Falsifying Invoices
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September 4, 2019
Defense contractor Arkin Industries has agreed to return $2.6 million in overpayments to the Department of Defense, Air Force, and Navy, after self-disclosing that it had detecting an error in its accounting system that double-billed worker hours. The designer, tester, and manufacturer of aircraft and helicopter parts cooperated with an independent investigation by the United States, which determined that the overbilling was accidental. USAO EDNYAugust 9, 2019
Military contractor Mission1st Group Inc has agreed to pay $4 million to settle allegations that it billed the United States for hazard pay add-ons to its employee salaries, but then did not actually pay the billed “uplifts” to its employees. USAO NJJuly 25, 2019
California-based telecommunications company Silvus Technologies, Inc., will pay $436,000 to resolve claims under the False Claims Act that the company overcharged the Air Force on three separate cost-based contracts. The company was alleged to have included unallowable costs and improperly charged employee costs to the contracts. The overcharges resulted from internal controls that the government described as inadequate to accurately track direct and indirect costs. USAO N.D.N.Y.June 28, 2019
Following a whistleblower suit, defense contractor PAE Applied Technologies, LLC has agreed to pay $4.2 million to settle charges that it knowingly defrauded the U.S. Air Force in violation of the False Claims Act. The alleged fraud occurred between government fiscal years 2009 to 2014 and involved charging for employee wages that were above the applicable wage caps listed on a government contract. USAO WDOKWhistleblowers Needed to Stop Secret Kickbacks, Bribes, Overcharging, and False Costs in E-Rate, Lifeline, Connect America, and Rural Healthcare programs
Posted 06/7/19
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Posted 05/31/19
April 22, 2019
Three Michigan construction firms will pay $466,500 to resolve claims of bid rigging and fraudulent billing for renovation work performed at Amtrak stations for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation. Tooles Contracting Group, LLC, Commercial Contracting Corporation, and G&B Electric, Inc., along with G&B's president James Gierlach, were alleged to have unlawfully shared bid information and inflated invoices and time records. USAO ED MICatch of the Week – Northrop Grumman Systems
Posted 11/8/18
