A former $190,000-a-year administrator at the University of Connecticut has paid a $4,000 fine to settle allegations that he used his state office budget to book rooms for himself 23 times at the Nathan Hale Inn on UConn's Storrs campus, the Office of State Ethics said this week.
The ethics agency claimed that Jeffrey Reynolds, who briefly served as UConn's interim vice president for administration and operations, stayed at the inn, or made reservations to stay there, at least 23 times - and each time "charged his stay to the budget ... over which he had administrative control," according to a written settlement that Reynolds signed along with ethics enforcement officer Thomas K. Jones.
Reynolds, of Wallingford, also used that budget for "extraneous expenses, including meals, alcoholic beverages, parking and entertainment," the signed agreement said.