by Ben Vernia | September 12th, 2011
On September 12, the Department of Justice announced that it had settled False Claims Act allegations with Accenture LLP:
Accenture LLP has agreed to pay the United States $63.675 million to resolve a whistleblower lawsuit, the Justice Department announced today. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, alleges that Accenture submitted or caused to be submitted false claims for payment under numerous contracts with agencies of the United States for information technology services.
Accenture has agreed to resolve allegations that it received kickbacks for its recommendations of hardware and software to the government, fraudulently inflated prices and rigged bids in connection with federal information technology contracts.
The case was originally brought by two qui tam relators, but the Department of Justice said that the relator’s share of the proceeds had not been determined.
