University Diaries wrote about this chick years ago. She’s finally – minutes ago – been hauled into court. I guess it takes awhile to pull together a 24-count federal indictment.
Karen Pletz is apparently one of those rare university presidents who steals from her university. And when you’re prez, you can really steal. There are documents to be forged, vouchers to be fiddled, charitable contributions to be falsified… Pletz was a bank executive before she became president (salary: $1.2 million) of Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences and she knows how to do all this shit.
Yes. Of course I’ll follow the testimony in this case. The details will be amusing.
Why is this post’s title The Taking of Pletz’s Lexus?
The U.S. attorney’s office is seeking forfeiture of Pletz’s Lexus convertible.
Why is this post’s category TRUSTEES TRASHING THE PLACE?
Because she couldn’t have it done it without them.
March 31st, 2011 at 12:16PM
Now, remember that she is innocent until proven as guilty as we know she is.
March 31st, 2011 at 12:19PM
To be sure, francofou.
March 31st, 2011 at 7:00PM
Among the things that would be hard to explain to the classic “Martian anthropologist” would be, “So, you get sent to prison longer when you steal $30 from someone by brandishing a knife at them than when you steal hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars from an institution that trusted you.”
March 31st, 2011 at 9:10PM
It’s a school of osteopaths. No honor among thieves, I guess.
I was interviewed for a job at one of the other schools on whose board she sits. Makes you think….
April 4th, 2011 at 9:42PM
@ Timothy Burke
Martian anthropologist? You invoke the classic quip from Mary Harris Jones’s “”Autobiography of Mother Jones” (with Mary Field Parton; 2004), p. 46: “I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.””