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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 6426517, member: 100459&quot;]I can&#039;t believe there are 4 pages in input on a topic/event that we don&#039;t have enough information.&nbsp; Although the information is interesting, there are so many holes and lack of information to come up with a decision of who did what to someone.</p><p>I was the Internal Auditor for a major university (which I&#039;ll leave nameless or as Jack Webb of Dragnet said &quot;The names have been changed to protect the innocent.&quot;)</p><p>Over the years of my employ, I discovered many misappropriation of funds and property.&nbsp; Some were small and some were thousands of dollars.&nbsp; For instance:&nbsp; The Dean of the Graduate School of Business bought 50 or more calculators from a grant for his students.&nbsp; During my audit of the grant, I found that his purchases.&nbsp; In those years, an electronic calculator could cost upward of $300 or more.&nbsp; The grant specified how the funds were to be used and it wasn&#039;t for calculators.&nbsp; Also, all purchases of $100 or more were supposed to be included in the university&#039;s equipment inventory and tagged.&nbsp; That exception was in excess of $15,000, which he was required to pay back the grant.&nbsp; The calculators could not be located, but a report was made and the students were required to return the calculators.&nbsp; The Dean lost his position and was asked to retire.</p><p>Another item I found during my audit was that the School of Allied Medicine purchased several cars with State funds.&nbsp; The paid for all of the operation and maintence costs of of their State budget.&nbsp; However, they made the cars available to other agencies and they charged them a mileage rate.&nbsp; When they were reimbursed for the use of the cars, instead of reimbursing their State budget, they deposited in a local bank to be used for whatever they wish to use it.&nbsp; The State Budget Offices policy is that all funds that are generated from the use of State funds, is to be reimbursed to their State Budget.&nbsp; Over the 5 years that I audited, the Dean of the School of Allied Health had generated over $300,000 from the &quot;rental&quot; of the state vehicles.&nbsp; The balance in their bank account was less than $150,000 which was immediately seized and the Dean was charged with misappropriation of state funds and grand theft.&nbsp; Naturally, he pleaded ignorance of the policy.&nbsp; He got 10 years.</p><p>These two Deans are only a tip of the iceberg of university misappropriations.</p><p>Back to Yale, my example is just a sample of university integrity.&nbsp; Just because they work for a major university, didn&#039;t mean there wasn&#039;t a fox in the chicken house.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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