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Woodlock concluded that the University, which is also a defendant in the federal government’s lawsuit, is liable for breaching the USAID contract due to its employees’ misconduct. But he absolved Harvard of responsibility for the more significant charges of intentional fraud under the False Claims Act, which might have subjected it to triple punitive damages of up to $102 million...
While Woodlock found no institutional wrongdoing and concluded that Harvard could not reasonably have known about the misconduct, it is still liable for its employees’ fraud...
...University has already settled a related civil fraud claim filed by Maine mutual fund company Forum Financial Group. Forum had alleged that Hay and the University deprived it of millions of dollars in profit from the rights to Russia’s first mutual funds firm...
...mock him. The A.V.A. denies trying to silence Lonsdale. It says it canceled his membership in response to an e-mail he sent last year to - among others - all New South Wales state parliamentarians. In the message, Lonsdale called for action on his own "allegations of scientific and consumer fraud perpetrated upon an unsuspecting Australian public by an alliance of pet food companies and veterinarians...
...brought other crime in its wake: "In the past, organized criminals stuck to one commodity, like heroin or LSD. Now we have polycriminals. Anything that will make money, they will do it." Evans, a former New Zealand customs agent, says that might include gun running, people smuggling and fraud. The Australian Federal Police say the syndicate behind Fiji's 2000 heroin seizure was allegedly involved in illegal immigration and credit card fraud; it's believed the gang that set up the ice lab had similar interests?and investigators are probing the possible involvement of some local officials, says Fiji police...