It also asserts that student activity fees were hiked by 30 percent to help cover the lobbying contract, and that Georgia Open Records Act requests for bank documents related to the foundation were illegally denied.
Portions of Naughton’s complaint are supported by an April 2 report from the university’s Office of Internal Audit & Compliance that gives some credence to his allegations. A summary of the report attached to the complaint notes that the “timing and the facts” surrounding his termination raise questions “regarding the possibility that the [university system's] ethics policy and/or the Georgia Whistleblower Act were violated.”
