by Ted Agres
NEWS ANALYSIS	NIH probe expands Email: Ted Agres - tedagres@lycos.com News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20040219-04 Published   19 February 2004

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is coming under fire from a congressional subcommittee for using a "loophole" in the law to pay senior officials as if they were consultants rather than staff employees. These NIH officials are able to draw salaries of up to $225,000 a year, nearly twice what they could otherwise earn, and are not required to file public financial disclosure forms that would otherwise be required.

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