Coming on the heels of a CNN report Friday that painted the late head coach Joe Paterno as a player in a potential cover-up of an incident involving Jerry Sandusky, the attorney for the Paterno family released a statement saying Paterno didn’t interfere with any investigation of Sandusky.

According to the statement released by attorney Wick Sollers, Paterno testified truthfully when he was before a grand jury that was investigating the former assistant coach Sandusky.

Sollers said the emails didn’t originate with Paterno or go to him because he never used email. He said it would be inappropriate for the family to comment further because it has not seen the emails obtained by CNN.

CNN reported Friday that it had obtained email exchanges between former athletic director Tim Curley, former Interim Senior Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz and former President Graham Spanier regarding a course of action in how to handle a report that Sandusky had been seen acting inappropriately with a boy in a Lasch Building shower.

According to the emails, a plan was set to notify the Department of Welfare and The Second Mile, Sandusky’s charity he founded for underprivileged children. But then, Curley changed his mind “after talking it over with Joe,” and the administrators decided they would go directly to Sandusky.

Sandusky was convicted last Friday on 45 of 48 counts of sexual abuse. Curley and Schultz are each charged with perjury and failure to report suspected abuse in connection with the Sandusky case. Spanier has not been charged.