Suffolk University Controversy Over Financial Ties to Trustees
December 1, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
Suffolk University, in Boston, is embroiled in a conflict-of-interest controversy over its president’s pay and the university’s financial relationships with some trustees, reports The Boston Globe.
David J. Sargent, the university’s president, made $2.8-million last year, making him the highest-paid college president in the nation, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Among the trustees who oversee his compensation and other issues are Robert Crowe, who runs a Boston lobbying company, and George Regan, whose public-relations firm has contracts with the university.
“This is the kind of thing that raises suspicion and invites further outside scrutiny,” Scott Harshbarger, who previously served as the state’s attorney general, told the newspaper.
Officials at Suffolk University, as well as Mr. Crowe and Mr. Regan, deny any wrongdoing.
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