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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 project at The Wilds for cabins and did not seek competitive bidding. The company billed the zoo a ...

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 determined the pair used arena suites the zoo previously leased for Ohio State basketball and Columbus Blue...

What did the Columbus Zoo's previous audit of entertainment expenses reveal? This isn't the first time the zoo's 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 personal use of its Blue Jackets and Ohio State tickets, and leadership turned it over to the board ...

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 assets by two top executives who later resigned. COLUMBUS — Ohio’s top law enforcer placed one of ...

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 executives who later resigned. (Jonathan Quilter/The Columbus Dispatch via AP, File) COLUMBUS — Ohio�...