WEST VIRGINIA
WOWK
By Jessie Shafer, Reporter
From 2005 – 2011, David McAteer and his alma mater and current employer, Wheeling Jesuit University, billed expenses to federal grant programs. This is according to new court records. McAteer was hand-picked by then WV governor, now US senator Joe Manchin to oversee independent investigations of three coal mine disasters since 2006.. Those include the Sago explosion, the Alma number 1 mine fire, and the Upper Big Branch explosion.
An agent in the NASA office of Inspector General obtained search warrants, after light was shed by several unidentified witnesses that funds were being misused.
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