Sentence examples for contractors were found from inspiring English sources
Two former Blackwater contractors were found guilty on Friday of involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 shooting death of an unarmed Afghan civilian in Kabul.
The new rules state that contract officials are to look at whether potential contractors were found to have broken the law in convictions, court judgments or administrative judgments over the past three years.
In another case, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's pet project to spruce up City Hall Park was delayed because two successive concrete contractors were found to have ties to organized crime.
If the company and its contractors were found to have acted "negligently," a less-severe standard, the per-barrel fines would be only one-quarter of that, or some $4 billion.
On Friday, the wage and hour division announced it would seek to bar Restaurant Associates, the contractor that runs the cafeterias in the US Senate, from receiving any future federal contracts because it and one of its contractors were found to have cheated 674 cafeteria workers out of more than $1m.
Throughout this week, dozens of bodies of soldiers and government contractors were found littered across western Iraq, most of them shot in the head.So much for the notion that Iraq's elections in January had quelled the insurgency a delusion to which some American officials are still prone.
POGO's list has virtually every single one of the top hundred government contractors being found guilty of over-charging the government and cheating the taxpayers.
Mr. Ferguson, the ex-mayor's friend and construction contractor, was found guilty of 9 of 11 counts, including racketeering.
A $3m fine has just been levied against BP because one of its sub-contractors was found to have dumped hundreds of barrels of hazardous waste around its site east of Prudhoe Bay.
In April, the federation advised its members to adapt a clause in all contracts that would void obligations if a contractor was found to have links with the yakuza.
When Eddie Carrillo, a Los Angeles contractor, was found to have prostate cancer at the age of 52, his primary care doctor and his urologist both urged him to have his prostate removed.
