Fraud continues in small business preference programs
Contractor fraud in small business set-aside programs is difficult to detect and prove, but its annual costs to government are significant in dollars and damage to legitimate business that deserve the...
View ArticleNorthern Virginia company pleads guilty in bribery scheme involving...
Nova Datacom LLC, a Northern Virginia company, and its former president, Min Jung Cho, pled guilty today (Apr. 11, 2013) to federal charges stemming from their roles in a bribery and kickback scheme...
View ArticleVendor settles in case over Chinese-made supplies
When contractor Malcolm Wilson lost out in a competition to outfit four federal buildings in Illinois with lamps, he suspected the winning vendor of supplying products made in China, a violation of the...
View ArticleCorruption, bribery rampant in government contracting, key witness in case says
Even before he competed for his first government job, the key witness in the largest bribery case in federal contracting history said an associate warned him that he’d have to “pay to play,” according...
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Army Corps of Engineers paid $2.2M for half-finished building, audit shows
The Army Corps of Engineers paid more than $2 million for a half-built facility in Afghanistan that it has plans to complete, according to an Aug. 25 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan...
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Bid-rigging ringleader sentenced to 88 months
A Great Falls, Virginia, businessman was sentenced a little more than seven years in prison for bribing officials at the Army Corps of Engineers for contracts. Young N. Cho, also known as Alex Cho,...
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Price reasonableness determinations for FSS supply orders by Army’s...
The Inspector General (IG) of Department of Defense (DoD) reports that contracting personnel at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville (CEHNC) did not adequately document and support...
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Engineer takes on emergency management projects
It’s not often you hear someone say, “I have a passion for deploying on emergency management debris missions.” Meet Chad Braun. In addition to working as a senior project engineer and civil engineer...
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Army incurred costly delays on construction of Texas hospital
The Army’s delays and added work orders for construction improvements for a hospital at Fort Bliss, Texas, cost the Defense Department more than $32.1 million, according to a new report from the...
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