This is just what every incoming chancellor needs:
A high-ranking university official faces criminal charges after an internal N.C. A&T audit found someone created a slush fund to funnel rebates on school equipment purchases, records show.
Rodney Emile Harrigan, 61, vice chancellor for information technology and telecommunications, turned himself in to campus police, according to a statement faxed Monday to the News & Record.
Arrest warrants show he was charged with obtaining property by false pretense and embezzlement of state property.
Records made no mention of how the money was spent.
Harrigan, of 5300 Bancroft Road in Greensboro, was released from the Guilford County jail after posting a $25,000 bond.
“If you would like to print anything,” he said in response to questions about the charges, “please just say that I am innocent, and I cannot make any further comments at this time.”
