I-Team: KSU Top Chef Quits After FOX 5 I-Team Questions

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KENNESAW, Ga. - He won numerous awards as the executive director of Culinary Services at Kennesaw State University.

But Gary Coltek quit his $130,000 a year state job in the wake of an internal investigation brought on by questions from the FOX 5 I-Team.

KSU serves 4500 meals a day at its all-you-care-to eat facility The Commons. Coltek's smiling face greeted visitors in the lobby from the framed magazine articles that praised him and KSU.

But two years ago KSU reprimanded executive director Coltek, finding evidence he created a perception he was using their premier dining facility "like a personal business venture." The school issued a scathing reprimand, only now made public, citing a long list of misconduct examples:

Having a KSU employee performing personal work for him during KSU time.
Falsifying a tax document.
Allegations of nepotism.

"This situation cannot continue," wrote Vice President for Operations Dr. Randy Hinds, slamming Coltek for "poor judgment... that has marked nearly your entire employment history at KSU."

In January, 2013, Dr. Hinds threatened to fire Coltek if he did not improve. But just months after that scolding, documents showed one of Coltek's many private companies began billing a major vendor Coltek was also supposed to be supervising.

Sodexo is an international firm that contracts with governments and universities across the United States. The FOX 5 I-Team obtained an invoice sent to Sodexo from a company Gary Coltek owned called Foodgenuity. It listed a retainer of $20,000 and a fee of $3500 dollars Sodexo was to pay Coltek's private company each month. This was in October, 2013, while Sodexo also had the $11 million annual contract to provide food services at KSU.