Joe Wiley Lawsuit Update
126March 7, 2008 by Tyson Wynn
With all the other news lately, I have not updated WynnBlog readers about the latest lawsuit naming Joe Wiley as a defendant.
As you may recall, Marilyn Goff filed suit against Sheree Hukill, Dr. Joe Wiley, and the RSU Board of Regents alleging wrongful termination. (For the record, there is no such entity as the “RSU Board of Regents.” RSU is governed by the O.U. Regents.)
Upon the application of the defendants (Hukill, Wiley, and O.U. Regents), the case has been moved from the county court (Rogers County District Court) to the federal courts (U.S. Courts for the Northern District of Oklahoma). Further, defendants filed a motion Feb. 21, 2008, asking the court to dismiss the case for several reasons, the first of which is improper service. Big surprise.
Anyway, I will have more to say about this later, but I wanted to update readers who have an interest in the case.
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Lene did you see the DOE report? What do you think? Do you think the Doe has some idea? Did you know that Wiley told them to shove it where the sun don’t shine? How do you feel about that as a tax payer? I didn’t like it one little bit and speaking of “bit” how do you like that FACT that Wiley’s slug of a son of a…son…has torn up that beautiful house they built up there and those disabled kids are cheated out of their money. furthermore…what do you think of Wiley telling the Dept. of ED they would rather not have the TRiO Grants? Does anyone realize how many students at RSU and across the state are given aid through this grant? Just in scholarships alone in one department $43,000 was given this year… Each student got from $400 to $2,000 and that’s not chicken feed. Joe Wiley says bend over and kiss it adieu!
seems like some folks here know a thing or 2. I have heard today that there was a problem, just before Wiley left that “debarred” or “hung up” the Federal Work Study funds because of “questionable” accounting…anybody know about that? Seems like another Volturo deal to me. Who is the Financial Aid man and what is his role in this?
We heard there have been so many suits filed, pending and settled that RSU is one of the BIG customers of a certain “insurance” group and nobody is going to get stung AT ALL except those litle guys of us who are still hanging in there hopeing for the best. We do hope for the best from Larry Rice. Lord, please be with us. Satan is strong, and probably Church of Christ!
The man-girl threatened me too. supposedly was going to “wipe the ugly smile off my face” we are not the only ones…who cares…she’s gone…god ridance. The administration knew and did nothing. Michael Turner did nothing. Michael Turner was supposed to oversee TRiO…didn’t happen did it? We just recently learned the pipeline went straight from the office of the TRio Administration office to Michael Turner…straight to the lateral lines…There’s not a chance in heck they you ladies will be helped now. It’s too late. You caused trouble too long and were too cute by half.
I asked questions and was told where I could put it. So did Marilyn Goff, Pariss, Alan Lawless, Pam, and the list goes on, and on, and on, and on.
we have been advised that Stratton Taylor pulls the strings. Is that so? Anybody know about him really? There has to be more here than we know. One thing we have seen pretty clearly is that there is somebody bigger than Dan Boren covering that nasty Wiley rear. Maybe big daddy, DAVID BOREN? RSU is under the OU Regents. I don’t know folks…we may be in some trouble here. People have been threatened and people have had some frightening experiences. What’s up with this place anyway? Where does one go to root out administrative evil?
Wiley reads the blog every day folks..
Is anyone willing to go anonymously to the Office of the Inspector General? OIGHOTLINE.com
What do we need to do? What if we don’t have proof? Does anyone have anything that needs to be reported? Not sure how it works. Maybe we all better just go along to get along.
On item #3 above to “Know before you speak”
Did the Department of Ed report answer anything for you? Do you now believe that Dr. Wiley had anything to do with Marilyn Goff’s firing. Do you now believe that the Administrative Office of TRiO needs to be cleaned out and this woman Wiley put in there now is wrong headed and causing further damage as she is led by Wiley, Cox, Volturo, and Robinson? Check it out. The DOE report is open records. The DOE, after all, is reponsible for oversight of the money and they aren’t happy if we read the report correctly?
The correct e-mail address for the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Education is OIG.hotline@ed.gov
Phone:1-800-MIS-USED
Please friends. Something needs to be done. I can tell you the problem at TRiO is Joe Wiley commandered the setup of an “Executive Director” in an administrative office to control all things TRiO. Joe Wiley then only had to control the “Executive Director” Sweet! Worked like a charm. Joe Wiley and Tom Volturo controlled 8.3 million. Every decision made on money had to do with how it would look on Volturo’s bottom line.
Someone said it earlier…a great big Santa Claus “sack full of money” Take all control away from the Program Directors and give it to a silly minded woman that is easy to manipulate…Sweet!
Make sure she has 3 or 4 “secretary” watchdogs to be sure nobody causes trouble. sweet!
In Oklahoma, there’s not a thing that’s going to be done. TRiO is not the only problem at RSU. Ask the Police Chief, ask the Bit-By-Bit program, ask ask ask…won’t do a bit of good.Nobody cares.
There has been a person overlooked in the Joe Wiley, Sheree Hukill, Tom Volturo screw up.
That person is Linda Andrews. Because you have been talking and have not caught all this…The deal is…Rice, who knows nothing from anything about TRiO, asked Sara Schoenefeld to come in and just said “there are problems but I don’t know what they are!” Ok, so she needed a friend to help her out. Linda Andrews had just been asked to serve as interim VP. There is literally nobody else left in the RSU administration…they have all flown the coop so…she was a logical choice…one problem…Linda Andrews knows nothing from anything about TRiO…only that there are problems. Enter Rhonda Cox, Rennah Robinson, Dorothy Mullis…The people who stand to lose their jobs because the TRiO Admin office (Sheree Hukill’s oversight, police station) will be abolished if the Department of Ed gets its way. The “women” you have been refering to closed ranks and began to undercut and set up those left in the programs that they want rid of…running to Linda Andrews to cry and whine. They (Cox, Robinson, Mullis) make decisions that are not within the scope of their authority and undermine with all their might. Let’s hope the OIG comes in soon to stop this mess. It’s awful what some little people can do and feel justified.
Would love to have a meeting with all of us that care about this and invite Rice to sit in…he seems pretty “scared” himself…doesn’t know come’er from “sick em!” Does anyone know that there is NOBODY running the show over there?
There is NOBODY! They hired some guy for Academic Dean or VP…never have seen the man nor has thee been an announcement to staff about his name or anything about him.
There is nobody left in the Student Affairs area…the career person, ADA officer, Student Affairs Coordinator, all gone..quit…one student over there to make name tags and a secretary…that’s it.
Toby Titsworth is supposedly coming in September…Gawd let it be true…still same old problem…they don’t know TRiO and Volturo is still holding the money bag… that’s a problem.
The rumored problems at RSU have indeed mushroomed. Many of the complaints I’ve heard center around questions about proper expenditures and oversight of grant funds — not just in the TRIO department. The problem that I see is that as long as the “rumors” are not backed up with a face, name, dates and facts — then nothing can be done. If you have facts of financial wrongdoing or documents that have been altered, then you can do something; suspicions and hurt feelings mean nothing. If you have these facts and have signed a confidentiality statement (which I’ve heard is not legal for the college to require — I don’t know) you should still talk to someone in authority — I would suggest someone in the federal government. If you know of several people who you believe have evidence of wrongdoing, you might all seek the legal advice of one person who might be able to put several of your puzzle pieces together and determine if anything can be done.
I know that complaints about RSU have been made to the Governor, the Board of Regents, the office of the State Auditor, Stratton Taylor and other local and state politicians but I’ve never seen any results.
The only other suggestion I have is to consider initiating a grand jury investigation. Also, take your facts to the Media (but don’t bother with the Claremore paper); look up the fellow who investigated SEOSU back in the 1980′s. I believe he is still working at the Daily Oklahoman.
We notice the Executive Director position for TRiO is posted. Interesting. They are calling for the exact qualifications they were looking for when they got Hukill (pronounced Heeuuu kill)
At least a masters in Education (apparently k-12 will do?) expertise in managing several complex budgets…interesting…This is exactly what the department said BETTER NOT HAPPEN! So, Volturo is planning on getting another dumbody in there that he can punch around and once, again…the program directors are up a creek without a paddle, responsible for funds they have no ability to control. Interesting job posting..
If you don’t know anything about something…and something (TRiO) is in trouble and you go in and start riding rough over everybody and acting like the new sheriff in town…and you let Volturo tell you the law when Volturo was the law breaker…you deserve everything you got coming to you. Just learned today, the hard way, that Wiley is still running that show (through Volturo and Linda Andrews) It’s just like all of you have been saying…it’s true.
Hey Tyson or some of you RSU TRiO People…we heard the DOE report was out…we saw it but..here is the question…wasn’t there supposed to be an answer from RSU? It looks to us as though the Department of Education said “You Will do” on some things…did RSU DO these things? Another question…we heard RSU did response and it is not available through “open records” Is there anyway for us to see it here? Mr. Tyson Wynn…whadda ya say? Can we get your help on that…there’s the proof in the puddin right there folks. Looks like Dr. Rice still has quite an uphill learning curve if the snakes haven’t been cleared out and he is under their tutelage…hmmmm… looks like a rocky horror picture show to me for Rice!?
Didn’t you mean to say the report is NOW available through open records…instead of “NOT” available? Shouldn’t it be available? If not…that’s a problem!? right?
Just to keep score. In TRiO let’s remember 47.3% of the staff has turned over in 18 months…there are 2 directors left…one that came the same week as the feds, the other is threatened everyday…I mean it…threatened with firing every single day…count it again…every single day! Just so you know. Rice has already shown himself to know NOTHING ABOUT TRiO. The consumate politician…we all had OBAMA like hopes for him…OH JOE SAY IT ISN’T SO…The Messiah has come and gone and us poa folks is still down har in dis basement suckin da mold
the reason for misused grant funds is that directors don’t have options. Tom Volturo blocks and rearranges every single bit of change that comes in or goes out. Literally, not one dollar goes or comes without Volturo’s hand on it. Even those of us that know better can’t do anything at all about it and Rice quotes Volturo if you question any decision. It’s not good folks…not good.
The is no “Board of Regents” for RSU. Boards of Regents control community colleges and Jr. colleges. Rsu is under the authority of the University of Oklahoma Regents. I believe you refer to the Oklahoma State Regents for HIgher Education which is the legal governing body for all Universities in the state. Just fyi
We have the evidence. We gave it to the Department when they were here and it is being shared with the OIG. Don’t understand what is happening now…???? It’s been 4 months and we haven’t heard the response from RSU. What is wrong with this picture.
To Joe Wiley: We will never forget you and the lessons you taught us: how to dodge a process server; how to swoon over a pawn whose name you couldn’t even pronounce all because you admired the way she treated people, badly; how to get yet another pawn appointed your replacement so as to further cover your behind; and most of all, thanks for reminding us how ugly arrogance is. Thanks Mr. Virtue of Education for teaching us that it won’t take much to be better than you.
Can anyone get the response of RSU to the Department of Education’s report? Mr. Tyson Wynn has made the preliminary report of the Department of Education available to us but, what of RSU’s Response. Is it true that it is available? Mr. Wynn do you know how to request it through the open records act? Won’t you please do that?
I don’t understand why people have not filed a “hostile work environment” suit. Looks like the right lawyer could pick something like that up in a heart beat? Anybody know a good lawyer that is not in RSU’s hip pocket?
What about Brendan McHugh? Seems some folks have mentioned him? How is that working out? Anybody know? Some of us would like to jump in, just scared and don’t really know how.
Still wonder about the bit by bit program, and when you ask where & what the money was spent on
Boy you better watch out. thats one sure way to
lose your job and a payoff to keep your mouth shut. dogs in the log house-just wondering what
else- and who is checking on that??? And why don’t
people come forward the file a “hostile work
environment suit” You bet a good a lawyer could
really go to town. If the people are gone from RSU
jump in there.
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