Fraud Against Government

Synonyms

  • Fraud on Government
April 2, 2014
Connecticut-based Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims in connection with inflated prices for Black Hawk helicopter parts, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut announced earlier this week. Sikorsky, which manufactures Black...
December 30, 2013
Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage may pay the United States more than $320 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act submitting false mortgage claims, Bloomberg Businessweek announced earlier this month. The settlement would resolve allegations that Taylor Bean knowingly submitted fraudulent mortgages to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)...
December 27, 2013
Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories has agreed to pay the United States $5.475 million to resolve allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to induce doctors to implant the company’s vascular products, the Justice Department announced today.  Abbott is a global pharmaceuticals and health care products company. The settlement...
December 6, 2013
A federal jury has found that JM Eagle, the nation’s largest manufacturer of plastic pipe, violated the False Claims Act when it knowingly sold defective pipes to states and municipalities for use in drinking water, firefighting, irrigation and other public systems, the New York Times reported. JM Eagle, formerly J-M Manufacturing, allegedly cut costs by using shoddy...
October 8, 2013
The U.S. Attorney’s Office has intervened in a lawsuit against Pinnacle Bank (Pinnacle) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last month.  The complaint alleges that Pinnacle made false statements to the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) regarding a loan under the SBA’s “504 Loan...
October 18, 2013
Boston Scientific Corp. and its subsidiaries, Guidant LLC, Guidant Sales LLC and Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (Guidant), have agreed to pay $30 million to settle allegations that Guidant knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the Medicare federal health program, the Justice Department announced yesterday. The government alleged that Guidant knowingly sold...
October 11, 2013
The lawsuit against Citizens Medical Center (Citizens), filed by Drs. Dakshesh Parikh, Harish Chandna, and Ajay Gaala, is moving forward after a federal judge denied the defendant’s motion to dismiss the case.  The doctors allege that Citizens violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting or causing the submission of false claims to federal health care...
March 11, 2013
Colorado-based CH2M Hill Hanford Group (CHG) and its parent company CH2M Hill Companies Ltd. (CH2M Hill) admitted to criminal conduct when CHG engaged in years of widespread time card fraud  on the U.S. Department of Energy. Between 1999 and 2008, CH2M Hill had a federal contract to manage and clean 177 large underground storage tanks containing mixed radioactive and...
March 9, 2013
New York-based Corning Incorporated has agreed to pay $5.65 million to the U.S. government to resolve allegations that it knowingly presented false claims for laboratory research products it sold to federal agencies through its Life Sciences division. In 2005, Corning entered a contract to sell laboratory research products to the federal government through a program that...
February 5, 2013
On February 5, 2013, California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed a lawsuit against Standard and Poor's Financial Services LLC and the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. , alleging violations of the California False Claims Act and other state law for inflating ratings of investments, which caused California's teachers public employees' pension funds, among others, to...