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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Aggregate Industries Northeast Region, Inc.
Current Parent Company: Holcim Group
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Penalty: $50,000,000
Year: 2007
Date: July 27, 2007
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Secondary Offense: fraud
Mega-Scandal: Big Dig
Violation Description: Aggregate agreed to plead guilty and pay $50 million to resolve state and federal criminal and civil allegations that it engaged in a fraudulent scheme to sell adulterated concrete to the Big Dig tunnel project. The resolution was also announced by the Justice Department; see the Violation Tracker entry at (click here)
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Massachusetts Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: criminal
Facility State: Massachusetts
HQ Country of Current Parent: Switzerland
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: building materials
Specific Industry of Current Parent: building materials
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