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To
the best of your ability, please provide the following information when
contacting the Hotline:
Type
of complaint:
1. Criminal Offenses include, but are not limited to, bribery; fraud;
conflicts of financial interest; embezzlement; certain misuse of funds,
equipment, and facilities; perjury; and other violations of criminal law
by NIH employees, grantees, contractors, or others doing business with
NIH.
2. Misuse of Grant and Contract
Funds and Other Violations include any unauthorized or inappropriate use
of grant or contract funds that violate federal grant or contract
regulations, HHS and/or NIH grants or contracts policy, or the terms of
the award, and violations of grant or contract regulations or policy that
are not directly tied to misuse of funds.
3. Improper Conduct which does
not include criminal offenses as defined above, includes the performance
of one's assigned duties in a manner that purposely contributes to the abuse
or waste of the taxpayers' money, is injurious to the integrity of the
HHS or the NIH, or is contrary to the standards of conduct established by
HHS and the Office of Government Ethics (OGE)
or established personnel practices and policies.
4.
Administrative Offenses are those incidents of improper conduct that
affect performance of official duties which can and should be addressed
directly by supervisors with the assistance of their servicing personnel
office. Administrative offenses, which may be a single or recurring
incident, include but are not limited to:
a. leave abuse and other
attendance-related offenses such as tardiness and absence without leave;
b. use of intoxicants or substance abuse that affects performance of
official duties;
c. negligent performance of, or failure to attend to, duties;
d. insubordinate behavior and failure to follow instructions;
e. discourteous behavior and offensive or abusive conduct; and
f. fighting
NIH
institute or center being affected by your allegation of fraud waste or
abuse/mismanagement:
Please indicate in your correspondence or phone call if you
wish to remain anonymous. If you do not wish to remain anonymous
please provide the following:
Your Name
Your Street
Address
Your
City/County
Your State
Your Zip Code
Your email
Address
Subject/Person/Business/Department that allegation is
about:
Name of Subject
Title of
Subject (if applicable)
Subject's
Street Address
Subject's
City/County
Subject's State
Subject's Zip
Code
Please provide a brief summary relating to your allegation.
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