Thanks to a whistleblower, an Indiana contractor that fraudulently fattened up tests on asphalt content of its roadwork to receive higher compensation is now paying up.
Gohmann Asphalt and Construction Co., Clarksville, Ind., this month paid $6.7 million to the federal government, $1.1 million to Kentucky and $362,165 to Indiana. Gohmann, which didn't admit wrongdoing, was nabbed for manipulating asphalt mixture inspections during some $60 million in work on Interstate 64 near Louisville between 1997 and 2006. "I don't remember anything like this happening around here in the past 15 years," says David Huber, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky, which investigated the case.