Chicago news conference - The University of Illinois faces a lawsuit from corruption fighter Andy Martin if Trustees hand over cash to disgraced Chancellor Phyllis Wise
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Attention Chicago
Announcement of Chicago
Corruption fighter Andy Martin says it is time for the Board of
Trustees to show backbone and derail the university’s gravy train for corrupt
employees
It is time for a “state which is in a financial crisis to stop
shoveling cash to crooked staff members,” Andy says
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(Chicago August 11, 2015 ) Andy
Martin’s letter to the University of Illinois Board of Trustees and President
Timothy Kileen follows:
Edward L.
McMillan
Chairman
Board of Trustees
352 Henry
Admin. Bldg.
With copy to:
Timothy L.
Kileen
President
364
Administration Bldg.
Re: Phyllis
Wise bonus payment and other payments
Notice
of Intent to Sue
Dear Chairman
McMillan:
In my family
we have three (3) degrees from the University of Illinois Illinois
I am writing
to respectfully request that the Board of Trustees deny Phyllis Wise any
“bonus” for her corrupted years of service to the University and that the Board
consider suing Wise for breach of trust and breach of contract, thereby seeking
to negate her faculty appointment and sabbatical. There is a reasonable basis
to assume that a court would find that Wise breached her fiduciary duty to the
University, and thereby breached her contract, allowing the University to
terminate her contract without further payments.
1. General
legal principles
Generally, the
law favors the settlement of contested legal disputes. Where a bona fide dispute arises, parties
are encouraged to settle. But where is the bona
fide dispute in Wise’s case? Did someone else order her to break the
law? What, apart from published reports, are the facts? Is a cover-up to
protect others in progress? The public has a right to know why the University
is rewarding Wise for corrupt behavior and breach of trust. Was there any
justification for her to violate the law? There do not appear to be any
mitigating circumstances. She willfully, maliciously and wantonly corrupted the
University’s processes to violate freedom of information laws.
Amazingly,
Wise is supposed to get a bonus while Illinois
Government and
academe are held in low estate in Illinois
Where is the
incentive for employees to obey the law when the “punishment” for violating and
corrupting the law is a cash bonus, a year’s paid vacation and a cushy job on
return? What message does this settlement send to other potential violators?
In sum and
substance there is no bona fide dispute to settle. Wise is a
crook and faithless fiduciary. Wise broke the law, she should be fired for
cause and the Board should send a stern message to other potential miscreants.
2. Scienter
or intent
If Wise had
made a simple mistake, no one would be calling for her to pay a price. But
there are 1,100 pages of corrupt
emails that she and others acting in concert with her orchestrated to break
state laws.
3. Why is
the University paying off a corrupt employee?
Normally, a
corrupt employee should be fired. Period. Why is the University paying off
Wise? Does she have more dirt to dish on other employees? If the facts are as
they appear to be, Wise should be discharged for cause, not rewarded with a
large payment, vacation and job.
4. Is this
what we can expect from President Kileen?
President
Kileen is off to a bad start. In 1981 when air traffic controllers went on an
illegal strike, President Ronald Reagan fired them. There were no more strikes
by federal employees. President Kileen is starting out his presidency in a very
bad way, by paying Wise hush money to go away and by whitewashing her abuse of
state laws and the public trust.
If Killeen Killeen
5. Preparations
for a lawsuit
While in the
first instance the board votes on this smelly deal, if the board votes to
reward Wise instead of discharging her I will be (a) filing a public interest
lawsuit against the University to suspend the payment and to terminate her contract
and (2) lobbying in Springfield to end all state support for the University.
There is no reason why hard-pressed state taxpayers should be sending their
hard-earned dollars to the U of I to pay lavish salaries to corrupt University
administrators. It is time for the gravy train to end.
Please feel to
contact me if you have any questions. I am in Chicago Illinois
Sincerely
yours,
Andy Martin
August 11 Chicago
Who:
National
and Illinois
What:
Andy
Martin says he will file suit to block payments, professorship to disgraced
Chancellor Phyllis Wise
Where:
Sidewalk
news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash Streets, Chicago (weather
permitting; otherwise indoors)
When:
Tuesday, August 11, 2015 ; 11:30 A.M.
LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-university-of-illinois-phyllis-wise-bonus-20150810-story.html#page=1
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-it-matters-university-of-illinois-officials-used-private-emails-for-work_55c77b53e4b0f73b20b9aa87?utm_hp_ref=chicago&ir=Chicago§ion=chicago&kvcommref=mostpopular
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