[Nan3cy]

I liked her except when she bad-mouthed Stanford after the 20/20 segment on the indirect cost controversy. The government accused Stanford in 1990 of overcharging the feds by nearly a quarter of a billion dollars, egged on by a “whistleblower” who thought LSJU was his ticket to millions (through a False Claims suit). We wound up settling with the feds for one-half of one percent of the amount we were accused of; in consideration of which we got a letter attesting that LSJU had committed no fraud against the government (which is what the whistleblower had claimed, over and over and over). Anyway, after the segment, she was rhapsodic about the courage of the whistleblower going up against the big bad university. Since I worked in the office at Stanford that had to deal with the government auditors, along with lawyers and consultants ad nauseum, I was not an unbiased observer.

[Nan3cy]

I liked her except when she bad-mouthed Stanford after the 20/20 segment on the indirect cost controversy. The government accused Stanford in 1990 of overcharging the feds by nearly a quarter of a billion dollars, egged on by a “whistleblower” who thought LSJU was his ticket to millions (through a False Claims suit). We wound up settling with the feds for one-half of one percent of the amount we were accused of; in consideration of which we got a letter attesting that LSJU had committed no fraud against the government (which is what the whistleblower had claimed, over and over and over). Anyway, after the segment, she was rhapsodic about the courage of the whistleblower going up against the big bad university. Since I worked in the office at Stanford that had to deal with the government auditors, along with lawyers and consultants ad nauseum, I was not an unbiased observer.