Editing WNET (section)

===Misuse of federal grants===
In 2010, the office of the [[United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York]], filed a lawsuit asserting that the WNET subsidiary, the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, misused grant money worth $13&nbsp;million, donated by the [[National Science Foundation]], the [[National Endowment for the Humanities]] and the [[National Endowment for the Arts]] between September 2001 and January 2008.<ref name=WnetGrantLawsuit>{{cite news|last1=Jensen|first1=Elizabeth|title=Wnet Unit Gives Up Grants To Settle Lawsuit|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/arts/television/17arts-WNETUNITGIVE_BRF.html|access-date=July 14, 2017|work=The New York Times|issue=New York Edition, page C2|date=June 17, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201082106/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/arts/television/17arts-WNETUNITGIVE_BRF.html|archive-date=December 1, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=WNET.orgLawsuit>{{cite web|last1=Jensen|first1=Elizabeth|title=Unit of WNET.org Gives Up Grant Money to Settle Lawsuit|url=https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/after-misuse-of-grant-money-unit-of-wnet-org-to-make-amends/|website=ArtsBeat: The New York Times|access-date=July 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201044016/https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/after-misuse-of-grant-money-unit-of-wnet-org-to-make-amends/|archive-date=December 1, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=AccountingWNET>{{cite web|title=Accounting problems cost WNET $1 for every $7 in federal grants|url=https://current.org/2010/06/accounting-problems-cost-wnet-1-for-every-7-in-federal-grants/|website=Current.org|date=June 21, 2010 |publisher=Current LLC|access-date=July 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201031313/https://current.org/2010/06/accounting-problems-cost-wnet-1-for-every-7-in-federal-grants/|archive-date=December 1, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title='Sloppiness,' not wrongdoing, led to probe, says WNET chair|url=https://current.org/2009/09/sloppiness-not-wrongdoing-led-to-probe-says-wnet-chair/|website=Current|date=September 21, 2009 |publisher=American University School of Communication|access-date=July 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201081005/https://current.org/2009/09/sloppiness-not-wrongdoing-led-to-probe-says-wnet-chair/|archive-date=December 1, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> The suit asserted that WNET had used grant money that was given for the production of programs including ''[[American Masters]]'', ''[[Great Performances]]'' and ''[[Cyberchase]]'' for other purposes.<ref name="WNET.orgLawsuit" /><ref name="AccountingWNET" /> WNET settled the lawsuit in June 2010 by paying back the United States government $950,000,<ref name="WNET.orgLawsuit" /> pledging to instate a program to ensure they honored all future federal grant requirements<ref name="WnetGrantLawsuit" /> and agreeing to not receive $1,015,046 in [[federal grant]] money that was about to be awarded,<ref name="AccountingWNET" /> WNET Vice President and General Counsel, Robert Feinberg, said to ''[[The New York Times]]'': "This is not a scenario we want to repeat and we have no intention of repeating it."<ref name="WNET.orgLawsuit" />