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The director of a University of Washington program that helps high-poverty students go to college used her position to secure special privileges for herself and her family — including a hotel’s presidential suite — when traveling on business, according to state Auditor Troy Kelley.

In a report, Kelley said the director of the GEAR UP program, Loueta Johnson, required staffers to attend out-of-town dinners they considered extravagant, spent hundreds of dollars on car rentals and taxis, and failed to follow university, state and federal travel regulations in a number of instances.