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A roofing company will pay Baltimore City $100,000 and can’t bid on city contracts until December 2030 under a settlement following an investigation into failures to follow the city’s requirements for contracting with minority- and women-owned businesses.
The agreement between Baltimore City and SGK Contracting resolves a lawsuit filed in September 2023 over alleged violations of the Maryland False Claims Act and comes as the company faces similar allegations in Baltimore County.
The lawsuit — against the company and its founder, George Koumoudis — followed a report by the office of Baltimore City Inspector General Isabel Cumming that found SGK overstated its commitments to minority- and women-owned subcontractors and may have submitted falsified documents to the city. A subcontractor told investigators that it did not sign an agreement SGK submitted; the OIG could not determine who signed them.
The settlement was approved unanimously and without discussion May 21 by the Baltimore City Board of Estimates, the city’s spending board.
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