One reason, I suspect, is that whistleblower cases usually are sealed early on. My guess is that many of the cases never are unsealed, and under settlement agreements, participants are sworn to confidentiality.
I only obtained key documents in the UAB case because, at some point, it was unsealed. And even then, I had to do some extra searching because the whistleblower complaints were not available on the public computers at the federal courthouse in Birmingham. I had to ask clerks for hard copies, which were stored in file folders. I suspect it was not an accident that the documents were hard to find.
There is hope for taxpayers. Under the settlement agreement in the UAB case, the government can reopen the case at any time, initiating a civil, administrative, or criminal investigation. This is the proverbial gun that Alice Martin has had cocked at UAB's head for three-plus years now.
Settlement agreements in other cases probably contain similar language. I would suggest that an Obama Justice Department should revisit these corporate and academic fraud cases and make sure the perpetrators are punished in a way that is commensurate with their misdeeds.
Meanwhile, you might not read "the rest of the story" about academic research fraud in the mainstream press. But you will be reading the whole story of the UAB case here at Legal Schnauzer.
I only obtained key documents in the UAB case because, at some point, it was unsealed. And even then, I had to do some extra searching because the whistleblower complaints were not available on the public computers at the federal courthouse in Birmingham. I had to ask clerks for hard copies, which were stored in file folders. I suspect it was not an accident that the documents were hard to find.
There is hope for taxpayers. Under the settlement agreement in the UAB case, the government can reopen the case at any time, initiating a civil, administrative, or criminal investigation. This is the proverbial gun that Alice Martin has had cocked at UAB's head for three-plus years now.
Settlement agreements in other cases probably contain similar language. I would suggest that an Obama Justice Department should revisit these corporate and academic fraud cases and make sure the perpetrators are punished in a way that is commensurate with their misdeeds.
Meanwhile, you might not read "the rest of the story" about academic research fraud in the mainstream press. But you will be reading the whole story of the UAB case here at Legal Schnauzer.
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