A complaint by a whistleblower about the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in February prompted officials at the University of Georgia to conduct an audit that has uncovered apparent “financial irregularities” at the nonprofit organization, according to the chairman of the institute’s board of trustees.

Those irregularities, allegedly involving members of the ICLE staff, prompted the University of Georgia to notify the institute’s board of trustees Monday that it intended to fire three staff members by 5 p.m. that day, according to a statement Chairman Robert Kauffman sent to members of the State Bar of Georgia on Wednesday.

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