[Vision2020] [Spam] The UI's Watergate

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A book on UI's warergate can be ordered from Book People.

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From: "Tom Hansen" thansen at moscow.com
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:17:33 -0700
To: "Joan Opyr" joanopyr at moscow.com, "'Moscow Vision 2020'" vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Spam] [Vision2020] The UI's Watergate

> >From today's (August 3, 2006) Lewiston Tribune with a special thanks to
> Isabel Bond -
> 
> Shouldn't some sort of criminal action be taken against Jerry Wallace?
> "Embezzlement" comes to mind.  Or at least "Misuse of Public Funds".
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> The UI's Watergate
> 
> In May 2006, President Tim White, University of Idaho, issued a proclamation
> about the $28 million in Idaho taxpayer funds lost in the 2003 University
> Place debacle. Even though UI has been set back financially by over five
> years, President White says the university has a rosy future considering
> that the debacle now is in history's trash bin. Unfortunately, White's
> proclamation has the disadvantage of being untrue. 
> 
> Former President Bob Hoover and former Financial Vice President Jerry
> Wallace, two of the alleged perpetrators of the debacle, have not suffered
> any legal indictments to date and are unlikely to experience any future
> indictments. 
> 
> As noted in "Boise's Watergate," published in 2006 by Xlibris Corp.,
> www.xlibris.com, available from BookPeople of Moscow: bookpeople at moscow.com,
> Civic Partners scammed the University of Idaho Foundation out of millions of
> dollars for pre-development costs by submitting unsubstantiated invoices.
> However, Idaho's taxpayers should be comforted in knowing they were not the
> only victims of Civic Partners. In 2004-2005, the very same Civic Partners
> is suspected of scamming the citizens of Sioux City, Iowa, in a $35 million
> theater/hotel complex fiasco. 
> 
> In summary, the sad story continues about how a nefarious public-private
> partnership scammed Idaho's higher education tax money. I welcome your
> e-mail comments. My address is iebond at verizon.net.  
> 
> Isabel Bond 
> Moscow
> 
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> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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