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DOJ Announces FY 2020 Fraud and FCA Recovery Statistics: What They Mean for 2021, January 20, 2021, Matt Feinberg and Camilla Hundley The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it recovered more than $2.2 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and the False Claims Act (FCA) in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 (ending September 30, 2020). DOJ’s FY 2020 fraud and FCA recovery statistics report accompanied the announcement. With a global pandemic that often delayed proceedings, the $2.2 billion in recoveries was DOJ’s lowest haul since 2008. Although the announcemen...

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By Colin Demarest cdemarest@aikenstandard.com Dan Battista, senior vice president and southeast regional leader for Lowe, said in an emailed statement that Farhat was on administrative leave. "As this is a law enforcement matter, we cannot comment at this time," Battista added. In 2014 and 2015, Farhat was on assigned temporary duty at the Navy Base Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, where he oversaw a private company’s $15 million contract to construct an aircraft hangar and a telecommunications facility.  After the projects were completed, the company submitted more than $6 million worth ...

Replies(3) If convicted, Farhat would face up to seven years in federal prison, prosecutors said. (Renee Schiavone/Patch) PALM DESERT, CA — A former Department of Defense civilian official from Palm Desert was arrested on charges that he took illegal cash payments to support a contractor's effort to obtain $6.4 million from the government in connection with construction projects in the African nation of Djibouti, the Justice Department announced Monday. Nizar Farhat who was a former construction manager based at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, appeared Monday ...