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DOJ Continues to Crack Down on SBA Fraud

May 25, 2017 By Jeffrey Belkin

On April 25, 2017, the DOJ announced that Michelle Cho, an officer of Far East Construction Corporation and other companies, received both prison time and civil penalties for her involvement as the mastermind of a fraudulent scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) 8(a) program. Under this scheme, Cho would bid for set-aside contracts for small, disadvantaged businesses under the SBA 8(a) program. However, Cho’s companies would not perform this work. Instead, other large companies would perform this work and pay 3 percent of the proceeds to Cho’s companies. This is another [...]Read more

Filed Under: Government Contract-Related Investigations and the False Claims Act Tagged With: Fraud, Small Business Administration (SBA)

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