A week after Gerard Aubert, an associate vice president at Orlando-based University of Central Florida College of Medicine, was fired, he was arrested on a domestic violence battery charge, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Mr. Aubert, who oversaw UCF medical school's IT and health information services, was fired Aug. 23 on multiple allegations of misconduct and refusing to resign from his $222,881 per year position.
During his time at the medical school, Mr. Aubert sent emails asking his employees to consider his wife, Nanette Aubert, for a position at UCF. Ms. Aubert was hired as an academic support services director at the UCF College of Engineering, but Mr. Aubert "claims that he had nothing to do with the hire," according to a memo from UCF's Compliance, Ethics and Risk Office.
In addition, UCF alleged Mr. Aubert solicited and accepted free gifts, such as rounds of golf and meal tickets, from vendors between September 2014 and May 2016. According to the Compliance, Ethics and Risk Office, Mr. Aubert also helped a friend get hired at UCF and demonstrated "a pattern of hostility towards women" in his workplace.
On Aug. 30, Mr. Aubert was charged with domestic violence against his wife. When Ms. Aubert returned from work, she and her husband got in an argument, according to an Orange County Sheriff's Office affidavit. "While arguing in the upstairs room, Gerard Aubert struck Nanette Aubert on the right side of her face, causing her glasses to fall off," the affidavit read. When a deputy arrived at the home, Mr. Aubert was found swaying and slurring his words.
His arraignment is scheduled for Sept. 29.