The Anti-Kickback Enforcement Act of 1986 (, originally codified at 41 U.S.C. § 51 et seq., recodified at ) modernized and closed the loopholes of previous statutes applying to

government contractors A government contractor is a company (privately owned, publicly traded or a state-owned enterprise)either for profit or non-profitthat produces goods or services under contract for the government. Some communities are largely sustained by governme ...

. The law attempts to make the anti- kickback statute a more useful prosecutorial tool by expanding the definition of prohibited conduct and by making the statute applicable to a broader range of persons involved in government

subcontracting A subcontractor is an individual or (in many cases) a business that signs a contract to perform part or all of the obligations of another's contract. Put simply the role of a subcontractor is to execute the job they are hired by the contractor ...

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