Contractors Face More Scrutiny, Pinched Purses
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After riding high for five years, government contractors are bracing themselves for increased oversight, tighter budgets and stepped up regulations as Democrats take over on Capitol Hill and vow to keep a closer eye on how companies spend taxpayer dollars.
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The project has prompted criticism from those who worry that lawyers could skew new rules in favor of their clients.
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Fourteen firms are under scrutiny for possible accounting fraud, insider trading or other violations tied to loans made to borrowers with weak, or subprime, credit.
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City investigators cautioned against using the company that was hired to tear down the Deutsche Bank building.
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A state class-action lawsuit filed yesterday draws a new industry into the debate over whether workers are independent contractors, who are not entitled to overtime pay and other benefits, or employees, who are: courier services.
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Employers and workers are confused by eligibility and Classification of the new regulations.
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Military officials said Thursday that contracts worth $6 billion to provide essential supplies to American troops were under review by criminal investigators.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into a spate of bomb threats phoned in to businesses that resulted in employeesâ wiring thousands of dollars overseas.
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Government contractors, which have been riding a wave of unprecedented growth since the Sept. 11 attacks, are starting to feel the effects of an industry-wide slowdown as the government tightens its technology spending, according to company officials and industry observers.
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Officials in New Jersey who are struggling to combat witness intimidation have long been concerned about cases involving one lawyerâs clients, many of them gang members.
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U.S. officials are investigating the deaths of two American contractors who were ambushed last month in Iraq after one of them told government officials he was concerned about his financial dealings with the Iraqi Ministry of Defense.
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Details of the role civilian contractors played in the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison sparked fresh debate yesterday about the effectiveness of laws and rules meant to govern workers hired to support the military.
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The subpoenas seek information on nontraditional insurance and transactions that some companies have used to improve the appearance of their financial statements.
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Initial reviews of the nation's largest accounting firms have turned up numerous rule violations and shoddy recordkeeping practices, as regulators embarked on a new effort to regularly examine auditors' work.
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The Connecticut attorney general opened an investigation yesterday into whether the various ratings agencies had improperly pressured issuers of commercial debt as a condition of doing business with them.
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer&#39;s probe of bid-rigging in the US insurance industry is quickly becoming national in scope as at least three more states opened similar investigations.
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After human resources, finance and accounting and supply chain management, large corporations and government agencies are turning to outside contractors for security.