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Report accuses Columbus Zoo top executives of misusing funds The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The former president and chief financial officer of the Columbus Zoo arranged for relatives to live in houses owned by the zoo and used its marketing sporting event tickets for their own personal use, according to findings released Tuesday by a law firm hired by the zoo’s board. The president, who was also the CEO, kept a $45,000 RV purchased by the zoo for his own exclusive use before it...

April 06, 2021 - 6:55 PM COLUMBUS, Ohio - The former president and chief financial officer of the Columbus Zoo arranged for relatives to live in houses owned by the zoo and used its marketing sporting event tickets for their own personal use, according to findings released Tuesday by a law firm hired by the zoos board. The president, who was also the CEO, kept a $45,000 RV purchased by the zoo for his own exclusive use before it was sold to recoup revenue lost because of the COV...

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...

Husted says the words were aimed at the Chinese government’s failure to come clean on what it knows on the origins of COVID-19, and were not aimed at those of Chinese or Asian descent. He added in lengthy public comments Thursday that no harm was meant, that he has many Asian American friends and that the word Wuhan is “inseparable” from the back story of the pandemic — referring to a city, not an ethnicity. Wrong response. Husted knows that using weaponized expressions like “China vi...

Our View: Columbus Zoo execs violated public trust; full disclosure by board vital to maintaining public trust The Dispatch Editorial Board © Columbus Dispatch Children gather around Columbus Zoo and Aquarium then President and CEO Tom Stalf , right, holding "Delilah" a Gray Kangaroo on June 4, 2013. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is more than a collection of adorable and exotic animals. The people of central Ohio are far more than just its visitors.  The internationally kno...

And there was more. Top Columbus Zoo and Aquarium executives not only had allowed relatives to live in houses owned or controlled by the zoo, but they also sought zoo-controlled tickets for their family members to attend various entertainment events. The thousands of people who read that story wouldn’t have known about this breach of public trust without the work of Jennifer Smola and Alissa Widman Neese. That apparently includes the zoo board, whose leaders indicated they weren’t aware of ...

“I’m troubled by both the allegations and the lack of transparency here, and this office will get to the bottom of it,” Yost said in a statement Thursday.  The people of central Ohio deserve to know the details. They have supported the zoo financially and otherwise since its beginning 95 years ago. Columbus City Council adopted a resolution in November 1926 requesting that the state develop a 21-acre game refuge on lands east of the Scioto River in southern Delaware County. The first...

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...