USF Dean Admits Role In Bike Theft
Abdul Rao, who oversees research grants for the College of Medicine, is on leave with pay until the campus investigation is complete, said USF spokesman Michael Hoad.
In a statement, Rao apologized and said he was trying to help a day laborer who needed transportation.
“I deeply regret this failure in judgment and the unfortunate attention it has generated,” he wrote to USF officials. “… I gave a man who does odd jobs for me permission to use a bicycle that was parked at the center. I acted out of compassion for this nearly homeless man; but I failed to consider that the bicycle belonged to someone on our Alzheimer’s team.”
I love Dean Rao’s attitude about this:
In an interview Friday, Rao said he never intended to keep the bike.“How stupid would that be? I knew the cameras were there.”
Not stupid. Arrogant.
Here’s the video:
Interesting mea culpa, by the way. Would it have been less a theft if the bike hadn’t belonged to “someone on our Alzheimers’ team?”
It’s also no surprise that Rao would offer as an excuse that he was “helping a nearly homeless man.” This is the true face of the liberal fascist, redistributionist evil: Those who are superior to you in compassion steal your property and give it to people who are more deserving than you are.
Yes, that is exactly how it works. And I’d bet you a lot of money that Dean Rao believes in this sort of thing with all his heart.
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Do you suppose that it occurred to Rao to buy this guy a bicycle with money out of his own pocket?
Nah - liberals don’t pay taxes, much less shell out dough for a bike to give to one of the ignorant unwashed masses. Community organizers don’t do good - they order others (under penalty of law) to do good.
Does Rao know that Goodwill and the Salvation Army usually have bike or two for sale? Cheap?
He makes over $1400.00 a day. What would it have been? A half hours pay for a new one?
Dr. Rao’s accomplice is a convicted felon and Rao is caught on surveillance camera consorting with a convicted felon and aiding and abetting a criminal in the commission of a crime. Rao oversees millions in federal grants. His grants should be audited and then check his garage for stolen bicycles and his freezer for bags of money. He’s a thief. FIRE HIM!!!
From what I understand the cleaning guy was going to be fired since he was a suspect for the crime. Rao didn’t just steal a cheap bike…he was going to let a hard working, family guy, making minimum wage loose his job. Nice guy!
I used to work at the Byrd Institute, and I heard that rumor about the cleaning guy getting fired, too.
I’m surprised that people on these blogs think Dr. Rao is a liberal and there is some political message in what he did. I’m a liberal, and I’m putting together $2,000 to send in for federal taxes, whoever said that liberals don’t pay taxes.
I’m a liberal, but Dr. Rao is not. There is no real political category for Dr. Rao. Dr. Rao is so inconsistent that it is not possible to derive some sort of political theory from his actions. Let’s just say that Dr. Rao and reality are not best friends.
I have never worked with him, but I know people who do, and I have never heard a single positive thing about him. All I’ve ever heard about him is that he is a bull in a China shop.