Securities: U.S. Adds Whistleblower Complaint Against IT Companies

The U.S. Justice Department says that they will file a civil complaint in federal court against Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and Accenture. The companies allegedly "solicited and provided improper payments" on government contracts. Allegations followed after a private lawsuit said that the companies submitted false claims about hardware and services on "numerous government contracts from the late 1990s to the present."

U.S. joins whistleblower case against IT companies

The private lawsuit says that the companies made payments to special companies with which they had global "alliance relationships." The government's lawsuit says that these relationships resulted in kickbacks and led to undisclosed conflicts on interest.