I guess all universities need to be known for something; and at Missouri State University it’s hilarious, high-level mismanagement of money.
Naturally, the big money loss is about sports. There’s a new stadium about whose profitability the university lied (details here and here and here and here and here and here).
But there’s also the manager of the bookstore, whose decade-long theft of millions of dollars went unnoticed.
The US Attorney thanks MSU for its “quick actions.” Guess they do things more slowly in the heartland.
(And let UD simply state for the record, that if you think no one else at MSU knew what Mark Brixey was up to…)
March 27th, 2013 at 3:35PM
I worked in small-unit retail for four years. Sorry, ain’t no way $81,000 goes undropped. Except, I guess, in collegiate la-la land. I double-counted moneys with white trash and gang-bangers wanting to get out of the life. They understood the rationale. I guess some don’t
March 30th, 2013 at 8:02AM
” . . . [I]f you think no one else at MSU knew . . . .” I re-read the article. Almost a sure bet someone else sniffed this one. Maybe a onetime assistant manager scared he’d be framed. A student worker with restaurant or retail experience who noticed way too much loose cash.