Whistleblower Network News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Fraud in the government contracting process costs taxpayers untold dollars each year,” said U.S. We will continue to work with our federal law enforcement partners to investigate and pursue those who commit government contracting fraud.” Attorney Prim F. Escalona for the Northern District of Alabama. “We

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JUNE 12, 2024

Crowell & Moring’s “Fastest 5 Minutes” is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without. View the full article

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Cape May County, New Jersey, and a coalition of business, conservation and fishing groups are asking a federal judge to overturn approvals for Orsted's Ocean Wind 1 offshore wind project, claiming federal agencies neglected their duties to protect the environment and wildlife in an "inappropriate collusion with Big Wind."

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Government Contracts

JUNE 13, 2024

A federal judge declined to make CVS hire a forensic auditor to evaluate its compliance with information demands in a lawsuit alleging it colluded with drugmakers to keep Medicare beneficiaries from accessing certain generic drugs, despite a whistleblower bemoaning "woefully deficient" discovery on the pharmacy chain's part.

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Government Contracts

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Spain's competition authority said on Wednesday that it had launched an investigation into a group of travel companies that it suspects of colluding to share clients, public tenders and sensitive information.

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A California federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a disbarred attorney to 33 months in prison following his guilty plea for accepting a $2 million kickback as part of a collusive lawsuit scheme involving the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, a sentence exceeding the government's request for 18 months.

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Public Contracting Institute

MAY 8, 2024

However, FAR 14.404-1 subsection (c)(6) permits conversion of an IFB to a negotiated procurement only where all prices were unreasonable, for which price reasonableness can’t be determined, where the bids were collusive or where no responsive bid was received from a responsible bidder.

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