SET-ASIDE SCAM

Controversial ICE Camp Medic Busted Defrauding Disabled Vets

Loyal Source, the provider at the nation’s biggest ICE camp, will pay $1.8M in a disabled-veteran fraud settlement.

The medical contractor overseeing healthcare at the nation’s biggest immigration detention site has agreed to pay $1.8 million to settle claims it defrauded a program for disabled veterans, the Daily Beast’s sister Substack PunchUp reports. Loyal Source Government Services and another contractor, Officium Global, will jointly pay more than $3.6 million to settle False Claims Act and Contract Disputes Act allegations. Officium Global won seven set-aside contracts from May 2017 to June 2018 that were reserved for small businesses owned by service-disabled veterans, but prosecutors say it falsely certified its eligibility—and that Loyal Source caused the deals to collapse. Whistleblower Jeremy Lavin, who filed suit for the government, stands to pocket over $680,000. Loyal Source still supplies medical staff at Camp East Montana, the El Paso, Texas, site where three people are known to have died. The watchdog Project On Government Oversight found the firm has racked up 22 lawsuits since 2017 and more than $5.2 million in settlements.

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