CDW-Government to Pay U.S. $5,663,902 to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
CDW-Government LLC (CDW-G) has agreed to pay $5.66 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims in connection with a U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) contract, the Justice Department announced today. CDW-G is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Illinois-based CDW Corporation and a reseller of information technology, equipment, services, office supplies and related products. The settlement resolves allegations that, during the period 1999 to 2011, CDW-G improperly charged government purchasers for shipping, sold products to the United States that were manufactured in China and other countries that are prohibited by the Trade Agreements Act, and underreported sales in order to avoid paying GSA its “Industrial Funding Fee,” a fee based on total contract sales that is designed to cover GSA’s costs of contract administration.

“Protecting the federal procurement process is a top priority for the Department of Justice,” said Stuart F. Delery, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s Civil Division. “Contractors who abuse that process and undermine American trade interests will be held accountable for their actions.”

“My office will not tolerate any abuse of the contracting process with the United States,” said Stephen R. Wigginton, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. “My warning is both simple and certain: If you knowingly overcharge the United States, we will pursue all remedies available to us and we will recover the government’s losses.”

The allegations arose from a lawsuit filed in a federal court in East Saint Louis, Ill., under the qui tam or whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act. Those provisions allow private individuals known as “relators” to sue on behalf of the United States and to share in the proceeds of any settlement or judgment that may result. The relator in this case, former CDW-G sales representative Joe Liotine, will receive $1,336,098 of the total recovery as a statutory award. The relator may also be entitled to receive additional amounts from the defendant for attorneys’ fees and costs.

The claims settled by this agreement are allegations only, and there has been no determination of liability. The case is captioned U.S. ex rel. Joe Liotine, vs. CDW-Government, Inc., 05-cv-33-DRH-DGW. The settlement was the result of a coordinated effort by the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Illinois and the GSA Office of Inspector General.
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Jenna Wolfe Baby: ‘Today’ Host Keeping Paternity Under Wraps
The Huffington Post | By Rebecca Shapiro
Posted: 03/29/2013 8:42 am EDT | Updated: 03/29/2013 8:42 am EDT

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“Today” co-host Jenna Wolfe said she was keeping the paternity of her baby private in an interview with E! News on Wednesday.

Wolfe came out as gay on Wednesday’s “Today” show, announcing that she’s been in a three year relationship with NBC News correspondent Stephanie Gosk and they were expecting a baby.

Wolfe opened up about her and Stephanie’s decision to have a baby, but would not reveal the identity of the father, jokingly confirming that it is neither Matt Lauer or Lester Holt.

When asked how she and her partner decided who would carry the baby, Wolfe pointed to a very simple solution. “We rock-paper-scissored it,” she said. “I won 34-31.”

Wolfe previously co-hosted Sunday’s “Today” show alongside Holt but was demoted to the weekend show’s newsreader when NBC News hired former “CBS This Morning” co-host Erica Hill to co-anchor on both Saturdays and Sundays.

Georgia Husband and Wife Tax Return Preparers Indicted for Tax Crimes
On March 14, 2013, a federal grand jury in Macon, Ga., returned an 18 count indictment alleging that Natashia and Detrick Tucker, a husband and wife couple who owned and operated a tax preparation business named T&T Express located in Pine Mountain, Ga., conspired to defraud the United States by preparing and filing fraudulent tax returns that illegally claimed inflated tax refunds for their clients. The indictment also charges both of the Tuckers with specific counts of aiding the filing of false tax returns, including Natashia Tucker’s personal returns. The Tuckers were arrested and made their initial appearances in court today.

An indictment is merely a formal charge by the grand jury. The defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. If convicted of the conspiracy charge, Natashia and Detrick Tucker each face a maximum potential sentence of ten years’ imprisonment. Further, they face maximum of three years in prison for each count of conviction for aiding the filing of false tax returns.

The case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Alexander Effendi and Charles Edgar Jr. of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Michael Solis of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Georgia. The case was investigated with the assistance of special agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation and the Georgia Department of Revenue.

More information about the Tax Division and its enforcement efforts can be found at www.justice.gov/tax .

A man who claims “nah sell out mi fren dem ” doesnt seem to have a problem selling out his own mother . Man send man to (Edit out this allegation) his own mother yet is on the airwaves a try pass himself off as a righteous man. Interesting indeed, Things I guess arent always what they seem . This tendencey of an artiste to portray one image on air but in reality they are something totally opposite , seriously its time darkness come to light.
I wonder what fans would say if they knew how much girls run away from this man because he keeps forcing them into axxx(( WHEY MI DID TELL UNO O) sex. Sasha from Canada and Karen who used to live in Mandeville have plenty to say. Karen parents had to send her abroad to get away from the backdoor business. Even his baby thats been with a number of jamaican artist from miami florida said “a who say rasta nuh freaky”
But then a man who jump to about four different record label in about what less than three years and everybody have nothing good to say. From Stashment to Corey Todd to Cash flow to Downsound? Seriously Khago check yuhself man. All relatives dont want deal with the man , as a matter fact he say he is making money now but yet his mother lives in some very bad conditions same way. What kinda man dat.

This man dont even mind his kids, Its almost like him have a mental problem or something, ah try tell big big Joe Boganovich to run away all other artiste on the label yet. see it deh now him get drop and a lie bout he never signed nuh contract wid them. Yet big producer like Skatta tweet that he was there when you sign contract. something wrong with this bredren star!
Khago need to tell people how him used to bounce from place to place staying with people and getting in problems with tehm all the time. He needs to tell how man bruk him hand inna Christiana on time. Tell dem that “”fish ” story hairdresser bwoy who used to do man hair ah country.
the new meaning of badmind should be Khago. Always badmind big artiste like Bounty , Ioctane, Sizzla and Sasco , now I hear him gone hangout round Rebel T, the ungrateful wretch need fi go bring back the money and the chain him tek from Joe at Downsound.

HIV test urged for 7,000 Oklahoma dental patients
Thursday, March 28, 2013 | 4:24 PM

TULSA, Oklahoma (AP) — Health officials are urging 7,000 patients of an Oklahoma dentist to seek medical tests to ensure they haven’t been exposed to hepatitis or the virus that causes AIDS.

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The Oklahoma and Tulsa health departments said Thursday that the patients may have been exposed to viruses at clinics operated by Dr W Scott Harrington. The agencies said they found “major violations” of the Oklahoma Dental Act.

Spokeswoman Kaitlin Snider of the Tulsa Health Department says Harrington voluntarily closed his practice and is cooperating with investigators.

Letters are being sent to 7,000 patients from Harrington’s clinics in Tulsa and suburban Owasso since 2007. The letters recommend testing for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV. The agencies say it is rare for infections to spread in occupational settings but that tests are important.

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