Will this fraud be prosecuted?

This article raises an interesting question. For years, rape advocate groups have exaggerated or lied about the number of rapes or sexual assaults in order to draw attention to the problem or increase their influence. In this case, UC-Davis and the director of its Campus Violence Prevention Fund lied about the number of sexual assaults in order to increase the funding it receives from the federal government. That's fraud, the author argues:

"The question, obviously, is this: Why did UC-Davis fudge its numbers? The source of the false information was Beeman, who used inflated figures to increase the federal grants that the university could receive...Readers have to understand that this is a classic example of real-live fraud as defined by federal fraud statutes. Unlike many of the fraud cases in which people charged really have not committed actual "fraud" but have run afoul of federal regulations or engaged in a legal action that the feds can re-interpret as being criminal.

Here we have a person who deliberately put false information in her applications in order to obtain larger grants. This money then went to the office that she directed, which meant that a least some of her own salary (if not all) came from this money, and we are dealing with hundreds of thousands of dollar. Granted, this is not Bernie Madoff, but nonetheless it is real, unadulterated fraud.

The question I have is this: Will the feds investigate and prosecute Beeman? We have the false statements, the fraud, and the motive. She even gained financially from this fraud."

Anyone want to make a bet on whether the director is prosecuted?'

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and hide (or destroy) all the documentation?

then call them crazy "frauders" and poke fun of those

who wanted to see the missing info.

she is probably politically connected. i would be

willing to bet this is s.o.p. for this growth industry (vawa).

fraud appears to be the currency this government

runs on. the inmates really are running the institutions.

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"fraud appears to be the currency this government runs on. "

True. That's one reason why I didn't vote Democrat for only the 2nd time in 30 years.

-ax

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