Federal Charge: Violent Ironworkers' Local 401 Valued its 'THUGS'
Like other big-city unions, ironworkers' Local 401 in Philadephia found its once-unchallenged hold on the city and its suburbs compromised as nonunion contractors increased their market share.In...
View ArticleIronworkers Union Takes Over Philadelphia Unit After Arrests
Photo from AP Wide World Officials of Local 401 were indicted on charges that include arson at non-union projects. Related Links: Federal Charge: Violent Ironworkers' Local 401 Valued its 'THUGS'...
View ArticleVA Official Guilty Plea Involves Unnamed Design Firm
Dept. of Veterans Affairs A Dept. of Veterans Affairs website shows William D. Montague prior to his indictment in 2013. After a former Dept. of Veteran's Affairs official in Ohio pleaded guilty last...
View ArticleContractor Structure Tone Agrees to Pay $55 Million in Fraud Plea
Related Links: Six New York City Subs and CM Firm Indicted in Latest Interiors Renovation Fraud Probe Structure Tone Inc., the New York City-based building and interiors construction giant, pleaded...
View ArticleCreating a Compliance Culture Lessens the Risk of Fraud
Chart Courtesy of ACFE Related Links: Construction Fraud Mirrors Worldwide Ethics Problem When Surety Fraud Goes Unpunished, Small Contractors Suffer Business fraud is nothing new, but it is more...
View ArticleColorado Revokes Chubb Bond Fraud Defendant's License
Colorado moved against one of the defendant's in the Chubb surety bond fraud, revoking the insurance license of Steve Stokeling, a director of First Fidelity Asurety Co.The state's Division of...
View ArticleBeers, Burgers and a Bribe? The Case Against a Florida Expressway Official
The LinkedIn page for R. Scott Batterson, who IBI Group says is no longer employed by the company. Photo source: Google Earth The alleged bribe offer took place at a sports-themed pub in Orlando called...
View ArticleFlorida Disbands Expressway Authority Board
Related Links: Beers, Burgers and a Bribe? The Case Against an Expressway Official The Central Florida Expressway Authority Website With his signature on June 20, Gov. Rick Scott (R) and Florida...
View ArticleFacing Mounting Interest, Pipeline Operator Agrees to Pay Costs
Photo: iStockphoto/Dwight Nadig The project involved a 30-in.-dia natural gas pipeline, similar to the one at left, in Lycoming County, Pa., along with gas-gathering lines and compressor stations....
View ArticleU.S. Charges Steel Erector With Fraud on World Trade Center Work
Related Links: Schiavone Agrees to $23-Million Settlement for MBE Fraud D.C. Cuts Forrester Payment by $1M Over MBE Joint Venture Federal prosecutors charged steel fabricator and erector Larry Davis,...
View ArticleWrap-up of Quebecs Two-Year Construction Corruption Commission Spurs Change
A Canadian federal panel probing the extent of public works construction corruption in Quebec heard from its last witness on Sept. 9 after two years of testimony from industry executives, union leaders...
View ArticleStantec Buy of Quebec Designer Dessau Points to Province Market Strength,...
Photo by Jean Gagnon/wikimedia Commons Alleged bribery surrounding the $1.4-billion construction program for Montreal's McGill University Health Center was among revelations of the Charbonneau...
View ArticleIn Panama, Global Engineers Tackle Gigaproject Transparency
Photo by Janice L. Tuchman for ENR The Atlantic side locks for the third lane of the Panama Canal are progressing rapidly with the gates positioned and ready to be installed. Related Links: Panama...
View ArticleSuperfund Project Manager Convicted in Bid-Rig Scheme Must Pay $4.36 Million
A U.S. District Court judge in Newark, N.J., has ordered Gordon D. McDonald, a former project manager at two New Jersey Superfund sites, to pay $4.36 million in restitution for his role in a...
View ArticleFormer Louis Berger CEO Pleads Guilty to Overbilling Charge
Michael Goodman for ENR Derish Wolff in 2003 as he appeared on the cover of ENR. Related Links: Louis Berger Group Completes Compliance Overhaul U.S. Charges Ex-Berger Group CEO With Overbilling Scheme...
View ArticleProbe, Lawsuit Eye Post-Sandy Inspection Reports
Investigators from the New York state attorney general's office on Feb. 18 carted off boxes of documents from the Uniondale, N.Y., office of GEB HiRise, an engineering practice that had been employed...
View ArticleJudge Hands Down Jail Sentence for Chubb Bond Fraud
A Federal judge in Atlanta has sentenced one of the partners in the multistate crime spree involving forged Chubb surety bonds to four years, nine months of prison.
View ArticleContractor C.W. Matthews Settles $1M DBE Fraud Case With FHWA
C.W. Matthews Contracting Co., one of Georgia's largest roadbuilders, agreed to pay a $1-million fine as part of a settlement with the U.S. Federal Highway Administration over false claims related to...
View ArticleFormer Louis Berger CEO, 79, Sentenced in Government Overbilling Fraud
Derish Wolff, the 79-year-old former CEO of global design firm Louis Berger, who pleaded guilty last December to inflating overhead rates for work on cost-reimbursable U.S. Agency for International...
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