With the heavy federal emphasis on ferreting out fraud, waste and abuse in government contracts, we play three significant roles for our clients: educational, investigative, and advisory. We develop corporate compliance and crime prevention manuals and present compliance training programs for government contractors, and we work closely with our clients to explain the labyrinth of applicable federal statutes and regulations. These include the False Claims Act, the False Statements Act, the Truth in Negotiations Act and the Anti-Kickback Act. We conduct internal reviews and investigations for clients, some triggered by questions raised internally, and some prompted by external complaints or investigations. 

• We assisted a maintenance and support services contractor in conducting an internal investigation of alleged irregularities in the performance and documentation of preventive maintenance inspections and thereafter negotiated a civil resolution of threatened civil and criminal false claims charges.

• We conducted an internal investigation for an engineering services contractor of allegedly improper intra-company billing practices under an Air Force contract.

• We conducted an internal investigation for a design services firm of alleged time-charging and travel expense irregularities on various federal agency contracts.

• We represented a client served with a False Claims Act civil investigative demand regarding billing practices for spare parts under an Army vehicle maintenance contract; the Government ultimately terminated its investigation with no charges brought.

• We conducted an investigation of possible timekeeping irregularities by a client on a Department of Defense cost-reimbursement contract, and assisted the client in making a voluntary disclosure to the Government that avoided any criminal action being taken.

• We successfully defended a client in an Inspector General investigation into "whistleblower" allegations of inflated charging on a DOD time-and-materials contract.

• We counseled an environmental remediation contractor in a situation where an employee was believed to be taking kickbacks in connection with a government contract; the contractor actively cooperated with a government investigation and no charges were brought against the contractor.