STATE COLLEGE, Pa. _ Former Penn State wide receivers coach Mike McQueary is filing a whistleblower lawsuit against Penn State.
The attorney for McQueary filed a writ of summons for a civil case in county court on Tuesday. That gives Penn State notice he’s suing them.
The four-page document doesn’t outline the details of the suit but does call it a whistleblower case where he’s seeking damages outside normal arbitration limits.
He’s represented by Harrisburg, Pa.-based attorney Elliot Strokoff, who could not immediately be reached for comment this afternoon. McQueary’s father, John McQueary, declined to comment when reached by phone this afternoon.
Penn State spokesman David La Torre said the university hadn’t received the complaint and couldn’t comment. He said Mike McQueary remains on the university payroll.
McQueary, who testified about seeing Jerry Sandusky in an “extremely sexual” situation with a young boy in a Penn State locker room shower, is on administrative leave after he received death threats. The incident has been determined to have happened in 2001, not 2002 as originally put forth by the prosecution.
That incident led to the firing of former head coach Joe Paterno and criminal charges against Penn State administrators Tim Curley and Gary Schultz.
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