Summary of Audits, Settlements, Investigations and Media Stories Related to Sponsored Programs

For Educational Purposes Only

Reprinted by permission of Charlene Blevens, Florida International Univ. Information on audits can be sent to blevensc@fiu.edu

Last updated October 24, 2011

Legend on Type of Finding in the Audit or Report Legend

Column Type of Finding or Issue Raised Column Type of Finding or Issue Raised

1 No Benefit to Program                                   6          Subaward/Subawardee

2 Cost Share                                                       7          Compensation/Effort

3 Cost Transfer                                                  8          Participant Support Costs

4 Documentation                                               9          Policy & Procedures

5 Expenditures/Cost                                          10        Investigation/DOJ

Column 11

Admn Administration includes Financial Reporting              S/U  State/University Agreement

CA Cooperative Agreement                                                   S/U I State/University Indirect Agreement

NF No Findings                                                                      NSF     NSF Effort Reporting Audit

RC Recharge Centers                                                             QuiTam, Theft, Fraud

P Purchases at end of Grant Period    

Date

University Impacted

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

10/13/11

Suny Research Foundation

X

X

X

03/31/11

Boston University

X

X

CA

03/31/11

Ohio State University

X

X

X

X

X

CA

07/29/10

Wilberforce University

X

DOE

07/22/10

Cornell Weill Medical College                   Whistleblower

X

QuiTam

10.01.10 Cornell Appeals Fraud Verdict

07/05/10

South Carolina State University

X

03/22/10

Cal Tech Follow Audit

E

NSF

03/17/10

University of Delaware

E

NSF

03/03/10

University of Missouri - Columbia

X

X

02/16/10

University of Buffalo

Fraud

02/16/10

Washington University in St. Louis

E

NSF

01/14/10

University of Nevada - Reno

E

NSF

11/09/09

Stony Brook University

E

NSF

11/02/09

University of Wisconsin-Madison

E

NSF

08/10/09

University of Michigan

E

NSF

07/30/09

Purdue University

E

NSF

06/30/09

Cornell University

E

NSF

06/30/09

Georgia Institute of Technology

X

E

NSF

05/01/09

Southern Illinois at Edwardville

X

X

X

Theft

03/25/09

University of Arizona

E

NSF

03.24.09

Cornell Weill Medical College  Whistleblower

X

03/10/09

UC San Francisco

X

NF

02/27/09

University of Maryland Baltimore

X

Theft

02/26/09

University of Florida

PI

Theft

02/02/09

UCLA

X

Theft

01/31/09

University of Central Florida

X

Theft

01/16/09

Duke University Review of Admn & Clerical Costs

X

12/23/08

Yale University Settlement (ref 02.03.06)

X

X

X

10/24/08

University of Louisville

PI

Theft

05/17/10 Former U. of Louisville Dean Is Sentenced to More Than 5 Years

09/24/08

Vanderbilt University

E

NSF

07/08/08

St. Louis University

X

X

06/18/08

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU)

PI

Theft

05/02/08

University of California, San Diego

E

NSF

03/27/08

University of Illinois Urbana

E

NSF

03/10/08

University of California, San Francisco

X

NF

01/22/08

Georgia Tech

X

Theft

11/15/07

University of Utah

E

NSF

09/28/07

University of Maryland Baltimore County

X

X

X

X

09/06/07

Brandeis University

X

06/26/07

NIH review of Graduate Student Compensation Costs

X

NF

05/15/07

University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics (vendor rebates)

X

04/05/07

Thomas Jefferson University

X

NF

03/31/07

California Institute of Technology

X

E

NSF

03/12/07

Georgia State University

X

X

X

E

X

CA

02/12/07

New Mexico Title IV-E Contracted University Training Costs (A-06-06-0004)

S/U

11/15/06

NSF September 06 Report to Congress

X

X

X

09/28/06

Boston University

X

X

09/26/06

University of Hawaii

X

X

X

E

CA

09/26/06

New Mexico Highlands University

X

X

X

X

CA,P

09/07/06

Tennessee State University

X

PI

Theft

05/01/07 Barbara Nye, Tennessee State PI Enters Guilty Plea

06/30/06

15 University Select Agent Audit

X

X

06/16/06

University of Chicago

X

X

06/06/06

University of Pennsylvania

E

X

NSF

05/24/06

University of Arizona Sahra Center

X

X

E

CA, RC

05/04/06

North Shore University Hospital

X

04/10/06

University of Maryland

X

AC

04/06/06

Eastern Kentucky University contract with Kentucky

X

S/U

03/31/06

Howard University

X

X

X

C

03/31/06

Stephen Raper, MD, University of Pennsylvania

IRB

03/23/06

University of Massachusetts (UMMS) contract with Commonwealth of Massachusetts

X

C

S/U

03/03/06

Columbia University

X

NF

02/27/06

Roger Williams Hospital (UMMS)

X

X

X

02/03/06

Yale University (UMMS)

X

X

X

X

X

AC

07/21/06 Princeton Memo

07/03/06 Yale Memo on Agency Subpoenas

06/30/06 Yale Internal Memo on Scope of Information

01/20/06

Georgetown University

X

01/09/06

University of Connecticut

X

C

FC

2.5M RC

01/06/06

Indiana State University

X

X

X

12/28/05

University of Nevada Reno

X

X

CA,AC

11/21/05

University of Miami Rosenstiel School

NF

09/29/05

Dartmouth College

X

X

E

09/21/05

University of Rochester

X

X