Contractors plead guilty to illegally obtaining $31 million in contracts...
Executives at two Arlington, Va.-based businesses have pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining more than $31 million in government contract payments that should have gone to disadvantaged small...
View ArticleSham minority contractors have been hired in your city, probably
Philadelphia Inspector General Amy Kurland announced last week that local contractors have used “sham minority subcontractors” on 19 projects to skirt antidiscrimination requirements. In New York,...
View ArticleOhio business owners pay $2.9 million to settle DBE fraud case
Prominent Washington Township (Ohio) developers David C. and Shery Oakes, along with their former business partner Sherif Aziz, have agreed to pay the U.S. government nearly $2.9 million to settle...
View ArticleConsultant to veteran-owned small business, once suspended by SBA, says CEO...
A consultant for MicroTechnologies LLC, one of the federal government’s most prominent small-business contractors, said the firm’s founder authorized him to submit information to the Small Business...
View ArticleMan sentenced to 42 months in prison for defrauding SBA and IRS of more than...
Earlier this month, Vernon J. Smith III, age 61, of Edgewater, Maryland, was sentenced to 42 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to defraud the United States...
View ArticleGA-based construction firm to pay $1 million to settle alleged DBE-related...
C.W. Matthews Contracting Company (C.W. Matthews), a Marietta, GA-based construction firm, has agreed to pay $1 million dollars to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act almost eight...
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Owners of phony disadvantaged business to pay $7.8 million to settle false...
LB&B Associates Inc. and its principals, Lily A. Brandon and F. Edward Brandon, have agreed to pay the government $7.8 million to resolve allegations that they made false statements to obtain...
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Company to pay fine and forfeiture of $1.8 million for obtaining federal...
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has announced that MCC Construction Company (MCC), a construction management company and general contractor headquartered in Colorado, has agreed to pay $1.8...
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Construction officials pay $1 million to settle DBE fraud
An upstate New York construction company and three individuals have paid $1,012,000 to resolve claims that they defrauded a government program designed to benefit women- and minority-owned contractors,...
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Yet another DBE fraud case: Steel company execs get $1 million fine, 5 years’...
Phony owner of DBE gets 3 years of probation and is ordered to pay $336,219 in restitution. Two Pennsylvania men who funneled business to their family’s steel construction firm by using a shell company...
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Jury convicts contractor of defrauding city’s womens business program
A federal jury on Friday (June 17, 2016) convicted a suburban Chicago construction subcontracting firm on fraud charges for scheming to help a general contractor falsely satisfy the woman’s business...
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S.C. feds allege contractor, associates bilked government of $350 million
Federal prosecutors have indicted five men, two women and two corporations, alleging they illegally won government contracts worth some $350 million by misrepresenting themselves as straw companies...
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“Reverse” False Claims Act liability extended to bonding companies
On Monday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that bonding companies can be held liable for treble damages under the False Claims Act for issuing surety bonds to construction...
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Indictment in $40 million alleged fraud case signals increased scrutiny of...
On December 1, 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the federal grand indictment of an army veteran for allegedly engaging in major government program fraud by using his status as a...
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Two companies and individuals indicted for exploiting disadvantaged business...
Stamatios “Tom” Kousisis of Pennsylvania and Emanouel “Manny” Frangos of Ohio, along with Alpha Painting & Construction Co., Inc. of Baltimore, Maryland, and Liberty Maintenance, Inc. of...
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Fort Stewart contractor that posed as small business forfeits $7.8 million
A company that rents tents and other outdoor structures for events agreed to pay the government $7.8 million to settle charges that it wrongly won Defense Department set-aside contracts reserved for...
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