Military contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. agreed Tuesday to pay $62 million to settle a 16-year-old whistleblower lawsuit, alleging that Northrop in the 1980s overcharged the government on several defense programs.
The lawsuit, Rex Robinson v. Northrop Grumman Corporation, was initially filed by four whistleblowers (Northrop employees) and the Justice Department under the qui tam provisions of […]

Activist Bev Harris and computer programmer Jim March filed a Qui Tam lawsuit in California against Diebold, alleging software bugs in the company’s equipment exposed the state’s elections to hackers.
The lawsuit was filed in November of 2003, but the suit was held under seal by the courts while various government attorneys decided whether or not […]