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Columbus Zoo investigation: CEO used zoo money personally, failed to bid construction project at The Wilds Alissa Widman Neese, The Columbus Dispatch © Adam Cairns / Dispatch Then-Columbus Zoo President and CEO Tom Stalf speaks at the opening of Straker Lake cabins at The Wilds in 2018. The bidding for that project is now part of the investigation into Stalf and CFO Greg Bell. Both men resigned March 29. Stalf also personally selected the vendor for a $2 million construction...

WOSU Sign for the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and Zoombezi Bay at the entrance of the facility. An outside investigation of the Columbus Zoo includes many of the allegations made against two former executives in a The report from outside law firm Porter Wright says evidence shows former zoo CEO Tom Stalf and former CFO Greg Bell took entertainment tickets intended for corporate clients and potential sponsors and used them for personal use without reimbursing the zoo. The investigation determi...

What did the Columbus Zoos previous audit of entertainment expenses reveal? This isnt the first time the zoos board of directors has examined its former contracts with Ohio State University and the Columbus Blue Jackets, which were managed by the zoo’s marketing and sales department. The tickets were meant to be used to host zoo supporters and build donor and sponsor relations, zoo officials said.  Gómez Racey said the zoo received an anonymous, written complaint in 2018 suggesting per...

Columbus Zoo being investigated By JULIE CARR SMYTH - Associated Press Jack Hanna, Director Emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, right, Betty White, actress and longtime animal advocate, center, and Tom Stalf, then President and CEO of Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, left, are shown at the grand opening May 22, 2014, of the Heart of Africa exhibit at the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost placed the zoo under investigation Thursday after a newspaper reported misuse of ass...

The Associated Press This file photo from May 22, 2014, shows Jack Hanna, Director Emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, right, Betty White, actress and longtime animal advocate, center, and Tom Stalf, then President and CEO of Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, left, at the grand opening of the Heart of Africa exhibit at the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost placed the zoo under investigation Thursday, April 1, 2021 after a newspaper reported misuse of assets by two top exe...

Credit Columbus Zoo And Aquarium Ohio’s top law enforcer placed one of the nation’s largest zoos under investigation Thursday after a newspaper reported misuse of assets by two top executives who later resigned. Republican Attorney General Dave Yost placed his office’s Charitable Law Section in charge of the probe targeting the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, a 501(c)3 nonprofit located in the Columbus suburb of Powell. Its animal population is ranked second largest among U.S. zoos. An email t...

Yost Launches Investigation Into Columbus Zoo By Lydia Taylor Ohio SHARE COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Attorney Dave Yost announced Thursday his office is investigating the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium after two executives allegedly used the zoos assets for personal reasons.  According to an investigation by the Columbus Dispatch, former CEO Tom Stalf and former chief financial officer Greg Bell — who bot...

Ohio AG to probe allegations against Columbus Zoo ex-execs JULIE CARR SMYTH, Associated Press April 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3FILE—This file photo from May 22, 2014, shows Jack Hanna, Director Emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, right, Betty White, actress and longtime animal advocate, center, and Tom Stalf, then President and CEO of Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, left, at the grand opening of the Heart of Africa exhibit at the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium. Ohio Attorney G...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced today that an investigation has been opened following recent allegations involving two executives at the Columbus Zoo

The Ohio Attorney General's office announced an investigation into the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium after two top executives resigned over allegations of improper use of resources.