More News on Charges Involving Brooklyn College Worker Education Center

The New York Times today has a lengthy article on the corruption charges associated with the Brooklyn College Graduate Center for Worker Education, about which I blogged twice last summer.

While my posts focused on the academic side of things and only briefly mentioned the charges of financial corruption, theĀ Times piece focuses exclusively on the latter, in great detail.

These charges include: more than $200,000 that are alleged to have been taken over a two-year period by the former director of the Center; personal enrichment through misuse of grant monies that were intended for students of color; misuse of university funds to purchase items for apparent personal use, including a television purchased “on or about Christmas Eve” and school books purchased at the boarding school of the former director’s daughter; falsification of invoices and time sheets; and improprieties involving international travel to Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East.

The article also introduces a new actor to the story, a former professor of political science who resigned abruptly from Brooklyn College in the summer of 2012.

You can read the entire story here.