Linguist Contract Whistleblowers Hold on to Document Access Win

Whistleblowers alleging that Global Linguist Solutions LLC, DynCorp International LLC, and others engaged in a fraudulent scheme to win translation contracts in Kuwait worth over $14 billion kept their discovery win allowing them to access documents from accounting firm Western Maine Accounting Services LLC, according to a federal district court.

A magistrate judge properly determined July 7 that Western Maine must produce documents that could shed light on whether GLS conspired with small business defendants to falsely present those entities as truly small or disadvantaged business partners to win a contract when GLS itself performed most of the work, Judge ...