Fort Myers, FL-December 2011: Whistle-blower David Sherwin urged public agencies to cease all contractual relationships with Office Depot in light of the continued findings of pricing fraud by Dallas County (TX), Detroit Public Schools (MI) and the City and County of San Francisco (CA).
Sherwin called on both Dallas County and Detroit Public Schools to immediately begin debarment proceedings if Office Depot continues to refuse to refund the millions in overcharged dollars identified by their auditors and investigators.
Whistle-blower Sherwin first made his allegations in 2008 that Office Depot was engaged in systematic fraudulent pricing schemes on their government contracts. Office Depot has reached overcharging settlements amounting to tens of millions of dollars with the Attorney Generals of Florida, Colorado and Missouri as well as the City of San Francisco and hundreds of other local agencies across the country.
Office Depot continues to deny any culpability or accept blame and is refusing to settle the $5.2 million in fraudulent overcharging claims by the Detroit Public Schools (DPS) Inspector General and the Dallas County Auditor’s finding of $1.8 million in overcharging.
Office Depot is still currently under publicly disclosed investigations by the Attorney Generals of Texas (TX) , California (CA), Ohio (OH) and New York (NY); as well as by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Education (DOE), the Department of Defense (DOD) and the General Services Administration (GSA). Source: David Sherwin, Fort Myers, FL
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