An Alabama company will pay $1.15 million in an Indian contracting fraud case.

Caddell Construction told the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that it was mentoring an Indian-owned company under the Department of Defense’s Mentor-Protégé Program and Indian Incentive Program. But Mountain Chief Management Services wasn't performing any actual work on military base construction projects, according to the Department of Justice.

"Contractors that subvert important government programs, such as those designed to benefit small and Native American-owned businesses, will be held accountable,” Stuart F. Delery, the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, said in a press release.

An executive from Cadell and another one from Mountain Chief are facing a trial in connection with the case.

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Montgomery construction company to pay $1.15 million to resolve hiring allegation (The Montgomery Advertiser 3/25)