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An ESPN Outside The Lines report details emails between the NCAA and Louis Freeh’s firm, which was paid $8.2 million to conduct an independent investigation of Penn State following the Jerry Sandusky scandal. As it turns out, they were getting some, um, guidance from the NCAA:

“I’m angry,” [Pennsylvania State Senator Jake Corman] said. “When you read the other communications we’ve seen, the NCAA is saying ‘we have an image problem.’ So it looks like the NCAA was looking to improve its own image at the expense of Penn State. And to do that, they were orchestrating an outcome with Freeh to make it happen … A lot of people were hurt by the sanctions brought down by the NCAA, and to think it was achieved possibly by this coordination by Freeh and the NCAA makes me very, very angry.”

I can’t do any of this justice. Just go read the whole thing.