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Company: Level 3 Communications, LLC
Current Parent Company: Lumen Technologies
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Penalty: $8,200,000
Year: 2016
Date: March 7, 2016
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Violation Description: Level 3 agreed to pay more than $8 million to resolve allegations it improperly withheld rental payments that it owed to Massachusetts under an agreement allowing it to run fiber optic cables alongside state highways.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Massachusetts Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Massachusetts
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Louisiana
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: telecommunications
Specific Industry of Current Parent: telecommunications
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