Minneapolis – Anderson Brothers Construction Company from Brainerd LLC, a building and paving company in Brainerd, Minnesota, has agreed to pay 1,295,610 US dollars to solve accusations. When looking for payments for patches in Minnesota.
The United States and the state of Minnesota stated that Anderson Brothers, as a condition for the payment for federal stone paving contracts, had to carry out certain quality tests of their paving pieces and present the government's results. The United States and the state of Minnesota also stated that Anderson Brothers falsified the results and presented the government in order to obtain financial incentives for the paving material about high quality and to avoid deductions for material with lower quality. As a result of these false test results, the United States and the state of Minnesota claimed that the government had paid payments to Anderson Brothers for unsettled incentives and Anderson brothers, which had taken place, Anderson Brothers had submitted truthful test results. The United States received $ 660,761 from $ 1,295,610 and the state of Minnesota 634,849.
“Protecting the taxpayers from fraud and abuse is one of our top priorities,” said the reigning US lawyer for the Minnesota Lisa D. Kirkpatrick district. “The submission of false claims for state -funded state contracts is not tolerated. This comparison should be used as proof that we will actively examine this behavior when it occurs, and a company that is not calculated exactly for the products provided.”
“Today's agreement increases the fact that companies that do the government with the government must comply with the federal regulations and the contractual obligations,” said the responsible special agent Anthony Licari, office of the General Inspector of the Ministry of Transport in the Midwest region. “If such fraudulent behavior undermines the integrity of the motorway paving, it is our task to end this to end this together with our law enforcement and public prosecutor.”
The civil agreement includes the decision of claims that collect the provisions of the Qui Tam or Whistleblower of the Law on False Claims Act by Kacie Dixon, a former Bituminous mix technician at Anderson Brothers. According to these provisions, a private party can submit a lawsuit on behalf of the United States and receive part of the recovery. The Qui Tam case is the US ex -rel. Dixon against Anderson Brothers Construction Company from Brainerd, LLC., Civil lawsuit No. 22-CV-02078 (D. Minn.).
The resolution followed in this matter was the result of a joint effort between the Civil Department of the Ministry of Justice, the Department of Department of the Ministry of Justice, the Department of Department and the US law firm for the District of Minnesota with the support of the General Inspector of the US Ministry of Transport. The US government also received considerable support from the Minnesota General Prosecutor's Office on this matter.
The matter was examined by Danielle Rowan, the process lawyer of the fraud department, and the deputy US lawyer David Fuller and Adam Hoskins for the District of Minnesota.
The claims that were solved by the comparison are only allegations and it has not been determined.