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Federal officials announced that the Virginia Beach business is being held strictly liable under the Anti-Kickback Act and ordered it to pay a $1,088,803 civil penalty for a years-long scheme.
Between 2008 and 2015, prosecutors say that Mancon served as a prime contractor for the United States’ Wounded Warrior Program, and from 2012 to 2015, the subcontractor that Mancon selected to work on its prime contracts accepted $1,088,803 in kickbacks from a lower-tier subcontractor in exchange for work on Mancon’s prime government contracts.
Officials made note that “the United States previously recovered $4.3 million from Mancon’s subcontractor to resolve False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Act claims related to the kickback scheme on Mancon’s Wounded Warrior contracts and other prime government contracts.”
The court maintained that Mancon, “as a prime contractor, was strictly liable for a civil penalty equal to the value of the kickbacks paid and accepted by its subcontractors on the Wounded Warrior contracts.”
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