[Plsfaculty] FW: Financial Compliance News: Issue Number 31 (3/12/09): Cornell's $2.6 million settlement with Government is finalized

[Donna-Rae Marquez]

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From: Discussion of Research Administrators' Issues
[mailto:RAMTALK at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jing Liu
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 12:16 PM
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Subject: Financial Compliance News: Issue Number 31 (3/12/09): Cornell's
$2.6 million settlement with Government is finalized

 

Financial Compliance News: Issue Number 31 (3/12/09)

 

 

Cornell's $2.6 Million Settlement with Government Finalized

 

 

In 2007, the Weill Medical College of Cornell University entered into a
settlement of $2.6 million with the Government to resolve civil charges
under the False Claims Act.  The whistleblower challenged the settlement in
the fall of 2007.  U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley II denied the
whistleblower's challenge and approved the settlement on March 5, 2009.

 

See excerpt from the news release on March 6, 2009 from the U.S. Attorney
Southern District of New York:

 

"Weill Medical College defrauded the Government and made false statements to
the NIH and the DOD in connection with Weill Medical College's federal grant
applications. In particular, the principal research investigator for the
grants for which Weill Medical College sought funding failed to disclose to
the Government the full extent of her various active research projects.
These omissions deprived the Government of its ability to assess the
researcher's ability to perform the projects in the grant applications.
Under federal guidelines and regulations, researchers have a duty to
disclose their active projects and the amount of research time they plan to
devote to each project. These rules ensure that Government funds will not be
awarded to a researcher who does not have adequate time to perform the
project work.  Weill Medical College knew, or should have known, that its
employee failed to fully disclose her active research projects inthe grant
applications submitted to the Government such that her research commitments
exceeded 100% of her available time."

 

The full text of the news release can be viewed at:
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/March09/weillmedicalcollegesettl
ementpr.pdf

 

 

 

 

Jing Liu, CPA
Manager, Sponsored Projects Quality Assurance
Sponsored Projects Services
The University of Arizona
PO Box 3308
Tucson, AZ 85722-3308
(520) 626-6442
Fax: (520) 626-4137

 

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