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Wheeling Jesuit president: 2008 independent review found no problem in federal grant billings – The Washington Post

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An unnamed “independent, special counsel experienced in federal grants who had served as general counsel for a major research university” examined how Wheeling Jesuit U. allocated its NASA grants and issued a clean bill for the U. in 2008,  WJU president Richard Beyer says in the wake of recently publicized findings to the contrary by a NASA investigator:

That person, who was not named in Beyer’s statement, “determined the university’s cost-allocation method to be permissible under federal regulations and found no improprieties.”

The period covered by the NASA agent’s report was 2005 through 2011 and referred to WJU vice president Davitt McAteer, who oversaw the grant expenditures..

McAteer’s attorney hasn’t commented on the allegations, but the affidavit suggests he and the university could face five possible federal crimes — theft of federal funds; major fraud; conspiracy; false claims; and wire fraud.

via Wheeling Jesuit president: 2008 independent review found no problem in federal grant billings – The Washington Post.

More candor, this time from a newsman

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Where news comes laundered

Yes, we recognize the ploy, do we not?  It’s NYT man defecting to Huffington Post, where he can let his great thoughts all hang out:

[Peter] Goodman, who spent a decade at The Washington Post before his three years at the Times, says he will still rely on facts and not engage in “ranting.” And while he was happy at the newspaper, he says, he found he was engaged in “almost a process of laundering my own views, through the tried-and-true technique of dinging someone at some think tank to say what you want to tell the reader.”

Carefully chosen facts, at that.  But that’s what you do: find an approved think-tanker or academic and launder your views, which nonetheless get out there, if under the guise of objectivity.  The games newsies play!

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