Concrete Firm To Pay $1M To Settle Charges of False Records

摘要

Universal Concrete Products and its president and co-owner, Donald Faust Jr., will pay $1 million to settle civil allegations that the firm falsified test records for concrete panels installed on Phase II of the $2.7-billion Dulles Metrorail Project. Under the settlement, announced Jan. 28, Faust did not admit to any wrongdoing. The settlement is the latest development in the wake of a federal investigation into deficient concrete architectural panels manufactured by UCP and installed on the northern Virginia project by Capital Rail Constructors. In all, 1,569 UCP-produced panels were installed on the project by CRC, a joint venture of Clark Construction and Kiewit Infrastructure South. In 2016, former UCP employee Nathan Davidheiser filed a whistle-blower lawsuit that was investigated by the FBI and the U.S. Dept. of Transportation's inspector general's office.