UPI.com: Feds wrap up U of L dean investigation
LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 30 (UPI) — A criminal investigation of a former University of Louisville, Ky., education dean is expected to wrap up within six weeks, officials said.
Robert Felner’s office and computer, including emails allegedly expressing his concern about the nonprofit tax status of an Illinois organization to which he had funneled federal grant money, have already been searched, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported Wednesday.
“We really, really need the tax thing if we are ever going to get out of this hole,” Felner wrote last April to friend and former colleague, Thomas Schroeder, former director of the National Center on Education and Prevention in Port Byron, Ill., the report said.
U of L records show Felner used a $694,000 federal grant to make payments of $450,000 to Schroeder’s center. In return, the center was supposed to provide and administer education surveys to students, parents, teachers and school employees. However, there is no evidence any work was done, the Courier-Journal said.
Illinois records show Schroeder’s nonprofit corporation was involuntarily dissolved by the state after failing to file its annual report in 2005 — a year before the U of L payments were arranged.
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