Name that party--$100,000 bar tab for former TSU President

Houston Chronicle:

Ousted TSU President Priscilla Slade racked up a $100,000 bar tab at Scott Gertner's Sky Bar during her tenure and stuck Texas Southern University with the bill, prosecutors said Wednesday.

TSU routinely paid for $100 bottles of wine for Slade and drinks for her friends and staff, despite a prohibition at that time on state monies being spent on alcohol, Assistant District Attorney Donna Goode said.

Slade's former executive assistant, Erica Vallier said that the rules for purchasing have since changed, but at the time, Slade told her not to worry about the prohibition. She said her boss drank bottles of Far Niente with her friends and staff at expensive bars, such as the Four Seasons bar and the Sky Bar.

Slade led the historically black university from 1999 to 2005, after being pressed into service from her post as the dean of the business school.

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Out of the presence of the jury, Goode asked the judge for permission to tell jurors about her accusation of Slade siphoning money from the TSU Foundation.

Goode told Thomas that Slade and her staff reclassified accounts to ''suck money out of the school's foundation."'

The foundation, started by Slade, was created to raise money for scholarships and endow chairs for professors.

"These started out as business expenses and things got so out of whack that they had to look to the foundation for these unreasonable expenditures," Goode said.

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Vallier also testified that Slade spent university money during her tenure as president on at least two meals a day for herself and her staff at expensive restaurants, nights of drinking out and tickets for professional sports games.

She also said they traveled to Rome, Costa Rico and Maine.

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This sounds like she was copying the corporate excesses of the 90s. The trial is expected to go on for weeks so there may be more interesting posts on the life style of the TSU President. I wonder if she declared any of these benefits as income on her taxes?