Legal Opinion
Jones Ex Rel. United States v. Massachusetts General Hospital
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 16, 2015No. 13-1973PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
Relator Kenneth Jones alleges that defendants Dr. Ronald Killiany and Dr. Marilyn Albert knowingly made false statements when submitting a grant application to the National Institute on Aging (“NIA”) and knowingly falsified certain scientific data underlying the application. Those false statements, Jones contends, influenced the NIA’s decision to award over $12 million in federal funds to Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In 2006 Jones filed a qui tam action pursuant to the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. § 3729 (the “FCA”), and in a previous…
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