Abdul Rao
Posted on 02/18/2009 5:30:11 AM PST by steelyourfaith
University of South Florida associate vice president Addul Rao who was caught on videotape stealing a student's bicycle last week with tbe aid of an accomplice who has an extensive criminal record, Vernon Waiters, says he will resign his post Friday. This is the same university that employed Sami Al-Arian, who was sentenced to 57 months in prison for conspiring to violate a federal law that prohibits making or receiving contributions of funds, goods or services to, or for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
Abdul Rao will officially resign on Friday, according to an agreement he has given to Stephen Klasko, the dean of the college's School of Medicine. Klasko announced Rao's decision at a faculty council meeting today.
Rao said he is drafting his resignation letter tonight and that the university will receive it by Wednesday. He declined further comment.
Rao has said a "failure in judgment" led him to take the mountain bicycle outside the Byrd Alzheimer's Center on Feb. 10. He admitted to taking the bike, which is valued at $100, but said he had planned to return it. He said he offered it to a handyman doing work for him and didn't think it belonged to a student.
The security video has been widely seen on the Internet site YouTube.
The incident was under investigation by the USF police and a group of senior USF administrations. The Hillsborough County State Attorney's office is looking into whether to file charges against Rao.
USF spokesman Michael Hoad said the university did not ask Rao to resign.
Rao, who oversees research grants at USF and makes nearly $400,000 per year, has been on paid leave until the investigations were complete.
He and another man were seen on security cameras on the loading dock of the Johnnie B. Byrd Sr. Alzheimer's Center and Research Institute.
The tape shows a woman riding up and parking her bicycle against a railing at 2 p.m. About 8:50 p.m., a minivan pulls up and Rao and a man get out. They look through some bikes near the railing, pick one and leave with it in the minivan.
The man, Vernon Waiters, 45, has an extensive criminal record, including several drug charges.
Hoad said the man's criminal record would have been part of the internal USF investigations. Rao had told USF officials he was unaware of the man's history, Hoad said.
Reaction to the stories about Rao has been fierce, with dozens of people calling for Rao to be fired.
Hoad said Rao already had his detractors because of his personality. "He could be blunt." But, Hoad said, USF officials had never questioned his job performance or competence.
Rao was educated at Oxford and was hired by USF in 2005 after serving as vice provost for research at Middle Tennessee State University. Klasko had helped bring Rao to USF; the two worked together at Drexell University in Philadelphia several years earlier.
Idiot.
Doesn’t sound intelligent enough to sweep the floors at McDoncald’s. (not putting down honest work mind you)
Another fifth-column muzzie exposed.
Now deport the trash back to whatever sandpit he crept out of.
Abdul Rao
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A YouTube comment from 'startballingfast":
"From here they can bluster and talk about 'the bright new future' and so on, but the record shows that on Rao's watch his insatiable greed to control grant funding led to the Moffitt Cancer Center leaving USF, multiple well-funded prestigious scientists leaving for other universities or prematurely choosing retirement, and an almost complete deterioration of morale among the remaining faculty. Unfortunately, he wasn't caught sooner."
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He said he offered it to a handyman doing work for him and didn't think it belonged to a student.
More likely he thought it did not belong to a Muslim. Anything you steal from the Dhimmis doesn't count, don'tcha know...
Amazingly stupid.
Here’s the perfect fix for skyrocketing college costs...just jettison all of the useless administrators making exhorbitant salaries and move the tuition back to $ 1,000 a term/quarter.
So, it belonged to no one?
What an idiot.
Let the handyman steal his own bikes.
Not a unique situation on many college campuses. The muslims have spread all over the US in positions of authority on college campuses because they are the most fertile recruiting grounds for the terrorist to find willing idiots to act against their own country....
Why isn’t this guy in jail???
Why the @%#& NOT!!! The video shows the van driving to where they obviously know that there are bicycles. The 'handyman' chooses the best of the two that are seen while Rao looks on and apparently offers advice.
I am biased, I ride a bicycle and can put myself in the riders seat. She came in at about 2pm and probably was working a 9 hour shift thus getting out at 11pm or so to find her transportation GONE! What did she do then, call and wait for the campus cops, fill out a report, arrange for some other way to get home after midnight.
So isn't it nice that the bike was returned later. Really makes all of this pain go away like it never happened - right? /sarc
“USF spokesman Michael Hoad said the university did not ask Rao to resign.”
So being a bike thief does not disqualify someone from holding a high position at the USF.
Typical liberal, would rather steal from someone than spend $100 of his own money to help his friend. Or looking at it another way, steal from poor hardworking student to help a career criminal.
Not surprised. For the most part, these people are indoctrinated from birth to be thieves and liars. Few of them rise above that.
This POS was making almost 400K a year? What a travesty. Wonder if he voted for The One?
Vince
This guy doesn’t have a substance abuse problem?
If he had done this in one of those sandpit countries he might very well have a stub instead of a hand come Fri.
“This guy doesn’t have a substance abuse problem?”
It appears he has a problem accepting and internalizing the American way of living, particularly our concept of being safe in both person and property.
Additionally, assuming he is Muslim as his name indicates, he is allowed by his faith to lie to the kufir (non-Muslims).
ISLAM DELENDA EST! - the only appropriate goal for an America under attack by the Muslim world.
Florida has bigger problems than cats and dogs that they want to spntrol at the family level.
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