Mike McQueary Is Awarded $7.3 Million in Penn State Defamation Case

A jury awarded Mike McQueary, a former Penn State assistant football coach, $7.3 million in damages on Thursday, finding that the university defamed him after it became public that his testimony helped prosecutors charge Jerry Sandusky with child molestation.

Jurors deliberated for about four hours in McQueary’s defamation and misrepresentation suit.