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Funny where Corvette will show up in the news...
This is from AP Newswire:
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Woman Arrested for School Misconduct
Mon Jun 30, 8:27 PM ET
By JILL BARTON, Associated Press Writer
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A former administrator at Florida Atlantic University was arrested Monday on charges she arranged for the school's outgoing president to receive a $42,000 gift to buy a Corvette.
Carla Coleman, who led the school's fund-raising foundation, was charged with felony official misconduct, said Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent Mike Driscoll. She was being held on $3,000 bail.
Investigators found that Coleman "orchestrated a plan to get the Corvette" for former president Anthony Catanese, Driscoll said.
Catanese, who now heads the private Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, recently returned $42,000 to FAU. He will not be charged, Driscoll said.
Motor vehicle records show Catanese bought a red 2002 Corvette on July 24, 2002, three weeks after he left the school. He had denied getting the car from the FAU Foundation.
The foundation's board of directors had discussed giving Catanese a Corvette before he left the university, but the purchase was not approved, investigators said.
Coleman then "devised a scheme" to funnel money to buy the Corvette through an interior design firm that had decorated the university's presidential mansion, according to a state attorney's report.
Coleman sent a $42,000 invoice for consulting work to the firm, and instructed the firm's owners to give the money to Catanese's wife, who was listed as an employee.
The owners of the interior design firm will not be charged if they continue to cooperate with prosecutors, said Mike Edmondson, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office.
Coleman, 51, resigned from FAU last month. A call to her attorney was not returned.
This is from AP Newswire:
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Woman Arrested for School Misconduct
Mon Jun 30, 8:27 PM ET
By JILL BARTON, Associated Press Writer
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A former administrator at Florida Atlantic University was arrested Monday on charges she arranged for the school's outgoing president to receive a $42,000 gift to buy a Corvette.
Carla Coleman, who led the school's fund-raising foundation, was charged with felony official misconduct, said Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent Mike Driscoll. She was being held on $3,000 bail.
Investigators found that Coleman "orchestrated a plan to get the Corvette" for former president Anthony Catanese, Driscoll said.
Catanese, who now heads the private Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, recently returned $42,000 to FAU. He will not be charged, Driscoll said.
Motor vehicle records show Catanese bought a red 2002 Corvette on July 24, 2002, three weeks after he left the school. He had denied getting the car from the FAU Foundation.
The foundation's board of directors had discussed giving Catanese a Corvette before he left the university, but the purchase was not approved, investigators said.
Coleman then "devised a scheme" to funnel money to buy the Corvette through an interior design firm that had decorated the university's presidential mansion, according to a state attorney's report.
Coleman sent a $42,000 invoice for consulting work to the firm, and instructed the firm's owners to give the money to Catanese's wife, who was listed as an employee.
The owners of the interior design firm will not be charged if they continue to cooperate with prosecutors, said Mike Edmondson, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office.
Coleman, 51, resigned from FAU last month. A call to her attorney was not returned.
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I has been a number of years (a rather large number of years), but I had no idea my tuition would even be considered to support buying the staff new cars (much less Corvettes)... or actually decorating their presidential mansions.
I has been a number of years (a rather large number of years), but I had no idea my tuition would even be considered to support buying the staff new cars (much less Corvettes)... or actually decorating their presidential mansions.
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