Defense Procurement: E-Systems' Reporting of Alleged Wrongdoing to Army's Fraud Division.
Abstract
After E-Systems, Inc., a defense contractor, pleaded guilty in July 1990 to violations of federal law related to contracts with the Department of the Army, the Army entered into a 3-year administrative settlement agreement (Memcor Agreement) with the company. Among other things, the agreement required E-Systems to report all hotline allegations to the Army's Procurement Fraud Division. When the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, received allegations from a former chief investigator for E-Systems' Greenville (Texas) Division concerning the division's hotline/ethics program, the Subcommittee's then Chairman, asked the General Accounting Office (GAO) to answer the following questions: (1) Did federal law, regulations, or the Memcor Agreement require E-Systems to disclose suspected violations of procurement law?; (2) How many and what types of hotline complaints were lodged against E-Systems' Greenville Division?; (3) Did E-Systems' employees, contrary to federal law, alter or reinvestigate hotline complaints and investigation results to avoid disclosing information to the federal government; and what were the details behind three cases that had been brought to the Subcommittee's attention?; (4) Why did the Army not debar E-Systems from doing business with the government, given the serious accusations contained in a May 1994 Army 'show cause' letter?; and (5) What loss did the government experience as a result of E-Systems' actions in the three previously mentioned hotline cases?
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1996
- Accession Number
- ADA309138
Entities
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office