Post by Aggie One on Jun 29, 2011 11:22:44 GMT -5
NCCU uncovers secret account
BY JAY PRICE - Staff Writer
Jones received payments.
DURHAM N.C. Central University has asked state and local prosecutors to help it recover hundreds of thousands of dollars in what state auditors are calling questionable payments from a secret bank account.
The former head of an education agency based at NCCU diverted more than $1 million into the undisclosed account over a six-year period, spent nearly $300,000 of it on herself and improperly paid $62,000 to a former NCCU provost, according to a state audit released Tuesday. Nan Coleman, executive director of the Historically Minority Colleges and University Consortium, was fired in 2009 for poor performance, and Chancellor Charlie Nelms ordered an internal audit of the program.
NCCU turned over its findings to state auditors last year. They found that from 2004 to 2009 Coleman had spent $287,000 from the account on herself and improperly paid tens of thousands more to others associated with the program, including nearly $62,000 to former Provost Beverly Washington Jones, according to the audit report.
Neither Jones nor her attorney returned calls Tuesday. Rhonda Young, one of two attorneys representing Coleman, said she hadn't had time to read the audit and couldn't comment yet on its contents.
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www.newsobserver.com/2011/06/29/v-print/1308389/nccu-uncovers-secret-account.html
BY JAY PRICE - Staff Writer
Jones received payments.
DURHAM N.C. Central University has asked state and local prosecutors to help it recover hundreds of thousands of dollars in what state auditors are calling questionable payments from a secret bank account.
The former head of an education agency based at NCCU diverted more than $1 million into the undisclosed account over a six-year period, spent nearly $300,000 of it on herself and improperly paid $62,000 to a former NCCU provost, according to a state audit released Tuesday. Nan Coleman, executive director of the Historically Minority Colleges and University Consortium, was fired in 2009 for poor performance, and Chancellor Charlie Nelms ordered an internal audit of the program.
NCCU turned over its findings to state auditors last year. They found that from 2004 to 2009 Coleman had spent $287,000 from the account on herself and improperly paid tens of thousands more to others associated with the program, including nearly $62,000 to former Provost Beverly Washington Jones, according to the audit report.
Neither Jones nor her attorney returned calls Tuesday. Rhonda Young, one of two attorneys representing Coleman, said she hadn't had time to read the audit and couldn't comment yet on its contents.
For the rest of the story:
www.newsobserver.com/2011/06/29/v-print/1308389/nccu-uncovers-secret-account.html
DO THEY SEE THIS ?? 
