… the University of Louisville (read all about it). It’s the lowest of the low.
But Louisville burnishes its sports reputation with rates of campus employee theft that simply knock the school of the park. In response to the latest theft, the Courier-Journal reviews the school’s klepto-history.
U of L’s problems with employee theft first came to light in 2008 with the case of Robert Felner, U of L’s former education dean, who is serving a 63-month prison sentence.
Felner pleaded guilty last year in U.S. District Court in Louisville to fraud, money laundering and tax evasion in the theft of $2.3 million from U of L and two other institutions.
Most recently, a university audit completed in August accused a former senior program coordinator in the College of Business of stealing more than $463,000 from the Equine Industry Program. That case has been turned over to the U.S. Attorney’s office, but no charges have been filed.
The latest thief used stolen money from the athletics program to buy scads of oxycodone, which she later sold.
All schools have internal problems, but UD can think of no American university with UL’s over-the-top combination of sports corruption and employee criminality.
September 4th, 2013 at 11:20AM
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