Cleanup & Remediation

Former DOE Cleanup Subcontractor Gets Prison Term for Fraud

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A former subcontractor for URS-CH2M Oak Ridge in Tennessee was sentenced this week to 366 days in prison and ordered to repay the Internal Revenue Service more than $2.3 million for a scheme to defraud the federal government.
The Justice Department said in a Tuesday…

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