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GSA Administrator Edward Forst announced the $13 billion figure on August 25. He credited it to work since March 2026 with the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, led by executive director Scott Brady.
GSA's release didn't name any cases. It shared two case examples exclusively with Breitbart News, which published them the same day.
The first: Broadway Electric Inc. and Cornerstone Contracting Inc. paid $21.3 million to settle allegations covering $73 million in claimed fraud. They used qualifying small businesses as pass-throughs to win contracts set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned businesses. The scheme ran from April 2017 to May 2025. Two whistleblowers brought the case under the False Claims Act in April 2023, and DOJ announced the settlement on June 9, 2026.
The second: Sierra Nevada Corp. paid $7.75 million to settle allegations covering $44 million in claimed fraud. It employed Michael Henry, then a Defense Department employee on Joint Staff/J6, as a paid consultant from July 2019 to June 2020. Henry evaluated and approved Sierra Nevada products for three government contracts while working for the company on the side. He was criminally indicted in 2024 and pleaded guilty in 2025. DOJ announced the civil settlement in July 2026.
Both settlements were announced after the task force launched, but the investigations behind them started years earlier, through a 2023 whistleblower complaint and a 2024 criminal case.
Together the two cases total $117 million in alleged fraud and $29 million in settlements. GSA hasn't published more cases or explained the remaining $12.9 billion. It didn't respond to requests for detail from Government Executive or other outlets.
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