Title: Justice Department Recovers over $3 Billion from False Claims Act Cases in Fiscal Year 2019 | OPA | Department of Justice
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Justice Department Recovers over $3 Billion from False Claims Act Cases in Fiscal Year 2019
Health Care Fraud
Procurement Fraud
Other Fraud Recoveries
Holding Individuals Accountable
Recoveries in Whistleblower Suits
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Content: formerly known as Sapa Profiles Inc. (SPI), to resolve SPI’s civil liability for causing a government contractor to invoice NASA and the Department of Defense’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) for aluminum extrusions that did not comply with contract specifications. Government contractors purchased aluminum extrusions from SPI for use on rockets for NASA and missiles provided to the MDA. SPI provided those contractors with falsified certifications after altering the results of tensile tests designed to ensure the consistency and reliability of aluminum extrusions. Several of the rockets used by NASA crashed, resulting in the loss of the NASA payloads that they carried. SPI also resolved related criminal claims arising from the same conduct. The department recovered over $27 million from Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (NGSC) in a settlement resolving False Claims Act allegations related to two battlefield communications contracts with the United States Air Force. The settlement resolved allegations that NGSC billed the Air Force for labor hours purportedly incurred by individuals stationed in the Middle East who had not actually worked the hours claimed. In separate settlement agreements with the Civil Division, American Airlines paid $22 million and British Airways Plc/Iberia Airlines paid $5.8 million to resolve allegations that they falsely reported the times they transferred possession of United States mail to foreign postal administrations or other inte