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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 [...]
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