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Defense Contract Fraud

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July 8, 2015

George H. Lee, president and CEO of American Logistics Services, a Kuwaiti company providing supplies to the U.S. military during the Iraq War, was sentenced to 54 months in prison for paying a $15,000 bribe to former Army National Guard Lieutenant Markus E. McClain in exchange for the award of a contract.  DOJ

May 13, 2015

Healthcare technology company Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. agreed to pay $5.9 million to resolve False Claims Act charges of overcharging the Department of Defense for purchases of medical imaging equipment.  DOJ

April 8, 2015

Orlando-based Air Ideal Inc. and its majority owner, Kim Amkraut, agreed to pay $250,000 to resolve allegations they made false statements to the Small Business Administration to improperly obtain certification as a Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) company.  They must also pay five percent of Air Ideal’s gross revenues over the next five years.  Specifically, the government alleged Air Ideal used its fraudulently-procured HUBZone certification to obtain contracts from the US Coast Guard, US Army, US Army Corps of Engineers and the US Department of the Interior.  The allegations first arose in a whistleblower complaint filed under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act by Patricia Hopson.  She will receive a whistleblower award of $42,500.  DOJ

February 20, 2015

George H. Lee, president and CEO of Kuwaiti-based American Logistics Services, pleaded guilty to paying a $15,000 bribe to an Army National Guard officer in exchange for the award of a contract to provide buses to the US Army in Iraq.  DOJ

February 11, 2015

Two US Army sergeants, James Edward Norris of Fort Irwin, California, and Seneca Darnell Hampton of Fort Benning, Georgia, pleaded guilty for accepting bribes from Afghan truck drivers at Forward Operating Base Gardez, Afghanistan in exchange for allowing the drivers to take thousands of gallons of fuel from the base for resale on the black market.  DOJ

January 26, 2015

Former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling was convicted under the Espionage Act for illegally disclosing national defense information and obstructing justice in connection with his role in the CIA’s classified clandestine operational program designed to undermine the Iranian nuclear weapons program. Whistleblower Insider

January 26, 2015

Composite Engineering Inc., a Sacramento-based subsidiary of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions that manufactures remote-controlled subscale aircraft for the US. military, agreed to pay $2M to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act by submitting inflated costs in connection with a 2007 Air Force contract. DOJ

January 15, 2015

US Navy contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia and its owner and CEO Leonard Glenn Francis pleaded guilty to bribery and fraud charges, admitting to a decade-long conspiracy involving “scores” of US Navy officials, tens of millions of dollars in fraud and millions of dollars in bribes and gifts. As part of his guilty plea, Francis admitted to defrauding the Navy of tens of millions of dollars by routinely overbilling for various goods and services, including fuel, tugboat services and sewage disposal. Francis and GDMA agreed to forfeit $35M and pay full restitution to the Navy. DOJ

January 6, 2015

US Navy Officer Jose Luis Sanchez pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges admitting he provided a government contractor with classified ship schedules and other internal US Navy information in exchange for cash, travel and entertainment expenses, as well as the services of prostitutes. He is the fifth to plead guilty in the corruption probe involving Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), a defense contractor based in Singapore that serviced US Navy ships and submarines throughout the Pacific. DOJ

December 19, 2014

Lockheed Martin subsidiary Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems agreed to pay $27.5M to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act by overbilling the government on US Army contracts for work in Iraq and Afghanistan. DOJ
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