Three former Oral Roberts University professors are suing the university’s president and three other executives, claiming they were wrongfully forced out of the school.
The suit against ORU -- filed by Dr. John Swails, Dr. Tim Brooker and Dr. Paulita Brooker -- includes a synopsis of a document describing the rich lifestyle of ORU President Richard Roberts and his family at the expense of the school and the Oral Roberts Ministry.
The suit alleges that Richard Roberts insisted that the Tim Brooker use students to work of the mayoral campaign of Randi Miller last year.
The suit says Brooker resisted the effort, and then was blamed for it when it became public, putting the school's non-profit status in question.
The suit alleges that an ORU student gave Brooker a document, reputedly prepared by a senior ORU employee, describing troubling spending of ORU money on the part of Richard Roberts and his family.
The suit says Brooker was dismissed after he turned the document over to the school's board of regents.
In addition to suing the university, the three professors are suing Richard Roberts; Mark Lewandowski, executive vice president for academic affairs and provost; Wendy Shirk, dean; and Jeff Ogle, vice provost of academic advancement.
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There's no way this can possibly be true. It must be just another media conspiracy. ORU is one, upstanding HAPPY family.
Sin,
A very vocal minority of hypocrites in Tulsa.
Btw, the "troubling" spending had to do with Richard Roberts' wife giving scholarships to about 20 friends of their daughter -- none of them in need, (yeah, shocking), a trip by the couples' daughter to Orlando and the Bahamas for "religious ministry" purposes (
), and other alleged abuses of "university" funds.Who would have thunk it? A preacher, with a university, abusing funds, and local political power?
No way!
Nice job, asshats.
pop, Dio, your thoughts?
