Word: usaid
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...Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82 and former Harvard employee Jonathan Hay violated the False Claims Act by making investments in Russia through family while advising the Russian government on its transition to capitalism under a $34 million contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Judge Douglas P. Woodlock found...
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...
...jury trial, a jury could only decide the amount of damages awarded for all but one charge. In that claim, which Woodlock said would have to be decided at trial, Shleifer asserts he was a “consultant” to the project and therefore not subject to USAID conflict-of-interest regulations, while the government argues he is bound by them...
...regions. His soldiers continue to wage war against other rebels in the west, where fighting has killed 3,000. "There is still war somewhere," says Deborah Ayen, a mother of five in Mayenwal. "So we still fear." A number of donors - the U.N., the E.U., the Arab League and usaid - are promising help in the reconstruction of the south. But many worry that the region could slip back into chaos if the southerners feel they are getting less than their share. Almost every family owns a gun - often their only brush with modernity. And while the south was unified...
...civil administrator in charge of reconstruction and humanitarian until an interim Iraqi government is formed, has direct responsibility for setting Iraq on the road to democracy and prosperity. His self-imposed timeline: three months to complete the task. Slightly less optimistic is the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which has given itself 18 months to set everything right...