Qui Tam, Federal False Claims
Act, Defense Contractor Fraud and Government Contractor
Fraud News
Recently several news stories
have surfaced regarding suspected defense contractor
fraud and government contractor fraud. Below are
brief exerts of some news stories on potential
Defense Contractor Fraud Claims and Government
Contractor Fraud Claims. For more information
follow the links to these stories.
Army Overseer Tells of Ouster
Over KBR Stir By JAMES RISEN
Published: June 17, 2008
New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Army official
who managed the Pentagon’s largest contract in Iraq
says he was ousted from his job when he refused to
approve paying more than $1 billion in questionable
charges to KBR, the Houston-based company that has
provided food, housing and other services to
American troops.
Qui tam
actions typically revolve around false claims that are
either directly or indirectly presented to the
Government for "payment or approval." These false claims
can be generated through the submission of false bills,
records, statements or other representations made to the
Government.
Iraq Spending Ignored Rules,
Pentagon Says By JAMES GLANZ
Published: May 23, 2008
New
York Times
A Pentagon audit of $8.2 billion in
American taxpayer money spent by the United States Army
on contractors in Iraq has found that almost none of the
payments followed federal rules and that in some cases,
contracts worth millions of dollars were paid for
despite little or no record of what, if anything, was
received.
The audit also found a sometimes
stunning lack of accountability in the way the United
States military spent some $1.8 billion in seized or
frozen Iraqi assets, which in the early phases of the
conflict were often doled out in stacks or pallets of
cash. The audit was released Thursday in tandem with a
Congressional hearing on the payments.
U.S. Widens Net on Pricing of Food
Supplies for G.I.’s By ERIC SCHMITT and ANDREW MARTIN
Published: October 18, 2007
New
York Times
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 — Federal agents
are investigating whether several large food companies
charged the government excessively high prices for
supplies to American troops in Iraq and Kuwait,
administration officials said Wednesday.
