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The New York Times is continuing its coverage of fraud allegations against former Walter Reed Army Medical Center surgeon Dr. Timothy Kuklo. According to a recent article, an Army investigation found that Kuklo falsified the results of a study concerning the effectiveness of Medtronic Bone Infuse for treating shin fractures in soldiers. The newspaper also reports that he listed his colleagues as co-authors on the studying without their permission, and forged their signatures when submitting the study for publication in medical journals. The incident has made Kuklo the target of a Department of Justice investigation, as well as inquiries by Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where Kuklo currently serves as a medical professor. Kuklo’s impartiality is questionable because of his past and present links to Medtronic; the company had paid for some of his travel and research expenses while he worked at Walter Reed, and he became a paid consultant for Medtronic upon leaving the hospital in August 2006. Previously Kuklo had been accused of exaggerating the effectiveness of Infuse in treating bone fractures in injured soldiers.