Black eye here for immediate past acting/interim president at Wheeling Jesuit, or at least a smudge or at least a potential smudge:

[Catherine] Smith claims she discovered federal grant funds were being misused, including the classification of direct and indirect costs, direct payment of salaries without proper time and effort certification and payment of rent for John Davitt McAteer’s personal law office

and that she “promptly” reported what she found to McAteer himself, who was her supervisor, and to others, reports the West Virginia Record, a legal journal.

This would be about the NASA overcharge, announced almost simultaneously with Rev. Julio Giulietti’s firing as president and installation of McAteer as acting/interim president last August.

McAteer [had already] used inappropriate language [says Smith in her “whistleblower” suit] that was verbally abusive, vulgar and sexual in nature.  . . . after [her] report, McAteer responded by creating a hostile work environment,

Smith says. 

Subsequently, she was fired immediately after an employee whom she had “counseled” regarding his “substandard job performance” complained, she further says.

If she can make this stand up in court, it’s potentially a blow to the midsection for McAteer, who relinquished his acting presidency position this month, returning to his former position as University Vice President for Sponsored Programs.