Walter DeNino is a whistleblower who brought the frauds of Eric Poehlman to light in 2004, when he (DeNino) filed a federal false-claims suit against Poehlman for misrepresentations made to the NIH. A whistleblower is an employee or former employee of an organization who reports misconduct to people or entities that have the power to take corrective action. ... Eric Poehlman, formerly of the University of Montreal, Canada, is a researcher into obesity. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Not Invented Here (NIH) is a term used to describe a persistent corporate or institutional culture that either intentionally or unintentionally avoids using previously performed research or knowledge because the research and developed knowledge was not originally executed in-house. ...
The US government secured $180,000 from Poehlman as repayment for the falsifications to the NIH; DeNino is to receive $16,000 to cover his legal fees.
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"I was shocked when I discovered Dr Poehlman's activity. He and his lawyers attacked my character."
And he apologized to WalterDeNino, the former protégé who turned him in, who was also sitting in the courtroom, several rows back on the prosecution’s side.
Although DeNino trusted his boss implicitly, the change was too great to be explained by a handful of improperly entered numbers, which was all Poehlman claimed to have fixed.
DeNino, who wore a dark suit and tie to the hearing, betrayed no emotion as the sentence was read.
As a lab technician at the University of Vermont in Burlington, WalterDeNino had a gut feeling that something was amiss when his boss repeated a statistical analysis that DeNino had done and arrived at a different conclusion.
DeNino was successful because he knew where that point was in his university's investigation policies.
DeNino found that out when he was counter-accused of planting the falsified data.
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