(New York City) —The Princeton Review received millions of federal dollars for operating an after-school tutoring program for underprivileged students at underperforming schools by falsifying attendance – which continued even after its vice president in charge was alerted to the fraud – Princeton Review’s owners admitted today by settling fraud allegations, Qui Tam Whistleblowers’ Attorney Timothy J. McInnis announced.
For 46 months ending in June 2010 Princeton Review falsely billed the United States under the Supplemental Educational Services (“SES”) program. They submitted falsified attendance sheets, which included forged signatures, according to the Settlement Agreement among the United States, which filed its own fraud Complaint, the qui tam whistleblower represented by McInnis, and the corporate owners of Princeton Review.
The United States, in May 2012, intervened in the Qui Tam Whistleblower case originally filed in 2009 by the Law Office of Timothy J. McInnis, against The Princeton Review and a former employee at the Review’s SES tutoring division. The Government’s fraud Complaint allege forging of student signatures, falsifying sign-in sheets, and providing false certifications for those attendances. Federal funds were involved under the No Child Left Behind law’s response to underperforming public schools.
In January 2013 the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced fraud guilty pleas by two former Princeton Review directors, along with civil settlements by the two former directors, and a former Princeton Review vice president.
Read the McInnis Law News Release
Read the Princeton Review Settlement Agreement
Read the U.S. Attorney’s May 2012 News Release
The Government’s Complaint
The Relator’s Complaint
Read the U.S. Attorney’s January 2013 News Release
Read the January 2013 Princeton Review Green Settlement and Dismissal
US ex rel Jane Doe v. The Princeton Review, Inc., Stephen Green, and Ana Azocar (index number 09 CIV 6876 (BSJ)
