Contract Fraud Deal Enforceable Despite Trump Procurement Shift

An IT contractor and others must honor a settlement in a False Claims Act suit alleging small business contract fraud, despite their claim of financial hardship, a federal district court said.

Optimal Solutions and Technologies didn’t show that commercial impracticability from the loss of US government funds under the Trump administration excuses enforcing the agreement, Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said in a Monday order. Whistleblower Andrew Scollick and the defendants at OST must file a joint status report in 30 days stating whether further enforcement is needed, the court ...