Article: Wired Undercover by FBI, Whistleblower Helps Government Recover $25 Million in Defense Contracting Fraud.

CHICAGO, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Wired undercover by the FBI to help expose his employer's pervasive, interlocking and sophisticated schemes of brazen accounting chicanery, a qui tam whistleblower's efforts resulted in today's agreement by aerospace contractor MPC Products Corporation and MPC International, Inc. ("MPC") to pay $22.5 million to the federal government. The settlement resolves procurement fraud allegations that the Department of Defense ("DOD") was falsely billed over seven years, according to a Complaint filed under seal in 2003 by whistleblower lawyer Mark Allen Kleiman of Los Angeles, and employment lawyer Dennis R. Favaro of Palatine, Illinois.

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