The Department of Justice announced it will intervene in a whistleblower lawsuit against Symantec Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, relating to a General Services Administration (GSA) contract signed by the company in 2007 to sell computer software products directly to federal purchasers.

The case alleges that Symantec Corp. knowingly made misrepresentations about its business practices by giving incomplete and inaccurate information about the prices it was offering to commercial customers. This information was then used by the GSA to negotiate the minimum discounts that Symantec was required to provide to its government customers. The suit claims that Symantec’s misrepresentations about its true commercial sales practices ultimately caused government purchasers to receive discounts far inferior to those given to Symantec’s commercial customers. The GSA contract was in place from 2007 to 2012 and involved hundreds of millions of dollars in sales.

Read the entire press release, “United States Intervenes in Whistleblower Suit Against Symantec Corporation”