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...government filed suit for fraud in 2000, alleging that the investments made by Shleifer and project manager Jonathan Hay, a former Harvard employee, violated USAID’s conflict of interest policy. The University was also named in the suit, which sought over $100 million in damages...
...criminal trial it’s unlikely that an action taken in an internal employee disciplinary matter will be entered into evidence of that case,” says John F. Stoviak ’73, an attorney in Philadelphia who has handled several fraud cases. He adds that most courts would be reluctant to use this type of evidence in civil trials as well...
Harvard and its star economist Andrei Shleifer ’82 said on Monday they had reached a tentative settlement with the U.S. government in a five-year-old fraud suit that has spanned two continents and embarrassed both the University and the professor...
Harvard itself was cleared of the fraud allegations but still faced damages of up to $34.8 million for breaching its contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development. Shleifer and Hay faced treble damages of as much as $104 million each...
Facing a potential judgment in excess of $100 million, Harvard’s star economist Andrei Shleifer ’82 has tried in vain to limit his liability in the U.S. government’s ongoing fraud suit against...