Cornell Consortia

On February 17, 2010, after 5 years in the United States District Court Northern District of New York, the Honorable David N. Hurd dismissed the actions filed under the False Claims Act.

To give summation of the case, the action raised serious allegations of child welfare fraud schemes. Cornell University took over all state training of child welfare workers contracts and set its own pricing by eliminating the competition, contrary to federal mandates. Children have suffered and died. Millions of dollars have been defrauded from the taxpayer. But why?

CHAPMAN, ex rel, U.S. v. CORNELL UNIVERSITY, et al

Well, back in 1994, New York and its public University entered into settlement agreement of a qui tam for $26.97 million dollars to pay back the United States government for fraudulently billing for no-bid contracts in child welfare training, and other relevant administrative activities.

Then, U.S. Attorney Eric H. Holder, Jr. was counsel on the case for the relator. This means the current administration has first hand knowledge of child welfare fraud and is prepared to take action.

Exhibit U-V in U.S., ex rel., CHAPMAN v. CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Now, the settlement* was entered in 1994 and the seal to the case was lifted to monitor that New York and its public universities (The State University College at Buffalo, the Research Foundation of State University of New York, and the City University of New York) so it would not defraud the U.S. government in this manner, again. And it has not.

That is because, New York, entered into contract with a "private" university, a new fraud scheme.

So, in 1996, that "private" university, Cornell University came up with a way to justly enrich itself with the no-bid contract by generating one of the biggest propaganda machines known to the child welfare industry, called National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN).

The mission of the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) is to facilitate the secondary analysis of research data relevant to the study of child abuse and neglect. By making data available to increasing numbers of researchers, NDACAN seeks to provide an accessible and scientifically productive means for researchers to explore important issues in the child maltreatment field.

TRANSLATION: NDACAN covers up the false claims and horrific treatment of children by the State of New York with bogus data because, as a privatized institution, nobody can can audit or question them, as they are funded by the U.S. DHHS Children's Bureau.

This takes us back to the dismissal by the Honorable David N. Hurd. Why would he not allow the qui tam case to proceed against Cornell. Well it should be quite obvious, he is a graduate of Cornell and former chair of the College Council of the State of New York Institute of Technology!

David N. Hurd is a United States District Judge for the Northern District of New York. At the time of his appointment in 1999, he was a United States Magistrate Judge in that District.

Judge Hurd earned his B.S. degree from Cornell University in 1959 and his J.D. degree cum laude from Syracuse University in 1963.

From 1963 until 1966 he was an associate with the firms of Coughlin, Dermody, Ingalls & Guy; Abelove & Myers; and Ferris, Kehoe, Tenney & Murnane. He served as a part-time Oneida County Assistant District Attorney from 1966 until 1967, when he joined the law firm of O’Shea, Griffin, Jones & McLaughlin as an associate, becoming a partner in the firm of O’Shea, Griffin, McDonald, Hurd & Stevens in Rome, N.Y. in 1970 and remaining as such until becoming a United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of New York in 1991.

Judge Hurd was a member of the College Council of the State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome from 1977 until 1994, serving as its Chair from 1979 until 1994.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and a member of the Rome Bar Association, Oneida County Bar Association, Albany County Bar Association, and New York State Bar Association.

Talk about school pride.  Talk about a Cornell Consortia.

"I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study ...even child welfare fraud."



*New Jersey, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and California were reviewed for training contract practices.