Mentor-Protege Program Fraud: Contractor Agrees to $1.15 Million Settlement
17
Apr
An Alabama-based construction company has agreed to pay more than a million dollars to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by fraudulently representing that it was mentoring a minority-owned small business under the Department of Defense’s mentor-protege program.
The settlement puts to rest the Justice Department’s False Claims Act contention that the contractor used its so-called “protege” as little more than a pass-through entity and failed to provide real mentoring services to the small business.
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2013/March/13-civ-346.html