Rhode Island/Kentucky: Indictment spurs URI to better deter fraud

by E Wayne Ross on January 1, 2009

Providence Journal: Indictment spurs URI to better deter fraud

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — Two months after a former administrator at the University of Rhode Island was indicted on 10 federal fraud charges, URI officials say they are putting in place measures designed to prevent future fraud.

Robert Felner, a nationally known educator and founding director of URI’s School of Education, was indicted Oct. 22 in Louisville, Ky., on charges including mail fraud, conspiracy to embezzle and income tax evasion.