Parks & Rec Investigation
Columbus Parks & Recreation investigation timeline
September 2009: Mayor Jim Wetherington orders Internal Auditor John Redmond to conduct an extensive operational audit of Parks and Recreation.
Parks & Rec Investigation
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PARKS & REC INVESTIGATION
City Manager Isaiah Hugley says he was unaware of Parks & Rec Department's actions
City Manager Isaiah Hugley said he didn’t know. On Tuesday, he told Columbus Council that for years he didn’t know former Columbus Parks and Recreation Director Tony Adams recruited regional top Division I college prospects for an elite Georgia Blazers boys basketball team operated...
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PARKS & REC INVESTIGATION
New Parks & Rec era begins with both hope and concern
As expected -- indeed, as now seems to have been all but inevitable -- Columbus Council on Tuesday confirmed James D. Worsley, a young, apparently energetic and obviously well-educated parks and recreation administrator in Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, N.C., as the new director of Columbus’...
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PARKS & REC INVESTIGATION
SPECIAL REPORT: Mayor Teresa Tomlinson pledges more audits, steps to prevent scandals
Columbus’ new mayor says shoddy bookkeeping no longer will be tolerated anywhere in city government, not just in the Parks and Recreation Department.
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PARKS & REC INVESTIGATION
SPECIAL REPORT: Inner circle ran basketball, other divisions suffered
Former Columbus Parks and Recreation Director Tony Adams relied on a command staff composed of Recreation Services Division members to support his mission of identifying Division I college players through the city’s Nike-branded city basketball team.
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PARKS & REC INVESTIGATION
Special report: Worker noticed lax cash handling long before city scandal erupted
Lax financial controls within the Columbus Parks and Recreation Department worsened as conscientious workers unhappy with its mismanagement left to take jobs elsewhere, witnesses told police investigating a scandal last year.
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PARKS & REC INVESTIGATION
SPECIAL REPORT: City workers warned that Parks & Rec Department was spinning out of control
Now-public police files from the Columbus Parks and Recreation probe leading to the corruption convictions of top administrators show the issues prompting the investigation were nearly a decade old and no secret to workers inside the department.
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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
SPECIAL REPORT: Parks and Rec scandal puts NCAA eligibility of Georgia's Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Jarvis Jones at risk
Columbus police interviews conducted during an investigation of the Parks and Recreation Department reveal that director Tony Adams and top lieutenant Herman Porter may have jeopardized the amateur status of two University of Georgia athletes who played on the Georgia Blazers, their city-funded, ...
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PARKS & REC INVESTIGATION
Update: Indictments cite CB&T account, Nike contracts in Columbus Parks & Rec probe
Indictments against three men arrested in last year’s Columbus Parks and Recreation scandal allege an elaborate scheme of double-dealing involving kickbacks and forgery.
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PARKS & REC INVESTIGATION
Mayor orders probe of Parks and Recreation
Columbus Mayor Jim Wetherington has called for a police investigation of the findings of a recent audit of the city Parks and Recreation Department.
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PARKS & REC INVESTIGATION
Marietta promoter who keeps Nike contract for city-funded team gets bountiful incentives to bring tourneys to Columbus
William Fox’s relationship with the Columbus Parks and Recreation Department runs deeper than the Nike sponsorship the Marietta, Ga., basketball promoter manages for an elite city-funded basketball team that travels the country under the “swoosh” banner.
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