{"id":7834,"date":"2010-01-05T10:06:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T18:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=7834"},"modified":"2010-01-05T10:11:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T18:11:38","slug":"robert-felner-to-plead-guilty-to-siphoning-millions-from-louisville-rhode-island-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2010\/01\/robert-felner-to-plead-guilty-to-siphoning-millions-from-louisville-rhode-island-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Felner to plead guilty to siphoning millions from Louisville, Rhode Island universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courier-Journal: Attorney: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=20101040344\">Robert Felner to plead guilty to siphoning millions from Louisville, Rhode Island universities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former University of Louisville education dean Robert Felner will plead guilty Friday in a case in which he and a colleague are accused of defrauding U of L and another university out of $2.3 million, his attorney said.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Scott C. Cox said Monday the plea is part of an agreement Felner made with the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office. He would not disclose any terms of the deal, including which charges Felner would plead guilty to or how much jail time he may receive. Felner was not available for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>While not part of the criminal case, Felner&#8217;s treatment of faculty and staff at U of L\u2019s College of Education and Human Development \u2014 and grievances against him \u2014 came to light during the investigation. Former faculty accused Felner of being vindictive, manipulative and threatening. As a result of those claims, the university revamped its grievance process, reviewed its faculty governance procedures and established an Ombuds Office to address faculty concerns and complaints.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office said Monday that it would have no comment until Felner formally enters his plea \u2014 he is accused of funneling millions of dollars through non-profit centers he helped create, then using the money to buy private property and make other personal expenditures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courier-Journal: Attorney: Robert Felner to plead guilty to siphoning millions from Louisville, Rhode Island universities Former University of Louisville education dean Robert Felner will plead guilty Friday in a case in which he and a colleague are accused of defrauding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2010\/01\/robert-felner-to-plead-guilty-to-siphoning-millions-from-louisville-rhode-island-universities\/\">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":[2256,1448,2264],"tags":[2549,1288952,2556,4093,6923],"class_list":["post-7834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crime","category-legal-issues","tag-fraud","tag-legal-issues","tag-robert-felner","tag-u-of-louisville","tag-u-of-rhode-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834","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=7834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7837,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions\/7837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}