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L-3 Communications

Overbilling on Helicopter Maintenance Contract in Iraq

Date: 12/08/2008 (Date of Announcement)

Misconduct Type: Government Contract Fraud

Enforcement Agency: Multiple Agencies

Contracting Party: Defense - Army

Court Type: Civil

Amount: $4,000,000

Disposition: Settlement

Synopsis: : L-3 Vertex Aerospace, a subsidiary of L-3 Communications Corp., paid $4 million to settle allegations that it submitted false and inflated claims to the Army for work on a contract to provide helicopter maintenance services in Iraq. The settlement resolves a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging that L-3 Vertex submitted false time records and inflated claims for hours worked by employees at Camp Taji, Iraq from March 2004 through August 2005.