Dear Editor:

Dr Joseph Shepard's days of robbing WNMU University funds for his own benefit may be coming to an end. This latest article from Searchlight New Mexico, an investigative journalism organization, https://searchlightnm.org/days-of-wine-and-roses-state-agencies-probe-lavish-spending-by-university-president/  gives many of the details.

Joe, a smooth talking, always smiling, morally bankrupt individual, and his wife, Valerie Plame, being complicit in this corruption, both need to be shown the door and kicked out of Grant County.

The University Regents who have participated in and condoned this corruption also need to be held accountable. It sickens me when I think back to the days when I considered Joe Shepard to be a friend and an honest community leader.

Mark S Donnell, MD Silver City, NM