{"id":2704,"date":"2015-01-16T15:23:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T20:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wordpress\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2015-01-16T15:28:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T20:28:15","slug":"toomey-issues-statement-regarding-corman-ncaa-lawsuit-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=2704","title":{"rendered":"Toomey Issues Statement Regarding Corman-NCAA Lawsuit Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C<\/strong>. \u2013 U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) released this statement following the announcement of a settlement in the Corman-NCAA lawsuit:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased that an agreement has been reached between the NCAA and Senator Corman. The NCAA\u2019s original decision to erase the accomplishments of Penn State\u2019s hard-working student athletes as a punishment for a crime they did not commit never made sense, and I am glad the NCAA has reconsidered its position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore importantly, I applaud the steps taken to ensure that the university\u2019s $60 million fine will be exclusively devoted to assisting Pennsylvania children who have been victims of abuse \u2013 an issue of great importance to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, the Penn State Board of Trustees will ratify this settlement. And I look forward to watching Penn State continue its tradition of \u201csuccess with honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Steve Kelly<\/p>\n<p>Press Secretary<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Senator Pat Toomey<\/p>\n<p>228 Walnut St.- Suite 1104<\/p>\n<p>Harrisburg, PA 17101<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) released this statement following the announcement of a settlement in the Corman-NCAA lawsuit: \u201cI am pleased that an agreement has been reached &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=2704\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toomey Issues Statement Regarding Corman-NCAA Lawsuit Settlement<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,523],"tags":[48,966,967],"class_list":["post-2704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political","tag-ncaa","tag-penn-state","tag-u-s-senator-pat-toomey-r-pa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Toomey-Press-Release-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}