Government Procurement Fraud
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Wireless Carriers Pay $138.7 Million to Settle Claims of Overcharging Hundreds of State and Local Entities Under Cooperative Purchasing Contracts
Posted 09/24/20
September 22, 2020
Contractors Bechtel National Inc., Bechtel Corporation, AECOM Energy & Construction, Inc., and Waste Treatment Completion Company, LLC will pay $57.75 million to resolve claims that they violated the False Claims Act by overbilling the Department of Energy for work on the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant. The investigation was initiated by four whistleblowers who reported overcharging by defendants on craft labor performed by electricians, millwrights, pipefitters, and other skilled trades workers, including billing for unallowable and unreasonable idle time caused by management failures in scheduling work. The whistleblowers will receive $13.75 million from the settlement. USAO ED WASeptember 17, 2020
LexisNexis Coplogic Solutions Inc. agreed to pay $10 million to Florida, which intervened in an action brought by whistleblower Christopher Hood under the Florida False Claims Act alleging that the company was underpaying the state. LexisNexis contracted with the state to provide motor vehicle crash reports to the public for a small fee; a portion of the fee collected by LexisNexis, $10 per report, was to be paid by the company to the state Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. However, the whistleblower and state alleged that LexisNexis systematically understated the number of reports it sold, thereby underpaying the state. The relator, a former employee of LexisNexis, will receive a whistleblower award of $1.8 million. Fla. Earlier settlementsSeptember 15, 2020
In a resolution valued at $51.7 million, defense contracting firm QuantaDyn Corporation agreed to plead guilty and enter into a civil settlement to resolve claims and charges arising from its scheme to bribe an Air Force contracting official to provide procurement-sensitive information and steer government contracts for training simulators to the company. The government contented that QuantaDyn’s bribery scheme caused a prime contractor to submit false invoices to the United States. QuantaDyn will pay $37.8 million in restitution, a criminal penalty of $6.3 million, and forfeit $7.1 million; the company CEO and majority owner, William T. Dunn, Jr., will pay $500,000. DOJSeptember 10, 2020
Asphalt contractor Dave O’Mara Contractor, Inc. will pay $4.25 million to resolve claims that in performing and billing for repaving work that was funded in part by the Federal Highway Administration, they falsely represented that they were including steel slag in the asphalt mixture when they were not in fact doing so, increasing the chance that the roads would prematurely deteriorate. DOJ; USAO SD INAugust 31, 2020
CDM Smith Inc. and CDM Federal Programs Corporation paid $5.6 million to resolve charges that they violated the False Claims Act and Truth in Negotiations Act by submitting inaccurate cost and labor hour estimates and related certifications in connection with task orders on a federal contract to supply architect-engineering services to Navy bases. The case was initiated by an unnamed whistleblower, who will receive a share of the recovery. USAO ED VAFor Garlic Powder They Got Maltodextrin
Posted 08/28/20
