Crime & Safety
Foothill Ranch Company Pays $500K to Settle Trouble with the Feds
Ossur Americas claimed its prosthetic-support products sold to the U.S. Army were made in America when some were not.
A Foothill Ranch-based company that makes prosthetic-support products paid the U.S. government $500,000 today for saying its products were made in the states when some of them were actually foreign-made, the U.S. Attorney’s office announced today.
Ossur Americas made the payment to settle allegations federal prosecutors brought that company officials falsely claimed they were in compliance with the Buy American Act.
“The Buy American Act generally prohibits federal government agencies from purchasing foreign-made products, and Ossur’s compliance with the Act was expressly required by its contracts with the Army,” says a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s office.
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