July 13, 2021
A contractor admitted to its role in a scheme to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars for rehabilitation work on the Brooklyn Bridge and a Queens subway station that should have gone to a minority- or women-owned business, New York prosecutors said Tuesday.
August 26, 2020
Two New York painting companies succeeded Tuesday in convincing a federal judge to trim conspiracy and unjust enrichment claims against them, but the businesses must still face fraud allegations stemming from work they completed on the Brooklyn Bridge and Queens Plaza.
January 10, 2020
A New York painting contractor is urging a federal court to toss out allegations it defrauded the government out of millions of dollars by exploiting a program for disadvantaged businesses, saying that the claims are barred by statutory deadlines.
November 01, 2019
One of three public works contractors accused of defrauding the government out of millions of dollars by exploiting a program for disadvantaged business entities agreed Thursday to fork over $3 million to resolve the claims in New York federal court.
May 23, 2019
A commercial painting company told a New York federal court Wednesday that it never claimed to be a disadvantaged business enterprise and should be freed from a suit alleging it and two other contractors duped the government out of millions of dollars for public works contracts.
March 07, 2019
The government has hit a trio of contractors with a lawsuit alleging that they defrauded the U.S. out of millions of dollars in federal cash for public works contracts by exploiting a program for disadvantaged business entities.