August 15, 2017

Bryon Faulkner, former employee of Virginia-based Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., will receive a whistleblower award of roughly $1.6 million from the $9.2 million the company agreed to pay to settle charges it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly overbilling the government for labor on U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships at its shipyards in Pascagoula, Mississippi. DOJ

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