BROOKLYN, NY – Comprehensive Health Services, LLC (CHS), located in Florida, has agreed to pay $930,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by falsely representing to the State Department and the Air Force that it complied with contract requirements relating to the provision of medical services at State Department and Air Force facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is the Department of Justice’s first resolution of a False Claims Act case involving cyber fraud since the launch of the Department’s Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative, which aims to combine the Department’s expertise in civil fraud enforcement, government procurement, and cybersecurity to combat new and emerging cyber threats to the security of sensitive information and critical systems
Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; Brian M. Boynton, Principal Deputy Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Civil Division; Roger B. Handberg, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida; Elisabeth “Elli” Kaminsky, Special Agent-in-Charge, United States Department of State, Office of Investigations; and Nicholas J. Groesbeck, Special Agent-in-Charge, Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Procurement Fraud Detachment 4, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio (OSI), announced the settlement.
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