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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Discussion of
Research Administrators' Issues [mailto:RAMTALK@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jing Liu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, March 12, 2009
12:16 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> RAMTALK@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Financial Compliance
News: Issue Number 31 (3/12/09): Cornell's $2.6 million settlement with
Government is finalized</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Financial Compliance News: Issue Number 31 (3/12/09)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Cornell's $2.6 Million Settlement with
Government Finalized</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=cm2><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>See excerpt from the news release on March 6, 2009 from the U.S.
Attorney Southern District of New York:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=cm2><font size=3 face="CDHIB O+ Courier New"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>“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.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The full text of the news release can be viewed at: <a
href="http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/March09/weillmedicalcollegesettlementpr.pdf">http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/March09/weillmedicalcollegesettlementpr.pdf</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Jing Liu, CPA<br>
Manager, Sponsored Projects Quality Assurance<br>
Sponsored Projects Services<br>
The University of Arizona<br>
PO Box 3308<br>
Tucson, AZ 85722-3308<br>
(520) 626-6442<br>
Fax: (520) 626-4137<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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