College of DuPage President Allegedly Used Donor Money on Lavish Lifestyle
To help put things in perspective, College of DuPage is a community college.
The Chicago Tribune reports.
College of DuPage releases Breuder expenses showing wining, dining, hunting
On the way to an exclusive hunt club in March 2014, College of DuPage President Robert Breuder stopped to pick up two bottles of red wine.
He continued on to the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation, a private fish and game reserve in northwest suburban Dundee Township. Records show he hosted three guests that day, including a college attorney and a vendor who designs signs for the Glen Ellyn campus.
They shared a $187 lunch at the scenic club. The main event, though, was a hunting excursion, where they bagged 30 pheasants.
The entire outing — including meals, wine, gun rental, ammunition and hunting licenses — cost $1,292. It is one of many hunt club bills Breuder has expensed over the past six years to the nonprofit College of DuPage Foundation, whose primary purpose is to raise money for student scholarships at the state’s largest community college.
The records, among hundreds the foundation fought to keep from the public, show how Breuder used donor money to engage his passions for hunting, wine and fine dining. The documents also reinforce Breuder’s reputation as a chief executive who lived well on the school’s tab and often spent in a manner at odds with a community college’s mission of providing an affordable education.
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