{"id":5775,"date":"2009-03-27T14:23:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5775"},"modified":"2009-03-27T14:30:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T22:30:37","slug":"kentucky-court-hears-felners-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/kentucky-court-hears-felners-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky: Court hears Felner&#8217;s interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courier-Journal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/article\/20090325\/NEWS01\/90325024\/1008\">Court hears Felner&#8217;s interview<\/a><br \/>\nDefense seeks to block its use<\/p>\n<p>During a six-hour-plus interview with federal investigators last summer, former University of Louisville education dean Robert Felner went from being described as confident by investigators and a colleague to saying he was &#8220;freaked&#8221; and asking if he could go to jail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m starting to feel like I&#8217;m getting thrown under the bus,&#8221; Felner said in a tape-recorded conversation with investigators that was played in court today during a hearing to decide if comments he made during the interview can be used against him in a criminal trial.<\/p>\n<p>Felner, 58, faces 10 counts of mail fraud, money-laundering conspiracy and income-tax evasion after a federal grand jury indicted him in October.<\/p>\n<p>A colleague, Thomas Schroeder, 51, of Port Byron, Ill., also is charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, mail fraud and conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment accuses the two of fraudulently obtaining nearly $2.3million in grant and contract money from UofL and the University of Rhode Island. Both pleaded not guilty in October and were released on unsecured bonds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courier-Journal: Court hears Felner&#8217;s interview Defense seeks to block its use During a six-hour-plus interview with federal investigators last summer, former University of Louisville education dean Robert Felner went from being described as confident by investigators and a colleague to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/kentucky-court-hears-felners-interview\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264],"tags":[1288952,2556],"class_list":["post-5775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-issues","tag-legal-issues","tag-robert-felner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5775"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5780,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions\/5780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}