A government contractor overcharging? I’m shocked! Shocked and dismayed! /s
It really is an open secret that all of these contracting companies overcharge the government. Good on her for getting the receipts and doing something about it!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
After multiple combat tours in Iraq as a U.S. Marine officer, Sarah Feinberg was proud to join the ranks of Booz Allen Hamilton, a prestigious firm headquartered in suburban Washington, D.C., that holds annual contracts valued at $6.5 billion with nearly every U.S. government agency.
Feinberg thought she fit right in, and after taking leave to earn an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, she was promoted to a position tracking internal financial data.
Feinberg uncovered what the Justice Department ultimately declared was a civil fraud scheme under which Booz Allen allegedly was overcharging U.S. taxpayers to subsidize its money-losing private consulting contracts, including with foreign governments such as Saudi Arabia.
In 2016, after nine months of failing to convince mostly older male Booz Allen executives to stop what she told them was fraud, Feinberg, then 31 and pregnant with twins, took advantage of the little-understood “qui tam” procedure allowing an insider to sue on behalf of the U.S. and recover between 15% and 30% of any settlement or judgment.
Booz Allen declined to make an executive available for an interview, but in a statement told NBC News that the company “has always believed it acted lawfully and responsibly — guided by its strong, century-old culture of ethics and accountability — and its position has been consistently grounded in facts.”
A runner with an affection for caffeinated energy drinks, she aims to stay in her tidy, older Northern Virginia home with her husband, Evan, who runs an anti-poverty nonprofit organization.
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