URS E & C Holdings, a successor in interest to Washington Group International (WGI), agreed to pay $9 million to settle allegations that WGI submitted false claims in connection with United States Agency for International Development (USAID) contracts. (URS E & C Holdings is a subsidiary of URS Corporation, which acquired WGI in 2007.) The settlement concerned USAID-funded contracts for the construction of water and wastewater infrastructure projects in Egypt in the 1990s. The contracts were awarded to a joint venture partnership between WGI, Contrack International, and Misr Sons Development S.A.E. The United States alleged that prior to the award of those contracts, the joint venture partners evaded the prequalification requirement by concealing the identity of the joint venture partners. As a result, the government alleged that WGI and its partners received USAID-funded contracts for which they were ineligible.