10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, July 12, 2025
Government procurement fraud is pervasive. The vast majority of government procurement fraud goes undetected, and federal agencies rely heavily on whistleblowers to help them determine when scrutiny is warranted. Blowing the...more
A flurry of federal prosecutorial activity in late 2024, as well as a statement from several institutional stakeholders in a key federal initiative to combat procurement fraud, provided a valuable reminder for government...more
There are numerous ways of committing procurement fraud. When investigating all options need to be considered and collection of intelligence is crucial. StoneTurn Managing Director Phathu Makhadi highlights the most common...more
Ignoring integrity risks in emerging markets when receiving financing from the World Bank Group (WBG) is about to become much riskier, as the WBG Sanctions System Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) indicates. The...more
Last month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a Florida grand jury indicted three men for conspiring to rig bids for customized promotional products to the U.S. Army and charged two of them with conspiring to...more
The Antitrust Division has pushed bid-rigging and price-fixing prosecutions of government contractors. It is long overdue – fraud enforcement has uncovered a number of bid-rigging and price-fixing schemes among government...more
The Justice Department announced this week the formation of a new Procurement Collusion Strike Force, which will focus on “deterring, detecting, investigating and prosecuting antitrust crimes, such as bid-rigging conspiracies...more