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U.S. Charges Ex-Berger Group CEO With Overbilling Scheme
10/20/11 By Tom Ichniowski
Wolff alleged to have led plan to intentionally overbill for overhead charges on USAID contracts.

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Skanska Settles DBE Inquiry With $19.6-Million Payment
04/06/11
A New York City unit of contractor Skanska AB has agreed to pay $19.6 million to settle a federal probe into disadvantaged-business-enterprise subcontracting practices among city contractors. Under the March 31 settlement, Skanska USA Civil Northeast will not face civil claims or criminal charges. The investigation of other firms continues.

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02/22/12	Efforts to Restart Libyan Projects Land SNC-Lavalin in Controversy By Richard Korman and Dan O'Reilly The Montreal-based firm announced the dismissal of its top construction executive Feb. 9 but has said nothing since then and the executive, Riadh Ben Aissa, is disputing the announcement and its hint about possible misconduct.
02/22/12	Lawyers Trade Contradictory Facts as N.Y. Crane Collapse Criminal Trial Restarts By Adam Klasfeld A crane rental firm owner, James L. Lomma, faces homicide and other charges for his alleged role in accident that killed two construction workers.
01/16/12	Contractors Decry Suspensions by Detroit Water and Sewer Dept. By John Gregerson Federal government's RICO suit against former mayor inflicts collateral damage on DWSD service providers.
12/05/11	Contractor Insurance Issues Touched by Laws, Recession By Richard Korman in San Diego The recession is killing off many smaller construction firms and surety losses are growing.
11/28/11	Following Paper's Inspection Probe, Caltrans Sacks Duo By Robert Carlsen San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is structural sound, agency claims.
11/15/11	New Delays in Two High-Profile Construction Criminal Cases By Debra K. Rubin, with ENR Legal Correspondent Proceedings against former design firm Louis Berger CEO Derish Wolff and fatal crane collapsee firm CEO James F. Lomma delayed.
10/31/11	Ex-Berger Group CEO Charged With Overbilling Scheme By Tom Ichniowski Former Louis Berger Group CEO Wolff Faces Federal Charges for Alleged Overbilling on Overseas Contracts. A tentative trial date is likely to be set at Nov. 9 arraignment.
10/31/11	Industry Firms Share Best Practices on Ethics and Compliance By Janice L. Tuchman in Denver Firms facing increased scrutiny share strategies for training thousands of employees on rules of ethics
10/27/11	Eleventh Hour Guilty Plea in Fatal Crane Case as Trial Looms By ENR legal correspondent Co-defendant, crane owner's head mechanic, changes plea likely to avoid jail time.
10/17/11	Cardno Entrix Pipeline Review Contract Raises Sticky Ethics Issues for Engineers By Richard Korman An engineering ethics expert says it isn’t and that engineers should avoid the possible appearance of conflict.
10/17/11	Two Corps Officials, Two Others Charged with Contract Fraud By Tom Ichniowski The U.S. Attorney characterized the charges as “one of the most brazen corruption schemes in the history of federal contracting.”
10/06/11	Two Corps Officials, Two Others Charged with Contracting Fraud By Tom Ichniowski Indictment alleges that defendants fraudulently inflated invoices and were paid some of that money "directly and indirectly."
09/26/11	Crane Owner Criminal Trial To Start in November for Fatal Collapse By ENR legal correspondent Equipment owner James Lomma faces several criminal charges.
09/26/11	Bogus Asbestos Abatement Training Firm Boss Sentenced By Tony Illia Albania DeLeon sent to federal prison for more than seven years and ordered to pay $1.2 million in back taxes and $369,015 in restitution.
09/23/11	Canada's SNC Lavalin Probed for Bid Corruption on Bridge Project By Dan O'Reilly in Toronto Canadian authorities confirm the probe but won't elaborate on raids at offices of the Montreal-based design firm.
09/12/11	Construction Firms Settle DBE Probe on Minneapolis Rail Job By Debra K. Rubin and John Gregerson Designer disagree with U.S. Justice Dept. statement that engineers were involved in the settlement or had role in finished project’s DBE activities.
07/25/11	Three Former Corps of Engineers Project Officials Indicted for Iraq Bribery By Tom Ichniowski and Debra K. Rubin The new charges, unsealed on July 14, expand the list of defendants and their alleged offenses brought in a criminal complaint last October.
06/20/11	Fluor Hanford Unit to Pay $4M to Settle Alleged False Claims, Kickbacks By Tom Ichniowski A Fluor spokesman says company did not knowingly submit false claims or receive kickbacks related to purchases at the Hanford nuclear site.
06/13/11	As Fire Trial Prosecution Rests, Execs' Defense Raises Issues By Adam Klasfeld Legal
06/08/11	Houston Port Exec’s Contract With AECOM Draws Scrutiny By Debra Wood Investigators in Harris County, Texas, are probing a possible conflict of interest regarding a prior consulting link between a top Port of Houston Authority official and Los Angeles-based design-builder AECOM Technology Corp., which does work for the agency.
05/11/11	Interiors Firms Charged Again By Debra Rubin and Carolina Worrell Acontinuing crackdown on fraud in New York City's interiors-renovation sector has netted its latest result: the May 4-5 indictments of Manhattan-based construction manager Lehr Construction Corp. and four of its executives as well as six area subcontractors and their owners in a contractor-bid inflation scheme that prosecutors say overcharged clients by $30 million in the last decade and cheated “their honest competitors out of valuable construction jobs.”

05/06/11 Six New York City Subs and CM Firm Indicted in Latest Interiors Renovation Fraud Probe
04/06/11 Skanska Settles DBE Inquiry With $19.6-Million Payment
03/03/11 Turner Construction Caught Up In New York City Cost Dispute
02/16/11 U.K. Government Delays Implementation Of Anti-Corruption Rules
01/12/11 Trial Postponed for Defendants In Fatal Ground Zero Fire
01/12/11 Bovis, New York City Deal Ends Unofficial Pay Practice
01/06/11 Bovis Agrees to Pay NYC $5 Million For Overcharges
12/07/10 Ex-KBR Exec Pleads Guilty to Bribery Charge
12/01/10 Fraud, MBEs And Justice
11/29/10 Schiavone Agrees to $23-Million Settlement for MBE Fraud
11/24/10 Ex-Carpenters’ Chief in New York City Gets 11 Years for Racketeering
11/17/10 Uncalculated Risks
11/17/10 EPA Subpoenas Halliburton For Data on ‘Hydrofracking’
11/10/10 The Whistle-Blower Behind The Louis Berger Settlement
11/05/10 U.S. Settles Case Against Berger Group for $69 Mil
10/27/10 Defendants in Fatal Ground Zero Fire Face Manslaughter Trial in January
10/20/10 Former Corps Engineer Charged With Bribery on Iraq Projects
10/06/10 Council To Dictate Apprentice’s Fate
09/15/10 Matrix Services Launches An Internal Fraud Probe
08/25/10 Crackdown Adds To Contractor Perils
08/18/10 Probe Leads to Wolff's Likely Exit From Berger
07/07/10 French Contractor Technip To Pay $338 Million To Settle Nigeria LNG Project Bribery Allegations
05/12/10 New Bill Proposes Stiff Penalties For Willful Safety Violations
04/07/10 Civil Engineers Pushes DVD As Core of New Campaign
03/31/10 Former NYC Crane Inspector Pleads Guilty To Falsifying Safety and Exam Records
03/31/10 U.K. Arrest Three Alstom Directors for Bribes
03/03/10 New York Concrete Testing Firm Found Guilty of Racketeering
02/24/10 Former STV and URS Executive Faces Charges for Fraud
02/18/10 Prosecutors Search for Possible Fraud Behind Cologne Rail Project Errors
02/03/10 New York CM Firm Indicted in Client Bilk Scheme
01/08/10 PBSJ Corp. Overseas Unit's Contracting Being Probed
01/06/10 Top DOE Spending Official Cleared of Abuse of Power
01/06/10 Top DOE Spending Official Cleared of Abuse of Power
12/02/09 Graft Investigators Are Named In Operating Engineers Case
10/14/09 U.K. Recruiters Face Big Fines
08/12/09 Controversy Over Old Job Costs Hardin Construction New Work
07/15/09 U.K. Bridge Maker Is First To Be Cited
07/15/09 Two Plead Guilty To Supplying Faulty Concrete to CA/T Project
07/10/09 U.K. Bridge Firm Admits Overseas Corruption
05/27/09 Stimulus Windfall Could Boost Fraud
05/13/09 Corps of Engineers Official Indicted On Corruption Charges in Iraq
05/06/09 U.S. Valve-Firm Executives Indicted for Global Bribery
04/23/09 Internal Review Clears Society of Ethics Violations
04/22/09 Illinois Boosts Project Funding But Not Without Major Reform
04/22/09 Probe of New York Utility Yields Two More Construction Arrests
04/15/09 Internal Review Clears Society of Ethics Violations
04/09/09 ASCE Ethics Committee Clears Staff and Members
04/01/09 Brazilian Kickback Probe Hits Contractor's Executive Suite
01/28/09 World Bank Debars Seven Contractors
01/23/09 World Bank Debars Seven Contractors On Philippine Roadbuilding Project
01/23/09 Shaw Group Unit Fined $6.2 Million For Recordkeeping Improprieties
01/21/09 Con Ed Construction Officials Arrested in Contractor Scheme
01/15/09 NYC Utility Employees Arrested in Contractor Bribe Scheme
01/05/09 Rigger Faces Manslaughter Charges In Deadly NYC Tower Crane Collapse

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