Newark company to hand over $2.75 million in fraud settlement

A Newark software company agreed to pay $2.75 million to resolve claims that it defrauded the Navy, Air Force, NASA, and other federal agencies, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Prosecutors claim E.M. Photonics Inc. and its CEO, Eric Kelmelis, carried out two schemes.

The company directed its employees to lie on timesheets, to submit false invoices and to file inaccurate public vouchers for federally funded work. It also sought out government money for projects that already had been funded by other programs.

Those acts, which were designed to inflate the amount of taxpayer dollars flowing to the Newark company, are a violation of the False Claims Act, federal investigators said in a statement on Tuesday.

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