McGill manager pleads guilty to fraud
A man who’d been director of buildings and installations at McGill has pleaded guilty to fleecing the university of more than $350,000 in construction materials and fittings that he used on two houses he owned.
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dwgs 16:04 on 2020-05-12 Permalink
That’s the Mcgill way, make the problem go away quietly and rely on your friends in the Anglo media to make sure nobody digs around too much. At least that’s when profs or senior management get caught. Lesser humans are summarily fired.
qatzelok 16:48 on 2020-05-12 Permalink
Having worked at Concordia for a while in the past, I would say that our education and health care systems suffer from both lack of funding AND internal pillaging by the well connected.
Get rid of this mafia parasitism and the price of education and health care will go down, and job openings will become more democratic.
dwgs 17:57 on 2020-05-12 Permalink
This had nothing to do with organized crime. This was one individual renovating his house at McGill’s expense. He wasn’t protected because he was well connected, this is just the way that McGill does things. The institution lives in mortal fear of being publicly embarassed. Whether that is because they are afraid of alumni giving less or just old school WASP reluctance to air dirty laundry is open for debate.