COLUMBUS Ohio
The president of a technical college whose school is under investigation by the state attorney general’s office charged more than $25,000 in travel expenses to a credit card, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Hocking College President John Light totaled $9,909 in charges for three trips to Chicago, along with other trips to Nashville, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Fort Myers, Fla., New York City, Toronto and London, The Columbus Dispatch said.
The newspaper said the purpose of the travel is not reflected in the partial records it obtained.
The Dispatch reviewed credit card and bank statements from mid-2005 to mid-2007 for the President’s Development Fund, an account controlled by Light, 76, who has led the school since 1968.
Money for the fund comes from profits from campus vending machines and foodservice operations at the two-year public college in Nelsonville, about 50 miles southeast of Columbus.
Trustees at Hocking College hired a law firm Wednesday to represent the school while Attorney Marc Dann’s office conducts an investigation. Neither the school nor the attorney general’s office has disclosed the nature of the probe.
