{"id":3281,"date":"2014-09-25T15:04:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T20:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/supfrt.com\/news\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2014-09-25T15:04:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T20:04:49","slug":"2-3m-bogus-country-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/supfrt.com\/news\/2014\/09\/25\/2-3m-bogus-country-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Electronics America Agrees to Pay $2.3M in Fraudulent Country of Origin Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/supfrt.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DOJ-logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2491\" src=\"http:\/\/supfrt.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DOJ-logo.jpg\" alt=\"DOJ - logo\" width=\"228\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a>Samsung Electronics America Agrees to Pay $2.3M in Fraudulent Country of Origin Allegations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- End Standard Inner Page Top --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that\u00a0Samsung &#8211;\u00a0the\u00a0electronics manufacturer has agreed to pay $2.3M to resolve\u00a0allegations that it caused the submission of false claims for products sold. \u00a0According to the DOJ Press Release, the settlement resolves allegations that, from January 2005 through August 2013, the distributor caused resellers of its products to sell items on their General Services Administration Multiple Awards Schedule contracts in violation of the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 [TAA]\u00a0by knowingly providing inaccurate information to the resellers regarding the country of origin of the goods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States alleges that Samsung represented to the resellers, who in turn represented to federal agencies, that the specified products were made in TAA\u00a0designated countries, generally Korea or Mexico, when the specified products were in fact manufactured in China, which is not a TAA designated country.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations resolved by the settlement were originally brought in a lawsuit filed by a former employee, under the False Claims Act\u2019s whistleblower provisions, which permit private parties to sue for false claims on behalf of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>To read the entire DOJ Press Release:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/2014\/August\/14-civ-875.html\">DOJ Press Release on False Claims Act<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics America Agrees to Pay $2.3M in Fraudulent Country of Origin Allegations The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that\u00a0Samsung &#8211;\u00a0the\u00a0electronics manufacturer has agreed to pay $2.3M to resolve\u00a0allegations that it caused the submission of false claims for products sold. \u00a0According to the DOJ Press Release, the settlement resolves allegations that, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[6,70],"tags":[14,71],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - 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