We've seen examples of faculty, staff, coaches, police officers, and citizens who have evidence of criminal violations, and they've suffered massive retaliation at the hands of the whole University of Nevada, Reno retaliation apparatus that protects the upper-level administrators.

The retaliation apparatus involves the President's private police force, the UNRPD.  It also involves the human resources and affirmative action offices.

Affirmative action is designed to protect the faculty, staff and students. But at UNR it's turned around and used as a tool for harassment by conducting secret investigations of whistleblowers.

You've seen evidence that the president's office and the attorneys working for the president's office have actually intimidated the local media to make sure that they're really just a mouthpiece for the university administration and won't print most of the allegations that come forth from whistleblowers.

Other parts of the protection and retaliation apparatus are the general counsel's office (led by Mary Dugan).  And that office is housed within the president's office.  Therefore, everything that they do has the explicit recognition and approval of the upper administration.

What is all this trying to protect? 

It's trying to protect widespread abuses of the law involving financial crimes, athletic department crimes, police department crimes, EEO crimes, legal counsel crimes, and the whole UNR abuse of power. 
 

UNR's message to faculty, staff, students and the public:  If you challenge our power, we will threaten, intimidate, harass, demote, dismiss, sue and sanction you, and we'll get the taxpayers to pay for it.

I'm sure that when you first heard us say this or first read our documents you thought this was a pretty outrageous claim: UNR as a RICO operation.  We submit to you that we have described and presented evidence that meets all 11 elements of the FBI RICO criteria.

- Transcript excerpts of the Univ. of Nevada, Reno public corruption hearing.