The University issued a statement Monday maintaining that GW leaders’ allegations of illegal payouts, inappropriate sexual relationships and defamation detailed in a Hatchet report have not been substantiated by internal investigators.

Those refuted allegations also include the ones by Kimberly Acquaviva, a Faculty Senate member and nursing professor, who went to the Board of Trustees with claims that Faculty Senate executive committee chair ran a defamation campaign to get former business school dean Doug Guthrie fired.

Guthrie told The Hatchet that he thought that alleged defamation played a role in his firing.

On Monday, the University fired back:

“We are deeply disappointed that Professor Guthrie has linked these matters to his dismissal from his position as dean of the School of Business. Professor Guthrie is fully aware of the reasons for his dismissal, and in fact has discussed his disagreements with the administration over the management of the School of Business in previous statements to the media,” the statement said.

“University officials have repeatedly assured Professor Guthrie, over many months, that they neither believed the allegations against him nor had found any evidence to support those allegations. Similarly, the university has found no evidence to support the allegations against Professor Rehman that were reported today. None of those allegations played any role in Professor Guthrie’s dismissal from the deanship.”