September 12, 2018

Sonag Ready Mix, LLC and owner Nicholas Rivecca have agreed to pay $629,732 to settle claims under the False Claims Act of defrauding the Department of Transportation’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program, which gives socially and economically disadvantaged owners of small businesses a chance to compete for transportation-related government contracts. As ineligible applicants to the DBE program, the defendants allegedly got another entity, Nuvo Construction Company, Inc., certified and awarded contracts under the program, then did nearly all of the work for the contract and received all of the profits. USAO EDWI

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