A federal judge in Maryland will allow a whistleblower complaint to go forward against the former government services unit of AECOM and defense contractor DynCorp International LLC—both now owned by contractor Amentum—which alleges human trafficking and violations of the federal False Claims Act on two now completed U.S. military contracts in Kuwait that were held by a joint venture of the firms.
U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis in Baltimore ruled March 9 that there is enough evidence to support allegations by 29 Kuwaiti translators that the former parent firms of Global Linguist Solutions (GLS), a joint venture of AECOM National Security Programs Inc. and DynCorp,, knew about and were directly involved in the mistreatment of the linguists hired by the JV, including that they were being threatened with deportation and had their passports confiscated.