Category: Defense Industry
Calnet Inc., which provided intelligence analysis, information technology and translation services to the Department of Defense (DoD), agreed to pay $18.1 million to settle a claim that the company inflated its rates on three contracts with the DoD from 2006 to 2010. The contracts were to provide translation services to the federal government at Guantanamo Bay,
In a Qui Tam False Claims Act suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, ATK Launch Systems Inc., has agreed to pay the United States $21 million and provide necessary in-kind services worth $15,967,160 in reparation costs for 76,000 malfunctioning para-flares that were sold to the government.
Philadelphia, Friday, January 20, 2012: United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Zane David Memeger and the United States Department of Justice announced today that The Boeing Company, the largest manufacturer of commercial jets and military aircraft combined, has agreed to pay $4,392,779.74 to settle a Federal False Claims Act whistleblower lawsuit brought by current Boeing employee Vincent A.
To resolve allegations of submitting false claims, Norfolk-based Maersk Line Limited and its Danish affiliate, Maersk Line, agreed to a global settlement of $31.9 million to the federal government. It was alleged that Maersk “knowingly overcharged the Department of Defense to transport thousands of containers from ports to inland delivery destinations in Iraq and Afghanistan,” per an announcement released from the Justice Department.
Tamimi Global Company Ltd. (TAFGA), a Saudi Arabian company, agreed to pay $13 million to the U.S. government to settle criminal and civil allegations that it paid illegal kickbacks and gratuities to a KBR employee to obtain a U.S. Army subcontract. Specifically, TAFGA paid KBR subcontract manager Steven Lowell Seamans $133,000 in kickbacks to get preferential treatment for the award of a subcontract to provide dining services in Camp Arifjan in Kuwait under KBR’s LOGCAP (Logistics Civil Augmentation Program) III contract.
A former US Army Sergeant pleaded guilty to theft of US government equipment during time he spent in Iraq training the Iraqi Army units. Robert Ashley Nelson pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to steal public property for his role in stealing eight generators from an Army base, which he then sold for approximately $44,830.
Two American businessmen, George H. Lee and his son, Justin W. Lee, have been charged with giving U.S. Army officers airline tickets, vacations, and over $1 million in bribes to secure multimillion-dollar contracts to provide supplies to the U.S. military and to help rebuild Iraq. Their indictment was unsealed on May 27,
Dyncorp International LLC and its subcontractor, The Sandi Group, were charged with allegations of submitting false claims for payment under Dyncorp’s contract with the Department of State to provide civilian police training in Iraq. The qui tam lawsuit was filed by two former TSG employees, which alleged that Dyncorp was submitting inflated claims for the construction of container camps at various locations in Iraq and that TSG was seeking reimbursement for danger pay that it falsely claimed to have paid its U.S.
The Justice Department recently filed a False Claims Act action against engineering and construction firm KBR, Inc., the prime contractor on the Army’s Logistics Civil Augmentation Program III contract. As the prime contractor, KBR provided logistics support services to US troops stationed in Iraq. Prior to the filing of the False Claims Act action,
CDI, a Philadelphia supplier of engineering services on commercial and military projects, agreed to settle a false claims act lawsuit based on claims of mischarged labor costs for the period from January 2001 through December 2006. An investigation revealed that CDI directed billing of labor costs (at increments less than .5 hours to evade detection) to be reimbursed by the military for work that was never done.
