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
December 1, 2014
Kazumi Umahashi, former General Manager of Japanese auto parts maker Mitsuba Corporation, agreed to plead guilty and serve 13 months in prison for conspiring to fix the prices and allocate the supply of windshield wiper systems and starter motors sold to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. and its subsidiaries and affiliates in the U.S. and elsewhere. He also agreed to pay a $20,000 criminal fine. In November 2013 Mitsuba pleaded guilty for its involvement in the conspiracy and agreed to pay $135M in criminal fines. Including today’s charges, 48 individuals have been charged in DOJ’s ongoing investigation into price fixing and bid rigging in the auto parts industry. Additionally, 32 companies have pleaded guilty or agreed to plead guilty and have agreed to pay a total of more than $2.4 billion in fines. DOJNovember 24, 2014
Two Northern California real estate investors, Su Chu Chou “Terry” Cheng and Chung Li “George” Cheng, agreed to plead guilty for their role in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California. According to the government, between May 2008 and January 2011, George and Terry Cheng conspired with others not to bid against one another, and instead designated a winning bidder to obtain selected properties at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. To date, as a result of DOJ’s ongoing antitrust investigations into bid rigging and fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California, 49 individuals have agreed to plead or have pleaded guilty. DOJNovember 17, 2014
New York environmental remediation firm Sevenson Environmental Services Inc. agreed to pay more than $2.7M to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Act by accepting kickbacks, rigging bids and passing inflated charges to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in connection with work performed at the Federal Creosote Superfund Site in Manville, New Jersey. According to the government, Sevenson solicited and accepted more than $1.6M in kickbacks from six companies in exchange for the award of subcontracts for work at the Federal Creosote Site. DOJMarch 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...