A former dean of the law school at the University of Manitoba may soon be disbarred for misusing $500,000 for an endowment intended for students, reports the CBC:
A lawyer representing the Law Society of Manitoba argues the former head of the University of Manitoba’s law school can’t be trusted as a lawyer and should be disbarred based on numerous allegations he misspent or misused hundreds of thousands of dollars from the university.
In his closing arguments to a law society disciplinary panel on Thursday, Rocky Kravetsky, a lawyer representing the society, broke down the list of accusations against the former dean, Jonathan Black-Branch — including nearly $500,000 he allegedly misspent on professional development from a U of M endowment meant for students.
“These are serious, serious breaches,” Kravetsky told the panel of the law society at Black-Branch’s professional misconduct hearing in Winnipeg.
“The likelihood is we would be seeking disbarment.… Jonathan Black-Branch is simply not a person that can be trusted to be a lawyer.… He does not demonstrate the integrity that lawyers are required to.”
The professional misconduct hearing has focused on alleged integrity breaches in Black-Branch’s expense claims, ranging from meals at a pricey private Winnipeg club, to accommodation, travel, education expenses and more. …
The law society panel is mulling next steps. Black-Branch faces the possibility of a reprimand, suspension or disbarment. “This is a case of persistent and pervasive failure of integrity,” Kravetsky said.
This is not the only university where students got ripped off. Columbia University charges students $70,000 or more in annual tuition for overpriced graduate MFA programs that don’t lead to good-paying jobs, and are deliberately designed to force taxpayers to pick up most of the tab for their students.
In other news, Brown University recently celebrated a man who murdered a police officer. Columbia University recently rejected a book on policing that it had already accepted for not being hostile enough to the police.
A professor assigned students the book “The Baby Jesus Buttplug” in a world literature class at California State University-Long Beach.
Cornell recently changed the name of its English Department as part of “decolonization.”
And a masturbating progressive interrupted a conservative event at the University of Wisconsin.
