Thursday, April 29, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section B·Page 5
Las Vegas 'business' jaunt a gamble for Minnesota coach
The Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A $9,100 "business" trip to Las Vegas by Minnesota basketball coach Clem Haskins, three assistant coaches and their spouses is being questioned in an auditing review.
The trip was ostensibly for a coaches' seminar, but a university auditor found no evidence that any such event took place, according to memos written earlier this year to top university officials, including President Mark Yudof.
The coaches later told an auditor the trip was a postseason "debriefing" but presented no documentation to support the claim, according to Gall Klatt, associate vice president in the university's department of auditing. Auditors concluded it wasn't a legitimate business expense.
A booster group paid for the trip, and coaches stood to avoid income taxes by declaring the travel was
business-related, Klatt said.
When auditors raised questions, the coaches instructed university bookkeepers to change payroll records to add the value of the trip to their incomes. Klatt said.
In the past, the trips have been
The Internal Revenue Service and the university consider business travel a legitimate expense.
approved by McKinley Boston, vice president for student development and athletics, and then-university President
GOLDEN GOPHERS
Nils Hasselmo, according to the audit review.
But the coaches could be taxed for the benefit, or the university could seek reimbursement because such expenditures for spousal travel aren't allowable under university policy, the review said.
Details of the audit were reported today by both the Saint Paul Pioneer Press and the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, who obtained the information through freedom-of-information requests.
The university already is investigating allegations from a former office manager who said she wrote or helped write more than 400 papers for basketball players.
The 1997 trip also included an improper charge for a clothing purchase that totaled nearly $300 and could have charged to the university twice — once by submitting an individual receipt and later when the same charge was included in the hotel bill that was repaid.
Haskins' attorney, Ron Zamanksy, had no comment on the trip or the audit findings. Yudof's office referred all questions to his chief of staff, Tonya Moten Brown, who said the university president is aware of the problem and plans to address it.
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