{"id":269206,"date":"2026-08-21T01:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T01:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269206\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T01:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T01:06:07","slug":"this-weeks-biggest-winners-losers-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269206\/","title":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s biggest Winners &#038; Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scandal in Happy Valley has once again captured the attention of the nation \u2013 this time in relation to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.attorneygeneral.gov\/taking-action\/ag-sunday-state-college-police-announce-charges-against-14-people-in-cocaine-trafficking-ring-involving-penn-state-u-students-fraternities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">alleged cocaine-trafficking ring<\/a> purportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstatepa.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/greek-history-recent-timeline-penn-state-fraternity-scandals\/415494\/?oref=cspa-skybox-hp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">led by members of two fraternities<\/a> at Penn State. This week, Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced charges against 13 current and former Penn State students (and one of their dads) for their participation in what he called a \u201ccoordinated and highly profitable\u201d cocaine-trafficking operation. The internet has had plenty of fun with the news, christening Agostino Abbatiello \u2013 the alleged ringleader and a member of Sigma Chi \u2013 as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OnwardState\/status\/2090467886972211640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pablo Pledgescobar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BettingOnX\/status\/2089800757457334374\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Snow Paterno<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KevinHornePSU\/status\/2089824954841706567?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">BlowPa<\/a>. As <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jaberuski\/status\/2089793642760171731?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">some<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PSU_Strong\/status\/2089851374729117867?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">posters<\/a> pointed out, the scandal will likely give a whole new meaning to this year\u2019s White Out game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading for more winners and losers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A scandal in Happy Valley has once again captured the attention of the nation \u2013 this time in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,4219],"class_list":["post-269206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-winners-losers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}