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The government awards contracts to companies with histories of misconduct such as contract fraud and environmental, ethics, and labor violations. In the absence of a centralized federal database listing instances of misconduct, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is providing such data. We believe that it will lead to improved contracting decisions and public access to information about how the government spends hundreds of billions of taxpayer money each year on goods and services. Report an instance of misconduct »
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URS Corporation
URS Corporation offers a comprehensive range of professional planning and design, systems engineering and technical assistance, program and construction management, and operations and maintenance services for transportation, commercial/industrial, facilities, environmental, water/wastewater, homeland security, installations and logistics, and defense systems. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company operates in more than 20 countries with approximately 28,000 employees providing engineering and technical services to federal, state and local governmental agencies as well as private clients in the chemical, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, power, manufacturing, mining and forest products industries.
Federal Contract $: $4885.1m
Total Number of Instances: 5
Total Misconduct dollar amount: $ 54.8m
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Instances of Misconduct
1. Cox v. Radian (Air and Waste Regulation Violations)
“[T]he State of Michigan alleged certain violations of air and waste regulations had occurred while Radian [a URS subsidiary,] was operating a hazardous waste sludge dredging, drying, and transporting operation for The Dow Chemical Company’s Michigan Operations in Midland, Michigan. “On August 14, 1996, Dow agreed to undertake a management project to remove and incinerate excess contaminated solids that accumulated in its wastewater treatment ponds. The accumulated solids, containing dioxins and furans, were being dredged from the ponds and pumped to a dewatering/drying system operated by Dow's contactor Radian, and then incinerated in Dow’s 830 Incinerator. Dioxins and furans are chemicals of concern because they are persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic at very low concentrations. The DEQ obtained a tip that the solids were being mismanaged at Dow and that there had been numerous discharges of dried solids and fine particulate dust into the air and on the ground since May of 1997. On November 13, 1998, during the execution of a criminal search warrant, DEQ staff observed an accumulation of solids and dust around the outside of the drying facility, in the grass and along the facility access road. In addition, 196 containers of hazardous waste were observed stored in violation of Part 111. Records seized during execution of the criminal search warrant indicated that there had been five separate incidents of potential fire hazards and numerous releases of hazardous wastes at the facility. Radian had failed to notify the DEQ of these incidents as required under Part 111.”... more»
2. US v. Pagano (Accepting Bribes)
“Albert Pagano, the former Project Manager for URS/O'Brien Kreitzberg ("URS"), the construction quality management firm hired to assist the General Services Administration ("GSA") in supervising the construction of the new Federal Courthouse and the renovation of the existing General Post Office Building in downtown Brooklyn, was sentenced this morning for his receipt of $35,000 in bribes from a subcontractor in exchange for Pagano's assistance in the subcontractor's efforts to secure a $5.5 million subcontract on the Post Office renovation project and other lucrative contract modifications and change orders. Pagano was sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment, three years' supervised release, a fine of $60,000 and restitution of $2,000.”... more»
3. Bertoluzzi v. URS Corporation (Injury Compensation Claim)
On November 28, 2005, the Department of Labor approved a settlement of a claim for benefits under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act in the amount of $24,351.56 plus $4,000 in attorneys fees “for a complete discharge of [URS Corporation's] liability for compensation and medical care arising out of the subject injury.”... more»
4. Air Force Overbilling
EG&G Technical Services, Inc., a subsidiary of URS Corp, paid over $1.7 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit accusing it of overbilling the U.S. Air Force for aircraft parts and services. It was alleged that, between 1997 and 2004, EG&G employee Richard Thomas Barkley effected a scheme with aircraft parts company Danco Aerospace Consulting, Inc., in which EG&G paid Danco for more than $776,000 in parts that were already in inventory or were never delivered, then submitted more than $860,000 in fraudulent bills to the Air Force. EG&G did not admit any wrongdoing as part of the settlement in the case. Barkley pleaded guilty in 2007 to conspiracy, theft of government funds, and money laundering, and was sentenced to 37 months in prison.... more»
5. Minneapolis Bridge Collapse (Civil Litigation)
Survivors and families of victims of the August 1, 2007 bridge collapse in Minneapolis filed negligence suits against URS Corporation, which analyzed the Interstate 35W Bridge, and Progressive Contractors, Inc., which was resurfacing the bridge. Plaintiffs claimed the collapse, which killed 13 people and injured 145, was avoidable. In August 2010, URS settled with the plaintiffs for $52.4 million.... more»
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