For years, high-ranking Georgia Tech officials earning six-figure salaries used their positions to line their pockets, internal investigations have found.
With little or no accountability, three misused taxpayer funds and exploited relationships with vendors. There were parties in a football suite, courtesy of a bookstore vendor. Golf outings during work hours. Routine meals and after-hours drinking billed to taxpayers.
A fourth official went on jaunts to China to shill products for a vendor whose board of directors he sat on, and he charged the school for his travel expenses. He also steered a Tech contract to the company and pressured employees to use its services.
Those are findings from a Tech internal audit and a review by The University System of Georgia, both prompted by…
