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Apparently, John Fallon has finally landed a job at NPower Indiana, which the AA News describes as an “Indianapolis-based nonprofit group that provides technological assistance to other nonprofits.” Here’s the link from the NPower website.

Honestly, what does Fallon know about any of this? It makes me think that there is some kind of not so secret “deal” amongst professionals who rise to a certain rank– CEO, president, etc.– that they will be able to get back in at that rank no matter what.

BTW, I’ve heard rumors that Jim Vick is taking a job in Chicago. I know his house is on the market since I walk by it on the way to school.

Anyway, at this point, I only wish the best for these folks– honestly. I’m not sure if they have suffered enough or not, but I feel like EMU has moved well past them, so best of luck.

In the never-ending saga that is John Fallon, we may have actually come to something that approximates “the end:” from mlive/AANews, “Judge: John Fallon must pay Eastern Michigan University legal fees.” I should have posted this yesterday because I actually first heard this story on Michigan Public Radio when the family and I were driving back into town after a busy week of traveling and looking at monumental things and catching up with old friends. In any event, here’s a long quote from the story:

A Washtenaw County judge has ordered former Eastern Michigan University President John Fallon to pay the school more than $18,000 to cover some of the legal fees associated with his whistleblower lawsuit.

Fallon owed the university $12, 236 for deposition costs and filing fees, and an additional $6,118 in special costs for transcripts and other court-related expenses, Circuit Judge Archie Brown said in a four-page ruling issued earlier this month.

The monetary award does not include attorney fees associated with the 2007 lawsuit, which Brown dismissed last October. He found the university did not fire Fallon because regents feared he may divulge alleged violations of the Open Meetings Act.

“This is perhaps the last chapter in this saga,” said Mark Boonstra, an attorney for Miller Canfield, the firm that represented EMU in the case.

We shall see about that last paragraph, Mr. Boonstra, we shall see. Given how long Fallon has held onto this thing, I somehow am afraid that we have yet to reach the bottom.

The Eastern Echo had a story the other day about Fallon’s lawsuit being dismissed, and it raised a wrinkle/issue I hadn’t heard much about previously:

Faupel said the Fallon family is currently without income due to the university’s illegal discrimination against his wife in violation of the Elliott Larsen Civil Rights Act.

According to Faupel, Fallon’s initial contract draft stated that his wife, Dr. Sidney Fallon, could not obtain employment at EMU.

[Fallon’s attorney Marion] Faupel said the stipulation had been removed from the contract at Fallon’s request before he began his role as president, but that the chairman and vice-chairman of the board at that time told him that it was still enforceable.

She said this left Sidney Fallon without a job, and when John Fallon was fired, left the Fallons without income.

According to university records, John Fallon received $233,289 for the 2007 tax year.

I had vaguely heard this about Sidney Fallon before, but I guess I don’t quite understand why it is coming up again. Is this part of the lawsuit? Is this an angle that Faupel is trying to spin as to why her client is being wronged?

It seems kind of weird to me. For starters, I really think that if the Fallons had pressed the issue and if there was a position for Sidney Fallon that was appropriate at EMU, I am guessing she could have been employed. But is it conceivable that she would have kept her job, whatever it was, after her husband got canned? And besides that, she couldn’t get a job anywhere else?

Oh, and I have a hard time working up a lot of sympathy for a couple who made just shy of a quarter of a million last year. They probably aren’t going hungry.

I thought I’d go ahead and post a link to the story that was in the AANews the other day about Fallon: Fallon’s lawsuit dismissed. There’s nothing really new here, except this:

Fallon’s attorney, Marian Faupel, said this morning that she and her client were disappointed in the ruling and that Fallon was “certainly thinking about an appeal.”

Gosh, wouldn’t that be swell? Just think, this could go on and on and on!

And this:

Fallon has several applications pending for new jobs, she said, but she said it is difficult for him to find employment because of the way the board handled his firing.

Well, the fact that he helped cover-up a murder investigation on his campus might also be a bit of a deal-breaker for new jobs too. In the meantime, he is still (apparently) a candidate for the top job at North Country CC in upstate New York. We’ll see how that turns out for him.