Trying to score an extra buck by handing in false reports to the government will only end up costing more in the end. Take it from the Boston-based McCourt Construction Co. Inc. Ordered to pay three years probation and a $500,000 fine after working on Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel Project a.k.a “Big Dig,” the U.S. Court for the District of Massachusetts slammed them!

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts claimed that McCourt Construction and two of the company’s billing managers overbilled the project by falsely categorizing trade workers, for example, listing ironworkers as journeymen.

Accused of submitting these false statements to the government about the project, not only were they fined but they are ordered to three years probation. Boo-ya!

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