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GoLocalProv | News | Rhode Island Manufacture to Pay Nearly $500K for Selling U.S. Military Blankets Made in India
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
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A lot for made-in-America.
The USA Legal professional’s Workplace has resolved a civil False Claims Act investigation into Hyman Brickle & Son, Inc., a Woonsocket-based Rhode Island textile manufacturing firm that provides merchandise to the U.S. army, introduced United States Legal professional Zachary A. Cunha.
The investigation centered on allegations that Hyman Brickle bought woolen blankets to the U.S. Division of Protection, regardless of realizing that the blankets had been produced utilizing labor from India, quite than U.S. labor, as federal legislation requires.
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By laws often known as the Berry Modification, Congress has required that textiles bought to the Division of Protection be produced within the U.S., together with utilizing United States labor for the manufacturing of the textiles. The federal government alleges that Hyman Brickle’s sale of those nonconforming items to the Division of Protection violated the False Claims Act.
As a part of the False Claims Act settlement, Hyman Brickle pays $492,236 to the federal authorities, representing full restitution for the price of product paid for by the U.S. authorities and double the damages on the related claims.