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Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Quote of the Day

"Saporito appeared, on many occasions, to violate every public entity's edict of spending money prudently," the monitor said, noting he also submitted for reimbursement a $275 charge for membership to the Continental Airlines President's Club and a $47.70 book "Inside the Boardroom" that he purchased from Barnes & Noble.


Saporito would be Robert Saporito,










senior vice president of academic affairs at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, a rare example of a totally corrupt university, top to bottom.

Saporito "resigned last week in advance of the report after being confronted with some of its findings by UMDNJ's interim president, Bruce C. Vladeck."

Stern outlined $4,015 in "suspicious" expenses by Saporito, and an additional $4,922 in "questionable" expenses, including numerous hotel reimbursements for purported "late night meetings" that show a check-in time before 8 p.m.


UMDNJ, which was criminally charged with Medicaid fraud in December, agreed to retain [a fed] to oversee its finances after U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie threatened to indict the university if it did not. The university remains a target of an ongoing probe into political dealings, sweetheart contracts to insiders, and jobs to those with connections.

...[T]he university's last president actually created a ranking system for political referrals, said the monitor, giving candidates scores from "1" to "3" based on their connections. Some of the details of the report were first disclosed in a story in the Sunday Star-Ledger.

Inglesino said that in some instances local elected officials would accompany job candidates to the university. Others attempted to directly intervene to protect people they had gotten jobs for from later being fired.