March 10, 2022
Amentum once again couldn't escape translators' claims of being forced to work in deplorable conditions on military contracts worth more than $13.3 billion, when a Maryland federal judge found that the whistleblowers had alleged enough misconduct for their claims to survive.
October 17, 2019
Security firm TigerSwan urged a Maryland federal judge to toss most of a False Claims Act case accusing a DynCorp-AECOM joint venture of lying about its involvement in multibillion-dollar U.S. Army translation contracts, arguing on Thursday that there's no evidence it knew about alleged mistreatment of translators in Kuwait.
October 10, 2019
More than three years after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Escobar decision, courts continue to wrangle with how to interpret the ruling in False Claims Act suits, including in a spate of recent cases addressing two key questions the justices left open.
September 06, 2019
A Maryland federal judge has allowed a False Claims Act case accusing a DynCorp-AECOM joint venture of lying about being the true employer of workers under multibillion-dollar U.S. Army translation services contracts to move forward, saying most claims had been properly pled.
December 17, 2018
A Maryland federal judge has unsealed the case record in a whistleblower False Claims Act case accusing a DynCorp-AECOM joint venture of lying about the true employer of workers under multibillion-dollar U.S. Army translation services contracts, over the objections of the federal government.
October 22, 2018
A DynCorp-AECOM joint venture falsely claimed it was not the true employer of workers under two multibillion-dollar translation services contracts with the U.S. Army, while housing the workers in "unconscionable" conditions and coercing them into confessing to violations of Kuwaiti work laws, according to an unsealed False Claims Act complaint.