Posted on April 9, 2014
Five California-based masonry subcontractors and two individuals have agreed to pay the government $1.9 million to resolve allegations that the parties violated the False Claims Act in connection with military construction contracts, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. The...
Posted on April 8, 2014
Dr. Anthony Held, a client of The Chanler Group, negotiated an agreement with Four Seasons General Merchandise in February to ensure that its bowls are free of the toxic metal lead.
Held alleged that Four Seasons violated Proposition 65 by selling bowls that contain lead in California without...
Posted on April 7, 2014
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities commissioners voted unanimously to reject a 25 megawatt offshore wind project, reported RE News in late March. The project, which has been pending before the agency for three years, would have been based about three miles off the coast of Atlantic City...
Posted on 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...
Posted on March 26, 2014
Lantheus Medical Imaging and Bristol-Myers Squibb have agreed to pay $6.2 million to settle allegations that the company failed to pay New York State and City taxes, in violation of the False Claims Act, the New York Attorney General’s office announced.
Lantheus and its former parent company...
Posted on March 26, 2014
The Bay Area successfully launched a food recycling program that turns leftover plant matter into renewable energy, reported the Marin Independent Journal earlier this week. The Marin program, led by the Marin Sanitary Service and Central Marin Sanitation Agency, was in development for six...
Posted on March 26, 2014
TCG clients Russell Brimer, Dr. Anthony Held, Dr. Whitney Leeman, Laurence Vinocur, and Paul Wozniak served over 30 new 60-Day Notices of Proposition 65 Violation today, to companies offering products such as hand tools, sunscreen, and bags for sale in California that contain chemicals known to...
Posted on March 25, 2014
California-based Bizlink Technology, Inc. (BTI) has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by underpaying customs duties owed on goods imported from China, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California announced...
Posted on March 20, 2014
Chemtura, a leading manufacturer of flame retardants and other chemicals, filed suit earlier this year regarding the recent revision to the decades-old Technical Bulletin 117 (TB-117), reported the San Francisco Chronicle. TB-117-2013 revises TB-117 in such a way that furniture manufacturers...
Posted on March 20, 2014
Minga Fair Trade Imports has issued a recall of wooden flipping acrobat toys because the surface paint contains lead in excess of federal standards. The recalled flipping acrobat toys are made of painted wood and are 8.5 inches tall. The toys consist of two rectangular wooden sticks...
