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Contractor To Pay Feds $900,000 In Road Inflated-Billing Case

11/19/2008
By Steven W. Setzer
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P.A. Landers Inc., a Hanover, Mass., contractor, has agreed to pay the U.S. government $900,000 to settle a 2005 civil claim that firm officials submitted fake tickets inflating load weights for asphalt delivered to federal paving jobs from 1995 to 2003.

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U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan in Boston says the firm created fake paperwork by manually overriding computer controls on its Plymouth, Mass., asphalt plant. A state criminal jury in 2007 found the firm, former CEO Preston Landers and a manager guilty of similar charges. Landers was sentenced to 42 months in prison and fined $15,000. Firm officials could not be reached.

 
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