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.

A  Tennessee road and bridge builder has agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit that accused the firm of fraud by putting its own employees on the payroll of a dis­advantaged business enterprise it used to get contracts for 12 projects in Tennessee.