Leaders Pressed on University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's Fiscal Ills

State lawmakers yesterday accused the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey of "scandalous" financial practices and vowed to continue pressuring the administration to permanently change the way the state-funded health care university is managed.During a four-hour hearing in New Brunswick, the Assembly Health Committee raised questions about an array of UMDNJ spending issues, from hundreds of millions of dollars in no-bid contracts to millions more spent on outside consultants with political connections, to the multimillion-dollar errors now delaying the new outpatient care building in Newark.

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