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...theft is involved. Reports of criminal misuse of funds are almost nonexistent. What is at stake is the robbing of Peter to pay Paul, all within an academic context. Colleges are valuable, expensive and above all nonprofit institutions. Federal grants given for research have often been regarded as a general fund that can justifiably be used for allied but unauthorized expenses. University administrators, in fact, say that what is needed now, given the economic pinch, is more accounting flexibility rather than less...
...agents questioned the office's 85 employees and combed the building for clues. They determined that much of the missing gold might have been lost during the refining process-some of it undoubtedly went up the chimney in smoke-but they could not rule out the possibility of theft. With 4,100 oz. of gold still missing, the department has now announced that the agents had ended their investigation. Said a spokesman: "The bottom line is that they just could not tell what happened...
...directed an eight-part News-Journal expose of corruption in the powerful Richland County sheriffs office, run with an iron hand for 15 years by Thomas E Weikel. The series resulted in a whirl of indictments against the sheriff and several deputies on 62 counts, including theft in office, assault and civil rights violations...
...folded after eight editions. Embittered and $100,000 in debt, Yant left town for New Philadelphia, Ohio, 67 miles away. As for Sheriff Weikel, he served seven days in jail on a contempt citation for bugging the courtroom where a hearing had been under way on his brutality and theft charges, but the charges were later dismissed on a technicality...
Captain Jack Morse of the University Police said "the money is missing and they (Loeb officials) considered it a theft." Morse added they could not be sure how much was taken until the receipts are totalled...