Category: Government Contracts
Gunnison Energy Corporation and SG Interests settled a series of claims under the federal antitrust statutes and the false claims act related to their agreement not to compete in bidding for natural gas leases that the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management sold at auction. The lawsuits and settlement resulted from a whistleblower who filed a qui tam action under the False Claims Act.
India is seeking to fight corruption by passing its own false claims act modeled on the United States’ version of the act. It would allow whistleblowers to bring claims against contractors and to receive a cut of the proceeds received from such claims. Indian government officials are considering the legislation to counter routine fraud in the infrastructure sector in which poor quality work is rampant.
John P. Kacavas, the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, announced that Red River Computer Co., Inc. has agreed to pay $2.3 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act. The allegations relate to Red River Computer Co’s business with various federal agencies, including the U.S.
A Kuwaiti food supplier could face charges of defrauding the U.S. government as federal prosecutors investigate claims against The Public Warehouse Company, also known as Agility. The alleged fraud is to the tune of $68 million, and involves a complex scheme of funding formulas used to defraud contracts to supply troops in Iraq,
U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth has ruled against the largest private contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. government. Houston based contractor KBR Inc.’s request to dismiss a $100 million lawsuit involving false claims for private security in Iraq was denied on August 3.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the development of New York City’s automated payroll system – known as CityTime – was the subject of significant fraudulent kickbacks. The US Attorney recently announced indictments of two New Jersey executives accused of paying off contractors involving over $600 million in city funds,
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,
Peter Budetti, director of Program Integrity at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has focused his attention on fraud prevention, detection, and prosecution. On average, between $70 billion and $234 billion is lost annually due to healthcare fraud. Obama’s administration has also committed resources to minimizing fraud.
The number one state for healthcare fraud is Florida,
On November 5, 2010, an engineering contractor, Louis Berger Group, Inc. (“LBG”), agreed to pay over $69 million to settle claims of defrauding the U.S. Government related to reconstruction contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan. LBG is a New Jersey-based engineering consulting company which performed engineering contracts for the U.S. Department of Defense and United States Agency for International Development in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Furuno USA, settled a qui tam lawsuit against it for supplying electronic equipment to the US Coast Guard and Navy that was manufactured in China in violation of the Federal Trade Agreements Act. The government claimed that Furuno continued to provide Chinese navigation equipment even after it was advised that the equipment could not be manufactured in China.
