{"id":146611,"date":"2023-08-30T09:15:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T13:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=146611"},"modified":"2023-08-29T14:05:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:05:27","slug":"marine-veteran-and-her-legal-team-awarded-69-million-from-contractor-that-defrauded-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=146611","title":{"rendered":"Marine veteran and her legal team awarded $69 million from contractor that defrauded government"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sarah Feinberg worked for Booz Allen, a defense contractor, after her deployment. Over the course of her employment with them, she noticed that they were overcharging the U.S. government for their services. Doing some detective work on her own, she sought to inform the appropriate officials of her discovery. She assumed that this may have been oversight or lack of knowledge on their part. It turned out that the company was deliberately overcharging the federal government to fund other contracts.<\/p>\n

From the Daily Mail:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Sarah Feinberg, 39, moved to join the ranks of military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton as a financial analyst following her time as a Marine.<\/p>\n

While working there, Feinberg discovered the company was overcharging the U.S. Government to the tune of $100 million-a-year to cover losses in other areas of its businesses, including consulting contracts with foreign states like Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

The firm, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, was accused of improperly charging costs to its government contracts and subcontracts that should have been billed to its commercial and international contracts.<\/p>\n

The Department of Justice said that these allegations had spanned a decade, from 2011 to 2021.<\/p>\n

Last week, it was announced that Booz Allen settled to pay the United States $377 million to resolve the allegations – and Feinberg and her lawyers received $69 million for her part, thanks to the little-known qui tam procedure.<\/p>\n

The qui tam move allows an insider to sue on behalf of the U.S. and then recover between 15 and 30 percent of any settlement or judgement.<\/p>\n

Of the $69 million settlement, Feinberg was personally awarded $40 million for reporting her employer’s alleged behavior – $12 million of which she intends to donate to charity.<\/p>\n

Feinberg had no intention of profiting from her decision to blow the whistle on the company, and said she wasn’t aware she could until taking her findings to the Justice Department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Daily Mail has additional information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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