WHAS11.com: Former UofL employee questioned, claims he sent checks back to Felner
(WHAS)—We continue to learn more about the federal investigation into a former dean at the University of Louisville.
A former UofL part-time employee who has been questioned in connection with the disappearance of federal grant money said he sent the money back to Robert Felner.
Federal agents are investigating him in connection with a grant in which nearly $500,000 was spent, but no work is believed to have been done.
Thomas Schroeder, who was president of the now defunct National Center on Education and Prevention was contracted to receive $450,000 to collect data.
WHAS 11 news discovered that the non-profit company was dissolved by the state of Illinois in 2006, yet still received money from the university.
Schroeder, who was involved in several other grant projects with Felner, told the Rock Island, Illinois newspaper that he only received $250,000 in checks.
Schroeder also said when he was interviewed by federal agents about the grant, he told them he sent the uncashed checks back to Felner after he received them because Felner asked for them.
Schroder said in the Rock Island newspaper:
“I found out this was being investigated when two federal agents came to my home. There were some forged addendum to this contract and forged signatures of mine. This had been going on all along. Where the money is and what was done with the money we had nothing to do with.”
Courier-Journal: Grant money returned, man says
The director of a nonprofit agency tied to a $694,000 federal grant being investigated at the University of Louisville says he returned $250,000 in grant-related funds at the direction of former U of L education dean Robert Felner, who told him it was sent as a “mistake,” according to an Illinois newspaper.
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Thomas D. Schroeder of Illinois told the Rock Island Argus Thursday that he acted as a fiscal manager for the National Center on Education and Prevention, which U of L documents show was contracted to receive $450,000 from the grant to provide and administer education surveys.
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