Manhattan U.S. Attorney Files And Settles Civil Fraud Lawsuit Against UFC Aerospace And Douglas B. Davis For Engaging In Fraudulent Conduct In Violation Of The Small Business Act
Fraud lawsuit costs small business $20 million.
Source: Department of Justice, US Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York, published October 8, 2015
…. As alleged in the amended complaint-in-intervention, UFC falsely certified to government contractors that UFC was a woman-owned small business (“WOSB”) when UFC at no point met either requirement for WOSB status under the Small Business Act. Specifically, no women were majority owners of UFC or managed or controlled UFC’s management and daily business operations. UFC made these misrepresentations, as the amended complaint-in-intervention alleges, because it believed that WOSB status provided a competitive advantage in obtaining contracts that it knew were funded by the United States government, and the government contractors in turn made representations to the government regarding its WOSB hiring. In the settlement, approved in Manhattan federal court by U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III, UFC and DAVIS admitted and accepted responsibility for the fact that UFC never qualified for WOSB credit under the Small Business Act and will pay the Government $20,015,956.92. MORE….
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