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Posted on 01/16/2020 5:36:11 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
PHILADELPHIA -- A former Drexel University professor in Philadelphia who allegedly spent $185,000 in federal grant money on strip clubs and other personal expenses has been charged with theft.
Prosecutors announced the charges against Chika Nwankpa on Tuesday.
The former head of Drexel University's electrical engineering department, Nwankpa misappropriated grant money from the Navy, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation over a period of 10 years, prosecutors said.
Nwankpa, 57, spent $96,000 in federal grant funds at adult entertainment venues and sports bars between 2010 and 2017, prosecutors said. He also allegedly squandered $89,000 on iTunes purchases and meals.
"Mr. Nwankpa inappropriately and criminally diverted tens of thousands of dollars that were allocated for research purposes toward his own private enjoyment. He betrayed Drexel University and tuition-paying students he was paid to educate," said District Attorney Larry Krasner.
According to the district attorney's office, 48% of the 114 separate charges were done on weekends and 63% were processed between the hours of midnight and 2 a.m.
Drexel University had announced last October that it discovered the alleged fraud in 2017 during an internal audit and alerted the government. Authorities said Nwankpa repaid more than $53,000, resigned from Drexel and was barred from federal contracting for six months.
Drexel paid $189,000 to resolve its potential civil liability in the case.
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The rest of the money he just squandered.
At least the money was useful and it wasn’t wasted on something idiotic like a $30,000 recreation of Hamlet — with a cast of dogs (actually happened).
Here’s an out take of a good song from Tracy Lawrence.
“Some was spent on Gambling,
a lot was spent on women
A Little on some good Cabernet
Three or Four divorces,
at least that many horses
who never left the starting gate
Diamond rings and furs,
swampland in New Jersey
That week I spent a year in LA
I hate to admit it,
I threw the rest away”
At least they caught it in an audit.
The temptation to do this is large. The penalty should be larger for the purposes of suasion.
I agree. He was likely studying the amount of static electricity generated by a strippers crotch during a pole dance and if he could somehow harness this new form a green, renewable energy source...
That’s the best use of other people’s money I’ve heard all day.
At least it didn’t go to waste.
+1
It sounds out of character for him.
His resume is one of someone who has worked hard all of his life.
Bipolar mania?
I wanna party with that guy!
I gotta get off the dime and apply for some grants.
https://theothermccain.com/2019/10/08/professor-chikaodinaka-nwankpa
Oct 08, 2019 · [Nwankpa] spent 27 years teaching in Drexel’s electrical and computer engineering department, chairing it from 2015 until he left. During that time, he was among the university’s top attractors of research grant funds, boasting in his faculty bio that he had landed more than $10 million in research money throughout his career.
Who does he think he is, a Congressman?
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