The former University of Georgia alumni director has resigned her current job in Louisville after a Channel 2 Action News investigation exposed misspending and a cover-up during her time in Athens.
A University of Louisville spokesperson says Deborah Dietzler voluntarily resigned her position as Associate Vice President for Alumni Relations Friday, to avoid being a distraction while she deals with the investigation that’s now underway in Georgia.
Earlier this week, Channel 2 exposed how Dietzler was caught booking hotels and airfare for personal trips, then directing her staff to find UGA alumni for her to meet with so she could get the school to pay the expenses.
Records show an internal investigation documented that activity, and her UGA contract was not renewed, but then the university covered it up and let her resign instead.
A state audit team was on UGA's campus investigating this week, at the direction of the Georgia attorney general's office.
The University of Louisville is also reviewing Dietzler’s activities there.
It was not aware of the UGA investigation until Channel 2 inquired about it.
Dietzler has declined requests for an interview, however, her attorney issued a statement saying she was not aware of the results of UGA’s internal investigation, or given a chance to rebut them, and that she welcomes a full review of all of her expenses.
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