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struggle4progress

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2. Firm tapped to modify Qatar jet for Trump admin agrees to $62 million settlement

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Fri May 23, 2025, 04:58 PM

22 hrs ago

Published Thu, May 22 20256:16 PM EDT
Kevin Breuninger
Leslie Josephs

Defense contractor L3Harris Technologies
will pay $62 million to settle allegations that it lied about the prices of equipment it sold to the U.S. military years earlier, the Justice Department said Thursday.

L3Harris was recently tapped to help modify a luxury Boeing 747 jet from Qatar’s royal family that President Donald Trump wants to use as a new Air Force One, CNBC reported earlier this month.

The settlement announcement came one day after the Pentagon formally accepted the airliner as a gift from the Qatari royal family.

“L3Harris is pleased to have been able to amicably resolve the matter referenced in the DOJ’s announcement,” the company said in a statement to CNBC ...

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/22/trump-gift-jet-qatar-l3harris.html

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