Scripps reach­es $10M set­tle­ment with gov­ern­ment over al­le­ga­tions NIH grants weren't prop­er­ly ac­count­ed for

Scripps Re­search In­sti­tute has set­tled a case with the Jus­tice De­part­ment al­leg­ing claims of mis­ap­pro­pri­at­ed funds, the US at­tor­ney for the dis­trict of Mary­land an­nounced late last week.

Pros­e­cu­tors said the in­sti­tute im­prop­er­ly used NIH-fund­ed re­search grants for non-grant re­lat­ed ac­tiv­i­ties, in­clud­ing work­ing on new grant ap­pli­ca­tions, teach­ing ac­tiv­i­ties and oth­er ad­min­is­tra­tive tasks. As part of the set­tle­ment, Scripps has agreed to pay $10 mil­lion.

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