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DOJ seeks damages from ex-Louis Berger execs over contract fraud

( July 28, 2016, 21:47 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary:  The Department of Justice filed a false claims lawsuit on Thursday in US District Court for Maryland against two former executives and shareholders of Louis Berger Group for allegedly conspiring to overbill the US Agency for International Development, the US Amy and the US Air Force. Derish M. Wolff and Salvatore J Pepe already had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government, but this lawsuit seeks damages equal to three times the government losses plus additional civil penalties. Louis Berger Group paid $50.6 million pursuant to a deferred prosecution agreement it entered into in 2010 for contract fraud; Louis Berger International entered into a separate deferred prosecution agreement in 2015 on allegations that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.______________________________________________________________________________...

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