Dive summary:

• An $18.5 million settlement between CH2M Hill and the Department of Justice puts to rest civil and criminal charges that workers put in for more time than they worked during a 10-year contract to manage and clean up underground tanks that held mixed hazardous and radioactive waste at the Department of Energy's facility in Hanford, Wash.
• To settle the case, CH2M Hill had to agree to language that said a subsidiary it set up for the Hanford project “knowingly, willfully and with intent to defraud, facilitated CHG’s hourly workers routinely getting paid for hours they did not work and combined, conspired and agreed with CHG hourly workers to accomplish the same, all at the sole expense of the citizens of the United States.”
• A spokesman said the company was saddened by the conduct between 1998 and 2008 and that it did not represent how CH2M Hill wants its workers and managers to behave.

From the article:

"This conduct was not consistent with CH2M Hill values, but it happened on our watch and we should have rooted it out sooner." ...