A federal monitor’s investigation of the troubled University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey has made a host of fresh allegations about a top dean who was fired just last week. In a report issued on Monday, the monitor said Warren Wallace had taken advantage of the university’s petty-cash system, steered a valuable no-bid food contract to a friend, tried to get his daughter admitted to the university even though she had completed few of the admissions requirements, and devoted “significant” amounts of his office time to the two political jobs he also holds, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported today.

When he was fired last week, Mr. Wallace’s woes seemed mostly connected with document shredding in his office and his ties to a powerful state lawmaker (The Chronicle, June 2). He is the latest target of an ever-broadening investigation into financial mismanagement and possible criminal misconduct at the public health-sciences university, the largest of its kind in the United States.

The monitor’s report said that, taken together, Mr. Wallace’s actions were, “at a minimum, unethical.” Neither Mr. Wallace nor his lawyer was commenting. The accusations of triple-dipping on the public payroll were reminiscent of those against a university trustee and Newark City Council member who, the monitor said, had used his positions to enrich himself and his supporters (The Chronicle, April 25).

Mr. Wallace’s other posts are chairman of the Delaware River and Bay Authority and a Gloucester County freeholder. Given New Jersey’s rich tradition of corruption, freeholders are often known as freeloaders.