CASE STUDIES
Failure to use appropriate research security practices can result in several major problems. Aside from the damage economic and national security, researchers and universities can be subject to Federal sanctions. Such sanctions include:
- Loss of Federal funding to the PI
- Loss of Federal funding the the University as a whole
- Monetary penalties
- Criminal charges
Check back to this page to see some of the most recent actions taken by the Federal government against researchers and universities that have violated research security requirements.
Violations of foreign influence disclosure requirements
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation settles with DOJ for alleged mismanagement of NIH grants
- Georgia Tech & Georgia Tech Research Corporation pay $90,000 to resolve allegations of violations of the False Claims Act
- Research Institute agrees to $5.5 million settlement related to failure to disclose foreign affiliations
- Stanford agrees to $1.9 million settlement for failure to disclose foreign affiliations of a single researcher
- Ohio State University settles for over $875,000 for failure to disclose foreign affiliations
- Ohio State University researcher sentenced to prison for lying on grant applications
- Former Emory University professor convicted for lying on tax returns; not disclosing income from foreign affiliation
NIST 800 non-compliance actions
- Penn State facing false claims lawsuit over potential noncompliance with NIST 800-171 requirements
- Georgia Tech Research Corporation facing false claims lawsuit over potential noncompliance with NIST 800-171 requirements