{"id":1031,"date":"2012-04-25T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/25\/lend-lease-fined-56-million-for-alleged-fraudulent-construction-practices\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T19:08:00","slug":"lend-lease-fined-56-million-for-alleged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lienitnow.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/lend-lease-fined-56-million-for-alleged.html","title":{"rendered":"Lend Lease Fined $56 Million for Alleged Fraudulent Construction Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-QJAfPQy3CwE\/T5hLiWT16fI\/AAAAAAAAAFc\/RA49QYUJ-1E\/s1600\/Bovis%2520Lend%2520Lease.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"158\" oda=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-QJAfPQy3CwE\/T5hLiWT16fI\/AAAAAAAAAFc\/RA49QYUJ-1E\/s320\/Bovis%2520Lend%2520Lease.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>After a wide ranging investigation by Federal Authorities, one of the world&#8217;s largest construction firms,&nbsp;Lend Lease, formerly (and commonly known as)&nbsp;Bovis Lend Lease, was fined $56 million for fraud perpetrated on projects ranging from Federal, State, City, County and private projets.<\/p>\n<p>The fine was levied after intense negotiations permitted the company to escape Federal prosecution for&nbsp;the fraud, which extended over&nbsp;a 10-year period, including over-billing and ignoring minority hiring mandates at New York landmarks, such as the Mets&#8217; baseball stadium and the September 11 memorial site. FBI assistant director-in-charge Janice Fedarcyk said the&nbsp;plea&nbsp;concluded&nbsp;a three-year probe &#8221;into a systemic pattern of audacious fraud by one of the world&#8217;s largest construction firms&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Bovis is the construction arm of Australian based Lend Lease, and is the entity that agreed to pay the fines, which included &#8216;victim restitution.&#8217;&nbsp; A hearing was held on April 24, 2012 in the US District Court in Brooklyn, NY, at which point the fine was levied&nbsp;by the court.&nbsp;Accused of fraudulent overbilling and manipulating minority hiring program requirements, the US&nbsp;Attorney Loretta Lynch indicated that the main defense given by Bovis was that &#8220;everybody&nbsp;does it&#8221;.&nbsp; US Attorney Lynch states that &#8220;the defense of &#8216;everyone does it&#8217; will not be a shield against law enforcement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">As for corporate employees and officers, only one was charged with fraud.&nbsp; James Abadie, who formerly led the company&#8217;s New York office, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit fraud for over-billing Bovis&#8217; clients for more than a decade. Abadie, 55, faces up to 20 years in prison.&nbsp; It&#8217;s interesting that only one person was indicted for &#8220;conspiracy&#8221;: we thought it took more than one person to make a conspiracy. Bovis, on the other hand, is on a 2 year good behavior stint and may be prosecuted if it violates laws during that time period.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, the company admitted that, as a matter of practice,&nbsp;it&nbsp;added two hours of unworked overtime to timesheets for labour foremen and charged customers for weeks when foremen were on vacation or out sick.&nbsp;Court papers indicated&nbsp;this is a common and unsavory&nbsp;practice where unions have heavy influence on the number of hours worked by their members and work slowdowns can severly affect a project.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a wide ranging investigation by Federal Authorities, one of the world&#8217;s largest construction firms,&nbsp;Lend Lease, formerly (and commonly known as)&nbsp;Bovis Lend Lease, was fined $56 million for fraud perpetrated on projects ranging from Federal, State, City, County and private projets. 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