Month: August 2007

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said that new state contracting regulations wouldn’t be sufficient to clean up the corruption and construction lapses he said turned a highway improvement...

Burlington Resources, a subsidiary of ConocoPhillips, has agreed to pay $97.5 million to settle a whistleblower’s claims that it underpaid royalties owed for natural gas produced on federal and Indian...

IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers have agreed to pay nearly $5.3 million combined to settle allegations that they made improper payments on government technology contracts, the Justice Department said Thursday....

The Crane Company, a manufacturer of valves and marine components, has agreed to pay the United States $7.5 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations. The suit, which originated as a whistleblower...

A federal judge in Sacramento has rejected an attempt by the University of Phoenix to have a False Claims Act suit dismissed. The school had claimed that $9.8 million it paid the U.S. Dept. of Education...

Parkway Hospital of Forest Hills, New York, has agreed to pay $1.075 million to resolve allegations that it defrauded the Medicare program. A former director of finance at Parkway filed a whistleblower...

A former Iasis Heathcare executive has alleged in a qui tam suit that the hospital chain performed unnecessary medical procedures and illegally compensated doctors for patient referrals . The whistleblower...

NCR revealed in SEC filings that Teradata, a software division that the company intends to spin off, is being investigated by the US Justice Department over certain federal government contracts. The investigation...

San Diego has sued Willkie Farr & Gallagher for $29.3 million, alleging fraud, negligence and violations of the California state False Claims Act. The city attorney’s office claims that Willkie...

Aggregate Industries NE Inc., has pleaded guilty to fraud for supplying substandard concrete on the Big Dig and will pay $50 million to settle the case. $42 million will go to settle a civil investigation...