A subcontractor that prosecutors accused of invoicing for millions of dollars in material that did not exist while it worked on a Dept. of Energy project has agreed to pay more than $300,000 to resolve the allegations against it.
Dayton, Ohio-based Wise Services Inc. knowingly submitted the phony invoices to prime contractor MOX Services LLC, formerly known as CB&I AREVA MOX Services LLC, while working on the Dept. of Energy’s since-canceled Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility in Aiken, S.C. between 2008 and 2015, according to Dept. of Justice officials. Subsequently, MOX Services submitted $6.4 million in fraudulent claims to the DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration, officials alleged in a 2019 civil lawsuit.