Contact

Click here for a confidential contact or call:

1-212-350-2774

Archive

Page 4 of 6

September 20, 2018

The Texas A&M Research Foundation (TAMRF) has agreed to pay $750,00 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by charging various federal agencies for grant-related expenses not qualified to be paid under the rules of the grants. According to a whistleblower lawsuit filed by an undisclosed number of current employees, TAMRF's improper charges ranged from overstating salaries, to inflating expenses, to expenses for completely unrelated subjects and unapproved persons. Some of the agencies affected include the Department of Education (ED), Department of Energy (DOE), NASA, National Science Foundation (NSF), and Department of Transportation (DOT). USAO SDTX

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Grant and Research Fraud,

September 19, 2018

A nonprofit organization and its management company have agreed to pay $528,575.82 to settle False Claims Act-based allegations of grant fraud in connection with the Department of Justice's National Justice Information Sharing Initiative. In applying for grants, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers, Inc. (NASCIO) allegedly failed to follow rules requiring the disclosure of conflicts of interest relating to American Management Resources, Inc. (AMR), which if disclosed would have disqualified NASCIO from receiving any grants. USAO EDKY

Tagged in: Defendants, FCA Federal, Grant and Research Fraud,

August 15, 2018

A Florida landlord has paid $50,000 to end an investigation under the False Claims Act that he improperly charged certain low income tenants whose rents were subsidized by a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program. In choosing to participate in and receive subsidies from the Housing Choice Voucher/Section 8 (HCV) program, Edward Daniel had agreed to charge no more than was authorized by the local public housing agency. Instead, he allegedly charged unauthorized parking fees and excessively high rents, and quietly received double subsidies for overlapping periods from various public housing authorities. USAO SDFL

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Grant and Research Fraud,

June 11, 2018

Two Massachusetts landlords, Latchmin Nannan and David Nannan, and a property manager, Rhea Nannan, will collectively pay $57,000 to resolve whistleblower Kafer Nevins’s allegations they overcharged low income Section 8 tenants, and thus improperly collected housing subsidies from the government in violation of the False Claims Act. The whistleblower, one of the overcharged tenants, will receive a share of the government’s recovery. USAO MA

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Grant and Research Fraud, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Eligibility, Whistleblower Rewards,

May 17, 2018

Hartford, Connecticut-based Community Renewal Team, an action agency that received federal and state grant funding, agreed to settle allegations under the Federal and Connecticut False Claims Acts that it charged employee hours spent on state-funded grant programs to federal grants from HHS, HUD, and DOE, charged an employee’s time to a Head Start grant when that employee was working on other programs, and failed to stop a program manager from misappropriating $18,500 for her person use; the agency will pay $362,000 to settle all claims. USAO DCT

Tagged in: Falsifying Invoices, FCA Federal, FCA State, Grant and Research Fraud,

April 3, 2018

Norwegian NGO Norwegian People’s Aid, which receives funding from the US Agency for International Development, agreed to pay $2 million to settle claims it violated the False Claims Act by providing material support to Iran, Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (“PFLP”), and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (“DFLP”), contrary to federal funding requirements. The allegations originated in a whistleblower lawsuit filed under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act. DOJ (SDNY)

Tagged in: Contract Non-Compliance, FCA Federal, Grant and Research Fraud, International Whistleblowers, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Eligibility, Whistleblower Rewards,

March 21, 2018

University of Pittsburgh professor Christian Schunn agreed to pay $132,000 to settle claims of violating the False Claims Act by submitting false documents to the National Science Foundation to obtain federal grants to fund his research. DOJ (WDPA)

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Grant and Research Fraud,

February 16, 2018

The University of North Texas Health Science Center agreed to pay roughly $13 million to settle claims it violated the False Claims Act by inaccurately measuring, tracking and paying researchers for effort spent on certain NIH-sponsored research grants. DOJ (NDTX)

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Grant and Research Fraud,

April 12, 2017

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services agreed to pay roughly $7 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act in its administration of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). DOJ

Tagged in: Defendants, FCA Federal, Grant and Research Fraud,

April 10, 2017

The Virginia Department of Social Services agreed to pay roughly $7.1 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act in its administration of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). DOJ

Tagged in: Defendants, FCA Federal, Grant and Research Fraud,

1 2 3 4 5 6

Newsletter

Subscribe to receive email updates from the Constantine Cannon blogs

Sign up for: