Enforcement: NORTHWESTERN CLOSES BOOK ON RESEARCH GRANT QUI TAM
An ex-employee of Northwestern University will collect more than $900,000 of a False Claims Act settlement that puts an end to a federal investigation of Northwestern’s research grant accounting, the Department of Justice reports.
The Evanston, IL university has agreed to pay $5.5 million to resolve civil claims levied in a qui tam suit originally filed by Richard Schwiderski, a former employee in Northwestern’s Office of Research Sponsored programs. The DOJ ultimately took over Schwiderski’s suit, which accuses Northwestern of collecting more federal research funds than it was entitled to. The feds maintain, for...
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