A federal judge has overturned a $10 million jury award — the first civil fraud verdict arising from the Iraq war — against a military contractor accused of defrauding the U.S. government. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III ruled that any fraud by Custer Battles was perpetrated against the provisional authority formed to run Iraq until a government was established, and that the trial evidence failed to show that the U.S. government was the victim, even though U.S. taxpayers ultimately footed the bill.
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A federal judge has overturned a $10 million jury award — the first civil fraud verdict arising from the Iraq war — against a military contractor accused of defrauding the U.S. government. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III ruled that any fraud by Custer Battles was perpetrated against the provisional authority formed to run Iraq until a government was established, and that the trial evidence failed to show that the U.S. government was the victim, even though U.S. taxpayers ultimately footed the bill.
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Posted on Saturday, August 19th, 2006. Filed under: Business Law, Law Misc
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