Dive Brief:

• A report commissioned by Pennsylvania’s attorney general has cleared Gov. Tom Corbett of playing politics with the Penn State sex abuse investigation
• Corbett, a Republican, had been accused by the state's current attorney general, Kathleen Kane, a Democrat, of essentially dragging his feet with the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse investigation when he was the attorney general in order to improve his chances of getting elected governor.
• The report by H. Geoffrey Moulton Jr., a former federal prosecutor whom Kane appointed, also concludes that the investigation was slowed down by Penn State blocking access to investigators and sometimes working against them.

Dive Insight:

Corbett isn’t completely off the hook in the 339-page report, which says he took longer than he should have with the investigation and bringing charges against Sandusky, the former football assistant who in 2012 was convicted of sexually assaulting 10 boys and was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison. The report also says that Penn State withheld records that had been subpoenaed for nearly two years, tried to quash a subpoena and argued over subpoena language.