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Booz Allen False Claims Act Allegations Resolved for $377.45 Million

Booz Allen False Claims Act Allegations Resolved for $377.45 Million

Booz Allen False Claims Act Allegations Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation, a management and consulting services provider, has settled for $377.45 million with the US government. This follows accusations of False Claims Act violations by wrongly billing commercial and international costs to government contracts. Booz Allen, based in McLean, Virginia, serves the US government as...
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Wisconsin False Claims Act Repeal Costs State $11 Million

An Expensive False Claims Act Repeal The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism has estimated that the state of Wisconsin gave up $11 million when it weakened the Wisconsin False Claims Act and then repealed it as part of the 2015-2017 budget process. The Federal False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et. seq., is the...
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Buy American Act Strengthened

A Better Buy American Act President Trump is signing an executive order today to implement a more muscular Buy American Act. This measure likely signals strengthened enforcement of the Buy American Act under the False Claims Act. The Buy American Act is a domestic preference procurement program. It gives favorable treatment to contractors that are...
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5 Areas Where President Trump Will Pay Whistleblowers

President Trump Will Pay Whistleblowers There has already been much commentary on the impact that President Trump and his administration will have on government enforcement efforts. Trump has made it clear that he intends to streamline government regulation of business in order to spur the economy. He’s also promised to dismantle Dodd-Frank, the law that...
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Whistleblower Rewards Exceed $597 Million in FY 2015

Whistleblower Rewards are High Whistleblowers helped the Justice Department recover $2.8 billion in fiscal year 2015. For their assistance, they received nearly $600 million in rewards, which I believe is a record. The largest area of recoveries was in the health care industry. Total payments in cases to the federal government for health care fraud reached $1.9...
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Contractor Defrauds DOD for Fresh Produce

On November 19, 2013, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that FreshPoint, Inc., the nation’s largest distributor of fresh produce, agreed to settle claims that it defrauded the Department of Defense (“DOD”).  FreshPoint, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SYSCO, Corp. who was also listed as a defendant in the qui tam case....
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Jury Finds Government Contractor JM Eagle Liable for Fraud in 2013

Government Contractor Found Liable Today a federal jury in the Central District of California unanimously found JM Eagle liable for defrauding the United States and several individual states.  The trial was the first step in the culmination of seven years of contentious litigation.  In order to facilitate a smoother proceeding, U.S. District Judge George H. Wu...
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Whistle Blown on KBR Once Again

Whistle Blown on KBR Once Again The army just can’t seem to break it off with military contractor KBR. They’re like that couple everyone wants to break up, but they stay together–usually with one party taking advantage of the other. We’ve recently blogged about KBR’s ongoing legal troubles, but here is just one more volume...
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Will Pennsylvania Adopt a False Claims Act?

Will Pennsylvania Adopt a False Claims Act? Once again, Pennsylvania legislators have the opportunity to adopt a state False Claims Act.  The federal False Claims Act (FCA) was enacted in 1863 to redress fraud perpetrated by companies that sold supplies to the Union Army during the Civil War. Since its enactment, the FCA has been...
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