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OSU Probe Finds Professor Steered Contract To Her Private Business

Ohio State University

Ohio State University's board of trustees is scheduled to vote today on whether to fire a marketing and logistics  professor who has worked for the school for 17 years. 

An investigation that began in 2017 found Deborah Mitchell steered a 1.6 million contract with the Ohio Department of Medicaid to her private company, Cypress Tree Corporation. Mitchell says the school is lying and  has the backing of three colleagues. 

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.