View full sizeGraham SpanierFormer Penn State University president Graham Spanier said he will soon begin working for the federal government on projects related to national security.
“For the next several months, as I transition to my post-presidential plans, I will be working on a special project for the U.S. government relating national security. This builds on my prior positions working with federal agencies to foster improved cooperation between our nation’s national security agencies and other entities,” Spanier said in an Email.
Spanier was ousted as the university's leader on Nov. 9, less than a week after former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with child sex abuse.
Also fired that day was legendary football coach Joe Paterno, whose firing over the phone triggered a riot in State College. Paterno died of lung cancer Jan. 22 at age 85.
Neither Spanier nor Paterno were charged in connection to the Sandusky scandal.
However, former Athletic Director Tim Curley and former Vice President Gary Schultz are charged with perjury and failure to report an incident allegedly brought to them in 2002 by then-graduate assistant coach Mike McQueary.
McQueary told prosecutors he saw Sandusky assaulting a boy in the showers of the football locker room in March 2002, and reported what he saw to Curley and Schultz at the direction of head football coach Joe Paterno.
In addition to the ousting Paterno and Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and vice president for business and finance Gary Schultz are facing perjury charges.