By Meghan Keneally PUBLISHED: 07:21 EST, 12 March 2014 | UPDATED: 09:56 EST, 12 March 2014 Dottie Sandusky has branded the boys who accused her husband of molesting them as money-hungry liars as she opened up in her first on-camera interview since the 2012 scandal. 'I think they were manipulated. Once lawyers came into the case they thought there was money,' she said of the multiple young boys who accused her husband Jerry of sexual abuse. 'I think people need to know that Jerry is not guilty. You can see all the discrepancies in the trial,' she told The Today Show's Matt Lauer.
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Jerry Sandusky's wife of 46-years has shown the bedroom in the basement of their Pennsylvania home where some of the sexual assaults took place
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Dottie said that her adopted son Matt, who was going to testify against Jerry, was a liar and thief who stole Sandusky's championship rings
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Told how living in a maximum security prison 'hasn't changed' Jerry
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'Jerry's a happy person and he smiles and tries to make people laugh'
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The former Penn State assistant football coach was found guilty of 45 counts of child abuse and will spend between 30 and 60 years in jail
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Dottie stood by him throughout the trial and wrote a letter to the appeals judge on his behalf and has now given her first on-camera interview
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