No charges will be brought against Ben Combs, an advertising executive who was under investigation for possible misuse of public money at the University of Central Arkansas, said Jack Lassiter, his defense attorney.
“It’s over,” Lassiter said. “He didn’t commit a crime.”
The federal investigation was part of the case against Lu Hardin, former UCA president, and stemmed from an allegation that Combs and former UCA senior vice president Joe Darling tried to circumvent state law to pay head football coach Clint Conque above his salary cap. The case involved the coach’s television show, Lassiter said.
Darling left UCA after a 2009 state audit questioned dealings with Combs.
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Add commentAh yes...
...the forgotten UCA scandal.
How many does that make now? I've tried to keep count, but I'm running out of fingers.
Not Sure
But their are a lot of stupid people on talk radio that think the UofA should have kept or should rehire Bobby Petrino after he illegally hired his girlfriend open them up to all sorts of lawsuits. Still suprised that some lawyer has not open a class action suit on behalf of everyone who applied for that job.
yeah well...
Morals and ethics only matter if they don't effect the outcome of Razorback football games. We all know what's more important to Arkansans.
I'm shocked as well...
"Still suprised that some lawyer has not open a class action suit on behalf of everyone who applied for that job."
I have been expecting that for a while now. I'm not typically the type to file suit, but if I had been qualified and had applied for that job, you better believe I would have filed suit.
Trust me...
You wouldn't have wanted THAT job. It brings all new meaning to 'taking your work home with you'.
Lawyers will be lawyers.
Lu Hardin was a lawyer trying to run a university, and we all know how that worked out for UCA. Well, in my opinion Courtway is just one more shifty lawyer who has found his own sneaky way to give Conque and his coaches controversial raises while the rest of UCA's faculty and staff die on the vine.
http://thecabin.net/news/2012-09-11?page=2
Nothing shifty ...
There's nothing shifty or sneaky about private donors subsidizing the athletic program. In fact, it's the American way in a free market society . . . we're not totally socialist yet, just our healthcare.
If the basket weaving department wants to seek out private donors to subsidize their instructor's pay I don't see anything stopping them.
Doesn't the Razorback foundation pay the coaches in Fayetteville
the extra "millions"? I thought that how they could pay them or in Houston Nutt case pay him to leave because that was with private donations.