Dive summary:

• In a report aired on the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, a television station in Washington, D.C. aired a story saying it obtained federal documents showing that prosecutors were after contractor Lend Lease over time sheets it filed for union foremen work on the World Trade Center Memorial project at Ground Zero in New York City.
• WRC-TV, which brands itself as NBC4, said the papers also showed that Lend Lease paid more than $1.6 million to settle a civil suit brought by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, which includes Manhattan.
• According to the report, officials said the padding cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, and Lend Lease told the station it had paid the settlement and "now maintains one of the most rigorous compliance programs in the industry.”

From the article:

An audit memo from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Inspector General says Lend Lease “permitted union foremen to add to timesheets and paid union foremen 1 or 2 hours per day of overtime, regardless of whether foremen worked those hours.” ...