Dive Brief:

• The military housing division of El Paso, Texas-based developer and property manager Hunt Companies has agreed to pay $500,000 to resolve allegations of fraud at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, according to the Department of Justice. The settlement resolves the allegations and closes the case against the company with no admission of guilt from Hunt.
• The DOJ said that Hunt Military Communities submitted false information to the Air Force between January 2013 and June 2019 in order to receive higher performance incentive payouts from the government.
• In a statement to Construction Dive, Hunt acknowledged resolving allegations around "inaccurate work order data," and performance incentive fees at Air Force properties during that time frame, but didn't admit to wrongdoing. "HMC cooperated fully with the DOJ throughout the investigation, which started in January 2020," Hunt said in the statement. "Under the terms of the civil resolution, HMC agreed to pay $500,000 to resolve allegations regarding inaccurate work order data."

Dive Insight

The DOJ's resolution with Hunt comes less than a month after Malvern, Pennsylvania-based Balfour Beatty Communities (BBC), the U.S subsidiary of Balfour Beatty and one of the country's largest providers of privatized military housing, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud and agreed to pay more than $65 million in fines and restitution.

The fraud scheme, which ran from 2013 to 2019, caused military families to suffer as they...

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