Ian N. Wheeler Resigns as FCAC Executive Director

Washington Post Staff Writer Eric Lipton reported on December 21, 1995 that the executive director of Fairfax County's public access television station is resigning after board member Steve Allen learned that in his previous job Wheeler` was convicted of misusing money he managed for a group of Florida television investors. Ian N. Wheeler has been executive director of Fairfax Cable Access Corp. since April 1993. When hired, he did not tell Fairfax Cable board members that less than two years earlier he had been found guilty in Tampa of grand theft for stealing money that investors gave him to buy and sell television stations nationwide, officials said.
Wheeler is serving 15 years of probation and is under court order to repay the investors $4.7 million in increments of at least $200 a month.
Fairfax Cable staff members are checking the nonprofit organization's records, but so far there is no indication that any money was mishandled at the stations during Wheeler's tenure, board Chairman Carla Yates-Bremer said.
More details are available at the Washington Post and Tampa Times archives.