WEST VIRGINIA
The Intelligencer
April 13, 2012
From Staff, AP Dispatches
WHEELING – A federal investigation into J. Davitt McAteer and Wheeling Jesuit University appears to center on whether the university illegally diverted federal funds between 2005 and 2011 by fraudulently billing expenses to grant programs or cooperative agreements, court documents indicate. U.S. Magistrate James E. Seibert on Thursday extended the government’s request to keep search warrants, affidavits and other information supporting those warrants sealed for another 60 days.
But motions by both parties on whether to unseal them reveal information about the focus of the probe.
They show that NASA, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General and other agencies seized documents from McAteer’s offices in Wheeling and Shepherdstown on Feb. 16. McAteer, an attorney and former head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, runs the university’s Office of Sponsored Programs.
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