In just unsealed whistleblower complaint, former site construction manager says utility owner of over-budget Kemper project in Mississippi defrauded the U.S. Energy Dept. of hundreds of millions in funding.
Appellate judges said lower court must reconsider whether former employee's fraud claims on $1.9B Army contract were 'material' under the US False Claims Act against the unit, which was sold in 2020.
A former Stantec employee alleges that contractors for the Honolulu light rail project improperly filed more than 100 change orders totaling more than $20 million.
The recently unsealed whistleblower suit has triggered new scrutiny of concrete installed on 1,569 architectural panels at five stations on the $2.7B second phase of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project in northern Virginia.
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.
