San Francisco Superior Court, Case No. 964656

CPM filed a qui tam California False Claims Act case against a research foundation for failure to pay direct and overhead costs in clinical drug studies to its host university. The defendants agreed to pay $25 million to settle the lawsuit that alleged dollars were being misused. A UC-trained physiologist, Dr. Charles Richardson, brought the lawsuit.

Signal Research Grant Fraud: California ex rel. Richardson v. IREF

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