April 02, 2019
A joint venture that included Bechtel Group blasted a whistleblower's bid for nearly $2 million in attorney fees and expenses as a "cash grab" after the contractor agreed to pay $3.2 million to resolve claims it lied about its subcontractors at a nuclear waste cleanup.
June 08, 2018
A joint venture of several engineering giants reached a settlement Thursday to end a long-running False Claims Act suit accusing it of using shell companies to fulfill small-business subcontracting requirements for a multibillion-dollar nuclear waste cleanup project at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
December 08, 2017
The federal government on Friday shot back at a U.S. Department of Energy contractor's bid to toss False Claims Act allegations in litigation accusing it of falsifying small, disadvantaged businesses' participation in a multibillion-dollar nuclear waste cleanup contract.
November 20, 2017
A U.S. Department of Energy contractor accused of falsifying small, disadvantaged business participation in its multibillion-dollar nuclear waste cleanup contract urged a Washington federal judge Friday to toss the government's False Claims Act suit it says is based on honest mistakes and conduct that didn't affect contracting decisions.
July 18, 2011
Washington Closure Hanford LLC, the contractor in charge of the U.S. Department of Energy's largest nuclear cleanup effort, was accused Friday in Washington state of rigging a $4.8 million trucking subcontract, allegedly giving the work to a phony small business.