Month: June 2007

Mellon Bank has agreed to pay $16.5 million to settle claims brought under the False Claims Act that it destroyed thousands of tax returns and tax payment checks to avoid penalties for failing to meet...

The University of Phoenix, the nation’s largest vocational school chain, asked a federal judge in Sacramento, California, to dismiss a suit brought against it under the qui tam provisions of the...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice has joined a whistleblower lawsuit that charges that ATK Thiokol Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Alliant Techsystems, Inc., knowingly sold the U.S. military flares that could...

EGL, Inc. of Houston, Texas, has paid the United States $300,000 to settle allegations that the company’s local agent in Kuwait overcharged the military for rental charges on shipping containers to Iraq....

Alan Grayson, the attorney of record for plaintiffs who accuse KBR of defrauding the government in Iraq War contracts, testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime Terrorism and Homeland...

The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas announced that the Harris County Hospital District will pay $15,449,126 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting reimbursement...