Mississippi Business Journal » federal grants http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 16:52:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Researcher sentenced for wire fraud in grant scheme http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/11/06/researcher-sentenced-for-wire-fraud-in-grant-scheme/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=researcher-sentenced-for-wire-fraud-in-grant-scheme http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/11/06/researcher-sentenced-for-wire-fraud-in-grant-scheme/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:51:35 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=48103 GULFPORT — A researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles has been sentenced in Gulfport to probation and restitution in a wire-fraud case. Prosecutors said Michael D. Pottenger of Santa Monica, Calif., accepted a grant of nearly $100,000 that he wasn’t eligible to receive. The Sun Herald reports Pottenger received three years’ probation [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/11/06/researcher-sentenced-for-wire-fraud-in-grant-scheme/feed/ 0 State ranks high in Census grants http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/03/10/state-ranks-high-in-census-grants/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=state-ranks-high-in-census-grants http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/03/10/state-ranks-high-in-census-grants/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:43:15 +0000 Wally Northway http://msbusiness.com/?p=20414 Mississippi ranks 10th in the nation for federal spending per person from grants that are based on the Census count. That’s according to a new study, released yesterday, by the Brookings Institution in Washington. The report says nearly three-quarters of federal grant money was distributed to states, cities and counties based on results of the [...]

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