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FOI #23-440 (10-3-23, 12:39 pm) - Subject - Report bearing case number 23-23-7032
Name - Bruce Newman
Affiliation - Brown, Paindiris & Scott, LLP., -
We are requesting a copy of the report bearing case number 23-7032 be provided to our office. This report was requested on May 5, 2023, and we were informed your company/office was waiting for the Medical Examiners Report. The Medical Examiners Report has been issued.
FOI #23-072 (02-16-23, 9:24 am) - Subject - emails
Name - Day Heche
Affiliation -
Please provide all electronic emails (or documents) about to / from
1. Radenka Maric
2. Ambar Sengupta
3. Nicole Gelston
4. Kimberly Fearney
5. Bruce Gelston
6. Juli Wade
7. compliance@uconn.edu
about Professor, Jing Wang, Li Chen with all attachment. Time period is from 2016 to today.
Per Freedom of information Act (FOIA) C.G.S. § 1-200, et seq. , please provide UConn Board’s opinion on the following events
1. Bruce Gelston’s justification of Professor's 15 trips with a female (ex, current, future) student.
2. Bruce Gelston’s justification of Professor’s unqualified hire of zero – (low-) publication Professor’s women as asst. professors
3. Nicole Gelston’s salary maintains the level of Chief Staff, in spite that she is not.
Per Freedom of information Act (FOIA) C.G.S. § 1-200, et seq. , please provide record of
1. fabrication of evidence by Bruce Gelston or other people.
2. destruction of evidence by Bruce Gelston or other people.
FOI #23-049 (02-2-23, 3:07 am) - Subject - Compliance
Name - Larry Den
Affiliation -
Pursuant to the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). C.G.S. § 1-200, et seq. I am request
1. FOIA records, relating to about Gelston’s creation of quote in file EP33.
2. FOIA records, relating to Bruce Gelston’s (or any other people’s ) decision on deleting/ altering Professor’s criminal evidence ( e.g. Professr’s original webpage ) .
3. information as to what other Professor’s evidence, apart from Professor’s webpage, has been deleted by Bruce Gelston group (or other people)
4. FOIA records of the reason why Bruce Gelston and his wife Nicole Gelston have a total annual salary (plus retirement) as follows
5. FOIA records of the reason why Nicole Gelston's salary remains the standard of Chief Staff, although she does not sit in position of Chief Staff.
FOI #23-048 (02-1-23, 11:07 am) - Subject - Compliance
Name - dana forest
Affiliation -
Per Freedom of Information Act, please provides the following
1. FOIA records, relating to Bruce Gelston’s (or any other people’s ) decision on deleting/ altering Professor's criminal evidence ( e.g. Professor’s original webpage )
2. information as to what other Professor’s evidence, apart from Professor’s webpage, has been deleted by Bruce Gelston group (or other people)
3. FOIA records of the reason why Bruce Gelston and his wife Nicole Gelston have a total annual salary (plus retirement) as follows
4. FOIA records of the reason why Nicole Gelston's salary remains the standard of Chief Staff, although she does not sit in position of Chief Staff.
5. recruitment files (e.g. cv, contract ) of Bruce Gestion and his wife Nicole Gelston at HR department.
FOI #23-046 (01-31-23, 1:23 pm) - Subject - Compliance
Name - Aiden Lee
Affiliation -
Pursuant to the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). C.G.S. § 1-200, please kindly provide
1. records of the reason why Bruce Gelston and his wife Nicole Gelston have a total annual salary (plus retirement)
2. information as to whether Bruce Gelston has double standard
3. information as to whether Bruce Gelston has double standard
4. records of the reason why Bruce Gelston claims that Professor was not Professor's supervisee.
5. public records, relating to Bruce Gelston’s (or any other people’s ) decision on deleting Professor's original webpages, in which employee lists Professor as his postdoc
6. public records, relating to Bruce Gelston’s (or any other people’s ) decision on altering Professor’s original webpages, in which Professor lists Professor as her sole UConn mentor
7. information as to whether Bruce Gelston deleted Professor’s criminal evidence
FOI #23-029 (01-18-23, 7:37 am) - Subject - electronic record
Name - Katie Rose
Affiliation -
Please provide all electronic emails (or documents) about to / from
1. Radenka Maric
2. Ambar Sengupta
3. Nicole Gelston
4. Kimberly Fearney
5. Bruce Gelston
6. Juli Wade
7. compliance.uconn.edu
about Math Professor, with all attachment.
FOI #23-027 (01-18-23, 7:37 am) INVALID EMAIL ADDRESS - Subject - emails about Faculty
Name - Rithra Zuby
Affiliation -
please kindly provide all emails about to / from
1. Radenka Maric
2. Ambar Sengupta
3. Nicole Gelston
4. Kimberly Fearney
5. Bruce Gelston
6. Juli Wade
7. compliance.uconn.edu
FOI #22-246 (07-10-22, 3:37 pm) - Subject - Investigation report
Name - Bernard Gillett
Affiliation -
Pursuant to the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act, C.G.S. § 1-200 et seq., I am requesting Bruce Gelston’s report on Professor, including any supplemental material
I am interested in receiving purchasing information from University of Connecticut School of Medicine for purchases made from 1/1/2010 to present.
The information I'm interested in includes: 1. Purchase order number or equivalent 2. Purchase order date 3. Line item details 4. Line item quantity 5. Line item price 6. Vendor name 7.Delivery Address