The federal government joined a suit alleging that Princeton Review violated the False Claims Act by billing for tutoring services for underprivileged students that were never provided.  Princeton Review was contracted to provide Supplemental Education Services tutoring at underperforming NYC schools under the No Child Left Behind law.  Under the contract, Princeton Review was to be paid per student, per hour.  According to the complaint, employees were rewarded with bonuses when sessions were well-attended and were threatened with pay-cuts or termination when they were not.  Employees allegedly forged student signatures to boost their attendance rates.  According to the government, the sign-in sheet records include the names of students who were out of the country on days they purportedly attended tutoring sessions, signatures that misspelled students’ own names, and tutoring sessions on days that schools were closed.  The federal government estimated that the alleged scheme resulted in millions of dollars in fraudulent billings.

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