Lewis’s son, adding that he was “deeply saddened that Jim Lewis would involve me in this deception.”Īnd on May 14, according to Mr. Patton said that he had personally written two letters of recommendation for Mr. On May 9, he told the Atlanta management consultant that he had had staff members write his son’s high-school application essays. Lewis admitted to misconduct on two occasions, according to Mr. A Web site for the company listed in a 2000 news release did not appear to be functioning.ĭespite his recent denials, Mr. Lewis signed a January 2001 letter “in which he presumably accepts 250,000 warrants in Global e Tutor.”Īttempts to reach officials at Global e Tutor on Thursday were unsuccessful. Lewis in exchange for “high-level contacts to various corporations and universities with which you have existing relationships.” According to the firing report, Mr. Correspondence from the president of Global e Tutor showed that he offered stock to Mr. The most serious charge is that he used Golden Key resources for “personal gain,” particularly with an Atlanta company called Global e Tutor Inc., an Internet-based tutoring service for elementary- and secondary-school students. Lewis prepare materials for a business class he taught at Georgia State and looked into treatments for his tennis elbow, the report said. Other staff members said he had asked them to investigate the process of importing Russian caviar to sell in the United States, and of setting up a 900 number to market such a business - all on company time, according to the report and interviews with former Golden Key officials.Īlso on Golden Key time, employees helped Mr. Lewis’s application essay for a Fulbright Scholarship to Russia, which he did not win.
Patton that an employee was asked to write Mr. Lewis as a chief executive who treated employees like servants, using the society for personal profit and often hiding misdeeds by changing board minutes and financial documents. Lewis performed by Chart Your Course International, a management consulting firm in Atlanta. Patton based his report on interviews with 17 current and former Golden Key employees and advisers at campus chapters, five of whom provided him with written statements. Lewis called the report “a private and confidential document based upon unfounded allegations and incorrect facts.” He added: “I do not believe it warrants a response.” (See an article from The Chronicle, April 3.) and the knowledge that some board members were aware of these matters and failed to do anything about them in the past,” according to the report, which was prepared by Carl Patton, president of Georgia State University, who resigned as chairman of Golden Key’s board on Monday. “When asked why they had not come forward earlier with this information, staff members gave answers that included fear of retribution from Jim, fear of losing their jobs, fear of not being able to obtain such a well-paying job elsewhere. It also offers a glimpse into the culture of intimidation that pervaded the group’s Atlanta headquarters, an atmosphere that may have contributed to why the problems continued for years. The report, dated May 23, 2001, confirms those findings, and includes many more. Lewis had padded Golden Key’s profits by accepting thousands of academically ineligible students a year and had engaged in improper sexual relationships with student members and an employee. An article in The Chronicle last month detailed allegations that Mr.
Lewis, its founder and longtime executive director, last year. Those allegations are part of an 11-page report that the board of Atlanta-based Golden Key, one of the world’s largest academic honor societies, depended on in deciding to fire James W.
The former director of the Golden Key International Honour Society received stock from a company seeking to do business with the organization, and regularly asked employees to perform personal tasks, including writing his teenage son’s admissions essays for private school, according to documents obtained Thursday by The Chronicle.
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