Last week, Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), a McLean-based government contractor, struck another deal with the U.S. government, boosting its federal settlements for 2025 to over $16 million.
In the latest case, BAH Inc., agreed to pay the U.S. government $422,557 to address allegations of overcharging for the labor of one employee.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) federal investigators compared invoices, timesheets, and badge swipe data for entering and exiting a secure facility and alleged that the government was billed for services a BAH employee didn’t provide.
BAH didn’t admit wrongdoing but agreed to pay to have the matter resolved.
EDVA said this investigation came from BAH making a contractor disclosure. So, the company was given credit under the Department of Justice’s guidelines for taking disclosure, cooperation, and remediation into account.
That settlement followed one where BAH Holding Corp, the parent company of BAH, agreed to pay the U.S. government to settle allegations of a corrupt bidding and contract steering scheme for military training simulators.
According to EDVA, two former program managers for Booz Allen Hamilton Engineering Services (BES), John Hancock and Karen Paulsen, concocted the scheme with Keith Seguin, a civilian Air Force employee and contracting official, and David Bolduc Jr., the co-owner and manager of a QuantaDyn.
Seguin allegedly divulged confidential government contracting and budget information, a competitor’s confidential proposal information. and source selection information to Hancock and Paulsen. They used that illicit information to submit quotes to the government for training simulators.
Bolduc was reportedly in on the scheme with BES awarding QuantaDyn 37 task orders for military simulators with no competitive bidding process for other subcontractors. The DOJ alleged that BES submitted fraudulent claims under this scheme from September 2013 through June 2020, and the government paid.
All four individuals were charged and resolved their cases in prior years.
BES was accused of violating the False Claims Act, and BAH agreed to resolve that with a $15.87 million settlement in January.
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