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Podcast: IEN Radio
Episode: Six Untested Connectors Cost ITT Cannon $11 Million
Description: This week, ITT Cannon, a division of ITT Inc., agreed to pay $11 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that it supplied untested electrical connectors to the military.According to the Department of Justice, ITT sold six models of connectors to the government directly through distributors and to government contractors who designed them into equipment sold to the government. From September 2008 to March 2017, ITT allegedly failed to perform required periodic testing on the connectors. In December 2010, the government found out about it, and ITT agreed to conduct remedial testing. Two months later, ITT wa...