Has the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) ever investigated Annette Bosworth or issued notices related to her work?
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Executive summary
The materials provided show detailed descriptions of the U.S. Office of Research Integrity’s mission, investigative processes, and public case-summary resources [1] [2] [3], and separately document Annette Bosworth’s criminal conviction for election-law violations in South Dakota [4]. Within those same materials there is no record, case summary, or public notice tying the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) to any investigation of Annette Bosworth or to any ORI-issued notice concerning her work; the provided sources do not indicate ORI involvement [3] [4].
1. What the Office of Research Integrity does and publishes
The Office of Research Integrity oversees and directs Public Health Service research-integrity activities, issues guidance and case summaries, and conducts oversight reviews of institutional inquiries and investigations into allegations of fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism in federally supported research [1] [2] [3]. ORI posts policies, investigations guidance, and case summaries on its website and publishes notices and findings when it has jurisdiction or takes administrative actions; its public materials and rules governing PHS-supported research are available through ORI and related regulatory texts [5] [6] [7].
2. Who Annette Bosworth is, in the public record supplied
The supplied reporting documents a law-enforcement and prosecutorial record concerning Annette Bosworth: she was indicted in June 2014 on counts of perjury and filing false election documents related to nominating petition signatures for a U.S. Senate run, and was convicted on those counts in May 2015, with sentencing terms announced by the South Dakota Attorney General’s Office [4]. That record is a state criminal matter about election-law violations; the provided sources show no linkage between those proceedings and research-misconduct oversight bodies in the materials supplied [4].
3. Search for ORI investigations or notices relating to Bosworth — findings
The sources collected for this review include ORI’s own materials — guidance on investigations, case summaries, and descriptions of oversight functions — and a separate state press release about Bosworth’s sentencing [2] [3] [4]. Nowhere in the supplied ORI pages or the Bosworth material is there a case summary, enforcement notice, or other documentary evidence showing ORI investigated Bosworth or issued a notice about her work; the ORI case-summary resource exists for identifying ORI actions, but no entry connecting Bosworth appears in the documents provided [3] [4].
4. Why ORI would or would not be expected to investigate someone like Bosworth
ORI’s statutory remit and published rules focus on allegations involving PHS‑supported biomedical or behavioral research — i.e., federal public‑health–funded science — and ORI’s oversight is exercised through inquiries, investigations, and administrative actions tied to that domain [7] [2]. The Bosworth matter documented in the supplied reporting concerns state election-law offenses, not allegations of fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in PHS‑funded research; absent evidence she was engaged in PHS‑supported research or that a relevant institution reported alleged research misconduct, ORI would typically have no jurisdictional basis or published reason to issue notices in that kind of case [7] [2].
5. Caveats, alternative explanations, and conclusion
This review is limited to the documents supplied: ORI policy pages, case‑summary resources, regulatory texts, and the South Dakota Attorney General’s press release about Bosworth [2] [3] [7] [4]. The materials provided contain no ORI investigation record or notice involving Annette Bosworth, and they establish ORI’s typical subject matter and publication channels for such actions [1] [5]. That absence in the supplied reporting supports the conclusion that there is no evidence here of an ORI investigation or ORI-issued notice relating to Bosworth’s work; if a reader needs a definitive, exhaustive search of ORI’s entire public docket or other government records beyond these materials, that would require consulting ORI’s full case‑summary archive and federal registries directly [3] [5].