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Under the second charge of fraud, Shleifer could also be found liable for violating the conflict-of-interest provision in USAID’s contracts with the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID...
Among the prosecution’s witnesses, prominent development expert Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76, former director of HIID, is likely to testify that all advisers to the Russia project, including Shleifer, were expected “to refrain from investments in the countries to which they were being funded to provide advice,” according to a motion filed with the court...
...defense has indicated they will counter that because Shleifer was based in Cambridge while serving as adviser the project, he was not “assigned to” Russia. Rolling out their own former HIID director, lawyers for Shleifer and Harvard will call Dwight H. Perkins, the Burbank professor of political economy, to testify that USAID’s conflict-of-interest provision did not apply to Shleifer and others working on the project in Cambridge...
Paul F. Ware, an Boston attorney who represents Harvard, said he was gratified by the court’s finding that Harvard as an institution had not intentionally falsified funding requests to USAID when it certified that HIID was in compliance with the regulations governing the grant. That claim would have tripled potential damages...
...government’s claim that the work on this project was valueless is an insult to the scores of HIID employees and consultants who gave their souls to this project,” said David J. Apfel, who was then representing the University, when the University filed arguments disputing the claims last year...