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07.10.2014
Press Release

Company Settles Claims That It Deliberately Underpaid Workers

ATLANTA – Advanced Power & Lighting (APL) and two of the company's former officers and/or employees, Richard Lee Robertson and Greg Piccione, have agreed to pay a total of $780,000 to settle allegations that they deliberately underpaid workers on several federally funded projects covered by the Davis-Bacon Act, and then violated the False Claims Act …

06.10.2014
Press Release

Nigerian Man Admits Role in Computer Hacking Scheme That Targeted Government Employees

NEWARK, N.J. – A Nigerian man today admitted his role in a computer hacking and identity theft scheme that defrauded vendors of nearly $1 million of office products after 'phishing' e-mail login information from government employees, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

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