachtel Says PSU Coach McQueary Covered as Whistleblower

The York Daily Record recently interviewed David Wachtel for comment on the Jerry Sandusky quagmire at Penn State and how it relates to assistant coach of the football team, Mike McQueary. McQueary, a graduate assistant at the time, says he witnessed Sandusky sexually abusing a young boy in the shower in 2002. He reported the incident to his supervisor, head coach Joe Paterno.

“Pennsylvania has a whistleblower law for all its state employees and coach McQueary would certainly be covered,” Wachtel says in the article. “He made a good-faith effort to report the wrongdoing, so he would be a whistleblower.”

However, he is only protected under the whistleblower law if he did not accept anything in exchange for his silence on the matter. Penn State can not fire him for simply testifying before a grand jury, but they can fire him for poor handling of the incident in 2002.

McQueary is currently on administrative leave and it is said to be “indefinite”.