Berger Group Pays $69.3 Million for Iraq Overbilling
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Louis Berger Group Inc., a New Jersey engineering consulting firm, agreed to pay $69.3 million to resolve criminal and civil probes related to overbilling for reconstruction contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan and other work.
The U.S. Justice Department agreed to defer prosecution of the case against the company, which pledged to reform its practices under a monitor. Prosecutors, who today filed criminal charges of overbilling from 1999 to 2007, will dismiss the case in two years if the company tightens internal controls and fulfills other promises. Two former executives pleaded guilty in federal court in Newark, New Jersey.