TargetStores has filed a civil lawsuit in federal court in Minneapolis under theRacketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act against Bridgeview basedRose Paving Company, LCH Pavement Consultants, United Paving Company, AmericanPavement Solutions, Asphalt Maintenance, Inc., and officers of several of thenamed companies, claiming that the defendants conspired to defraud Target ofmillions in a bid rigging and kickback scheme involving maintenance of parkinglots at 1,700 Target stores across the country. Target alleges that LCHorganized the participating paving contractors to divide up the $100 millionworth of parking lot repair work by fraudulently inflating bids, agreeing tosubmit non-competitive prices on bids outside their corruptly designatedterritories, and requesting bids only from contractors in on the scheme.
Targetalso contends that participating paving contractors overbilled for work neveractually performed, and charged for removal and replacement of asphalt all theway down to the substrate when the work done was only a surface overlay. Thesuit says Target was billed for and paid LCH for hundreds of thousands ofdollars in work that was never done, and that LCH paid the contractorssubmitting false billings and then demanded kickbacks from them.
Storelocations named in the complaint as being involved in the fraudulent billingsinclude Target parking lots in Cicero and Lake Zurich. Other locationsidentified in the lawsuit include stores in California, Arizona, Montana,Virginia, Pennsylvania, Texas, Georgia and New York. Target claims theconspiracy began in 2009 and continued through 2012.
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