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AG’s Office Hires Memphis Lawyer to Review TSU Records

Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 13, 2024

The Tennessee Attorney General's (AG) office hired Memphis lawyer and former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton earlier this summer to review Tennessee State University (TSU) financials and corporate governance, the Tennessean reports. The probe was requested by TSU's newly appointed board of trustees "in order for us to continue to move the university forward" said chair Dakasha Winter. Gov. Bill Lee signed off on the appointment and in a letter directed Stanton to review “policies, procedures, protocols, fiscal records, capital expenditures, capital master planning, and corporate governance” from 2021 to present. The letter also suggested that “litigation to protect TSU's interests” may be required. This review comes after the state spent millions of dollars on audits that found leadership issues at TSU but no evidence of fraud or malfeasance. Stanton, an attorney with Butler Snow, previously was appointed by the state to conduct a review of its lethal injection procedures, and was tapped in May by Metro Nashville to review a police oversight complaint.