- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Jeff Dale2024-05-02T19:03:00
Insight Global agreed to pay $2.7 million to settle alleged False Claims Act violations for failing to provide adequate cybersecurity on Covid-19 contract tracing data.
The Atlanta-based staffing company, which specializes in sourcing information technology, accounting, finance, healthcare, and engineering professionals, will pay $1.35 million in restitution, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a settlement agreement dated April 24.
The settlement resolves claims brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act by Terralyn Seilkop, a former Insight Global staff member, the DOJ said in a press release Wednesday. Seilkop will receive nearly $500,000 of the settlement amount, plus $86,000 from Insight Global to cover attorneys’ fees, expenses, and costs arising from the civil action.
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Hahn Air Lines and its U.S. subsidiary agreed to pay $26.8 million to settle alleged violations of the False Claims Act over knowingly failing to provide remittance for travel fees it collected from commercial airline passengers flying into or within the United States.
The announcement of a record year in several areas of False Claims Act enforcement at the Department of Justice was accompanied by a warning that more significant cases are coming, particularly regarding cybersecurity-related claims.
Verizon Business Network Services agreed to pay approximately $4.1 million to settle allegations levied by the Department of Justice regarding false claims caused by failure to fully implement cybersecurity controls required of a government contractor.
Evoqua Water Technologies agreed to pay $8.5 million as part of a nonprosecution agreement with the Department of Justice to settle admitted criminal charges related to fraudulent revenue recognition.
The Department of Homeland Security announced its largest batch of additions to the list of companies blocked under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in the form of a sweep of the Chinese textile industry.
The Department of Justice notified aerospace giant Boeing it breached its 2021 deferred prosecution agreement that required compliance commitments following high-profile crashes of its 737 MAX airplane.
