Minnesota Transit Constructors Inc. (MnTC) and several subcontractors agreed to pay $4.6 million to the federal government to resolve allegations that they knowingly submitted false claims related to a federally funded construction project.  MnTC, a joint venture by Granite Construction, C.S. McCrossan Inc., and Parsons Transportation Group, was contracted to construct the Hiawatha Light Rail Transit System in Minnesota.

The government alleged that as a federal contractor, MnTC falsely certified that it would use Disadvantaged Business Enterprises for part of the work on the project, when in fact it had not.

Read the press release, Minnesota Transit Constructors to Pay U.S. $4.6 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Liability