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Well, isn’t this an interesting turn of events… Joe Paterno transferred full ownership of his house to his wife, Sue, for $1 in July, less than four months before a sexual abuse scandal engulfed his Penn State football program and the university. Documents filed in Centre County, Pa., show that on July 21 the Paternos’ house near campus was turned over to “Suzanne P. Paterno, trustee” for a dollar plus “love and affection.” The couple had previously held joint ownership of the house, which they bought in 1969 for $58,000. According to documents filed with the county, the house’s fair-market value was listed at $594,484.40. Wick Sollers, a lawyer for Paterno, said in an e-mail that the Paternos had been engaged in a “multiyear estate planning program,” and the transfer “was simply one element of that plan.” He said it had nothing to do with the scandal. Paterno, who was fired as the football coach at the university last week, has been judged harshly by many for failing to take more aggressive action when he learned of a suspected sexual assault of a child by one of his former top assistants. Some legal experts, in trying to gauge the legal exposure of the university and its top officials to lawsuits brought by suspected victims of the assistant, Jerry Sandusky, have theorized that Paterno could be a target of civil actions. On Nov. 5, Sandusky, Penn State’s former defensive coordinator, was charged with 40 counts related to the reported sexual abuse of eight boys over 15 years. Paterno, 84, was among those called to give testimony before a grand jury during the investigation, which began in 2009. Experts in estate planning and tax law, in interviews, cautioned that it would be hard to determine the Paternos’ motivation simply from the available documents. It appears the family house had been the subject of years of complex and confusing transactions. Lawrence A. Frolik, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh who specializes in elder law, said that he had “never heard” of a husband selling his share of a house for $1 to his spouse for tax or government assistance purposes. “I can’t see any tax advantages,” Frolik said. “If someone told me that, my reaction would be, ‘Are they hoping to shield assets in case if there’s personal liability?’ ” He added, “It sounds like an attempt to avoid personal liability in having assets in his wife’s name.” Yeah, okay. Too bad you weren’t this concerned with covering your a$$ by reporting Dirty Sandusky to the authorities all those years ago… Source More On Bossip! Bossip Exclusive: Dwyane Wade Dirty Dog Chronicles Part 2! And Guess Who Else She’s Been Sleeping With… Real Reality Love: 10 Couples That Have Survived & Sustained Their Relationships While On Reality TV Ooh La La: Paula Patton Shows Off Her Cakes For Complex And Talks About Playing Dress Up At Home Diary Of An Angry Black Man: Breezy Blows Off More Steam On Twitter Saying He’s The “Definition Of A Real N***a”

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The Side-Eye: Why Would Joe “To Hide A Predator” Paterno Transfer Ownership Of His House To His Wife Four Months Before The Penn State Scandal???