The Brief

• • Georgia Tech is the subject of a new whistleblower lawsuit from the former director of the university's Business Analytics Center.
  • Keigh Werle claims he was the subject of a "sham" investigation and terminated after uncovering examples of misappropriated funds and payroll issues.
  • This is the second whistleblower lawsuit the university has faced in the last year.

ATLANTA - A former Georgia Tech employee has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the university after he claims he was disciplined for pointing out misappropriated funds.

The new claim comes from Keith Werle, the managing director of the Business Analytics Center at the Scheller College of Business.

What they're saying:

In his lawsuit against the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, which was filed earlier this month, Werle claimed that he "frequently uncovered examples of unauthorized charges, unauthorized transfers out of the BAC’s financial accounts, and other "missing" funds, causing numerous issues with his ability to pay his employees, graduate assistants, and others at the BAC."

According to Werle, the school misappropriated more than $250,000 in his first four years in his position. In some cases, he claimed to notice unauthorized charges debited from the center's account in what appeared to be an attempt to hide money so that it wouldn't be forfeited at the end of the financial year.

When he attempted to point out the alleged misappropriations and other payroll issues, he...

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