This should mean big trouble if true. Also note that is was money from Obama’s stimulus plan.

Andrew Follett reports at the Daily Caller.

Stanford Employees Padded Their Salaries With $124K From Taxpayers

Two senior Stanford University employees padded their paychecks with $124,000 in taxpayer funds given to the school as part of President Barack Obama’s stimulus program, according to a recent audit by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

“[W]e noted $124,279 of senior personnel salary charges that exceed the NSF two-month salary limit,” according to a report by the National Science Foundation’s inspector general. The IG’s report also documented “$44,508 for unreasonable and unallowable travel expenses; $84,197 in allocation of costs that were not adequately supported or appeared to be based on an arbitrary estimate; $72,375 for improperly charged or inadequately documented costs; and $12,018 for a cost transfer related to a potential cost overrun on another NSF award.”

Stanford University had a total research budget of $1.22 billion during 2015 and runs over 5,300 externally sponsored research projects. The NSF audit only included stimulus spending, which accounted for $211 million, or about 17 percent of the annual Stanford research budget. The audit also found that another $285,000 had been improperly spent.