Associated Press reports indicate that Penn State has spent over $3.2 million in legal, consultation, and PR fees since the Jerry Sandusky indictment and subsequent cover-up fallout in early November of 2011. $2.5 million of that total was spent by December on crisis communications and an independent investigation, leading me to believe that I'm wasting very expensive common sense by just blogging about it on here.
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