Bribery and Bid-Rigging
This archive displays posts tagged as relevant to bribery and bid rigging in U.S. government contracting. You may also be interested in the following pages:
- Government Contract Fraud
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, regarding international bribery
- Whistleblower Home Page
March 7, 2014
Ocean shipping companies Sea Star Line and Horizon Lines agreed to pay $1.9M and $1.5M, respectively, to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by fixing the price of government cargo transportation contracts between the continental US and Puerto Rico, the Department of Justice announced today. The allegations were first raised in a qui tam lawsuit filed under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act. DOJNovember 7, 2013
Iraqi Consultants and Construction Bureau paid $2.7M to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by bribing a U.S. government official to obtain U.S. government contracts in Iraq. DOJIn Their Own Words -- Walker
Posted 09/14/15
-- “Out of the sense of honesty and patriotism, he didn’t want anything to do with what was going on here. He wanted to make sure the wrongdoers were exposed.”
Whistleblower attorney describing Steven D. Walker’s efforts to expose bid rigging fraud in war-torn Afghanistan program. For more click here.The UK's 2010 Bribery Act -- More Businesses Need To Take Note
Posted 07/23/15
By Richard Pike and Natalia Mikolajczyk
At the beginning of this month the UK Ministry of Justice and the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills released a survey on how many UK small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) know about the UK’s Bribery Act 2010. It turns out that two-thirds of the SMEs surveyed either had heard of or were aware of the corporate liability for failure to prevent bribery. Of those...