Investigators want to know how far back a recently fired North Idaho College administrator had been offering students scholarship money in exchange for sex and if there are any victims of the alleged scheme. “The allegations in this case are very, very serious,” Kootenai County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Jedediah Whitaker told a judge Thursday. Joseph M. Bekken, who was fired Feb. 2 as NIC’s financial aid director, was ordered held in the Kootenai County Jail on $100,000 bond. He is charged with five felonies: attempting to procure a prostitute, attempting to misuse public money, bribery, computer crimes and burglary. “This is conduct that has been going on for many, many years,” Whitaker said at Bekken’s first court appearance/Scott Maben, SR. More here.

Question: The $64,000 question? Who checked out this guy before he was hired at North Idaho College?

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