Today, the Colorado Broadband Office (CBO) said that after receiving whistleblower reports about Maverix Broadband and investigating the matter, it has taken actions to protect more than $100 million in taxpayer funds.
Maverix, a provider of fiber broadband, had been provisionally awarded $103 million in Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) funds, which as of today CBO has rescinded.
In addition, Maverix has already received about $9.17 million from three federal Capital Projects Fund grants and three state High Cost Support Mechanism grants, according to the Colorado Sun.
Unfortunately, earlier this year Maverix was placed into receivership, and on August 31 it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Colorado is now pursuing the recovery of $3.2 million in grant funds — $2.5 million federal dollars and $700,000 in state dollars — through ongoing receivership and bankruptcy proceedings.
A spokesperson from CBO told Fierce, "The state will be petitioning the courts to support termination of all open and provisional awards and will work diligently to recoup the $700,000 in grant funding to this organization."
While those efforts proceed, CBO has notified federal partners and referred its findings to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of the Inspector General and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
According to CBO, it received two whistleblower...
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