This is from the December 1998 ORI Newsletter Volume 7 No.1
found at:
http://ori.dhhs.gov/vol7no11298.htm#WISCONSIN

It appears that a more detailed report might be found in the Chronical of
Higher Education.

WISCONSIN PROFESSOR FACING $100,000 FINE

Prosecutors will recommend that the maximum $100,000 fine be imposed on Leon
Shohet, an engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison,
who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of using false information to
obtain research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), according
to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Professor Shohet reportedly inflated the number of corporate partners in the
Engineering Research Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing to increase the
chances of receiving grant money. A university official said the respondent
did not intend to deceive NSF.

The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin said the case "sends
an unambiguous message to academia and beyond [that] regardless of one's
position, lying to obtain money for any purpose will not be tolerated."

Jennifer Morgan, M.H.A.
Director, Office of Grants and Contracts
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health Systems
3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh PA  15213
Voice:  412-624-0743  Fax:  412-624-0714

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Peterson [mailto:xxxxxx@WINONA.MSUS.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 3:46 PM
> To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
> Subject: Re: Job of a research administrator
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> Can anyone tell me where to get more info on the case Leonard
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> "Paplauskas,Leonard" <xxxxxx@ADP.UCHC.EDU> on 04/15/99 01:34:13 PM
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> Please respond to Research Administration Discussion List
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>  To:      xxxxxx@hrinet.org
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>  cc:      (bcc: Nancy Peterson/Winona)
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>  Subject: Re: Job of a research administrator
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> As to the message below.  The recent federal court case
> involving a Big 10
> university, where a PI exaggerated the level of involvement
> of industrial
> collaborators in a proposal to NSF, should be enough to deter any
> investigator from making similar mistakes; AND, is a very
> good case in point
> about the responsibilities of a university in making good
> faith efforts to
> ensure that such claims have a basis in fact.  If I have my
> facts straight,
> the university was fined and the PI was fined and sentenced
> to jail time.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sally Eckert-Tilotta (Sally Eckert-Tilotta)
> > [SMTP:xxxxxx@MAIL.UND.NODAK.EDU]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 10:16 AM
> > To:   xxxxxx@hrinet.org
> > Subject:      Job of a research administrator
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> > We have had a group submit proposals naming collaborators
> who I found were
> > unaware of the existance of the proposal.  While technical
> discussions had
> > previously taken place, no definite commitment had been made.
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> > A situation has come up in which investigators (who I was under the
> > impression
> > were not going to participate) are listed as collaborators
> on a proposal
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> > that same group.  Some in our office have said that it
> isn't our job to
> > question
> > or confirm participants.  We have to believe those persons
> submitting the
> > proposal.
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