UI Bands director repays $86,000, resigns, disputes police allegations

The former director of University of Illinois Bands has resigned following a police investigation that concluded he sold thousands of dollars worth of university musical instruments and put the money in his bank account, officials said Thursday.

UI police said that Robert Rumbelow, a tenured music professor hired in 2010, sold more than $50,000 worth of old instruments to other schools and collectors between 2011 and 2013, including four clarinets valued at more than $5,000 apiece.

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