Many contract fraud investigations end up in civil court, and the law allows victims and the government to seek multiple damages under the False Claims Act.
The added penalties — sometimes as much as three times the amount defrauded — are meant to act as a deterrent should contractors think about defrauding anyone again.
Our special agents routinely monitor the Postal Service’s massive facilities portfolio for potential fraud. The portfolio manages about 50,000 repairs and maintenance jobs annually, costing the agency well over $100 million per year.
Recently, our investigators found suspicious billing patterns from an EMCOR subsidiary providing repair services for postal facilities (EMCOR is one of the largest contractors the Postal Service does business with). USPS had paid the subsidiary over $5.9 million for almost 2,450 work orders EMCOR had assigned it.
