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> Navani, along with CMO Rajesh Dharampuriya and COO Mahesh Navani are liable for the payment of $154,920,000, while developer Jagan Vaithilingam is on the hook for $50,000 and two project managers, Bryan Sequeira and Robert Lynes, each owe $15,000, the Vermont DOJ said.

Pretty interesting to see a Developer and PM have to pay out as well. I wonder how the judge reached that conclusion.

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The developer loaded the hard-coded data to evade detection and the PM oversaw the process where the data was validated against the government's test harness for Meaningful Use. I suppose you could argue that those people would have pushed back on the lack of ethics in the situation and halted the process to prevent their certification.

Thank you for that bit of info. I would say that is quite unethical and worthy of a fine. I wonder why the developer gets it worse than the PMs though given how pressure tends to land on developers rather than the other way around.

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