WEST VIRGINIA
CBS News
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The president of Wheeling Jesuit University says an independent investigation in 2008 found billing practices now under investigation by federal prosecutors violated no laws.
President Rick Beyer says the Board of Trustees voted Wednesday to give the special counsel’s report to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. He says Wheeling Jesuit has been and will remain transparent about its cost-allocation methods.
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether the school and vice president Davitt McAteer conspired to use millions of grant dollars from NASA and other federal agencies for personal gain and the school’s benefit.
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