Jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney has been accused by a former employee of using an ineffective assembly process for engines that go in U.S. fighter jets and manipulating test processes to pass inspection, according to a whistle-blower suit recently made public.
Franklin Turner, a government contracts attorney with the law firm McCarter & English who has defended corporations in False Claims Act cases, described Bonzani’s suit as “riddled with conjecture.”
“The fact that the government looked at a target like this and decided not to intervene is an indication of, at this juncture of the case, some fatal flaw in [Bonzani’s] case,” Turner said.
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