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False Claims Act Attorney: Improper Document Shredding Results in Settlement of $1.1 Million

As attorneys that represent people under the False Claims Act, we wanted to advise you that Iron Mountain and Shredded have agreed to pay $1.1 million dollars to resolve allegations that they committed fraud against the U.S. Government by failing to shred sensitive documents as required by their contract.  A qui tam lawsuit was filed in Federal District Court in Philadelphia in 2010 by Douglas Knisely, owner of a family operated document shredding business.  The lawsuit alleges that Iron Mountain, Shredded and Centos, the three largest vendors that secure document shredding services in the United States, failed to shred sensitive government documents as required by their contracts with the United States General Services Administration.  To protect the security of government documents, the solicitation unambiguously required that document shredding vendors use shredding designed to produce residue particles not exceeding 1/32 inch wide by ½ inch in length.  Employees of Iron Mountain and Centos admitted that their employees did not possess equipment that could shred documents to sizes this small.  Knisely alleged that by not using the shredders mandated by the GSA to produce residue particles, the companies were able to obtain additional revenue by reselling the improperly shredded government documents to paper recyclers.

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