Litigation of Infrastructure Fraud Cases

Federal and state agencies spend billions of taxpayer dollars for the construction of roads, buildings, and other infrastructure projects. These funds will go towards highway, bridge, and road construction, electrical grid updates, water infrastructure, flood remediation, public transit and superfund site remediation. With the recent passage of the Infrastructure Bill, we expect to find increased corruption and fraud.

Infrastructure and Public Works Related Fraud

Some common types of infrastructure related fraud include, but are not limited to:

• Engaging in bid-rigging

• Offering bribes and kickbacks

• Billing for work not performed, or at inflated rates

• Falsifying material costs, or using substandard materials

• Employing and using unqualified personnel

• Violating Buy American requirements

• Failure to follow contract specifications

• Falsifying test results and progress reports

• Falsifying Minority Contractor status

• Prevailing wage (Davis Bacon Act) violations

• Use of undocumented/illegal workers