False Claims Act settlements, suspensions and debarments, and procurement fraud enforcement.
A USPS OIG audit found 74% of sampled contractor invoices lacked required documentation, producing $271.9 million in unsupported costs, plus $792 million in noncompetitive purchases approved without proper reviews.
Read the story →A DOJ inspector general audit found 37 of 45 sampled orders worth over $39 million had performance-period irregularities, including one FBI order awarded 23 months after its contract vehicle expired.
The FBI's elite public-corruption squad was building a case on Navatek's political donations to more than a dozen lawmakers when Director Kash Patel dismantled the unit, closing the investigation before any charges were filed.
Lifeview Group will pay $5,059,808 to resolve claims it lied about meeting AbilityOne's disability-labor ratio on a Defense Manpower Data Center IT contract, in one of the program's largest False Claims Act settlements ever.
Kevin D. Mickie, a contractor employee who managed Defense Travel System profiles, pleaded guilty to diverting $107,316.82 in travel reimbursements into his own account. Sentencing is set for Jan. 14, 2027; he faces up to 10 years.
DOJ settles False Claims Act allegations that Accenture used color-coded scorecards to track race and sex hiring targets on federal contracts, collecting $25 million — the second such payout in a crackdown that has now pulled roughly $46.5 million from Accenture and Deloitte.
DOJ inspector general audit finds the FBI built a $229M Innovation Center at Redstone Arsenal without a documented cost estimate, gave four conflicting figures for it, and failed to monitor Clark Construction's self-perform and QC obligations.
DOJ, SBA, and SBA OIG announced $245 million in intended losses from a summer enforcement surge against PPP and COVID EIDL fraud, while officials disclosed that 870,000 suspected fraudsters have been permanently barred from future federal loans.
James Soriano, a former Naval Information Warfare Center official, was sentenced to 72 months for taking bribes — steak dinners, Super Bowl tickets, a job for his wife — to steer hundreds of millions in Navy contracts to favored companies.
DOJ settled with pharmaceutical company Dompe U.S. after it self-disclosed routing Medicare patients' co-pays through charity foundations to drive sales of its eye drug Oxervate.
A DOJ OIG audit found the FBI never prepared a required cost estimate for a $229M Innovation Center contract at Redstone Arsenal, let subcontractors help pick which of their own workers got interviewed for wage compliance, and did not check a self-performance rule until auditors flagged it.
A federal judge sentenced former NAVWAR official James Soriano to six years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a bribery scheme running from 2014 to 2019 that let defense contractors draft their own procurement paperwork in exchange for steak dinners, championship tickets, and $2,000 a month in cash routed through a family friend's paycheck.
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