Financial aid staff destroy documents during fraud investigation

Corey G. Johnson of The Daily Reflector in Greenville, N.C., reports that East Carolina University “employees destroyed numerous Office of Student Financial Aid records in apparent violation of university policy and federal requirements” during an audit and investigation at the school. It is not known what specific documents were destroyed or what impact the shredding had on the accuracy of the audit. The university has launched its own investigation into the matter.