Alabama State University's Suspended President Says He Informed Trustees Of Questionable Contracts

Embattled Alabama State University president Joseph Silver informed trustees at the university about his concerns with potentially questionable contracts in October, just a month after taking his position. A month later, a panel of trustees placed Silver on paid administrative leave. Silver said Wednesday that he “discovered some items I considered questionable and troubling, at best, and a conflict of interest at the least” while reviewing finances and contracts for the university. “I was placed on administrative leave because I raised a few probing questions, and I refused to go along to get along. That is not my operating style,” Silver said in a prepared statement in front of the president’s house on campus Wednesday.