NYT: Guardrail Maker Trinity Industries Conducts More Tests for Malfunction
Our government procurement programs supply Americans with many of the things on which we rely, particularly in transportation. Companies that commit fraud in this area not only violate the False Claims Act, they also endanger public health. — Shayne Stevenson, Head of Whistleblower Practice
"Trinity Industries on Tuesday conducted the second of eight crash tests of a potentially dangerous guardrail system, as questions grew over whether some of the units being evaluated were different than those previously installed. Joshua Harman, the federal whistle-blower who prevailed in a False Claims Act lawsuit against Trinity, told Bloomberg News that the company had made another recent design change that has not been reported to the safety agency: enlarging the so-called exit gap on the ET-Plus in order to avoid the jamming at the heart of the suspected malfunction." Full article »
