Title: Mischarging Costs: Another Form of Procurement Fraud
Headings: Mischarging Costs: Another Form of Procurement Fraud
Mischarging Costs: Another Form of Procurement Fraud
A Successful Prosecution

Content: Documents (such as timecards, purchase orders, work orders) are altered. Employees rarely, if ever, take leave or vacation time. There is no variation in start and finish time among laborers. Employees would not generally start and stop at the exact same time as one another every day. Documentation submitted to the government for reimbursement/payment is of poor quality or purposely illegible. Costs that are submitted for reimbursement under a T&M contract are much greater than was estimated in the contract proposal. These are just a few examples of how a government contractor can scheme to defraud the government and, ultimately, the taxpayer. All of the aforementioned schemes cause the submission of false claims for reimbursement to the U.S. government, which triggers coverage under the False Claims Act. A Successful Prosecution
How did the government learn of these schemes? A brave whistleblower by the name of Jerry H. Brown II, a former industry insider, came forward and provided the information to his attorneys.