For over a year, lawyer Bob Heist, then-chairman of the Milton Hershey Schoolâs board, says he sought internal financial records detailing the spending history of the $17 billion charity, which has a mission to educate low-income students for free.
He now says he is being denied records he needs as a board member charged with overseeing the Pennsylvania boarding schoolâs operations, and earlier this month he sued the school to obtain the documents. Itâs an extremely unusual step for a sitting board member, taken against an extremely unusual institution: The Milton Hershey School is the wealthiest precollege educational institution in the United States. It controls 80% of the Hershey Co. candy giantâs voting shares, and reaps profits from the sale of Hershey chocolate bars, Reeseâs Peanut Butter Cups, and SkinnyPop-brand snacks sold in thousands of U.S. retail stores.
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A FedEx flight on final approach flies over the FexEx Ground facility, Friday, April 16, 2021, in Indianapolis, where multiple people were shot at a FedEx Ground facility near the Indianapolis airport. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
INDIANAPOLIS The former employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis was interviewed by FBI agents last year, after his mother called police to say that her son might commit “suicide by cop.” Coroners began the slow process of identifying the victims as family members spent hours agonizing over word of their loved ones. The shooter was identified as Brandon Scott Hole of Indianapolis, Deputy Police Chief Craig McCartt told a news conference. Investigators searched a home in Indianapolis associated with Hole and seized evidence, including desktop computers and other electronic media. T Hole began firing randomly at people in the parking lot of the FedEx facility late Thursday, killing four, before
Former Temple U business dean indicted in rankings scandal
MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) The former dean of Temple University s business school has been charged with falsifying data to boost the school s rankings, draw more students and vastly increase the school s revenue.
The federal indictment unsealed Friday charges Moshe Porat, 74, with conspiracy and wire fraud for allegedly submitting phony information about its graduate business programs to U.S. News & World Report.
The information about student test scores, work experience and other data helped the Philadelphia university s Fox School of Business claim the top-ranked spot on the magazine s influential list of online MBA programs for several years and quadruple its enrollment.
Former Temple University business dean indicted in rankings scandal
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Former Temple University business dean indicted in rankings scandal
Moshe Porat, 74-year-old former dean of Temple University s business school has been charged with falsifying data to boost the school s rankings, draw more students and vastly increase the school s revenue.
PHILADELPHIA - The former dean of Temple University s business school has been charged with falsifying data to boost the school s rankings, draw more students and vastly increase the school s revenue.
The federal indictment unsealed Friday charges Moshe Porat, 74, with conspiracy and wire fraud for allegedly submitting phony information about its graduate business programs to U.S. News & World Report.
The federal indictment unsealed Friday charges Moshe Porat, 74, with conspiracy and wire fraud for allegedly submitting phony information about its graduate business programs to U.S. News & World Report.