September 25, 2017
Mercer Transportation Co. Inc. and the federal government have agreed to settle a False Claims Act case brought by a whistleblower accusing the company of bribing U.S. Department of Defense officials in order to land "sensitive freight shipments," then inflating shipping costs, a Georgia federal judge said Monday.
April 28, 2017
A Georgia federal judge left largely intact Friday a government False Claims Act suit accusing a domestic trucking company of bribing U.S. Department of Defense contracting officials in pursuit of “sensitive freight shipments” and then inflating shipping costs, trimming only state law claims barred by the underlying contract’s existence.