Articles Tagged with ''Fraud''

Matthew C. McPherson forfeited $5.5 million and was sentenced to more than two years in prison without parole.

The owner of Target Roofing & Sheet Metal reportedly requested an additional month in his prison term to qualify for substance abuse treatment.

Owner of SES Construction Consulting Group and of Global Technical Solutions and two key staffers allegedly hid hundreds of thousands in wages and other compensation in false tax returns.

Owners of Sonag Ready Mix of Milwaukee have been convicted or pled guilty to fraudulently reaping more than $260 million in government contracts intended to benefit minority and veteran-owned businesses.

The U.S. regularly spends $500 billion each year on federal contracts, much of it going to small businesses, and it’s easy to see with such large sums of money why fraud is common. 

The contractor agreed to settle with the Justice Dept. by paying a $1 million settlement over claims it misrepresented its use of a disadvantaged business as a subcontractor on a terminal building project at Peoria International Airport project.