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Government Procurement Fraud

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February 21, 2019

Body armor manufacturer Survival Armor, Inc., will pay $900,000 to resolve claims that it falsely claimed to qualify as a small business to secure a five-year small business set-aside contract to provide tactical body armor to the Department of Homeland Security.  The company is, in fact, a subsidiary of a large foreign parent company, and not a small business.  USAO MD FL

Tagged in: Government Procurement Fraud, Set-Asides and Preferences,

February 20, 2019

Clifton Burch and Peter McKean have been found guilty by a jury for conspiring to submit fraudulently rigged bids for construction at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is paid for and overseen by the Department of Energy.  Burch and McKean agreed to and did submit bids that were not genuine, but were intended to be higher than a $5.7 million bid submitted to the DOE by a “developer” who would then pay them.  The "developer" was, in fact, an undercover agent.  USAO ND Cal

Tagged in: Bribery and Bid-Rigging, Government Procurement Fraud,

February 15, 2019

James King of Baltimore, Maryland, a former official with the Department of Veterans Affairs, was sentenced to 11 years in prison following his guilty plea for soliciting and receiving bribes from three for-profit schools that enrolled disabled military veterans.  The VA paid over $2 million to the schools that paid the bribes through its Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Program.  DOJ

Tagged in: Bribery and Bid-Rigging, Criminal Proceedings, Government Procurement Fraud,

WATCH THIS SPACE: DOJ and DOE Call Out Lockheed Martin for Self-Dealing at Hanford Plutonium Site

Posted  02/15/19
Worker in HazMat suit standing in front of pile of barrels in rain
The nation’s largest toxic cleanup site has suffered another setback, this time not in the cleanup itself but in alleged self-dealing, corruption, kickbacks, and lies, costing taxpayers over $60M, according to a complaint filed by DOJ against Mission Support Alliance, Lockheed Martin Services (and a subsidiary), and Jorge Francisco Armijo. The Hanford Nuclear Site in central Washington state made plutonium for...

Tagged in: Environmental Fraud, FCA Federal, Financial and Investment Fraud, Government Procurement Fraud,

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January 28, 2019

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (NGSC) will pay $5.2 million to resolve allegations of False Claims Act liability for fraudulently billing labor under a contract with the United States Postal Service. NGSC, a provider of information and technology services, entered into an Enterprise Technology Services Contract with USPS, and allegedly billed work by personnel who lacked the experience and the education required under the contract. DOJ

Tagged in: Contract Non-Compliance, FCA Federal, Government Procurement Fraud,

January 28, 2019

Universal Concrete Products Corporation, which subcontracted to provide precast concrete for the Dulles Metrorail Project, and its principal Donald Faust, Jr., will pay $1 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that the company falsified test records to make it appear that concrete panels met the general contractor’s standards when they did not.  In 2018, a UCP quality control employee pleaded guilty in related charges.  The government’s investigation began with a qui tam case filed by an unidentified whistleblower.  USAO EDVA

Tagged in: Contract Non-Compliance, FCA Federal, Government Procurement Fraud, Whistleblower Case,

Top Ten Federal False Claims Act Recoveries of 2018

Posted  01/28/19
The federal False Claims Act, under which whistleblowers can bring claims to report fraud and misconduct in government contracts and programs, is the foundation of the Department of Justice's fraud recovery and the U.S. whistleblower reward system.  In 2018, the U.S. recovered over $2 billion from defendants who sought to cheat the system. The top FCA settlements for calendar year 2018, based on the amount of the...

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Government Procurement Fraud, Healthcare Fraud, Top 10, Whistleblower Rewards,

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January 24, 2019

Mississippi recovered $26.6 million in settlements with private prison and correctional services contractors including for-profit correctional facilities operators Management and Training Corporation ($5.2 million) and Cornell Companies, Inc., now part of GEO Group ($4.6 million), correctional healthcare provider Wexford Health Sources, Inc. ($4 million); commissary management company Keefe Commissary Network, LLC ($3.1 million), and construction company C. N. W. Construction Company ($3.1 million).  The state's lawsuits against the companies alleged that they used "consultants" as conduits to pay bribes and kickbacks to a commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, Christopher Epps.  MS

Tagged in: Bribery and Bid-Rigging, Correctional Services Fraud, Government Procurement Fraud,

December 21, 2018

Vielka Maritza McFarlane, the founder and former CEO of Celerity Educational Group, a Los Angeles-based non-profit that owned and operated charter schools, has agreed to plead guilty for misappropriating public funds and falsely certifying that Celerity was complying with applicable rules and regulations.  McFarlane admitted that she directed approximately $2.5 million in public funds, including funds from the U.S. Department of Education, to improper uses.  USAO CD Cal

Tagged in: Education Fraud, Government Procurement Fraud,

December 21, 2018

The construction company of F.H. Paschen, S.N. Nielsen & Associates LLC will pay $2 million to settle allegations under the Illinois False Claims Act that it evaded requirements that it meet participation levels for certified small/minority/women-owned businesses on two contracts with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.  FHP was alleged to have falsely represented that a minority-owned business, Vargas Mechanical, Inc., would perform the work, in order to secure the contracts.  IL AG

Tagged in: FCA State, Government Procurement Fraud, Set-Asides and Preferences,

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