Month: October 2005

Evertec Inc., formerly known as GM Group, has agreed to pay $4.8 million to settle allegations that it defrauded the government E-Rate program. The government alleges that the company violated the False...

Reporters for the Washington Post say that federal auditors have discovered massive overbilling by Unisys, hired three years ago to create a computer network for the Transportation Security Administration....

Staples Contract and Commercial has paid the federal government $7.4 million to settle allegations that it sold office supply products manufactured in countries not permitted by the Trade Agreements Act...

Two reports from the American Health Information Management Association claim health information technology can address the growing problem of healthcare fraud. AHIMA estimates that the United States could...

Serono, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, will pay $704 million to resolve criminal charges and civil allegations involving its promotion and marketing of Serostim, a drug used to treat AIDS wasting. The...

ITT Educational Services Inc. will pay $725,000 to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that charged that the company inflated students’ grade point averages to qualify for more financial aid from the State...

The Michigan House of Representatives has passed H.H. 4577, the Medicaid Whistleblower Protection Statute, which would amend the state’s Medicaid False Claims Act. The new provisions would allow...

A joint venture of engineering and construction companies has agreed to pay the United States $24.75 million to settle allegations that the firms violated the False Claims Act. The government asserted...

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed the False Claims and Whistleblower Protection Act, making Indiana the fifteenth state to allow private citizens to blow the whistle on fraud against the state. The...

A qui tam suit filed by a former Wackenhut employee accuses the firm of billing Miami-Dade County for “phantom” security work that was never performed. The suit accuses Wackenhut of overcharging...