The former CFO of Indian River State College has filed suit against the school, its president and the Board of Trustees. <\/p>\n
Marvin Pyles alleges retaliation for being a whistleblower, as well as breach of contract and defamation. <\/p>\n
In the lawsuit, are text messages that Pyles says show top leadership acknowledging fraud and financial mismanagement. He’s seeking damages exceeding $50,000 per count, along with reinstatement, back pay and a jury trial. <\/p>\n
Pyles claims he repeatedly raised concerns about fraud, gross mismanagement and the misuse of taxpayer and donor funds. <\/p>\n
The lawsuit alleges those disclosures led to his termination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former CFO of Indian River State College has filed suit against the school, its president and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[85000,23311,23307,84998,84996,115,171,173,172,84997,807,84999,729,221],"class_list":{"0":"post-179863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-clear-channel-miami","9":"tag-coast-to-coast","10":"tag-glenn-beck","11":"tag-hannity","12":"tag-jimmy-cefalo","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-port-st-lucie","15":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","16":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","17":"tag-schnitt","18":"tag-south-florida","19":"tag-the-weather-channel-wall-street-journal","20":"tag-traffic","21":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}