I must admit I didn’t have time to read the article word by word but my impression is that Dr. New didn’t take the money and go to Acapulco but she may have used some research money for seeing patients.   From time to time we hear about people on the board who don’t have money or insurance and have a hard time seeing a doctor.  The big research hospitals have been really hit hard by medicare and medicaid cutbacks.  Everyone knows that hospitals and doctors may "overcharge" people with insurance so that they can help other people who don’t have coverage.  This seems like she may have been doing a humanitarian thing - not necessarily shortchanging research - maybe the amount of research that could be done by the existing staff in the existing space may not have required all the money that they had- and seeing patients and doing expensive labwork on them etc.  I’m also with Danny about Dr. Sarafaglou and her $877,000 whistle-blower fee.  Could be some mixture of professional jealousy, rivalry and greed motivating her. I’m also not sure what the role of the current head of Cornell pediatric endocrinology was.  Did she agree with Dr. Sarafaglou or just agree to an investigation?  Anyone understand that part?  She’s our doctor now and we really like her.