May 14, 2013
A federal judge in Washington state on Monday tossed a whistleblower from a $19 million False Claims Act suit alleging contractor CH2M Hill Hanford Group Inc. allowed its employees to fraudulently claim excess work hours at a nuclear site, citing his criminal conviction in connection with the scheme.
March 07, 2013
CH2M Hill Cos. Ltd. agreed Thursday to pay $19 million to settle charges it allowed hundreds of a subsidiary's employees to overstate the amount of time they spent cleaning up the nuclear site in Hanford, Wash., for the U.S. Department of Energy.
December 03, 2012
A federal judge on Monday paused the federal government's overbilling lawsuit against a unit of contractor CH2M Hill Companies Ltd. over employees' cleanup work at a nuclear site, giving the two sides time to hammer out a final settlement.
October 26, 2012
The federal government moved Thursday to boot a now-convicted whistleblower from a suit alleging contractor CH2M Hill Hanford Group Inc. allowed its employees to fraudulently claim excess work hours at a nuclear site, saying the whistleblower shouldn't be able to collect any damages.
September 28, 2012
The U.S. government has intervened in a suit brought by a since-convicted whistleblower alleging contractor CH2M Hill Hanford Group Inc. allowed its employees to fraudulently claim excess work hours at the Hanford nuclear site in violation of the False Claims Act, it said Friday.