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In March 2011, Van Parijs pleaded guilty in a U.S. District Court in Boston to one count of making a false statement on a federal grant application. The government asked Judge Denise Casper for a 6-month jail term because of the seriousness of the fraud, which involved a $2-million grant. After several prominent scientists including Van Parijs ...
But the report submitted by Liberty to the state workers compensation program in June 2020 listed a different doctor’s name as the author of the report, prosecutors said.
Eric Poehlman (US), a former Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Vermont, was convicted in 2005 of grant fraud after falsifying data in as many as 17 grant applications between 1992 and 2000. He was the first academic in the United States to be jailed for falsifying data in a grant application.
Health care fraud includes "snake oil" marketing, health insurance fraud, drug fraud, and medical fraud. Health insurance fraud occurs when a company or an individual defrauds an insurer or government health care program, such as Medicare (United States) or equivalent State programs. The manner in which this is done varies, and persons engaging ...
Four men face charges from the Orange County district attorney's office in connection with allegedly billing nearly $100 million in fraudulent fees.
In October 2021, the state auditor's office sent demand letters to various recipients of the misspent grant money, asking for repayment. [8] In May 2022, the Department of Human Services filed a lawsuit against 38 defendants to get back about $24 million in misspent funds.
After all, the type of fraud I experienced cost 15 million Americans $24 billion in losses in 2021, according to Javelin’s latest data. And there's the emotional side, too.
The consequences of scientific fraud vary based on the severity of the fraud, the level of notice it receives, and how long it goes undetected. For cases of fabricated evidence, the consequences can be wide-ranging, with others working to confirm (or refute) the false finding, or with research agendas being distorted to address the fraudulent ...