Tuesday, August 28, 2007

"Prosecutor describes spending spree by former university boss"

Adapted from San Antonio EXPRESS - NEWS, Sunday, August 26, 2007. By Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press.

"HOUSTON -- Texas Southern University's former president answered to no one as she embarked on wasteful spending sprees to lavishly decorate her homes, prosecutors told jurors Friday.

"During opening statements in the trial of Priscilla Slade, prosecutors said she misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars belonging to Texas Southern during seven years of leading the state's largest historically black university.

"The spending scandal cost Slade her job in April 2006.

"The school's former chief financial officer, Quintin Wiggins, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in May."

NOTE: "Say, would UTEP's Chief Financial Officer be someone named Cynthia Villa? Humm ... well, now ... I just wonder!!"

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