Le Bouc said the investigation had to do with alleged false billings by a consultant to Bouygues Offshore that specializes in the management of shipping ports.
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Besides questions about timing, Hughes argued that the suit shouldn't be allowed to proceed because it wasn't Schumer who alerted the government to possible false billings.
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Since January 1995, 45 construction executives have been placed under formal investigation in connection with kickbacks, bid rigging and false billing schemes in the Paris region.
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Leonard Vona wrote that, " Overbilling schemes differ from false billing schemes in that the vendor is a real vendor and actual goods or services are provided.
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Girault, who recently completed a 10-month sentence for false billing, told the respected daily he was paid for providing " good connections " on the planned projects.
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Federal prosecutors Thursday accused a lawyer with connections to local Democratic Party leaders of bilking the city of more than half a million dollars in false billing claims.
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"The information allows a nonmedically trained person to prepare a false billing statement to create an apparently legitimate claim, " investigator Harry Blair explained in the search warrant.
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Bouygues Offshore SA, shares fell as much as 7.7 percent after it confirmed some of the oil-service company's executives have been put under investigation amid allegations of false billings.
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One of Tenet's predecessor companies, National Medical Enterprises, in 1994 settled a federal investigation of kickbacks, bribes, unnecessary medical treatments and false billings at psychiatric hospitals in 30 states.
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French magistrates for years have been investigating cases of false billing in connection with public-works projects amid allegations money from the projects was improperly used to finance political parties.
