{"id":33535,"date":"2024-10-16T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=33535"},"modified":"2024-10-31T22:39:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T03:39:41","slug":"raytheon-one-of-the-largest-pentagon-contractors-will-pay-nearly-1-billion-in-fines-for-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=33535","title":{"rendered":"Raytheon, one of the largest Pentagon contractors, will pay nearly $1 billion in fines for fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Russian Satellite News Agency, Washington, October 17th. The US Department of Justice said that Raytheon, one of the largest Pentagon contractors, will pay nearly $1 billion in fines for fraud, intentional price hikes and corruption.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Justice Department said: &#8220;RTX subsidiary&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20240912\/1061523685.html\">Raytheon Corporation<\/a>&nbsp;has agreed to pay more than $950 million to resolve the government&#8217;s investigation into a major foreign fraud scheme that included improper pricing of contracts in certain countries in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the Arms Export Control Act (AECA).&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Among them, Raytheon was accused of deliberately raising the price of national contracts, defrauding the United States, providing unrealistic certification prices, and providing duplicate billing to the Pentagon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20241017\/1062095556.html\">sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Satellite News Agency, Washington, October 17th. The US Department of Justice said that Raytheon, one of the largest Pentagon contractors, will pay nearly $1 billion in fines for fraud, intentional price hikes and corruption. The Justice Department said: &#8220;RTX subsidiary&nbsp;Raytheon Corporation&nbsp;has agreed to pay more than $950 million to resolve the government&#8217;s investigation into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155],"tags":[1988,1435,1752,1500,30849],"class_list":["post-33535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-contractors","tag-fine","tag-fraud","tag-pentagon","tag-thor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33537,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33535\/revisions\/33537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}