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The entrails of WMBE Fraud

By Alison Jimenez

Here is a case study on how to go about setting up a front company to take advantage of MWBE programs in order to win government construction contracts.  This is also from the story on Senator Bromwell and his wife mentioned in the post below.  I think this is an instructive example of the lengths that people will go to commit this type of fraud.The Minority Contracting Fraud Scheme.Many of the construction projects performed by P&K and FP&K required the contractor to meet specified levels of WBE and minority participation on the job. For that reason, P&K and FP&K routinely hired Namco as a subcontractor on various construction projects. Beginning in approximately the spring of 1999, after Namco completed work under a subcontract agreement with P&K for construction work on the Ravens Stadium in downtown Baltimore, G...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tanjeble on November 02, 2007 (boomark / email).