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TexasTowelie

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2. Navistar being sued for $1.3B in fraudulent charges for armored vehicles

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Sat Dec 7, 2019, 06:37 AM

Dec 2019

The details of a whistleblower lawsuit against defense contractor Navistar have been unsealed, accusing the company of bilking nearly $1.3 billion from the government.

In 2013, a former Navistar Defense employee accused the company of fraudulent and inflated pricing for the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles it sold to the U.S. Marine Corps.

The MRAPs as they're commonly called were built via several contracts from 2007-2012. About 4,000 were built, with their finishing done at Navistar's plant in West Point.

The whistleblower, Duquoin Burgess, filed suit in 2013, claiming the company violated the False Claims Act by forging invoices, catalog prices and other information used in negotiations to sell the MRAPs.

More at https://www.djournal.com/news/business/navistar-being-sued-for-b-in-fraudulent-charges-for-armored/article_ba0a31f2-d555-5079-8c49-2e1019aad9b5.html

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