Update On University Of Louisville's "Bride" "Corpse", Robert Felmer. Read More Below.
Felner said he used grants to build up company
Ex-dean spoke to investigators
By Nancy C. Rodriguez
Former University of Louisville education dean Robert Felner told federal investigators last summer that he and an Illinois colleague used federal grant money to invest in properties around the country because they were trying to build up a nonprofit company that they had created for educational research, according to a 320-page transcript of the interview.
"The reason we invested in the houses, the reason we brokered the account were to just to try to build something up so we could actually have the money to do the kind of work that we wanted to do," Felner told investigators during the daylong interview, which took place June 20, 2008, at U of L's College of Education and Human Development.
Felner never specifically explains what work the two men wanted to do, but he does allude in the interview to alcohol- and drug-abuse prevention as well as education.
Felner and his colleague, Thomas Schroeder of Port Byron, Ill., both have pleaded not guilty to federal charges of mail fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and defrauding the Internal Revenue Service.
Government prosecutors allege the men used their Illinois-based National Center for Public Education and Prevention Inc. to defraud U of L and the University of Rhode Island, where Felner was involved in another research center he helped create.
The government alleges that the men used the Illinois center, which lists Schroeder as president, to divert funds owed to the two universities, siphoning $2.3 million.
The money was deposited in several bank accounts, including one that Felner told federal officials he set up in Louisville last June in the Illinois center's name.
Schroeder -- who worked as Felner's personal grant research assistant from 2005 until April 2008 -- denies any knowledge of the center, other than initially filing incorporation papers in 2001, according to his attorney, David Mejia. The center was involuntarily dissolved in 2006, after it failed to file a 2005 annual report, according to the Illinois secretary of state.
To read more, go here.
Editor's comment: So where (and when) can we glance at the "320-page transcript of the interview"?
Ex-dean spoke to investigators
By Nancy C. Rodriguez
Former University of Louisville education dean Robert Felner told federal investigators last summer that he and an Illinois colleague used federal grant money to invest in properties around the country because they were trying to build up a nonprofit company that they had created for educational research, according to a 320-page transcript of the interview.
"The reason we invested in the houses, the reason we brokered the account were to just to try to build something up so we could actually have the money to do the kind of work that we wanted to do," Felner told investigators during the daylong interview, which took place June 20, 2008, at U of L's College of Education and Human Development.
Felner never specifically explains what work the two men wanted to do, but he does allude in the interview to alcohol- and drug-abuse prevention as well as education.
Felner and his colleague, Thomas Schroeder of Port Byron, Ill., both have pleaded not guilty to federal charges of mail fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and defrauding the Internal Revenue Service.
Government prosecutors allege the men used their Illinois-based National Center for Public Education and Prevention Inc. to defraud U of L and the University of Rhode Island, where Felner was involved in another research center he helped create.
The government alleges that the men used the Illinois center, which lists Schroeder as president, to divert funds owed to the two universities, siphoning $2.3 million.
The money was deposited in several bank accounts, including one that Felner told federal officials he set up in Louisville last June in the Illinois center's name.
Schroeder -- who worked as Felner's personal grant research assistant from 2005 until April 2008 -- denies any knowledge of the center, other than initially filing incorporation papers in 2001, according to his attorney, David Mejia. The center was involuntarily dissolved in 2006, after it failed to file a 2005 annual report, according to the Illinois secretary of state.
To read more, go here.
Editor's comment: So where (and when) can we glance at the "320-page transcript of the interview"?
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