Sentence examples for fraudulent contractors from inspiring English sources

The House has made a start in plugging the multibillion-dollar loophole that the White House let slip into its promised crackdown on fraudulent contractors.

So if the United States cannot bring suit against fraudulent contractors, "who could do that?" asked the official, Michael F. Hertz of the Justice Department's Civil Division.

8. Destroyed a decade's worth of federal contracting data used to identify fraudulent contractors.

But Bowen McBeath, a professor of social work at Portland State University in Oregon, cautioned that the systems can still be vulnerable to abusive and fraudulent contractors.

Other SBA executives launched campaigns to cover-up fraud and abuse by fraudulent contractors by fighting legal efforts to obtain data under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that would uncover blatant abuses in programs administered by the SBA.

Fraudulent contractors may intentionally word contracts in an exploitative or ambiguous manner.

A Senator discussing these sections said: 'The government ought to have the privilege of coming upon him (a fraudulent contractor) or his estate and his heirs and recovering the money of which it is defrauded.' 14 The inherent difficulty of choosing a proper specific sum which would give full restitution was a problem for Congress.

A fraudulent contractor will generally not have these types of references, and you should be wary of any contractor who refuses or is reluctant to provide them.

Am I to believe that in the interest of limiting "Soviet expansionism" we have come to this, a point at which we are forced to admit that we are helpless to address the problem of fraudulent government contractors because we need them too badly?

Most predatory practices, however, involve a refinance loan in which brokers or fraudulent home-repair contractors, acting as bird dogs for lenders, go door to door in poor neighborhoods.

United Nations agencies participating in the UN Global Marketplace strictly enforce a policy of zero tolerance concerning unethical, unprofessional or fraudulent acts of UN contractors.