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Posted on 3/20/17 at 12:06 pm to BowlJackson
Posted on 3/20/17 at 12:06 pm to BowlJackson
quote:Pulled some questionable/shady shite while he was there. Decided to use one of the University airplanes so that he could get his pilots license. Tried to explain after the fact that he was doing it so he could fly himself places on school business and not have to use a University paid pilot, therefore saving the school money.
Why is he so unpopular?
Once he got his license, he hired his flight instructor as an administrator at the school in a $250,000/year job (I think Information Technology manager).
Flying he and his wife back to Iowa from a vacation in North Carolina in one of the University's new planes, he has a hard landing and does several thousand dollars worth of damage to the plane.
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Posted on 3/20/17 at 12:11 pm to PJinAtl
Posted on 3/20/17 at 12:16 pm to PJinAtl
Seems he paid the school back for the plane usage, but not the damage. Hopefully he learned something from that. He seems to have a good record for academics.
Posted on 3/20/17 at 12:19 pm to PJinAtl
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Pulled some questionable/shady shite while he was there. Decided to use one of the University airplanes so that he could get his pilots license. Tried to explain after the fact that he was doing it so he could fly himself places on school business and not have to use a University paid pilot, therefore saving the school money. Once he got his license, he hired his flight instructor as an administrator at the school in a $250,000/year job (I think Information Technology manager). Flying he and his wife back to Iowa from a vacation in North Carolina in one of the University's new planes, he has a hard landing and does several thousand dollars worth of damage to the plane.
Nobody gives a shite about the plane. ISU has three planes and one of them was this single engine plane they use for business. They would have not have had a problem if he had used a car owned by the University.
They are mad at him for doing away with a University Sponsored Event that had a reputation of trouble.
This post was edited on 3/20/17 at 12:20 pm
Posted on 3/20/17 at 3:57 pm to PJinAtl
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Leath has continued to make headlines within the past six months over an incident involving a hard-landing of a university aircraft he was piloting in Bloomington, Ill., last year, resulting in more than $14,000 in damage.
Since then, Leath has been under scrutiny for several questionable uses of university aircraft.
In a statement released Wednesday, officials with the DCI said they began their investigation in December. The state agency handled the investigation at the request of the Iowa State Department of Public Safety, which deferred to the DCI to avoid any conflict of interest, the statement read.
The statement indicated that investigators with the DCI "interviewed many different people and analyzed several pieces of information and records" before issuing its findings to Reynolds' office.
According to an audit conducted late last year, four of Leath's flights were used for a mix of personal and university business pursuits between 2015 and 2016.
On one of those flights, Leath was scheduled to travel to North Carolina last August to meet with a potential donor to the Iowa State Research Park. Auditors found the donor canceled the meeting with Leath, but Leath remained in the state for a few days.
For those four flights, Leath reimbursed the university at $125 per flight hour. However, the audit estimated the cost of those flights to be around $265 per hour. The audit recommends the Regents bill Leath accordingly.
The audit also states the landing Leath's pilots took in Elmira, N.Y., after leaving an NCAA tournament game in New York City in March 2014 was not necessary except for picking up and dropping off passengers, which included Leath's brother and sister-in-law.
Auditors also noted Leath used university resources to fly to Rochester, Minn., three times between May 2013 and August 2016 for medical appointments at the Mayo Clinic. Todd Stewart, chief audit executive for the Iowa Board of Regents, said the board could fix the issue by adding a clause for free annual physicals in Leath's contract.
Auditors also found Leath rented or chartered private flights several times between 2012 and 2015, costing the university more than $12,000.
In a special meeting in December, Leath told the Regents he was remorseful for using university planes more than absolutely necessary, but maintained he had not done anything wrong.
"I did not violate any policy or break any laws," he said. "But that's not enough. I want to conduct myself beyond reproach, and I'm sorry that I did not use better judgment."
Posted on 3/20/17 at 4:41 pm to PJinAtl
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Once he got his license, he hired his flight instructor as an administrator at the school in a $250,000/year job (I think Information Technology manager).
He hired him as the interim CIO at over $250,000 a year and then made him permanent CIO, both times without doing a search. The president has that power, but that typically does not happen.
Posted on 3/20/17 at 4:48 pm to PJinAtl
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he hired his flight instructor as an administrator at the school in a $250,000/year job
The guy was the associate dean of ISU's College of Engineering (accounting professor though
). It was a little more than "Leath's flight instructor" getting a hookup What was shady is that the guy was the second republican political official placed in a large role at ISU under Leath where they waived standard hiring protocol.
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