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DETROIT (WWJ\/AP) - A lawsuit filed by a fired medical school professor says Wayne State University bilked more than $169 million in research grant money from the U.S. government. <\/p>\n
The lawsuit, filed byChristian Kreipke in 2012 and investigated by the government since then, was unsealed last month in U.S. District Court in Detroit, The Detroit Free Press reported. <\/p>\n
In the suit, Kreipke claims the school inflated the costs of research projects to get more in grant money from the government. He said, for example, the school spent$235,000for 300 lab rats that actually cost $12 to $80 apiece, and paid $150,000 to a researcher who didnt do any work ona project. <\/p>\n
Kreipke said he complained about the suspected fraud to university officials and was shortly thereafter fired from his job. Kreipkes lawyer, Shereef Akeel, said his clients reputation is at stake. <\/p>\n
Dr. Kreipkes exemplary career has been destroyed for standing up for the truth, Akeel told The Detroit Free Press. Unfortunately, what happened to the professor is what typically happens to whistle-blowers who get the courage to speak out. <\/p>\n
Ifthe lawsuit is successful, the government could get up to 70 percent of any settlement or judgment. <\/p>\n
Authorities at Wayne State said they learned of the lawsuit from media reports. <\/p>\n
The author of the litigation an individual who was terminated from his employment for research-related misconduct has attempted to challenge his termination multiple times using several approaches. Without exception, every such attempt has failed decisively, the school said in a statement. Should Wayne State be served with this latest claim, we will defend aggressively, and we are confident that it will result in dismissal, as have all of his earlier attempts. <\/p>\n
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