Lockheed Martin, Mission Support Can’t Stop Nuke Fraud Suit

Federal prosecutors adequately accused Lockheed Martin Corp. and Mission Support Alliance of violating the False Claims Act by improperly billing the Department of Energy under a multibillion-dollar contract to support the Hanford nuclear complex, the Eastern District of Washington said.

The government sufficiently asserted that the defendants knew statements they made about prices charged to the department were inaccurate, Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington said Monday.

The government also satisfied the materiality requirement for a false claims suit, at least at this stage, by saying defendants’ misstatements and omissions about ...