Former Stony Brook University Professor Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Cancer Research Funds: Dr. Geoffrey Girnun Used Government Funds to Make Personal Mortgage and Tuition

Unknown 2020 Clinical Laboratories
OIG Healthcare Fraud
Penalty
$225,000

Outcome

OIG enforcement action against Former Stony Brook University Professor Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Cancer Research Funds: Dr. Geoffrey Girnun Used Government Funds to Make Personal Mortgage and Tuition for healthcare fraud. Penalty: $225,000.

Details

Former Stony Brook University Professor Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Cancer Research Funds: Dr. Geoffrey Girnun Used Government Funds to Make Personal Mortgage and Tuition — OIG Enforcement (2020)

OIG took enforcement action against Former Stony Brook University Professor Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Cancer Research Funds: Dr. Geoffrey Girnun Used Government Funds to Make Personal Mortgage and Tuition in 2020 involving healthcare fraud violations in the Clinical Laboratories sector.

Penalty: $225,000

Violation types: Healthcare Fraud
Entity type: Clinical Laboratory
Penalty type: Criminal

Source: Former Stony Brook University Professor Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Cancer Research Funds: Dr. Geoffrey Girnun Used Government Funds to Make Personal Mortgage and Tuition Payments

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Source: Former Stony Brook University Professor Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Cancer Research Funds: Dr. Geoffrey Girnun Used Government Funds to Make Personal Mortgage and Tuition Payments

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