By
Josh Meyer, Politico
September 1, 2017
One
of the four companies picked by the Trump administration this week for its
Mexico border wall prototype paid more than $3 million to settle a Justice
Department criminal investigation into whether it defrauded the U.S. government
through its participation in a federal “mentor-protégé” program to help
disadvantaged small business contractors, records show.
The
firm, Caddell Construction Company Inc., a major commercial and industrial
federal government construction contractor based in Montgomery, Alabama, did not
admit wrongdoing in the 2012 case.
But
it entered into a nonprosecution arrangement in which it agreed to pay $2
million and to provide unspecified cooperation with the federal government for
two years, Justice Department filings and news releases show. It paid the rest
of the money in what appears to be a related case, according to those documents
and information contained in the Federal Contractor Misconduct Database of the
Project on Government Oversight, an independent and nonpartisan group.[...]
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