UConn To Pay $2.5 Million To Settle Overbilling Case

The Hartford Courant reports:

The University of Connecticut will pay $2.5 million to settle allegations it filed false grant applications and overbilled the government for research at two campus centers, the Justice Department said today, heaping more criticism on a university already dogged by management and oversight problems.

The university submitted false claims on about 500 federal grants awarded between 1997 and 2004, according to a settlement agreement released today. Prosecutors say the misconduct centered on research conducted at two university facilities, the Environmental Research Institute and the Booth Research Center, which conducts computer research.

Public sector fraud.No altruism here.