Ohio State: Wexner Medical Center name 'honorific' with no contract in place
That twist, along with the ongoing Epstein scandal, sheds new light on a previously unreported maneuver by Ohio State to ensure Wexner kept control of the Medical Center indefinitely.
Ohio State survivors and concerned citizens joined university nurses on Sunday to demand the removal of Leslie Wexner’s name from all campus buildings.
The protest featured approximately 150-200 people directly across the street from the new University Hospital, which was closed to the public while Ohio State sachems celebrated the tower’s grand opening, likely pretending not to know why anyone might be protesting a hospital.
That opening came days after Wexner sat for a nearly five-hour deposition that led multiple members of Congress to label him a “liar” about his decades-long friendship with dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Even worse for Ohio State, Wexner is set to be deposed again by lawyers representing plaintiffs in the Dr. Richard Strauss class-action lawsuit.
It will be a long time coming for Steve Snyder-Hill, who went 24 years thinking that he was mistaken about the assault he suffered at the hands of Dr. Strauss, while also having to endure another six years of Ohio State stonewalling his quest for justice:
Ohio State created the “Wexner Medical Center” in 2012.
“Les has been among Ohio State’s most dedicated leaders and most passionate supporters for many decades, and someone who continues to make an indelible impact on our community,” said then-President E. Gordon Gee, who has defended Wexner from “cancel culture” while claiming he has never spoken to the billionaire about his enabling of Epstein.
“[Wexner’s] generous contributions, both in time and resources, have been wholly transformational, but his most valuable gift has been his extraordinary leadership. He has a firm and unequivocal vision for our academic Medical Center, and that is to be a world-class institution, period.”
The official release cited a $100 million donation from Leslie, his wife, Abigail, and Limited Brands in 2011. But in 2013, The Lantern reported that the cost of the name change was “still unknown.”
That’s because there is no contract detailing the cost.
The title is “honorific,” according to public records obtained by a patriot code-named the Public Records Raptor and provided to The Rooster:
“This is an honorific naming, and there are no contracts or gift agreements between Wexner and the university,” said Ohio State Director of Public Records and Compliance Reporting Scott Hainer.
Wexner was chairman of the Board of Trustees when the university bestowed this “honorific” title on him in recognition of his legacy, though he would resign under mysterious and still-unexplained circumstances six months later.
That decision, along with the ongoing Epstein scandals, has shed new light on Wexner’s previously unreported, quiet maneuver to ensure he maintained control over a hospital where we now know that Epstein had at least one gynecologist on a $75K annual retainer.
Ohio State, led by Wexner’s fixer, made quiet moves to ensure the notorious thong salesman maintained control over a public hospital
The kicker is that the most recent perfunctory annual reappointment was championed by none other than Wexner’s longtime fixer and hatchet man, John Zeiger, who presumably plans to recommend the reappointment of his sugar daddy to the Board of Trustees again this year.
That is, unless people protest.
In a move that multiple inside sources tell The Rooster raised questions and some resistance by university administrators at the time, The Ohio State University quietly amended the bylaws of its Wexner Medical Center Board in 2017, eliminating the original two-year term limit for the chair position.
This change shifted the role to an annual appointment without restrictions on renewals, effectively allowing Wexner to serve indefinitely through perfunctory reappointments.
The most recent renewal was overseen by Zeiger, the chair of OSU’s Board of Trustees, and Wexner’s personal attorney and trusted family advisor for decades.
Yes, this is the same John Zeiger whose law firm filed an amicus brief in defense of convicted sex trafficker Ghislane Maxwell in 2025.
Yes, this is the same Zeiger who was helping Wexner avoid Epstein-related fallout as soon as the Fall of 2009—a little over a year after Wexner told Epstein he had nobody to blame but himself for his upcoming prison sentence because he violated his “No. 1 rule” to “be careful… always.”
The Wexner Medical Center Board was established in 2013, following a $100 million donation from Wexner that led to the renaming of the medical center.
The establishment of the board itself was unprecedented, as for more than 150 years, Ohio State was governed as one university by one board of trustees.
The initial bylaws, adopted on August 30, 2013, stipulated a two-year, non-renewable term for the chair to ensure rotation and fresh leadership. Wexner was appointed as the inaugural chair on Nov. 8, 2013.
However, by November 2017, the bylaws were revised under Resolution No. 2018-33 during a Board of Trustees meeting on Nov. 3, 2017.
The amendments expanded the board’s composition and restructured the chair’s appointment to an annual basis, removing any mention of term limits or non-renewability. This made the position open-ended, subject only to yearly ratification. Wexner was reappointed and has been reappointed each year since.
Under the current bylaws, last updated November 16, 2023, the chair is appointed annually by the Trustees chair (currently Zeiger)—in consultation with the university president and the executive vice president for health affairs—and ratified by the full Board of Trustees.
The most recent reappointment of Wexner as chair of the medical center board was made under the auspices of Zeiger.
And if the embattled alleged Epstein co-conspirator is to be reappointed this year, after allegedly lying under oath to Congress, the bylaws require that, once again, Wexner’s old faithful friend, pugilistic defender, confidant, and current chair of the university board of trustees, John Zeiger, must recommend it.
Despite these issues, OSU has continued to defend Wexner, rejecting calls to remove his name from campus buildings like the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. This stance suggests the university intends to maintain the status quo, likely reappointing him in 2026.
Oh, and if anyone is interested in witnessing alleged Epstein co-conspirator Wexner preside as chair over his namesake medical center board, the next opportunity to do that is 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., March 3, at the Longaberger Alumni House, 2200 Olentangy River Rd, Columbus, OH 43210.
And the full board presided over by Chairman Zeiger will meet next from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. on March 5, at the same location.
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