A Harris County grand jury indicted former Texas Southern University President Priscilla Slade today on two charges of criminally misusing university money for her private benefit, officials said.
A recent audit also found that Slade spent nearly $650,000 over the past seven years on personal purchases not allowed under her contract. She has denied any wrongdoing.
Slade used school funds for $86,467 in home furnishings, $138,159 in landscaping services and $56,000 in security-related equipment. After regents questioned the expenses, she reimbursed TSU for the landscaping bill, which includes a security gate, masonry and tree removal at her 17,675-square-foot property.
If she’s got any sense, she’ll plea out, because the trial would be a slam dunk for the DA.
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Bound to be a racially motivated indictment.
About time! I haven’t heard anywhere where she gave the money back. Entitlement mentality!
Sister was just getting reparations. Did she have to give the Escalade with the 26″ rims back?
Yeah, those rims that light up with messages….. the ones fasternu has on all his cars. Ahahahhahaah.
Shannon
#4
LOL! I forgot about those!
Yo dawg.. dontcha be bustin on my rims! Dem 35″ Spinnin neon lighted carbon fiber tiptronic rims be costin mo dan you stank-ho’s be makin’ in a ye-eah…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAevHu_MxMc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyWICxXoe4A
If you ever see me with my hat on backwards and my pants down to the crack of fishbelly white hiney, trying to get into anything that has wheels like that. Please, shoot me. Shoot me in the head and reload and empty another magazine. Do it for my children.
C’mon fastercracker,
those rims are you! I like how they said you can change the graphics while you drive. Ha,crack pipe in one hand,cell phone in the ear and programing the rims with the other hand. I love it brutha!!
Bet the insurance agent loves to hear from that guy. Yeh, I would like to insure my $10K rims. LMFAO.
I saw a DA driving the other day with rims that did not turn. They were stationary while the tires turned. Dude probably bought them with his Lone Star Card.
This is what to drive! (you’ll know which one I mean)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MMwbham2dA
Program a confederate battle flag on them…. drive through the 5th ward playing Johnny Cash real loud from a 69 Charger at about omigawd thirty in the morning. I bet people wouldn’t even make eye contact.
Here’s a site for more info on TSU’s MANY scandals-
htttp://callofdawild.blogspot.com
Tonight I heard University President Pricilla Slade
described as “Well Respected”. She’ll play the race card. It’s what they all do when they get caught stealing or whatever else. It’s nothing shy of DESPICABLE !
I am surprised! I never thought they would indict her! Yea, it looks like we’ll hear a lot about racism.
When this first came out months ago, I was ready to give her a chance to explain. Until I found out what her course of study was in college.
She has a DOCTORAL DEGREE IN PUBLIC ACCOUNTING, from University of Texas. She must have missed too many classes, while out studying landscaping.
How come the black community can’t see any correlation between Ms. Slade getting indicted and the fact that TSU almost went bankrupt. Didn’t one action, Ms. Slade’s, cause and/or resulted in financial problems at TSU. This is why black people don’t get any respect. They all gather around someone who did something bad as if it was allright because you are black (aka play the race card). And the consequences of her actions may cost TSU its financial survival.
I hope this isn’t happening with the Houston Police chief, too.
Matt, if she had any sense, she wouldn’t be in this situation. Kinda like Cynthia McKinney suing for Libel.
You wonder why I shake my head™
She reminds me of Floyd Landis. You can’t help but watch these two smiling on camera while behind their pained smiles their eyes are telling me they know something’s getting ready to hit the fan.
You wonder why I shake my booty.™
HMMMMMMM……who is watching the farm? TWO MILLION dollars??? No wonder she has the constant smile of a jackass eating cactus.
I think that the possible sentence of life in prison for her and her CFO might be a bit excessive.
I mean, if she had just killed someone or molested a child, she’d only get a few years probation, or even less, if she were too short for prison.
I can see it now… a sign board of a graduate complete with mortar board and diploma, a la Astroworld, that says, “You must be this tall to be put in prison.”
I am STUNNED
She keeps smiling…but don’t let that fool you, she still looks guilty and probably is.
Oh Johnnie, where are you? A sister needs a little help here. Ooops, sorry Johnnie. To her, it was worth getting caught, won’t have to repay. Don’t expect a pay out plus an attorney will be appointed to her, compliments of….?
Wino, why would a life sentence be too excessive if what she did affected the institution, its employees, its student body and ultimately the TAXPAYER—–The institution because it might go bankrupt, its employees because they might be unemployed, its student body because they might be deprived of an education and the taxpayer because they will have to pay more to correct the first three affected groups. So she had better wipe that smirk of a smile off her face and prepare her defense. I don’t think the DA would have prosecuted this unless the evidence was pretty good, don’t forget he has to try the “race card”, too.
Now that this case has come to be prosecuted, what about the City Hall payroll scandal?????
Right on #24! Now there’s a scandal I had forgot about. I guess Alvarado has done a better job of damage control than I figured she could.
#23 Robert
Stealing $2 million is bad. This I accede. My problem is that, to give her a life sentence, when murderers, rapists, and other desperados out doing irreparable harm to innocents are getting off with comparative wrist slaps? I was more faulting the fact of the really bad guys getting off, than her getting her just desserts.
How about this for a compromise? Let’s say that whatever sentence she gets, that becomes the minimum amount of time a murderer or rapist gets if he is convicted?
I’m not a relative moralist. She did wrong. But given other light sentences for violent offenders, is a life sentence for graft and corruption really proportionate?
Wino, in either cases you cannot measure the overall, long term effect that these people have whether they are a killer or rapist or an embezzler. We don’t know what chain of events their actions create. What gets me about Ms. Slade is her smug appearance and her willingness to play the “race card” as if black on black crime was acceptable. What would the outrage be if Ms. Slade had been white???????