An in-the-know source e-mails me with comments on the UC Berkeley admission, on which I’ve commented, that campus officials misled the public about an executive, Linda Williams, who seems to have scammed the university.

First, my source emphasizes, there is significant taxpayer money involved:

Vacca’s Sept 2007 total annual employee compensation was $425,250. The job description and compensation breakdown are available on the UC compensation website.

Secondly, asks my source, why is the university, with surabundant resources at hand to resolve this apparent scandal, unable to do so?

To fix the compensation mess, the UC Regents created a very high-paid position, Senior Vice President-Chief Compliance and Audit Officer. The first person to hold the position is Sheryl Vacca. Why isn’t Vacca looking into the Linda Williams mess? Why must the SF Chronicle [the local newspaper] do her job — at considerably less pay?

Why, indeed? Would the regents and the governor of California deign to reply?