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Federal Contractor Misconduct Database (FCMD)
The federal government routinely awards contracts to companies with
histories of misconduct, including
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contract fraud and other
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False Claims on Reconstruction Contracts – Pepe and Pellettieri Prosecutions
Two former senior Louis Berger Group (LBG) employees—former CFO Salvatore Pepe and former controller Precy Pellettieri—pleaded guilty to taking part in a scheme in which LBG, from at least 1999 through August 2007, intentionally overbilled the government for overhead costs on contracts it performed overseas. Pepe and Pellettieri admitted to conspiring to defraud the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) by obtaining contract payments billed at falsely inflated overhead rates.
- Misconduct Type
- Government Contract Fraud
- Enforcement Agency
- Justice
- Contracting Party
- USAID
- Court Type
- Criminal
- Disposition
- Pleaded Guilty
- Date of Guilty Pleas
- 11/5/2010
