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
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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