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...discovered last month that the agency had been bilked, robbed and ripped off multiple times in the last year by contractors and employees. The amount of money involved has not been disclosed, but the individual examples of fraud show how serious the lapse of oversight has been. One NASA contract worker billed the Hubble Space Telescope Program for $27,000 of collect phone calls from prison inmates, according to The New York Times. In another shocking case, three students who worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston stole a safe full of moon rocks. They were caught when they...
...Forum case is in many ways a sideshow to the U.S. government’s suit—which alleges breach of contract and violations of the False Claims Act. In addition to the prominent plaintiff, the government’s suit also seeks the bigger prize— $102 million in damages...
...government alleges that investments Shleifer and Hay made in Russia violated conflict of interest policies included in the government’s contract with Harvard, and that Harvard failed in its supervisory role...
...phone that she thinks she performs better when she is just being herself. "I need to be comfortable onstage. I don't want to be shifting around in something I don't like," she says. Chen will have to get used to it. Being herself is not in her contract...
Gordon offered a literary perspective, discussing the commodification of women through the marriage contract in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice...