Testimony to begin in lawsuit related to Penn State molestation scandal

Testimony is to begin on Monday in a whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former Penn State assistant football coach who says the university fired him after learning he was a witness against Jerry Sandusky, the former coach later convicted of molesting boys on and off campus. Michael McQueary, 42, says Penn State placed him on administrative leave in the autumn of 2011, soon after he was identified as a key witness against Sandusky in one of the Pulitzer Prize-winning articles about the scandal by Harrisburg Patriot-News reporter Sara Ganim. McQueary was later fired from his $140,000-a-year coaching job and was ostracized by friends and colleagues, according to court papers.

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