July 25, 2019

California-based telecommunications company Silvus Technologies, Inc., will pay $436,000 to resolve claims under the False Claims Act that the company overcharged the Air Force on three separate cost-based contracts.  The company was alleged to have included unallowable costs and improperly charged employee costs to the contracts.  The overcharges resulted from internal controls that the government described as inadequate to accurately track direct and indirect costs.  USAO N.D.N.Y.

Tagged in: Defense Contract Fraud, Falsifying Invoices, FCA Federal, Government Procurement Fraud,