Posted on 04/24/2006 3:45:27 AM PDT by Liz
A top academic dean and a trustee of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey engaged in "unethical and potentially illegal" activities involving the misspending of thousands in public funds........
The findings by the federal monitor overseeing the state's troubled medical university include allegations that the dean devised a corrupt accounting scheme to boost his annual bonus.
It accuses the trustee -- Newark City Council President Donald Bradley -- of steering the university into a real estate deal that benefited a campaign contributor.
The report recounts other alleged outrages.....A $50 glass of Glenlivet whiskey, a leather laptop case for the dean's wife.....nights in the Waldorf-Astoria -- all billed to the medical school.
Named are R. Michael Gallagher, dean of UMDNJ's School of Osteopathic Medicine near Camden, who has been forced to resign, and Bradley, who is in his final months as the No. 2 official in Newark city government.
Stern is continuing to investigate whether former Gov. James E. McGreevey "arranged for state Sen. Wayne Bryant to obtain positions at" the school.........Among the monitor's latest findings:
Financial statements were falsified to show the university's headache center, headed by Gallagher, was making a profit -- enabling him to receive a $15,000 annual bonus.
Thousands of dollars in dining and entertainment bills were charged to university accounts.....meals at the dean's country club and other top restaurants. While the dean's expenses soared, he was laying off 25 UMDNJ staffers.
UMDNJ spent more than $10,000 at Bradley's behest to underwrite a catered affair at the NJ Performing Arts Center that included a martini bar and ice sculptures -- despite a state ban on spending public money for liquor.
The programs for the event were printed by a company owned by a top aide to Bradley, under a no-bid contract worth $1,800.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Can you say kickback?
My God, how stupid are these greedy people?
Oh right, it's New Jersey----Anything Goes Sopranoland----- except that the organized politicans are infinitely more corrupt than the gangsters.
I will bet it is not of legal age either.
Not just in New Jersey.
Heheh......probably......guy got served bottom shelf stuff and never knew the difference.
..most likely "grab your ankles"
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Why goodness, that sounds like a political position. Does this man, perhaps, belong to a political party?
Corruption in NJ? Whoda thunk it?
And the sun rises in the east................
Poltitical party?
Duh.....er.....well, gosh, the reporter innocently left it out figuring nobody really wanted to know (/sarc).
A shocker.....for sure.
I hope the guy enjoyed it-------I hear they don't serve Glenlivet in jail (/sarc)/
Well, Cali is a much bigger state (/sarc).
"Look for the union label..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1593821/posts
UMDNJ chief to press for change (bump thread)
Shots of fine scotch? Idoicy and unrefinement in one package.
.....why not the best?---as long as taxpayers are paying the bills.........
EXCERPT: Abuses at UMDNJ top $240 million; review predicts cost of fraud and mismanagement will continue to mount
Thursday, July 20, 2006 BY JOSH MARGOLIN AND TED SHERMAN Star-Ledger Staff
More than $243 million. That's the price tag -- so far -- for waste, fraud and abuse at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, according to auditors digging through the books of the state's troubled healthcare university system. A new report by the federal monitor overseeing the university details countless cases of overbilling, double-billing, mismanagement and fiscal abuse at New Jersey's medical and dental schools. "At this stage of our review, losses due to 'overbilling,' 'double-billing,' and 'waste' could exceed $243 million," according to the report. --SNIP--
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-8/115337604267360.xml&coll=1
and mismanagement will continue to mount
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