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...suit against Harvard University over allegedly defrauding the government of $40 million in a Harvard administered federal foreign aid program in Russia. After a three year investigation, the government charges that the Harvard failed to provide adequate supervision to the program administered by the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). Harvard denies that administrators were aware of abuses...
...company that administers mutual funds is suing Harvard for fraud allegedly committed by leaders of the now-disbanded Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID...
...Forum Financial Group, based in Portland, Maine, claims that Professor of Economics Andrei N. Shleifer '82, the principal investigator of HIID, and Jonathan R. Hay, HIID general director, used their leadership roles to reap personal gain from HIID's Russian capital markets program...
...suit, the company contends that Hay and Shleifer used federal funds allocated through HIID to bribe Russian government officials with "cash, no-show jobs, exorbitant and unjustified compensation and benefits, and exorbitant and unjustified housing allowances." The Russian officials, the suit contends, deposited these payments in foreign bank accounts to evade taxation...
...scandal that led to the HIID's demise was perpetrated by a small number of highly-placed people; meanwhile, the other members of the HIID's staff remained deeply committed to improving the plight of the world's worst-off. The Crimson should be smarter than to presume guilt by association. Rather than attacking the CID, we should be praising it--and getting involved. As long as a million people die each year of malaria, and as long as students don't know about it, the CID is a necessary part of Harvard...