Leaders of Alabama’s troubled system of two-year colleges will be getting an ethics lesson this summer from a man who once likened them to a Mafia family, according to The Birmingham News.
Bradley Byrne, named last month as the system’s new chancellor, has asked Jim Sumner, director of the Alabama Ethics Commission, to conduct training sessions for the colleges’ presidents and senior administrators, the newspaper reported.
In addition to the Mafia comparison, Mr. Sumner described the system’s unfolding scandal as like “pulling the linoleum back” in the course of remodeling a house “and all these roaches crawling out.”
Mr. Byrne hopes eventually to provide ethics training for all 9,000 employees in the system, which is the subject of state and federal investigations into alleged fraud and corruption. —Elyse Ashburn
