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Ethics & Corruption
Reports about design professional practice ethics and investigations and civil and criminal cases related to bidding and building, including political donations, organized crime, conflicts of interest, bribery, embezzlement, bid-rigging and relationships with clients and the public. |
Latest Headlines
| 08/25/10 | Crackdown Adds To Contractor Perils A surge in audits and criminal investigations mostly involves U.S. citizens and firms, report says. |
| 08/18/10 | Probe Leads to Wolff's Likely Exit From Berger A three-year-long federal investigation of alleged overbilling on reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan by engineer Louis Berger Group appears likely to force Derish M. Wolff, chairman of the firm's holding company, from his job, according to court documents filed last week. |
| 07/07/10 | French Contractor Technip To Pay $338 Million To Settle Nigeria LNG Project Bribery Allegations Paris-based construction giant Technip S.A. has agreed to pay $338 million to avoid prosecution and settle civil suits alleging violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in a 1990s and early 2000s bribery scheme to win $6 billion in contracts in Nigeria. |
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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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