James Hannum, who worked for Yellow Transportation, filed a lawsuit under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act in 2008 alleging that the company engaged in overbilling. 14 years later, Hannum will receive a $1.3 million whistleblower award plus interest as part of a settlement with the U.S. government.
According to a U.S. Department of Justice press release, Yellow Transportation Inc., along with YRC Freight Inc. (YRC) and Roadway Express Inc. (“collectively the YRC defendants”), will pay $6.85 million to resolve the allegations “that they knowingly presented false claims to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) by systematically overcharging for freight carrier services and making false statements to hide their misconduct.”
From September 2005 to October 2013, the YRC defendants contracted with DOD to ship military freight across the country.” Per their contracts, the defendants “were paid based in part upon a shipment’s weight.” According to the press release, the government alleged that the YRC defendants “billed for delivery charges based on higher weights when, after reweighing the shipments, they knew that the actual weights were lower.”
The government alleged that the YRC defendants engaged in this fraudulent behavior for over seven years: “reweighing many shipments before final delivery, and when the reweighs showed that a shipment weight was more than the original weight, the YRC defendants charged DOD for these higher weights.” When a reweigh showed a...
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