November 12, 2018

Following a whistleblower complaint, North Carolina-based Shaw University, and local building contractor, Freddy Novelo, have agreed to pay $316,900 to resolve allegations of violating the False Claims Act in bids for Department of Education construction contracts. To evade the department’s competitive bidding requirements, the defendants had allegedly submitted false bids, then used the false bids to support their payment claims. USAO EDNC

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